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submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

I was at USIP tonight to conduct congressional oversight over DOGE’s break in. I spoke with Acting President & CEO Moose. USIP is an independent, non-profit entity and I will work to stop DOGE’s illegal power grab.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

submitted 10 hours ago • 250 comments

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

submitted 4 hours ago • 93 comments

I remember all the MSMers throwing ackahullys about this www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 5 hours ago • 1511 comments

Ain't no wedgie high enough. Ain't no swirly deep enough.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 1036 comments

If you've ever even just been tempted to tell someone like me that they are overreacting, please read this article. If you're the one who's being told that're overreacting, you probably already know most of it but maybe read it anyway. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Indivisible's fearless leaders, Leah Greenbert and Ezra Levin, just finished their weekly Zoom chat and I have one crucial simplicication of the situation with the Elon Musck slush fund budget now in the Senate. " The message to your Dem senators is clear. They must vote NO on cloture. No BS!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Murphy made this video. Ask your blue or purple state senators why they haven't. youtu.be/JkiheDGZMrg?...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Read this. Make it go viral. You can find videos of it in real time on YouTube. (Jeff Merkley isn't super telegenic but it's worth watching/sharing in real time. He nailed the guys.) www.facebook.com/FearAndLoath...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Marshall thinks we need to understand that the SCOTUS has separated itself from the constitution to the point where we need to change the way we think about them going forward. Very much worth a read. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Note to Dems from one of the smartest people in the field, Dan Pfeiffer. Stop talking about egg prices all the f'ing time! Why? Egg prices are high due to the bird flu. When the disease is dealt with, prices will drop and guess who gets the credit. Focus on ALL inflation! youtu.be/O-NX8OuqvS0?...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

GIP Gene Hackman. He made meh movies better and great movies sublime. He even improvised the punch line for one of the greatest comedy duets in film history. Perhaps now he knows who was picking their feet in Poughkeepsie. With extreme gratitude.https://youtu.be/BXPl_wr2QNw?si=jI6rUf1lZZ_9S3OX

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy died at WaPo. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If you're going to CPAC, please leave the chainsaws at home. And, no, the solution to a Nazi with a chainsaw is not a social democrat with a chainsaw!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Here's something to do in the SFV for President's Day. I'm not sure who's behind this but it beats doing nothing! events.pol-rev.com/events/fcfb4...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Tony Roberts. He could be a master of smarm but here he is as the ultimate realist. tying together a room full of top NYC characters actors while commanding the scene himself. Hard to imagine anyone doing better with this scene. youtu.be/IXi_VrFakL0?...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Tony Roberts. He could be a master of smarm but here he is as the ultimate realist. tying together a room full of top NYC characters actors while commanding the scene himself. Hard to imagine anyone doing better with this scene. youtu.be/IXi_VrFakL0?...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I, for one, welcome our benevolent Danish overlords! Let's do socialism! Whoopee!!!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Words I completely agree with from a guy who blocked me for having fact-based disagreements with his self-aggrandizing approach and his wildly uneven movie. Don't Look Up was so limp ass as agitprop an entire normie family I know watched it and made no associations with climate.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I hope everyone is calling their Democratic Senators. If you want to know everything they should be doing, here it is. indivisible.org/resource/how...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

So not buying something from Elon has become something you can be sued for. A shakedown racket by any other name. Progressive groups and NGOs need to come up with a response because they're next. www.npr.org/2025/02/01/n...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

If you're telling people their fears about what could happen under Trump & the Oligarchs are exaggerated, please read this. If you think things are hopeless and there is nothing to be done, please read this. Historians aren't perfect but past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Crucial. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

All it does is show the same British tactics to maintain BRITISH colonial rule. The misapplication here and false equivalence is that it was done to foster Jewish immigration as a colonial impetus. That is absolute horseshit and at complete odds with the history of Jewish emigration to the Levant...

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

RIP David Lynch. While I only love about half of his work, I hugely admire both the work and the man himself. Both an eternal child and a fearless artist who took risks and didn't much care if the result wasn't everybody's jam. One of the greats. youtu.be/qYPW3O6VhXo?...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Jimmy Carter. A good man who could take a joke and who actually tried to do the best job he could. youtu.be/-68iTvhWNB0?...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The thoughts of maybe out next presidential press secretary, Steve Bannon, and a random volunteer press minder (even watched the guy pee). Link to full article in comments.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I don't even need to watch this. I already know that Bernie's favorites will be the top 1 percent of the 1-percent.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

IP Jim Abrahams. He made millions laugh before he became, as we all do, Dead Meat. youtu.be/3JkBKGttM_U?...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Let's make this clear: Tulsi Gabbard's job is to sell out the US to her buddies Putin and Assad. She has always been the darling of the anti-American left ("America is already fascist so let's heighten the contraditions by making it really fascist") and the Nazi right.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Every needs to read the Timothy Snyder post linked to here. Just because something is funny doesn't mean it can't also be the end of a nation. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments