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AOC: The order has come down to this committee. Find $880 billion to pay for a tax cuts on yachts, jets, billionaires, and mega corporations while working class people pay higher tax rates than Facebook does. Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than many large corporations

submitted 22 days ago • 162 comments

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

submitted 23 days ago • 1064 comments

alt headline: enemy of constitutional government installed in white house www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 41 days ago • 356 comments

They fall for it every single time. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 42 days ago • 116 comments

The irony is that new IRS agents were hired specifically to audit high income earners - NOT like "YOU," but like ELON. He uses regular people as a shield to protect himself and his pals from clawing back what we lose to tax cheats. Elon's fans are useful idiots as he consolidates wealth for himself.

submitted 43 days ago • 206 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 43 days ago • 1270 comments

I just spoke with an attorney who works with the NOAA, and there is a valid path to shut down what's happening. The agencies are compromised, the IGs are fired, etc. We need a state AG (she said NY would be best) to file a lawsuit seeking an injunction using state and federal cybersecurity laws.

submitted 43 days ago • 71 comments

👇🏼

submitted 43 days ago • 346 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 939 comments

This is why Musk went after USAID From Watergate to Elon-gate Musk is trying to shut down the agency probing his company’s equipment — and now workers are pushing back with a longstanding privacy law. www.levernews.com/from-waterga...

submitted 44 days ago • 54 comments

Same was true in Poland

submitted 44 days ago • 54 comments

RFK Jr. and his family stand to profit off lawsuits against vaccines. An HHS Secretary shouldn't have a financial interest in making our country sicker. I’m demanding RFK Jr. recuse himself from any work on vaccine policy while he has a financial interest in the outcome.

submitted 45 days ago • 900 comments

Everything is insane right now but one little ray of sunlight is that I just got a new gig trying to use public policy to create as many local journalism jobs as humanly possible. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...

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For every “screw you, you America-hating swine” I’ve received the past few days, I’ve received 100x thanks and kindness. So thank you to everyone who’s shared @wired.com’s journalism and blessed us with kind words. We appreciate you endlessly. Anyway, back to work!

submitted 44 days ago • 334 comments

1) Donald Trump claimed $50 million was going to Hamas for condoms last week. 2) Today he's claiming it's $100 million. 3) Someone at the WH couldn't read a spreadsheet which said "InGaza" for an AIDS foundation in the Gaza province, get this, in Mozambique. 4) No mention of condoms in the grant

submitted 44 days ago • 100 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 44 days ago • 1327 comments

"US criminals" implies American citizens. This is unconstitutional. Citizens are entitled to rights under the US Constitution. The US Constitution doest exist in El Salvador. Human and civil rights organizations across the board need to file lawsuits across the country before anyone is sent!

submitted 44 days ago • 20 comments

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

submitted 44 days ago • 1477 comments

Putin sends his political enemies to prisons in Siberia to put them outside of the Press, for the most part. I wondered if Trump was going to build prisons in northern Alaska. I underestimated him. El Salvador.

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 44 days ago • 517 comments

Today in saying the quiet part out loud… 🤮

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

submitted 45 days ago • 1033 comments

I wish we could just cancel Elon altogether, but Ontario’s move is in the right direction. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 45 days ago • 1561 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 45 days ago • 2478 comments

If you're not afraid of this, you're not paying attention... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 45 days ago • 266 comments

good, they finally got the names of some of the flying monkeys

submitted 46 days ago • 61 comments

What advocacy groups have filed legal action against Elon to get an injunction to stop this madness? POTUS doesn't have legal authority to just create a government office, only Congress can do that. Elon is illegal and breaking the law. We need a judge to immediately halt his actions.

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 45 days ago • 538 comments

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

submitted 45 days ago • 187 comments

If Kamala Harris went on TV to tell people to show up at a certain location and time, a million people would appear, ready to save America. Dems have to get over the loss, they have to stop pretending this is "just another" administration, and they need to defend and protect the Constitution!

submitted 46 days ago • 15 comments

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

submitted 47 days ago • 302 comments

THIS AMERICAN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WORK TOGETHER WITH A FUCKING FASCIST TO FIND COMMON GROUND ON WHICH PARTS OF DEMOCRACY WE NO LONGER NEED

submitted 47 days ago • 267 comments

The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days. The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years. ‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades. So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?

submitted 47 days ago • 1397 comments

how many times did we say “sucking up won’t save you”

submitted 47 days ago • 95 comments

It was so much simpler for Trump and his people when they could put all these documents on a pyre.

submitted 47 days ago • 18 comments

A Learjet isn't exactly a "small plane" as initial reports indicated in the Philadelphia crash. Small planes do crash quite often, business class jets not so much. And right on the heels of one of the worst aviation disasters in 40 years in this country. Something isn't right.

submitted 47 days ago • 36 comments

Big Parma is out to get you culturecheesemag.com/blog/parmigi...

submitted 47 days ago • 18 comments

The Washington State Legislature is coming after Blackstone Inc. and other companies buying up single-family housing as rental properties. Two companion bills would limit and even preempt buying depending upon company structure. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?... app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Trump isn't leaving. I don't know why people aren't taking it more seriously. He isn't joking about staying for a 3rd or 4th term. Sigh. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 47 days ago • 132 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 47 days ago • 657 comments

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 47 days ago • 1062 comments

BREAKING: Trump officials just forced out all six of the FBI's most senior execs and multiple heads of field offices — including the D.C. field office, which was involved in the Trump prosecutions. DOJ also fired federal prosecutors who conducted the Jan. 6 probes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 47 days ago • 80 comments

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

submitted 47 days ago • 797 comments

On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) On the right, that page tonight

submitted 47 days ago • 44 comments

It's #LGBTplusHM25 in the UK. We've always been here. We always will be. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 48 days ago • 889 comments