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Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

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An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.

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Elbows up, Canada.

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Read this, and think about the fact that without Section 230 your access to free opinion will diminish dramatically. Call your Representative or Senator to oppose repeal. It doesn't have a bill number yet so you have to just say you oppose the Durbin/Graham repeal of Section 230. 202-224-3121.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

-Deplatforming as a strategy has sharp limitations -The nature of social media is such that there'll always be people on your side trying to do it for insane reasons -But media figures DO have influence and the perception of respectability among peers DOES matter -So don't platform obvious Nazis

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Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

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Ossoff: Trump’s cabinet is worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

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Ossoff: This is why things don’t work for ordinary people. It’s not because of trans kids or woke college students. It’s not because of our new arch-enemy… Canada.

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I'm sorry but Jasmine Crockett saying, F"ind a little trans child that is ruining your life!" is well giving me life. She is both very right and very funny.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

“Millions of people who are financially comfortable now may be just one bad break away from needing Medicaid for themselves or a member of their immediate family. Without coverage, the cost of care for an aging parent or a sick or disabled child — of any age — can be ruinous.”

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AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

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Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

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BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

submitted 3 days ago • 480 comments

President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.

submitted 3 days ago • 263 comments

Breaking the promise of Social Security would be like stabbing us in the back. Elon Musk has his knives out to enrich himself and his billionaire cronies.

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No way to replace broken shovels. Meaningless busywork censoring forbidden words. Toilet paper shortages. How the “Department of Government Efficiency” is making the federal government almost comically inefficient: wapo.st/4kLpNcW

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Let’s face it: If the base asks for a little more combativeness against a president whom Democrats have characterized as a threat to democracy—and who has gone wildly out of his way to demonstrate that they're right—these demands are not unreasonable.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

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Even the candy ads on TikTok are dunking on Chuck Schumer now

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Elon is trying to buy this election. Again. I'm signing up for shifts to do what I can to make sure he can't. Will you join me?

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Character on the television show Watson has the worst country accent I've ever heard. It may be their real accent, but it's still hard to listen to.

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BREAKING: "The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries."

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Elon Musk is offering people in Wisconsin $100 if they sign a petition. This is in the context of his efforts to swing the court to conservatives. www.axios.com/2025/03/21/e...

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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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A leaked Wall Street memo confirms that privatizing the Post Office would mean higher prices, mass layoffs, and worse service — especially for rural America.

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The WI Supreme Court election is April 1st. Off-cycle elections don't get a big turnout, which is unfortunate because this race really matters. Up for grabs is control of SCOWISC, which hears cases involving gerrymandering, repro rights, etc. Get involved in this one! tinyurl.com/43688ay2

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This is such a satisfying headline and subheading to read www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

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I would really rather go after Trump and Musk than tilt at Democrats, but we're going to need to make some adjustments on the Democrat side if we stand a chance against Trump and Musk. I wrote about that today at Techdirt. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/20/s...

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White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

so, a trans teacher is getting death threats because she’s being bullied by a sitting member of congress on Xitter and this has been happening for days and not a single mainstream news outlet has even covered it

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US President Donald Trump's administration has detained an Indian man studying at Washington's Georgetown University and is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to US foreign policy, the student's lawyer said reut.rs/4kQdbkS

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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

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During the days of the Tea Party, top right-wing stars like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck hyperventilated over Obama’s unelected czars, arguing it amounted to a threat to the Constitution. Now they're cheering as Trump hands Musk the keys to gov't. More in Status: www.status.news/p/right-wing...

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Please watch this and make sure you are prepared for this level of Gestapo invasion of privacy.

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I've seen a lot of speculation about this kind of situation developing. Cutting mental health services for veterans seems like a really bad idea. But what do I know? www.tiktok.com/@dazedndistr...

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🚨NEW: A French scientist had his laptop searched at the US border & was sent back to Europe after private messages were found criticising Trump. He was accused of messages which “can be described as terrorism”. This is what a slide into FASCISM looks like. 1/

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Some Lean Cuisine and Stouffers frozen meals have been recalled due to the potential presence of "wood-like material."

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📩 In a creepy video, an ad industry CEO recently boasted about his company's data broker capabilities. Read how to fight back against ad surveillance, block tracking tools, and opt out of data brokers in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):

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