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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3437 comments

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

submitted 3 days ago • 839 comments

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

submitted 5 days ago • 1706 comments

Our economic security and national security are in grave danger compared to 8 short weeks ago

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Adam Kinzinger on Donald Trump trying to nullify Biden's pardons for the J6 Committee: "He's more obsessed with like me and Liz Cheney than his friggin' golf score. Hey Trump: bring it on, dude. You weak, whiny, tiny man." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

Dangerous. And corrosive. And par for the course

submitted 7 days ago • 183 comments

This is extraordinarily dangerous

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

. @annecaprara.bsky.social is correct here

submitted 9 days ago • 186 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 9 days ago • 5261 comments

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 9 days ago • 832 comments

Grow a spine, Chuck.

submitted 9 days ago • 1254 comments

Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education? Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power. Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.

submitted 10 days ago • 353 comments

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

submitted 10 days ago • 767 comments

"Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is Putin..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 401 comments

If you want to get a better measure of how many people in the US military or formerly in it will actually oppose Trump, get working on recruiting them to join this protest. #3E Don't just guess, organize, and find out.

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

submitted 14 days ago • 241 comments

When the choices are bland appeasement, treason, or resistance which one will they choose?

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments

As Musk was busy blowing up Space X rockets, Europe's new rocket Ariane 6 successfully carried out its first commercial mission, placing a French military satellite into orbit and confirming the continent's independent access to space and further cutting reliance on US systems. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 16 days ago • 211 comments

The US House just voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green for standing up to Trump. 10 democrats voted against resistance to Trump, at least 9 are backed by AIPAC. Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Marcy Kaptur Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi

submitted 17 days ago • 278 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 17 days ago • 1580 comments

Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.

submitted 17 days ago • 102 comments

"Is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information and your bank accounts?" — Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Elon Musk and DOGE during the Democratic response to Trump's address

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

The SAVE Act is unnecessary as it is already quite illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. So the law, which won’t help solve an already nearly nonexistent problem, makes very little sense—unless, of course, disenfranchising millions of women is the point.

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

New in PN: How Trump's lawlessness emboldens bad cops "An Idaho sheriff who participated in the manhandling of a woman at a GOP town hall appears to be part of a troubling wing of US law enforcement that considers itself culture warriors who bear allegiance to Trump."

submitted 19 days ago • 189 comments

Tariffs. Here we go.

submitted 19 days ago • 291 comments

Does the media mention this is the second extortion attempt of Ukraine by Trump? They do not

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is working to secure Russian dominance. He is an enemy of the American people.

submitted 19 days ago • 95 comments

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

submitted 21 days ago • 101 comments

There is no way to understate what is happening in America – a sinister alliance between a demagogue, the world’s richest man, and right-wing activists is remaking the federal government.

submitted 22 days ago • 42 comments

Liz Cheney condemns Trump and Vance: "Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 22 days ago • 91 comments

Don’t go. Let him speak to a half empty chamber. It would drive him nuts

submitted 22 days ago • 183 comments

This was the plan all along

submitted 22 days ago • 175 comments

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

submitted 22 days ago • 170 comments

Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One. Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

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AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

submitted 22 days ago • 1213 comments

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

submitted 23 days ago • 814 comments

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

submitted 23 days ago • 875 comments

Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

The transatlantic relationship is crumbling, says an ex-head of NATO www.economist.com/by-invitatio... from The Economist A brilliant analysis of the crisis in defending Europe. The Russian wolf is at the door. Trump has destroyed the deterrence credibility of NATO.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Does anyone have her contact info? If so, please send to the signal contact muellershewrote.23

submitted 27 days ago • 1089 comments

Decades of sacrifice and work by generations of men and women across the globe up in smoke. Truly tragic. Tens of millions of American voters squandered the legacy of their parents and grandparents for the thrill of racism and “owning the libs.”

submitted 29 days ago • 34 comments

Vanity Fair: In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions “They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,”a fmr member of Trump’s 1st administration said

submitted 31 days ago • 311 comments