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AfD seems stuck in polling in Germany at 20%. German voters are more pro-democracy than current U.S. leaders.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 3 days ago • 748 comments

Trump & Musk claim they’re cutting waste, but their priorities tell a different story Jobs or money cut from feeding starving kids, fighting bird flu & protecting the nuclear arsenal—while Trump pushes for TWO new Air Force Ones when what we have now is just fine Fake populism at its finest

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4563 comments

“As far as Mr. Trump is concerned, Russia is not responsible for the war that has devastated its neighbor. Instead, he suggests that Ukraine is to blame for Russia’s invasion of it.” Like all the weakest bullies, Trump specializes in blaming the victim. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 156 comments

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 2922 comments

Last week, I introduced my We the People amendment to finally get big money out of politics. The Citizens United decision was a disaster and has handed our government over to the highest bidder. It’s time to reverse it and give power back to the people. www.commondreams.org/news/citizen...

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 755 comments

This is the headline: QUACK CONFIRMED! ANTI-VAXXER WITH NO MEDICAL CREDENTIALS TAKES TOP HEALTH JOB AS A PAYBACK FOR ENDORSING MUSK'S SIDEKICK TRUMP FLASHBACK: I'LL LET HIM 'GO WILD' POLIO SURVIVOR MCCONNELL CASTS LONE GOP 'NO' VOTE

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats, Chuck Shumer HAS TO GO! He's an ineffective old man who CANNOT deal with this devil in the Whitemouse -- who wants to take over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama canal. What are you thinking? Time for a BIG CHANGE! (I wish I could post this in a bigger font!!!

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"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

submitted 11 days ago • 2374 comments

Senator Richard Durbin says he has info from "multiple sources" & meeting notes indicating that Kash Patel has secretly helped direct the FBI purge (via Stephen Miller to Emil Bove), and asked for an IG investigation. Says if true, Patel may have perjured himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 475 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 11 days ago • 3884 comments

👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID 1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140. 2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.

submitted 12 days ago • 813 comments

Sen Cassidy: “Black lives matter only if you count them”

submitted 14 days ago • 1726 comments

The country has run Amusk

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President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

submitted 17 days ago • 339 comments

“Foreign aid is a very cost-effective way to advance our security.” “Foreign aid is not a charity.” “Foreign aid is less than 1% of our budget.” Sec. of State Marco Rubio was a HUGE supporter of programs like USAID. But now that he’s one of Trump’s lackeys, he’s changed his tune.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

"My first thought was: Well, the old wretch’s cheese has finally slid off his saltine..." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 17 days ago • 491 comments

Trump’s illegal funding freeze is STILL affecting funding portals for Head Start in WA. Congress has directed this money to Head Start — without it teachers will be laid off and preschool classrooms will close. I’m working to get answers for families and will be fighting this.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

"We Americans are responsible for our situation. Trump and Musk were not imposed on us from abroad. We brought about the crisis we now confront. And it is a crisis. It’s a crisis that was not supposed to happen in the twenty-first century." www.thebulwark.com/p/we-did-thi...

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

Congratulations on a job well done to all the kids on college campuses who bravely stood up to Genocide Joe www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 18 days ago • 789 comments

Am I having a stroke or did Trump just talk about the US “owning” Gaza? And maybe sending US troops?

submitted 18 days ago • 1073 comments

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1605 comments

RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences. When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.

submitted 18 days ago • 570 comments

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 18 days ago • 951 comments

RALLY IN COLORADO SPRINGS TODAY Join Indivisible & Demand Sen. Bennet Fight Back Against the Trump-Musk Funding Freeze Tuesday, February 4, 4 – 5pm Location Senator Bennet's office 409 North Tejon Street, COLORADO SPRINGS

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Firing thousands of federal employees opens up the opportunity to create a workforce where the only criterion for being hired is your loyalty to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It's not about efficiency.

submitted 19 days ago • 201 comments

NOW would be a great time to have a VERY PUBLIC and VERY LOUD response from Congressional Democrats on Elon Musk's unchecked takeover of our federal government...

submitted 19 days ago • 585 comments

“We must sound the alarm on why Elon Musk, a private citizen, wields such access to all our critical data. This is yet another wake-up call that Trump and Musk are rapidly dismantling U.S. institutions—a step ever closer to authoritarian control.” trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyra...

submitted 21 days ago • 172 comments

Trump’s tariffs will be a tax on Coloradans and American families, and increase the cost of everything from food to gas. Trump’s tariffs make us less competitive, hurt people and quite frankly make no sense.

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

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Quoting experts (including me) on the constitutional catastrophe more of us must step up to resist through every peaceful means still available to us www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 80 comments