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why do i call out substack more than other places? bc of this and, unlike facebook for example, it offers nothing you can’t get elsewhere

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

“This is longest that Gaza has been without any supplies since the war began.” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says no humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks now, as Israeli forces continue to seal shut vital border crossings. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/9h1s92

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

"You shouldn't have to personally know a disabled person to care."

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I’ve been seeing Nikita’s videos come up on my tiktok FYP for a while now and she does such an amazing job! 💖

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’d love to think she’s happy to see me, but in reality I just came back to bed with a midnight snack (ham buns).

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 6 days ago • 318 comments

This is the former chief of staff to Peter Thiel. Sen. Maria Cantwell just voted to confirm him. Sen. Patty Murray voted against his confirmation.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Wow we sure showed those Houthis by [checks notes] bombing a cancer hospital and condemning a bunch of innocent people to a slow and painful death

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

submitted 5 days ago • 2205 comments

I feel like this has been answered somewhere but if that was the "small group" chat is ... there also a large group chat that they did not accidentally add a journalist to?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Today ICE agents detained the prominent farmworker organizer Alfredo Juarez, also known as Lelo, in Washington State. Community groups allege that agents broke Lelo’s car window to apprehend him, violating his constitutional rights. They are calling for his immediate release.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Wisconsin State Code §12.11 makes it a crime to offer “anything of value” greater than $1 to induce anyone to vote or refrain from voting. docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/sta...

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

Oh good! While Trump & Elon cut lifesaving research, they’re going to put our very limited federal resources towards studying the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism. These people are doing less CANCER RESEARCH to waste your taxpayer dollars on total bunk.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: BISIGNANO LIES UNDER OATH @wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security? Bisignano: No, sir. Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.

submitted 6 days ago • 169 comments

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 6 days ago • 990 comments

I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.

submitted 6 days ago • 184 comments

I try not to curse or be too crass on here but these people can go to hell. They want kids as young as 14 to work the night shift to replace immigrants who’ve been deported? amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Social Security Administration under Trump/Musk/DOGE: -Website crashed 4 times in 10 days -Phone lines are overwhelmed -Staff being forced out -Customer experience office eliminated -SSA field offices on the chopping block This is an attack on Social Security itself.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

On this day in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire erupted, trapping workers inside because owners had locked the exits. In 30 minutes, 146—mostly young women—were dead. The tragedy ignited a lifelong fight for worker protection, a fight that continues today through unions and OSHA.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe are testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee this morning. I have some questions.

submitted 6 days ago • 204 comments

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

We posted a list of all the officials on the text chain who suggested criminal charges in the past for Clinton and Biden. Pete Hegseth in 2016: “People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did... It's all criminal." www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

reminder: most americans have no idea any of this stuff is going on. the signal leaks. the destruction of dept of education, social security. they have no idea. they are trying to live life and this information isnt getting to them. take it upon yourself to spread the data.

submitted 6 days ago • 281 comments

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

submitted 6 days ago • 333 comments

press: this is the worst natsec mistake of the last several decades me:

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

A while back I had a dream Hegseth was the linchpin causing the Trump admin to crumble. Now I’m wondering if that was actually prophetic, or just an educated guess anyone could have made that the inexperienced, untreated alcoholic would be the one to make a major national security oopsie.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe Trump should worry less about how he looks in literally one portrait in Colorado and more about his Cabinet members texting classified war plans in Signal group chats… THAT is what's not a good look here.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

About the ACA: go talk to elder Millennials who were dropped from their parents' insurance at the height of the Great Recession because they aged out... when no one was hiring. Go talk to anyone living with pre-existing conditions. Was the ACA enough? No. Better than what existed before? Yes.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

man as a journalist this is the kind of thing you might childishly fantasize about while mowing the lawn or waking up from a dream

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Scritches and a little tongue blep 🥰

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“Pro-democracy creators currently publishing on Substack should be cognizant of the fact that they are operating behind enemy lines, and that the company's backers are antagonistic to your goals.”

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

You don't read the phrase "Israel commits largest child massacre in history" without something breaking inside you.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is the worst fucking take. A: HE IS DEFYING LOWER COURTS RIGHT NOW. THAT SHOULD BE ENOGH TO MAKE DEMOCRATS "FIGHT IN EVERY SINGLE WAY" B: We should not need to wait on a 6-3 Republican Supermajority to determine if Democrats should "FIGHT IN EVERY SINGLE WAY" WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS?

submitted 8 days ago • 452 comments

So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.

submitted 8 days ago • 135 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 8 days ago • 4526 comments

yeah -- this is one of those radicalizing facts you learn along the way. it's not that the U.S. sometimes goes back on its word; it's that the U.S. has no word at all. it has broken literally every treaty it ever made with Native Americans. trust a snitch before trusting the U.S to keep its word

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

It's not just Obama we need to hear from. Every living and cognitively intact former president, Vice President, cabinet member, general, judge etc should be speaking openly and fiercely against what Trump is doing. Y'all are just singling out the Obamas because you expect Black people to save you.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when people used to say the warnings about Trump were alarmist? He’s now explicitly saying US citizens who damage private property that’s linked to one of his oligarch cronies will be sent to prisons in El Salvador.

submitted 10 days ago • 150 comments

Guy on tiktok was like "there are so many wonderful ways it could happen. How would you want to find out it happened?" and I would like to be asleep in bed and Eric comes in and gently wakes me to tell me. The joy I would feel

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

If this dont cause riots nothing will.

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submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

you can say they're not sane or their arguments don't pass constitutional muster till you're blue in the face. they have the power. they're doing it. And unless they are stopped they will keep doing it.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Yesterday Israel attacked a United Nations guest house in Gaza where UN staff were staying and one person was killed. Israel has murdered at least 280 UN staff since October 2023.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive and can buy out the legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 280 comments