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Joni Ernst cast one of two pivotal votes to let this happen.

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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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Musk and DOGE are closing local Social Security offices, making it hard for people with disabilities to access help. Frank Bisignano, former FISERV CEO, is Trump’s nominee for commissioner of Social Security. He is likely to expand this. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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Republicans want to pass a bill that would disenfranchise someone you know. The SAVE Act is the GOP’s attempt at mass voter suppression disguised as an election integrity bill — and we need to get loud to stop it: indivisibleteam.medium.com/maga-has-a-b...

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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... This is the way. If the republicans don’t show, have a town hall anyway, leave them an empty seat, brand them Empty Seat Republicans, since they are abdicating their responsibility to their constituents.

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Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat bislang die Rolle eines ukrainischen Winston Churchill gespielt, siegesgewiss an der Seite des Westens.  Nun zwingt ihn Donald Trump in eine neue Rolle.

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Der Spiegel is HUGE PUBLICATION NOT ONLY GERMANY BUT EUROPE "VERRATEN" German for BETRAYRD

submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

81% of Americans say the US can't trust Putin 73% of Republicans agree And yet, Trump has crawled back into bed with the murderous dictator It's just weird

submitted 23 hours ago • 33 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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WOW. Something's happening here 👇

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Thank you to Senate Democrats for unifying in opposition to Republicans’ scheme to punish working families. Democrats played procedural hardball and spent hours on the floor debating overnight, filing close to 100 amendments and forcing votes on 23 of them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

Stop the steal — President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are robbing the American people.

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

Don’t Cut My Medicaid

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Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession" "This is going to be very, very bad." futurism.com/economist-el...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The Dems got confused between the real world and the online world and took positions on immigration and trans issues way out of the mainstream that hurt them in 2024 but MAGA/Elon are clearly making that same mistake right now when it comes to the government purge and budget cuts

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This is your government now

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🔥 There's a great book called Spreading the News that tells the history of America's postal service and why it was specifically (and uniquely) not controlled by a King.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Seen at CPAC

submitted 21 hours ago • 124 comments

When Trump’s tariff plans destroy the economy it’ll be important to remember that 99% of economists told him it would happen

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

You can’t make this shit up

submitted 21 hours ago • 51 comments

I don’t think Trump understands how bad he has f’d up with Canada.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

🚨🚨This from @JBPritzker The Nazis dismantled a constitutional republic in less than two months so it is definitely time to panic.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

Governor Janet Mills from Maine told Trump to POUND SAND! This is the kinda energy Democrats need.

submitted 21 hours ago • 37 comments

Oh

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Robbing you so blind even a caveman can see it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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She says "see you in court" and He says at the end that she'd better enjoy her life after being Governor because she's not going to be in electoral politics. Then Sil said, "you want me to wack her, T?"

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When the leader of France’s far-right party—founded by an actual Nazi sympathizer—thinks CPAC is too racist for him, you know the GOP has fully gone off the deep end.

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New tea party? Real tea party. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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"One questioner, citing recent cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in nearby Atlanta, asked, 'Why is the supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this?'" Could a new Tea Party be forming?

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Reproductive freedom is at risk in Wisconsin. MAGA extremist Brad Schimel wants to enforce a 175-year-old abortion ban. We can protect abortion rights (and the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court) by electing Susan Crawford. Take action: indivisible.org/scow...

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"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

submitted 23 hours ago • 172 comments

A reminder for Republicans.

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

⚡️ Kremlin denies demanding NATO eastern rollback in talks with US.

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Elon Musk doesn’t want you to see these clips of constituent power in action

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🚨🚨🚨 THEY ARE GOING AFTER MEDICARE

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Guess I’ve been living under a rock—had no idea Tiger Woods went full MAGA.

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Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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He's taken the prize of "Most Dangerous Immigrant In History" from Rupert Murdoch.

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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These stories showing up nonstop on local TV news youtu.be/N23KVyaSoLw?...

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany outsourced its energy production to Russia, its economic growth to China, and its military security to the United States. That era is coming to an end. Joshua Livestro on Germany's choice:

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Simply horrible people (every single one ) and a confluence of musk world and maga that brought it about.

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"Authoritarian movements seek to dominate every aspect of life. They ask citizens to subsume themselves, for the movement to become their full identity. As such, they need visible tribal signifiers." Now Elon Musk is introducing his own.

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"I can no longer be a part of what we can all plainly see is happening to our country." Somebody should collect these incredible resignation letters and make them a book. This one is from Nate Brought, resigning as director of the NIH Executive Secretariat. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

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