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Republicans in Congress are hoping you won’t pay attention to them for the next 36 hours. Why? Because they're pushing through their unpopular plan that gives tax handouts to billionaires and billionaire corporations and leaves everyone else in the dirt. youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl...

submitted 15 hours ago • 110 comments

Newsom: The trade war that Trump has just launched—because there will be a reaction, and there already has been—will be felt in profound ways by average people including those who voted for Donald Trump, those who were betrayed by this very administration.

submitted 15 hours ago • 259 comments

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

submitted 15 hours ago • 561 comments

This is the beginning of a massive fall of MAGA. No amount of division, fear mongering, lies, and cheap lines will overcome the fact that you just took many people’s prosperity just because it makes you feel powerful. Mark my words, the beginning of the end.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1672 comments

Not sure what's worse, the reporter asking a softball "do you want to weigh in on that" [Signalgate] or the reporter immediately moving onto another topic when Trump demands, like a little baby, that she doesn't "bring that up again". Our media is failing us. Again. zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 13 hours ago • 222 comments

"When we started to learn about Ed Martin, we, to a man and irrespective of our politics, were appalled," Toomey told NBC News. “We have never, ever seen anything like this in the U.S. attorney’s office." Ex-prosecutors raise alarm over Trump loyalist tapped for key U.S. attorney post

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Good video @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

submitted 14 hours ago • 200 comments

Trump and his family stand to gain substantially from their corrupt crypto ventures. The rest of the economy will be subject to large and unregulated risks. Beware. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-crypto-inc

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 1/2 "People are entitled to due process regardless of citizenship or immigration status under the 5th & 14th Amendments of the US Constitution. Today’s events help us understand why. given that they made an admitted “clerical” error in deporting him despite..

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

israel defense minister katz: military expanding offensive to “crush and clean the area” in gaza and seize “large areas that will be added to the security zones of the state of israel.”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Over last 3 years, US has spent around 2.34 Trillion on defense preparing for, among others, Russia. In same period we spent $187 Billion supporting Ukraine beating Russia. So: just 7.8 percent to defeat one of our biggest enemies, with no US losses Pretty good deal

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

See Supervisor Connie Chan surprise Brewster Kahle with a Certificate of Honor from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for the #InternetArchive. “Please continue to celebrate them today and every day,” she said. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/0f_oD-sj4LE #LibraryAdvocacy #SanFrancisco

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Expect to see a lot of gray hair at the April 5 Hands Off rallies--we've been organizing like crazy at @thirdactorg.bsky.social Hands off Social Security and Medicare, but also hands off the future. The daily wreckage of our government must cease! thirdact.org/act/handsoff/

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Trump is sending a chill across the entire legal community. His attacks on large law firms are cutting off the litigation lifeline for nonprofit public-interest groups who are challenging his policies — which is exactly why he’s doing it. Connect the dots.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Another Big Law firm shamefully capitulates to Trump. This time Milbank. It may make more money, but the stain of this shame will be a part of this firm forever. Every partner and associate now has a choice to make. History is watching.

submitted 1 day ago • 527 comments

🚨 NEW via POLITICO: Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world Mike Waltz’s team used at least 20 Signal chats to coordinate official work on Ukraine, China, Gaza, and more—often discussing sensitive info. This goes way beyond what was previously known.

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

A reminder that backing Trump means you’re not allowed to oppose racism.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think they can destroy our country for their own benefit. No they can’t. Not if we band together to stop them.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Science, research, and services aren't just a spigot you can turn on and off. It could take years, even decades to undo this damage depending on how long it continues for.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

The Trump meme coin is “probably the most massive corruption scandal in the history of the country,” Senator Chris Murphy says—and the lack of an uproar to it signalled “that we weren’t going to take the corruption seriously.” www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

In a recent interview with NBC News, Trump did not rule out a third term in the White House, emphasizing that he is “not joking” about somehow defying the Constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Huh. 32 percent on Taiwan. Hey tech how is that Trump bro support working out?

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

It's not ‘some DEI thing’ to recognize warriors of color. Every hero should be recognized for their service to our country, and the SecDef should clean up his on-again, off-again attempt to wipe away history.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

With DOGE, Elon Musk is not only sidelining Congress and threatening to defy the courts; he is also smuggling into our federal bureaucracy the seeds of a new authoritarian regime—techno-fascism by chatbot.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

“This damage has created effects that will be forever.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks to David Remnick about the repercussions of all the destruction caused by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Cory Booker showed us what courage looks like by standing up and speaking out in one’s town square. He showed us how it can help shape reality. He demonstrated that it can inspire others and thus can make a real difference in the fight for democracy. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Tough language from JPMorgan tonight: “.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

submitted 1 day ago • 912 comments

Guess what isn’t going to lower costs for Americans struggling with heating and cooling bills.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

I remain completely flabbergasted that the basic legality of this move is not foregrounded in the debate.

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

americans are the shortest term folks imaginable. the idea that we’ll happily accept short term pain for something—anything—long term flies in the face of our national experience.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Here is the lead opinion piece at the Washington Post and on Democracy Docket. My advice is to sign up to support the one that shares your values and provides information you think is important. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

Mr. Booker Goes to Washington—and delivers a must-see cultural moment ... Marvelous piece !!! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 1 day ago • 816 comments

Beyond. Parody.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

If there was ever a symbol of why we need to get big money out of politics, reform campaign financing, stop conflicts of interest, and tax great wealth, Elon Musk is it. Kudos to Susan Crawford on this big victory for democracy, labor rights, and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

If Trump & Musk have suffered an unprecedented number of judicial injunctions, it is because they have committed an unprecedented number of illegal actions. We don’t have rogue district judges, we have a rogue president violating the Constitution & breaking the law every day. Watch my statement:

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

🚨BREAKING: Susan Crawford WINS Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Court retains 4-3 liberal majority, paving the way for future cases protecting voting rights. A huge defeat for Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Sign-up for Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

So proud of @thirdactorg.bsky.social colleagues especially Lawrence McDonald for organizing this gorgeous action. Singing health researchers back to work! wtop.com/montgomery-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We rise with Senator Cory Booker as he holds the Senate floor against Trump’s attempts to rip apart the Bill of Rights and the rule of law. Stand strong, Cory! America is with you.

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

So the administration ADMITS it mistakenly arrested and sent a father to El Salvador, but then can’t right the wrong because, well, he’s in El Salvador? Is this right?

submitted 2 days ago • 796 comments