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Budgets are statements of values. And what we're seeing is that House Republicans value ripping food and health care away from millions of Americans in order to partly pay for tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

submitted 1 day ago • 615 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 2 days ago • 557 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it. Democracy dies in darkness. Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

Captures it perfectly.

submitted 10 days ago • 458 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

submitted 10 days ago • 335 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to cut funding for cancer and rare disease research. A federal judge temporarily blocked the cuts in some states, but this fight is not over. We can’t let them play politics with our health.

submitted 11 days ago • 132 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 12 days ago • 603 comments

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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submitted 14 days ago • 885 comments

AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.

submitted 15 days ago • 186 comments

China is now taxing billions of dollars of US imports starting today in response to Trump's erratic tariffs. This will raise Americans’ prices, hurt small businesses, and cost American jobs.

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 16 days ago • 3903 comments

Slashing funding for cancer research does not make America great or groceries cheaper.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 18 days ago • 159 comments

👇🏽🤷🏻

submitted 19 days ago • 129 comments

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

submitted 19 days ago • 484 comments

Connecticut Senator Murphy laying down the FACTS! " There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, for the seniors in this country." #HandsOffOurMedicaid

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 20 days ago • 1756 comments

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

submitted 21 days ago • 100 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 22 days ago • 1698 comments

This is so good.

submitted 22 days ago • 626 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 23 days ago • 3290 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 23 days ago • 355 comments

Kaine: "Last week the president signed an emergency order regarding energy. There's an energy emergency and he just put a 10% tariffs on energy from Canada? He is increasing prices at the pump at the same time he's saying there's an energy emergency. The emergency is self-created."

submitted 24 days ago • 330 comments

Elon has taken over Treasury and is going line by line, deciding what gets paid and what doesn't. Here's what you need to know about why that's so bad: You know how every time raising the debt ceiling comes up people freak out? It's because not raising the debt ceiling is not paying our bills. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone needs to read this. The Logic of Destruction snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us

submitted 24 days ago • 277 comments

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

submitted 26 days ago • 2681 comments

More of this please

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

submitted 26 days ago • 672 comments

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 26 days ago • 974 comments

Let's be clear about what happened today: Donald Trump tried to cut a giant chunk of government funding — hurting preschoolers, seniors, and veterans. Trump's illegal shutdown is blocked for now — but don't forget that he tried to cut programs supporting working families.

submitted 28 days ago • 754 comments

Trump shut off Medicaid & was forced to turn it back on. But he'll keep pushing his order to shut off federal programs. He wants to take meals from seniors, pre-K from kids, & jobs from veterans. All so he can give billionaires a tax break. We must unite to stop Trump.

submitted 28 days ago • 67 comments

Dude. I'm Pissed. youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...

submitted 31 days ago • 1888 comments

You guys need to see this and take it in… Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.

submitted 33 days ago • 953 comments

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

submitted 84 days ago • 849 comments

I have watched the #squidgame last week so that comparison resonates with me... We need to change the game.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Dan McClellan is a PHD accredited bible scholar. And he has taken issue with trump and his followers response to Bishop Budde. He is always very thorough in his explanations. And he is no less here. youtu.be/IB8P6R6ZLGo?...

submitted 34 days ago • 35 comments

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 35 days ago • 2216 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 36 days ago • 1921 comments

Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard

submitted 36 days ago • 173 comments

🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social : “Tell him to go do it in Germany… or do it at work and see what happens…”

submitted 36 days ago • 85 comments

It is not "hard," it is unconstitutional.

submitted 36 days ago • 1221 comments

None of this reduces the price of anything.

submitted 36 days ago • 97 comments

Trump just literally eliminated an Executive Order to reduce the price of prescription drugs. They are ripping you off, personally. They never gave a shit about the price of anything.

submitted 36 days ago • 227 comments