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submitted 2 days ago • 864 comments

The top .1% stops paying into social security by January 19th. Scrapping the cap would generate up to $388 billion per year and keep Social Security solvent. Social Security is only being depleted because we refuse to make people pay their fair share.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Trump has increasingly usurped the power of Congress. If there were ever a time for the legislative branch to stand up for itself, now would be the time. Congress needs to step up and do its job. Kudos to Bernie.

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

NEWS. MEDIA. AND. THE. PUBLIC. NEED. TO. TREAT. EVERY. STATEMENT. AS. A. LIE.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Sen Elissa Slotkin condemns Pete Hegseth, saying ex-Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper "had more guts and balls than you because he said I'm not going to send in the uniformed military to do something that I know in my gut isn't right … It just shows you don't understand who we are as a country."

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Every kid deserves the chance to grow up healthy & thrive, including trans kids. This ruling is a cruel and devastating step backward. Courts have no business determining medically-necessary care. Those decisions should be left to families and their doctors.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Dear @democrats.org, Republicans have offered you a playbook on how to obstruct. They do it to you all the time. Why aren't you using their effective obstruction strategies? Why are you confirming their noms? Why are you voting for their destructive bills? Why are you not all united?

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 4 days ago • 388 comments

And also that’s not the way any of this works.

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

Yep.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Great emotional regulation on the part of the reporter.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Another story in the Guardian that should have been in an American paper …. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." ~Gen. George S. Patton Keep holding on—we've got this. ✊

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

We the people joined together in the Denver heat to show our love of country.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Seen reviewing Donald's poorly attended parade. Even Donald is bored.

submitted 5 days ago • 176 comments

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

submitted 5 days ago • 2182 comments

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 5 days ago • 478 comments

It's amusing the contrast the ENORMOUS crowds that showed up today to protest against Donald Trump and the paltry turnout to celebrate him tonight. How humiliating. Maybe there is hope for the country.

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

It is an absolutely incredible stretch to see in person

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

You can draw a straight line between reckless rhetoric like the comments from the Speaker of the House earlier this week and the horrific political violence that just occurred in Minnesota.

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

submitted 5 days ago • 2134 comments

Posted near the White House today

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Scenes from the protest outside the Kilmar Abrego Garcia detention hearing at the federal courthouse in Nashville. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

Trump wants to play it like these Israeli attacks on Iran are a sign of his brilliance and strength. Nope. Just the opposite. www.thedailybeast.com/how-iran-str...

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

well, duh! most adults know that they ran on cutting waste, not adding $45M! Most US Adults Say Trump's Military Parade Is Not a Good Use of Money, a New AP-NORC Poll Finds

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Israeli officials say Trump approved the Iran attack, "We had a clear U.S. green light." Adding, reports of Trump restraining Israel were planted to deceive, while Trump and Netanyahu coordinated the attack in private — Axios

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Now watch this video knowing all this: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Everything Scott Bessent said today was wrong. Our GDP growth has slowed, job numbers are down, and the big beautiful bill will raise the deficit by trillions. We are worse off today than we were last year, and while Bessent says it’s a distraction, Americans don’t just see—they feel—the truth.

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

submitted 7 days ago • 1698 comments

This is Waylon. He'd been in a shelter for 95 days when a woman came in with her son Cai. Cai asked so many great questions about how to keep him safe and healthy. When he returned to officially adopt Waylon, he arrived in a very dapper suit, saying it was a "special occasion." 14/10 for everybody

submitted 7 days ago • 120 comments

“You can’t even see Kristi Noem in the video….This notion that he was some physical threat to her is just absurd…It’s sick, and it’s hard to even dignify what Mike Johnson said with a response.” - @timmiller.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 106 comments

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

submitted 8 days ago • 2410 comments

Not true, DHS. Don't lie. There's video. Sec. Padilla repeatedly identified himself. He didn't lunge toward Sec. Noem. Security lunged toward him, pushed him out of the room, into the hallway, and onto the floor. The treatment of Sen. Padilla was violent, abrasive & forceful. Unconscionable.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 8 days ago • 2260 comments

A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...

submitted 8 days ago • 246 comments

MAYOR BASS: “It’s completely unnecessary… They’re guarding one federal building... This is all part of an experiment: What happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor and mayor?"

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

At least 16 Dem Senators will sell you out to crypto @ 2PM today, ushering in the next financial crisis. Even if you don't own crypto, this is going to hurt you in a big way. Elon is making nice with Trump to make sure he gets to launch his own crypto payment system on X. Call your senator.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

submitted 9 days ago • 1251 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

$134 million that should be going to LA’s fire recovery. Shameful.

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

Sorry, I’m not listening to folks who criminalize immigrants while voting for a criminal…

submitted 10 days ago • 183 comments

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom is asking for a restraining order on Trump/Hegseth's use of the military in Los Angeles, saying they are preparing to go on immigration raids with ICE. He wants a ruling within two hours. "They must be stopped immediately." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

The “states’ rights,” “don’t tread on me,” “fight tyranny” crowd is now cheering on authoritarian power grabs—from a guy who can’t even walk up a flight of stairs. If you care about the Constitution, you should care no matter who is in office.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments