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Love to see it!

submitted 19 hours ago • 408 comments

I encourage everyone to read this and to share. This is what real resistance is. This is how it's done. "When history tells the story of South Korea’s recent political drama, it will recount a tale of a democracy under siege—and a nation that refused to crumble." What will history say of us?

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

As America is being torn apart, weakened, and sold to the highest bidder, I think about all the folks who told me, "Well, it won't be THAT bad" and "We survived 4 years of Trump..." and "The systems will hold." All of them are privileged and well-off. Alas. We're all in it now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 90 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 16 hours ago • 132 comments

The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities. Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 15 hours ago • 92 comments

Make it make sense! 🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 16 hours ago • 223 comments

The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

submitted 15 hours ago • 266 comments

God this is all so, so dumb

submitted 14 hours ago • 329 comments

This is what Town Hall’s should look like all over the country right now.. Apply continuous, aggressive pressure and make it clear we will not comply, we will not sit by, and if our representatives don’t act, we’ll find people that will and they can hit the bricks! www.youtube.com/live/-CLe_uX...

submitted 13 hours ago • 58 comments

submitted 15 hours ago • 682 comments

I’ve done this, excellent advice. Every NYC resident that sees this post, please call your council member.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 11 hours ago • 137 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1578 comments

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

submitted 14 hours ago • 350 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1188 comments

One person did benefit from the biotech company AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio: the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 32 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 12 hours ago • 67 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 14 hours ago • 614 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 21 hours ago • 1357 comments

President Trump has said Social Security “will not be touched.” But the DOGE team’s first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far — worries advocates about what might come next.

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Der Spiegel cover 👀🇺🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Yes, please.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Protestors gathered in New York against the autogenocide being committed by US healthcare corporations and in support of a fair trial for Luigi and justice for millions of people killed to boost corporate profits. #3E #EndAutogenocide #Feb21 (📷 ‪ @oscarthinks.bsky.social & @miasato.bsky.social ‬)

submitted 20 hours ago • 44 comments

Migrants deported from the US were locked in a hotel and held at a remote camp in Panama, lawyers say: cnn.it/3X7LGbZ

submitted 20 hours ago • 41 comments

Another shakedown: U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

The MAGA blowback is starting. Just wait till grandma's Meals on Wheels get canceled. www.ajc.com/politics/mcc...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

“Your great, great grandkids are gonna say: ‘what did you do? Did you just step back and let it happen...Did you wait for some cavalry to ride to our rescue? Or did you get up and get after it, and do whatever you could with what you had, where you were?’” Beto O’Rourke told me—watch it here:

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

The police misconduct database has been eliminated by the Department of Justice on Trump‘s order. America just became a much more dangerous place, particularly for people of color. As we know that they are disproportionately affected by police brutality. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Der Spiegel is HUGE PUBLICATION NOT ONLY GERMANY BUT EUROPE "VERRATEN" German for BETRAYRD

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a complaint with Boise State after the Football coach said not to come to Boise State if you aren't happy with giving Jesus the glory. #gross Fwiw, @ffrf.org does great work and I'm very happy to be a member. ffrf.org/news/release...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 1 day ago • 731 comments

⚡️Trump admits Russia attacked Ukraine. "Russia attacked, but they shouldn't have let him attack," U.S. President Donald Trump said on Feb. 21, after previously blaming Ukraine for starting the war.

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

WOOHOO! A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered….I’m sure everything will be perfectly fine 😬 www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 285 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 802 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 478 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 1 day ago • 742 comments