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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2315 comments

If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

submitted 5 hours ago • 176 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 6 hours ago • 488 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2439 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 3 days ago • 705 comments

Stocks slump with the S&P 500 wiping out almost all of its gains since Trump took office last month, after a widely watched measure of how consumers feel about the economy showed mounting fears over stubborn inflation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Putinization of America

submitted 2 days ago • 271 comments

“Every current and former NNSA employee who spoke to The Bulwark was alarmed about the possibilities of this sort of brain drain, fretting that Musk and his tech-bro buds simply didn’t realize how unsuited the ‘turn everything off and see what breaks’ model was to their line of work.”

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-now-...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 768 comments

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

submitted 3 days ago • 530 comments

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning. Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 140 comments

And there it is

submitted 4 days ago • 773 comments

I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

submitted 4 days ago • 692 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 4 days ago • 2878 comments

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 2920 comments

Rubio may have built his entire career around righteous opposition to autocrats abroad. Now, however, he’s discovered that what’s really best is for America to “take advantage of this incredible opportunity to partner with the Russians geopolitically, on issues of common interest, and economically.”

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We stand with the @apnews.com which is resisting government pressure attempting to dictate how it writes about the news. This is exactly what the founders had in mind when they crafted the First Amendment.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 955 comments

Money talks

submitted 7 days ago • 2306 comments

Melania Trump personally pitched her self-produced documentary about herself to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos's Amazon then bought it for $40 million, with 70% going into her pocket. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

submitted 8 days ago • 134 comments

l'etat c'est moi

submitted 8 days ago • 644 comments

Exciting milestone for @thebulwark.bsky.social! Congrats to our amazing team.

submitted 8 days ago • 127 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 9 days ago • 520 comments

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

submitted 9 days ago • 131 comments

This. My God this.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) sued President Donald Trump’s administration Thursday to get them to unfreeze over $3 billion of federal funding allocated to his state’s agencies over the next several years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

This is the courage required of people who serve at the Justice Dept. Sassoon resigns, at no small personal cost, to protest the unjust order from DC to dismiss the case against Mayor Adams. Without fear of favor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 142 comments

NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.

submitted 10 days ago • 1564 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 10 days ago • 5019 comments

We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

submitted 11 days ago • 963 comments

Trump is absolutely without a doubt the worst negotiator in American history and it’s not Even close. Seriously

submitted 10 days ago • 648 comments

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 480 comments

I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery

submitted 11 days ago • 1000 comments

It's always the ones you most expect. www.thereset.news/p/exclusive-...

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 12 days ago • 2312 comments

The new iconic photo that i predicted ultimately destroys the relationship:

submitted 11 days ago • 4101 comments

whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...

submitted 11 days ago • 251 comments

“You can’t negotiate and end to the war without Ukraine, ya jagoff.”

submitted 11 days ago • 359 comments

Egg prices hit another all time high in the US, $7.44 per dozen, now up 21% since Trump took office. My local grocery store was out of 19 of 20 varieties today. Of course, it's bird flu...but Trump said he'd take are of it and lower prices, didn't he?

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

This is basically my entire book in chart form

submitted 12 days ago • 510 comments

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

submitted 12 days ago • 2427 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

The reason there are a lot of court orders telling Trump he can't do things is because he's been doing a crazy huge amount of illegal shit in his first three weeks in office. This isn't rocket science. It's basic physics - action and reaction.

submitted 12 days ago • 183 comments

It is funny to me that no one even pretends that Republicans might impeach Trump if he defies SCOTUS. That in itself is indicative of how deep the crisis already is.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

If any party, including the government, doesn’t like a court order, it can appeal it. It doesn’t get to just disregard it. Vance took an oath to uphold the Constitution, just like Sen. Cotton did. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 13 days ago • 352 comments