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“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

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Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, HAV, HBV, HPV, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, VZV are largely preventable with vaccines. Covid & flu as well. HPV vaccines can prevent cervical cancer! Willful ignorance is a shameful way to get gravely ill or die. Believe in science. www.aha.org/news/headlin...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

NEW VIDEO: While the country is riveted by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing in Washington, DC, the Republican Party continues to attack voting rights in the states and in the United States Supreme Court. Watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuW...

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

A reminder. Democracy Docket's entire website is free. Democracy Dockets daily and weekly newsletters are sent to subscribers for free. The only thing Democracy Docket charges for is its premium content. That is how it is able to provide all of the free content to over 350,000 people every day.

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

submitted 7 days ago • 441 comments

All, please be aware of this. The Trump administration has offered a buyout to the entire CIA, and I can't even begin to tell you how dangerous this is: www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

The Senate has confirmed Trump's HUD nominee Scott Turner, who has advocated for increasing the private equity industry's role in the housing market. These corporate landlords are one of the biggest reasons why you can't afford a home.

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

The dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn.

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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Any rational thing opposition says to Trump, Musk ‘bounces off the solid wall of stupidity’ youtu.be/hBf0N8SU43Y?...

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Elon staffers are using private emails, violating federal law.

submitted 18 days ago • 418 comments

Climate Science is next to be obliterated … Doge entered headquarters of Noaa. Project 2025 has called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to US prosperity” for its role in climate science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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New bill has been filed to disband the Arkansas State Library, basically "punishing" them for book content. Arkansas friends, join with organizations pushing back. State Libraries are archives, training institutions, and knowledge bank of the state's history. #bookban www.kark.com/news/state-n...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We envision a world where all transgender people can live freely and openly as ourselves. We will keep fighting for that vision in and out of the courts.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

We're holding the Senate floor all night to fight back against Trump’s nomination of Russell Vought. America saw how bad OMB’s illegal, incompetent funding freeze was. We want Americans to hear EVERY HOUR how bad the dangers are that he poses to their daily lives as OMB head.

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Key Message: Pay attention Pick your battles Get educated Divide and concur AOC spends 90 minutes summarizing what is happening, why it’s happening, and outlines the opportunities to step up and take action. Worth a listen. youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 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 20 days ago • 523 comments

BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump letting Musk intrude into Treasury is biggest, most important data breach ever youtu.be/BIOaxR_UHIQ

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 19 days ago • 225 comments

If the Treasury Secretary does not remove DOGE’s access to the Treasury payment systems at once: Congress must immediately act. That is why Rep. Jeffries and I will work together on legislation to stop unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.

submitted 19 days ago • 7602 comments

This is governmental malpractice. This is the single worst foreign policy decision of my lifetime. www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-m...

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Congrats to Meidas Touch for beating Fox in audience ratings. Talk about a light in the darkness!

submitted 19 days ago • 285 comments

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

submitted 19 days ago • 737 comments

Protesters at Senator Thom Tillis' office in Raleigh NC today:

submitted 19 days ago • 158 comments

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

submitted 19 days ago • 818 comments

“Here's How Democrats Can Stop Trump and Musk” A very practical and insightful #mustread for Zeteo from Indivisible’s ⁦‪Ezra Levin‬⁩ and ⁦‪Leah Greenberg‬⁩. Read/share/subscribe:

submitted 18 days ago • 128 comments

The Dumbest of Trade Wars enacted by the Dumbest Administration for these Dumbest of Times.

submitted 21 days ago • 879 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 615 comments

@democracyforward.bsky.social and a nonprofit group sued the Trump administration to block an executive order that strips employment protections for tens of thousands of federal workers. This is the third lawsuit challenging the order.

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

As China continues to give money and projects to countries to gain influence, we are shutting down our agencies that do that. China is eating our lunch and Trump is the reason. Sorry folks, if you don’t see it you don’t understand how the world works. Period

submitted 20 days ago • 542 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 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 20 days ago • 539 comments

If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.

submitted 21 days ago • 626 comments

Don't allow the erasure of people

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Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA” www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...

submitted 20 days ago • 199 comments

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Um, hi. Congressional Democrats, exactly WHAT IN THE FUCK (!!!!) ARE YOU DOING?! Can we PLEASE wake up and get this foreign actor the God fearing fuck out of our government?! What exactly are you waiting for? Here is your actual formal invite to this fight. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 71 comments

An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments. What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 435 comments

Kash Patel would make a disastrous FBI director. It’s clear Trump chose him to be a major cog in his vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

Media I am begging you please to call the admin out on this, to question them and to frame this disaster as the failure of this admin to protect Americans because that's the truth.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

To recap, Trump: -Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence -Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers -Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee -Blamed the DCA crash on DEI This is disastrous leadership.

submitted 23 days ago • 430 comments

We used to all hold our breath hoping a shooter wasn’t a Muslim or a trans person. Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?! Do you see how far they have moved the window?

submitted 23 days ago • 689 comments

With the terrible tragedy over the skies of D.C., it’s time to prioritize safety. Trump must end the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers and restore the aviation safety advisory committee he dismantled on Jan 22.

submitted 24 days ago • 411 comments

Literally if you were going to have a cheat sheet in front of you it would have this at the top

submitted 24 days ago • 225 comments

"The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight isn’t about whether individuals can ever criticize powerful figures — it’s about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation..." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 24 days ago • 272 comments