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This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1027 comments

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

submitted 10 hours ago • 2688 comments

Trump wants to set rules for the way states run their elections and wants DOGE to audit voter databases. DOGE. Not an independent entity - his cronies. Mike Johnson is talking about eliminating district courts. These are not actions you see in a Democratic Republic.

submitted 9 hours ago • 119 comments

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 267 comments

This may be the best thing on the internet today.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Part 1 on neighbors being disappeared by the US government.

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If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you. With no court to verify anything the Trump regime alleges, you could be arrested and sent to a prison in El Salvador for having views the regime dislikes robertreich.substack.com/p/if-trump-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

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NASA drops its plan to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon. That promise was a central plank to the space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027. 🌖

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On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 4 days ago • 800 comments

Threatening to shut down Social Security payments if they don’t get what they want. This is definitely the response of a mature, well grounded adult and not a three year-old toddler throwing a tantrum because someone turned Bluey off until they finish breakfast. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! (I’m not posting daily, but I will do 20- eventually) 9/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is insane

submitted 5 days ago • 3981 comments

Musk staffers are joking about how upcoming Social Security changes will restrict access by requiring in-person visits while simultaneously shutting down offices. They are touting the cost savings from limiting access.

submitted 6 days ago • 385 comments

They will never be forgotten Donald, no matter how hard you try.

submitted 6 days ago • 858 comments

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

submitted 7 days ago • 1999 comments

The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address. 🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

submitted 8 days ago • 1297 comments

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2247 comments

For over 80 years, Voice of America delivered news to countries—many under authoritarian rule—where reliable information was scarce. Now, those broadcasts, once a vital tool for promoting democracy and transparency, are fading away.

submitted 9 days ago • 396 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 10 days ago • 2115 comments

Trump issued an executive order invoking a wartime law the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—a little-known law—would allow the government to deport without due process.

submitted 10 days ago • 200 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! (I’m not posting daily, but I will do 20- eventually) 8/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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I offer you these reasons for very modest hope not because I want you to deny the awfulness of what’s occurring, but because I want you to see we are not necessarily doomed. Here’s this week’s summary of 10 reasons for very modest optimism. robertreich.substack.com/p/even-more-...

submitted 11 days ago • 98 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 11 days ago • 4193 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! (I’m not posting daily, but I will do 20- eventually) 7/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 12 days ago • 1078 comments

I’m sure all the people losing their retirement, jobs, and health care because of Trump are glad to see the White House turned into a car dealership for the richest man on the planet.

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

Trump is bulldozing the Education Department, which helps homeless and disabled kids gain access to school, while he does a car commercial at the White House for the richest man in the world. Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.

submitted 14 days ago • 49 comments

This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

submitted 14 days ago • 248 comments