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US gonna go bankrupt

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If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

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NO. At a time of massive income and wealth inequality we should not be giving tax breaks to billionaires. We should demand that they start paying their fair share.

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Sign of the day…

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👀

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And when they're told to stop helping cis gays and lesbians, what then? Because the demands won't stop with trans folks.

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House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

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Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

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......they're going to steal the gold in fort knox, aren't they

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I got raked across the coals for this take in 2022.

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Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

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We know that many folks are feeling overwhelmed and demoralized by the Republican administration. We remind ourselves - and you - not to fall for the act. Everything they are doing is real, and terrifying, but it's also quite unpopular, and will become moreso.

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#BookSky Another classic book recommendation that is relevant to current events: John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath.

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“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

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“ in four years you wont have to vote again”

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President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.

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AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 7 days ago • 270 comments

Every union should be echoing this statement.

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Jack Schlossberg: "Today DOGE SHUT DOWN the JFK LIBRARY" 📚

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The feds can't dictate what state schools teach, so it'll be interesting to see how this plays out in court.

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FoxNews just admitting they’re doing to the US, what the Soviets did to the world.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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The protests going on right now are not the same as 2016 or 2020. You are seeing a social movement in its Proto phases before we know what the final form looks like.This is something much bigger than anything We’ve seen probably since occupy much larger and angrier then 2016 or 20 time to turn it up

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Abingdon, VA had 130+ show up to our protest against Elon's DOGE and Trump's authoritarianism. #NOKING #fiftyfiftyone #50501 #Indivisible #takeactionSWVA #swva

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"If this draft were accepted, Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty.”

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University leaders need to understand: attacks on higher education from this Administration are not going to stop. It is better to die on your feet than die on your knees.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

submitted 8 days ago • 305 comments

Wow, 83% fraudulent? Sounds like they should just stop payment on all Social Security checks just to be safe.

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Spotify played Euphoria while I was driving home last night and with all the hubbub around the Super Bowl I’d forgotten that Not Like Us is nowhere close to the meanest thing Kendrick has done to Drake lol

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... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15... Website for the General Strike: generalstrikeus.com OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!

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I bet Greg Abbott is furious that there are children dying somewhere as a result of Republican policies but he doesn’t get to watch.

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