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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 16 hours ago • 813 comments

No one knows Medicaid politics better than Jonathan. I think what he's saying here Trump is going to back giant cuts to Medicaid that will uninsure millions, then lie and say he's just cutting waste and count on his ability to sell that lie while Democrats scramble.

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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“Unlike the Tea Party of 2010, this is not an issue that breaks down cleanly along ideological lines. An insurgency isn’t necessarily going to pull Dems to the left, especially because Dem voters can’t really agree on which ideological direction to take their party.” split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

Although the majority of people around the world are worried about climate change, most still feel it is a future issue or one that only affects the natural environment. They couldn’t be more wrong: climate change is already affecting what’s on our kitchen counter!

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Why we need a bunch of new Democratic leaders to take over—like right now The system that got us here can not get us out.

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Republicans are much better at selling tyranny than we are at selling freedom.

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Conservative Christians be like “i sUpPort TrAdiTioNal fAmiLy vaLUeS” by supporting a party led by two guys with 18 children between 7 women, dozens of sexual assault allegations (some found liable in a court of law), hush payments made to porn stars, and 34 felony convictions for business fraud.

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Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

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“…federal employment has declined in the past several decades. Civilian employees represent about 1.5% of the population and account for less than 7% of total government spending. 7 out of 10 civilian employees work in organizations that deal with national security.”

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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 3 hours ago • 71 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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I’ve come to learn many people don’t know this!

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 11 hours ago • 484 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 106 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

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A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.

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Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

submitted 3 hours ago • 85 comments

people have been talking a lot of shit ever since that article came out revealing i make prospective boyfriends take the Song Era Imperial Service Exam before we date. that's fine. i don't have time for mediocrity. y'all can put up with some "leaving the provisions unguarded" type man

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Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

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I am very politically active and write/call my congressman often. I have lived in his district for almost 2 decades. I have never seen him in person and it’s not for a lack of trying. No town halls. No visiting his district. I’ve never seen hide nor hair of Sam Graves.

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"just as the general public can’t enter the kitchen or the manager’s office, neither can ICE without a judicial warrant giving them explicit permission. “You should consider placing signage indicating certain areas as ‘private’ to distinguish them from public areas in advance of any ICE raid,”

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An interesting example of how fossil fuel industry PR and big media complicity have created a Human Centipede of propaganda that dominates the public information space.

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I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

This is pure extortion. Musk has far too much power for one person and also has enormous conflicts of interest in any role he serves in government. Both will have to be addressed if we want democracy, prosperity, and stability.

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Yep. Local projects like playgrounds, sidewalks, safety improvements, crosswalks, bike lanes, bridge repairs, stocked fishing lakes, pond maintenance, etc are all often paid for with federal grants applied for by municipal governments and HoAs. That's all gonna go away now.

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Loads of Americans are now convinced they're about to get a multi-thousand dollar stimulus cheque, the money coming from the billions of dollars they believe DOGE has saved. This idea comes from a 'proposal' in a Google doc created by a random hedge fund manager who says it came to him in a dream.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

No US company should be allowed anywhere near a deal for critical infrastructure.

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Most Western governments and politicians right now have no idea what they are up against. Our infrastructure and our alliances are completely outdated.

submitted 5 hours ago • 28 comments

All I keep thinking and hoping in the midst of extraordinary noise, is that Starmer, Macron, von der Leyen, Merz et al are all seeing the world as is and adjusting to that strategic reality. We are moving to a post-post-WWII world where liberal democracies must hold ground outside of Atlanticism.

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Really proud to be from Maine today.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

Firing all the military lawyers seems like a preparation for doing war crimes. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

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This is how it’s done.

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A real struggle right now is thinking that the people in charge just want the US to be the us with more white guys in charge when in truth they want to destroy democracy

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