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Al Green was thrown out of the chamber for protesting to protect Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare; Tom Suozzi is the one who's talking about a member of Congress being removed rather than about the issues

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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

submitted 4 hours ago • 212 comments

March 5, 2025:

submitted 15 hours ago • 61 comments

Get him out of government before there's no government left www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

Every single person in all three branches of government who swore an oath to country & Constitution knows this. A full-scale failure of the entire Constitutional order. Unprecedented in 🇺🇸 history.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

This is well observed. The primary storyline of corporate media in the last decade is the unwillingness to learn and adjust.

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

Most of the Democrats in Congress don't understand this. Most act like "decorum" is all they have left. If we can last until the midterms (?), let's vote them all out & replace them those who know how to fight.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

#DOGEISGARBAGE

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

We're a sharpie pen signature away from the Department of Education no longer existing. Trump's shameful legacy. I'm not a teacher, educator, or student. Just a taxpayer who'd pay anything necessary to keep it open and serving the citizens of this country. As it has done faithfully for decades.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government seeks to remove Israel’s attorney-general https://www.ft.com/content/b1bbedea-f793-4dc6-a5c1-906f4a687492

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

People should probably ask the president why he's trying to crash the economy

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

Enjoying this whole rally featuring Rev. Barber

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 345 comments

Congrats to gamergate www.ign.com/articles/new...

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

This is directly from project 2025

submitted 10 hours ago • 229 comments

Perhaps no one is more responsible for GOP Rep. Andy Ogles’ rise in politics than Lee Beaman, the Tennessee businessman who owns the $3.7M DC townhouse shared by: • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson • Evangelical Pastor Steve Berger • And now possibly Ogles New, @propublica.org

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Thankfully the American people threw out the administration that oversaw high monthly job growth—AKA the worst economy in history—and replaced it with one deliberately causing job loss. #Populism

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Spread this reporting by Propublica to everyone

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This is insane. Each day brings fresh outrages. Trump to revoke temporary legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians who fled war with Russia www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.

submitted 9 hours ago • 40 comments

Climate change is a crime, and the biggest criminals have names — 36 of them to be exact.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The constitutional order does not include Congress asking an unelected, unappointed oligarch if it can help craft policy. www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/p...

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Meanwhile.... bit.ly/4kHdAGj

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"Scientists and researchers have credited it with helping clean up the air in dozens of countries, preventing up to 895 premature deaths and saving $465 million in medical costs per median city annually." www.wired.com/story/air-mo...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The U.S. under Trump is the enemy of democracy. It is the instrument of dictators.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

ABC News dealt a heavy blow to its ranks today, slashing its investigations team, shutting down 538, and gutting "GMA3." “It’s a massacre,” one ABC staffer plainly told @status.news www.status.news/p/abc-news-l...

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

If your descendants get to live in a free country, it will be because enough of us fought against Republican fascism in the year 2025. If your descendants end up imprisoned in a dictatorship, it will mean too few of us did.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

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submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

submitted 19 hours ago • 217 comments

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

submitted 19 hours ago • 127 comments

Oh wait, Howard Lutnik is trying to hand Elon Musk billions in government contracts? You don’t say… www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3341 comments

What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1272 comments

Is this originalism?

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 1 day ago • 762 comments

Elite like to fret about “echochambers” from online choices & algorithms, but much bigger information divide is our corporate media’s break with reality, treating Trump as serious person but refusing to take his threats seriously, while rest of world knows he is lunatic doing terrible things to US.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

The latest, from @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Laying the Groundwork to Defeat Joni Ernst talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/layin...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

in many ways, i think this comment about empathy being weakness is the most overtly narcissistic, fascist thing elon has ever said or done

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Been a while since I've seen a white dude make this kind of speech in favor of what almost all Americans feel about our immigrant neighbors. There's a horrible cost to ceding this issue to fascists who only want to create problems out of solutions.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 1 day ago • 2012 comments

It is interesting! And interesting stuff makes the news. It would be good if more Dems were interested in making news to draw attention to the crisis we're in.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Free speech isn’t back. I know for a fact many who are told to stay silent for fear of retribution. Freedom is more constrained than any ever before in my lifetime.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Speaker Johnson tells members to “uphold order in the House.” Is this the order you’re talking about, Mikey?

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments