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After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan. Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 22 hours ago • 290 comments

federal employee says what

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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The Trump admin’s proposed cuts would devastate UCSD, harm San Diego’s economy, stall scientific progress, and weaken America’s leadership in research and innovation.

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Here’s what Democrats did today (February 21):

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 7 days ago • 1220 comments

More reckless job cuts by Trump and Musk, this time at the U.S. Forest Service. Firing 3,400 workers and freezing funds halts wildfire prevention, making catastrophic fires more likely. This isn’t about efficiency—it’s sabotage of public safety and our environment.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk wants access to your IRS records, and House Republicans are letting him get away with it. An unelected billionaire shouldn’t control your private financial data—or his competitors’. Just three House Republicans could stop this, but they’re siding with their billionaire donor over you.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

"Do something!" the people cried. So the Politician sent out an email asking for more money.

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 12 days ago • 603 comments

Read @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on how Twitter Files scam was a test and precursor of the Trump/Musk plan to politicize and pervert the US civil service www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

submitted 14 days ago • 569 comments

Musk is acting on the dystopian vision he shares with Thiel, Vance, and Curtis Yarvin—dismantling democracy for billionaire overlords. Gil Duran has tracked it for years, and Fred Wellman breaks it all down with him in a new On Democracy.

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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 18 days ago • 1526 comments

When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt. This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.

submitted 20 days ago • 873 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 20 days ago • 2290 comments

Each year USAID buys 2 billion dollars worth of crops grown by US farmers across the land American food aid comes from American farmers Life saving food is rotting on the docks. Farmers in DC are have lost $340 million in unpaid bills since foreign aid was halted

submitted 20 days ago • 140 comments

Just heard a Minnesota anti-hunger group that supplies food shelves with fresh, nutritious food from Minnesota farmers still can’t access federal funding. They’ve had to pause some of their work. It’s causing a lot of uncertainty for families trying to figure out how to put food on the table.

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Schiff: Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their enablers? Because .. if they're going to raid the treasury... They don't want an FBI that's going to examine anything they're doing.

submitted 20 days ago • 152 comments

What you see now is a suit and tie version of January 6th -Lawrence O’Donnell We are once again under attack

submitted 20 days ago • 256 comments

Gaza is this week’s bright shiny object. Pay attention to Trump’s effort to aggregate as much govt power as possible in the WH & convert the civil service into loyalists, while GOP members of Congress watches let it happening without exercising their constitutional power to check it.

submitted 21 days ago • 211 comments

It appears the VA site for grant applications to help homeless veterans is down. Unsure if this is a glitch, or the end of assistance for homeless vets.

submitted 21 days ago • 832 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 21 days ago • 2836 comments

ICYMI: A website called “DEI Watch List” has "published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers [who are mostly Black employees] across health agencies, describing them at one point as 'targets.'"

submitted 21 days ago • 198 comments

Totally unrelated...I'm sure. 😉 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 60 comments

Perfectly put, Melissa.

submitted 22 days ago • 688 comments

Parents, your children can now sign up to clear bombs in Gaza. This is who will be leading them.

submitted 21 days ago • 65 comments

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

submitted 23 days ago • 2128 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Albertsons (Safeway...) "commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as well as thoughtful people practices are core elements of the company’s philosophy" "We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen and enrich our stores, our company and our society."

submitted 26 days ago • 448 comments

Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

submitted 26 days ago • 323 comments

Hey Merrick Garland, fuck you forever. Through your inaction, you enabled this blitzkrieg against the rule of law and democracy.

submitted 25 days ago • 1665 comments

Emergency Video: Where are the Dems and what is the message?! Oppose this agenda now! Come back from vacation! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 28 days ago • 1677 comments

Greenland is not for sale. And in other words….👇

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Just got this video. The @lafd.bsky.social and @calfire.bsky.social had over 75 fire engines and pieces of equipment in place before the winds started and this is what they faced the first night. Just an insane situation to deal with and blaming it on anything other than nature is ridiculous.

submitted 37 days ago • 184 comments

If you’re feeling despair today, I understand. But Trump’s second term will expose a reality that's been hidden from many Americans: the raw, stinking power of the American oligarchy. I’m hopeful that America will see this reality for what it is and respond to it. youtu.be/bepjl3orz1A?...

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

submitted 37 days ago • 868 comments

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

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James Carville Shares Suspicions About Jeff Bezos And $40 Million Melania Trump Film - HuffPost

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I’m from Hollywood. They could’ve thrown $500 billion into the fire department and they couldn’t Buck hundred mile an hour winds for fucks sake anybody ever been in a Santa Ana?

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