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Before sunrise, Trump and DOGE fired thousands of federal workers across HHS, including many of my constituents. Let’s fire DOGE and get these devoted and critical public servants back on the job. My full statement: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Wow. 38% of the staff from the IRS unit that audits billionaires and the ultra-wealthy have now been laid off. That's not cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. That's cutting government employees and agencies that hold the rich and powerful accountable.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."

submitted 2 days ago • 358 comments

What happened today at the Department of Health and Human Services is a disgraceful way to treat anyone, much less the people who devote their careers to public health. Firing these people makes all of us less safe. www.youtube.com/shorts/HwRXK...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Sen. Cory Booker now holds the record for longest Senate floor speech since 1900. The record was previously set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957 when he attempted to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

At this moment of autocrats vilifying judges and the rule of law, lawyers can prove why they're lawyers. This is the time to stand up for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and for people under attack.

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

🚨BREAKING: The Democratic Party is suing President Donald Trump over his sweeping executive order last week that attempted to wrest control of elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 3 days ago • 287 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @BillBramhall )

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

He is still going! Thank you, Sen. Cory Booker. ✊ youtu.be/5XIXo_WPNRc

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 3 days ago • 590 comments

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us. The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…

submitted 2 days ago • 410 comments

Cory Booker

submitted 2 days ago • 625 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 3 days ago • 7455 comments

Astute & on point: "An opposition only has depth when, alongside all that it stands against, it presents people with a vision of a better future, the one that they are missing out on because of the leaders now in power" -Pete Buttigieg

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

Connecticut was out at The CT Capitol today.

submitted 45 days ago • 209 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 44 days ago • 562 comments

Well played, @MoonPie. Well played. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2...

submitted 48 days ago • 74 comments

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees that we have to take a stand against corrupt millionaires and billionaires who have taken control of our country, and take it back before it's too late. DO NOT BACK DOWN. DO NOT COMPLY.

submitted 56 days ago • 237 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"