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Looking forward to the Trump Justice Department explaining how birth right citizenship is unconstitutional but a South Africa born oligarch has the legal authority to fire every single federal employee by tweet.

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1815 comments

Federal employees already account for their work with their supervisors. We should be thanking them for their service to our country, not jerking them around. Disgusting.

submitted 12 hours ago • 102 comments

Research shows that LGBTQ+ inclusion can drive economic activity. Open For Business’ latest report shows the economic case for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Poland: open-for-business.org/poland

submitted 1 day ago • 349 comments

How about continuing to fully support Ukraine defeating Russia and then after Ukraine is successful negotiate for minerals in Ukraine.

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BREAKING: The Associated Press has sued the Trump Administration over its First Amendment violations, concerns brew over a new coronavirus, stocks tumble, and Trump takes on Maine's Governor. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Anyone else go down the rabbit hole on the Krasnov thing? What do you think?

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This👇🏻

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 2 days ago • 1132 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 1058 comments

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

submitted 2 days ago • 496 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 667 comments

Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.

submitted 2 days ago • 216 comments

Traditional phrase of “it’s time for all Americans to come together “ after a presidential election is not happening now. How can anyone expect us to come together with authoritarian rule?

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1378 comments

"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 410 comments

If Trump picked Sean Combs to lead the Department of Children’s Services I wouldn’t be surprised at this point.

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GOP Grand Ol Putin

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😂

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

We’ve heard the explanations, we’ve heard the theories, we’ve heard the points, we’ve heard the arguments, we’ve heard the messaging. Who is responsible for actually doing something?

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On Being in Community joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

"Now that Republicans have pulled a 180 and started licking foreign dictators’ boots while abandoning every effective tool of American influence in the world, are Democrats truly incapable of capitalizing?" www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 3308 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1921 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1464 comments

Using standard methods to disagree and resist with Trump isn’t working because we’ve never seen anything like this in our lifetime before. If we’re going to stop it we must do something beyond the normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly this year is the first time I ever heard of “accidental firing “.

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Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

submitted 3 days ago • 799 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

I would like to see the media to take a much more serious tone in these serious times.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 4 days ago • 1520 comments

It’s not hard to understand.

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 4 days ago • 1092 comments

Michael Steele: “ I’d just like to see somebody wake the hell up and get excited about the fact that your country is under assault! “

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"

submitted 4 days ago • 397 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1363 comments

We stand with the @apnews.com which is resisting government pressure attempting to dictate how it writes about the news. This is exactly what the founders had in mind when they crafted the First Amendment.

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Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 4 days ago • 1888 comments

Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who is thoroughly inspired to see the thousands of fired-up Americans who turned out IN EVERY STATE to protest the insane trump executive orders, firings, and policies he's pushing. LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!🙏💪

submitted 4 days ago • 369 comments

Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments? Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!

submitted 4 days ago • 1202 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8249 comments

There’s stupid stuff going on and then there’s serious stuff going on. Focus on the serious.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1218 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 5 days ago • 494 comments

The only comprehensible way to understand what’s happening is these miscreants are abusing their power to dismantle our democratic govt, destroy our democratic alliances to further enrich themselves and ally with dictatorships around the world. Pain, suffering, stability, security—they don’t care.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments