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"Oh my gosh! There are a lot of people here!" LOL! @ezralevin.bsky.social performs in the role of a Republican members of Congress facing a disgruntled town hall audience.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump's funding cuts are putting Oregonians in the literal line of fire. Wildfire prevention and mitigation groups across the West are having to lay off staff and close doors just ahead of fire season, all so Republicans can give another tax handout to Elon Musk.

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nbcmontana.com/news/local/c... Where’s our congressman? 🦗Thanks to these people of Missoula for showing up to discuss how Trump’s policies are unconstitutional and negatively affecting Montanans, our communities, and our country. #peoplepower #wewillnotbesilenced #congressdoyourjob #absentcongress

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👀 www.adn.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 1002 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 762 comments

"We are getting lots of calls about Musk and lots of calls thanking me for sticking up for Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 404 comments

When congress doesn’t show up… THE PEOPLE SHOW UP! Address your constituents Ryan Zinke! What say you?! We want to know what actions you intend to make to protect your constituents!! We need a budget that protects the people, not harms them. #wedemand #checkandbalances #transparency #honoryouroath

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open.substack.com/pub/america/... "I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand by or remain silent during this hostile takeover of our government and its rejection...."

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youtu.be/D6k2xktUot4

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On Being in Community joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

submitted 6 days ago • 149 comments

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 6 days ago • 579 comments

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 9 days ago • 233 comments

Just bought this at the iconic Eliott Bay Books in Seattle. A read to help us all meet this moment Big thank you to @timothysnyder.bsky.social for providing a guiding light.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

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Thank you former Administrator Andrew Natsios for setting the record straight! Friends please send this to REPUBLICAN Congressional offices #SaveUSAID www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

In 20 years, we will look back on the emerging, and frightening, data on microplastics in our body and wish we had done more. You can do more. We discussed ways to protect yourself from exposure. Vital you do so and we give tips in the clip below. @msnbc.com #medssky

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 24 days ago • 6200 comments

WIRED has been downright exceptional in covering this carnage.

submitted 24 days ago • 97 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Cars, electronics, denim, home goods, and processed foods are just a few of the items likely to increase in cost due to Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. So much for lowering prices. #Velshi

submitted 25 days ago • 39 comments

Kaine: "He let Musk force the resignation of the FAA administrator. He disbanded an aviation safety committee... he's got an OMB director who's pushing a hiring freeze & saying 'I want to traumatize the federal workforce'"... he's got an anti-safety agenda..that's why he went the race-baiting route"

submitted 26 days ago • 438 comments

My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.

submitted 25 days ago • 7988 comments

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 2011 comments

Please contact your senator about this unqualified, unstable alcoholic from consideration as head of the DOD.

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“None of this is normal & it’s our job to keep it from being normalized. Presidents don’t try to erase the Constitution or turn the federal bureaucracy into a loyalty corps. They don’t release violent criminals from prison so they can return the favor.” joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-day...

submitted 35 days ago • 182 comments

Trump’s new leadership at DOJ is threatening state & local leaders with criminal prosecution if they don’t support mass deportations. This is a serious step away from democratic norms. apnews.com/article/just...

submitted 35 days ago • 252 comments

TV audience for Inaugurations Biden 40 million Trump 38 million 2017 Trump 34 million 2025 There is a distinct possibility Trump will lie about this.

submitted 35 days ago • 424 comments

comments from one of the pardoned Jan 6ers who admitted to assaulting a police officer. www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/c...

submitted 35 days ago • 62 comments

The Purge. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Hey! Don't forget, @maddow.msnbc.com is back on 5 days a week for the first 100 days of the new Trump term, so we'll see you again tomorrow!

submitted 36 days ago • 62 comments

BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26 Instead Trump gets to set labor rules So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin

submitted 76 days ago • 257 comments

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Making it easier to go after terrorist groups surely seemed like an easy vote when this bill first came out. But giving Donald Trump the power to arbitrarily assign the terrorist label to groups he doesn't like changes that calculation significantly. Watch: youtu.be/wVhE2gIaIk0

submitted 98 days ago • 24 comments

"Each of Trump's proposed appointments is a surprise. It is comforting to think that he is simply a vengeful old man, lashing out. This is unlikely. He and Musk and Putin have been talking for years. The whole idea of his campaign was that this time he had a plan" snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 99 days ago • 103 comments

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

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