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submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Good morning He’s only been in office 2 weeks. Dems have to show up at every govt office he has shut down or restricted. Make a spectacle. Get on every local news, Sue in every court, block every appointment. Stop thinking this a normal presidency

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. This week, Elon Musk and a literal handful of 18 to 24-year olds have illegally taken over the US Treasury Department computers and now have access to all our nation's (both individual and collective) financial data.

submitted 19 days ago • 86 comments

State Department Appointee gives the entire game away.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

submitted 19 days ago • 111 comments

📌QUESTION: How can a private citizen, with zero govt. clearance be walking through the doors of OUR federal departments and the treasury, ransacking the places, stealing information, and NOBODY is stopping him? 📌And what the fuck is law enforcement doing right now? 📌THIS IS A COUP.

submitted 20 days ago • 759 comments

I want to share with you some thoughts about the second horrific week of Trump II. It’s even worse than I’d imagined. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-fuking...

submitted 20 days ago • 177 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."

submitted 20 days ago • 709 comments

Starting tomorrow, get vaccinated. Everything you can. The CDC took down their list. Use this. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...

submitted 21 days ago • 308 comments

Media purges have started. If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed

submitted 22 days ago • 496 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 503 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

submitted 22 days ago • 666 comments

Hey, America! Tired of voting? The GOP's SAVE Act is for you. In an eye-opening new CAP report, @gbedekovics.bsky.social & @sydkneeb.bsky.social show how the bill would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Hit hardest would be 69 million (largely Republican!) women who took their spouses' names.

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

2021: MAGA wants to ban teaching of "'divisive concepts' through laws largely meant to curtail teaching about systemic racism. If that doesn’t read as chilling, it should. Put another way, politicians are dictating how the public learns about history —and the history those politicians are making."

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Noel Casler’s description of MAGA is brilliant

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submitted 26 days ago • 708 comments

👇👇👇👇

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submitted 27 days ago • 3263 comments

Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, said extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich is "the most important economic issue of the day." When asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25 an hour, he said, "No, sir."

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submitted 28 days ago • 905 comments

I kind of trust the Germans to know a Hitlergruß when they see one

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submitted 32 days ago • 266 comments

Nothing to see here, literally. After yesterday's inauguration, ReproductiveRights.gov disappears, sparking concerns over women's healthcare. A Texas judge has ruled that three states, Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, can move forward to prevent mail-order pills. Need Help? aidaccess.org/en/

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

I feel like this is appropriate today

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

Mark Zuckerberg— 2012: $44 billion 2025: $217 billion Jeff Bezos— 2012: $18 billion 2025: $245 billion Elon Musk— 2012: $2 billion 2025: $449 billion Federal Minimum Wage— 2009: $7.25/hr 2025: $7.25/hr Welcome to the United States of Oligarchy, folks.

submitted 33 days ago • 45 comments

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

submitted 32 days ago • 787 comments

Pam Hemphill, a J6er who has since expressed serious regret for what she did, says she will not accept a pardon from President Trump. “I committed a crime.”

submitted 33 days ago • 288 comments

Today and in the coming days, remember

submitted 33 days ago • 292 comments

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

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submitted 33 days ago • 1767 comments

Remember, today especially, that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Keep the faith. Keep up the fight.

submitted 33 days ago • 118 comments

Propaganda has a purpose. They want us to give up. They want us to throw our hands up and surrender before offering a fight. What’s better than fighting a battle to win? Not fighting at all because your enemy surrenders. Let's not fall for it now. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 35 days ago • 219 comments

So true.

submitted 41 days ago • 1258 comments

An American city is on fire and the world’s richest man has done nothing but lie and make it worse. Thank you to the people who are actually putting their lives on the line to save this country and fuck that spoiled rotten limp dick South African and any of the tough guys who live to kiss his ass.

submitted 42 days ago • 250 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 483 comments

Wait, Facebook HAD fact checking?

submitted 46 days ago • 34 comments

Holy sh*t. Donald Trump says he can’t assure the world he won’t use military force to take over Greenland or the Panama Canal. Greenland is a territory owned by Denmark. This is one of the dumbest and most dangerous things Trump has ever said.

submitted 46 days ago • 1381 comments