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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

submitted 7 hours ago • 148 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 5 hours ago • 740 comments

Gen. C.Q. Brown was at the U.S.-Mexico border when he was fired. Gen. Brown was fired as he was evaluating the military’s role in supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). Fired as he was tending to one of Trump’s top priorities — border security.

submitted 23 hours ago • 114 comments

Republican senators are traitors to the international order that has kept this country safe for the better part of eighty years. They are traitors to their own constituents. They are traitors to everything that has actually made America great.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

MAGA invents new ways to punish women. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

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I have heard from workers at multiple agencies that they have been advised by managers not to respond to Musk’s email. Some didn’t say why, others said they’re waiting on guidance from agency leadership—but we can guess what they’ll say.

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

Gallup just registered Trump's worst economic approval rating on record, at -12 (42% approve/54% disapprove). Throughout Trump's first term it was a relative strength for him, and previously his lowest economic rating with Gallup was -8 in June 2017.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1928 comments

This is what they have done.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Folks, whatever we think Diddy did… it’s worse than that. https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-lawyer-quits-sex-trafficking-case-under-no-circumstances-can-i-continue/

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

This is terrifying.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 1 day ago • 606 comments

ICYMI — Not an SNL cold open or AI. This pure uncut cringe is a real thing that happened.

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Inspired by the abolitionist and civil rights movements, Get Free is mobilizing young people to turn campuses and communities into freedom beacons that defy Trump-Musk’s authoritarian power grabs.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

@resistlist.bsky.social here's a cool event. Angelenos protesting transportation secretary Sean Duffy with wit and bravado. bsky.app/profile/awal...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I specialize in representing Democratic campaigns because I believe in the party. I litigate voting rights cases because the right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy. I speak out about free and fair elections because they are under threat. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

Dont ever use the word smart with me. 😝😋😛🤪😜

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

WIRED: “The director of data science and engineering for USDS—which Musk rebranded as DOGE— resigned… ‘I do not believe DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS’… even DOGE employees don’t know who is legally running it…” 🤷🏻 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 1553 comments

Kash Patel is the death knell

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A day after President Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia, the U.S. leader's description of the Ukrainian President Zelensky as a "Dictator without Elections" echoes the Kremlin's messaging. It's not the first time Trump has done this.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

Let's hope so

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Power to the people

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Spotted at the Russian embassy. #3E #StandWithUkraine

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Donald Trump has officially declared himself the King of the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

Wow. It’s like Colbert REALLY sees me. Always knew MapQuest would end up on late-night TV — just assumed it would be for absolutely ReFuSiNg to remove Toys “R” Us from our maps 🫡

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

I heart @mapquest.com — I covered them when they were founded btw.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Chris Murphy: "This deal that Donald Trump just cut with the mayor of New York -- it's a big deal ... they did that out in the open on TV because it's a signal to everybody else out there that the law will be applied differently to you if you are loyal to the president."

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Donald Trump is threatening the President of a sovereign country—AGAIN—to force Ukraine to hand over their democracy and sovereign territory to Vladimir Putin. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/z...

submitted 4 days ago • 287 comments

My heart breaks at news of another horrific plane crash. I'm praying for the families of the victims & people of Arizona. It's vital the government thoroughly investigate this tragedy to bring peace to the victims and families and protect everyone flying in the US. abcnews.go.com/US/2-dead-af...

submitted 4 days ago • 493 comments

A great clip about what Hochul would have to do to remove Adams. It’s a long road. To be clear, I think it’s a road she should travel. I personally think doing nothing is the wrong thing to do.

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

As they DOGE ✂️ programs for regular people & mass fire federal workers (largely veterans), Trump’s Tax Cuts: -Add $4.6 TRILLION to the deficit -$48 BILLION to top 100 firms A wealth transfer to the top. They don’t care about the debt, and never did. www.benzinga.com/25/02/437748...

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Zelensky has approval numbers Trump can only dream about About 57 percent of Ukrainians trust the country’s president, according to a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) survey that was released Wednesday, while 37 percent don’t. thehill.com/policy/inter...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Who's your daddy now, Donald. Elon or putin, or both?

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TONIGHT: @weissmann11.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The Last Word. Tune in!

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Unbelievable

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@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

Indiscriminate mass layoffs by Elon Musk are ravaging key programs, depriving our people of nuclear safety inspectors, air traffic controllers and food safety inspectors. These cuts crush democracy and devastate the livelihood of tens of thousands of public servants.

submitted 4 days ago • 311 comments

"Trump (with his inability to nominate anyone competent) owns this. Elon (with his insistence on gutting the government of talent) owns this. And all of those spineless Republicans Senators (who greenlit Sean Duffy for fear of asserting their autonomy as a co-equal branch of government) own this."

submitted 5 days ago • 162 comments

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

This is so wrong

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Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

Cutting NASA's workforce by about 10 percent. That's a boost to the Chinese and Russians. And the guy in charge of SpaceX made this decision? That's a total conflict of interest. Moreover, firing all probationary employees shows they're not serious about evaluating programs. It's a machine gun.

submitted 5 days ago • 150 comments

Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist, left federal prison on Tuesday after nearly 50 years behind bars. His prosecution has been criticized as unjust for decades. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence before leaving office. Here’s what to know about the case.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Omg

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