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Farmers are going to run to Congress for another handout to deal with the retaliatory tariffs and the answer from Dems has to be "no." This isn't out of retribution, it's because we can't keep creating escape hatches for GOP members of Congress. For the benefit of all, keep the pressure on them.

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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump has ordered 280 million acres of America’s national forests and public lands be felled for timber, raising wildfire risks and evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so, and razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/

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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

submitted 3 hours ago • 230 comments

“How do you think the president was prepared to issue all these executive orders? How do you think they were prepared to make all of these appointments in such quick succession after he got into office? Project 2025.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 9 hours ago • 33 comments

Corporate media would be a hundred times as outraged by this breach of decorum as they have been about the daily constitutional crises and illegal closures that have actually cost human lives already. Which is all the more reason to do it, honestly.

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

We found the real fraud.

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1235 comments

Imagine the response if a European leader laughed it up about 9/11.

submitted 9 hours ago • 58 comments

As a measure of how quickly standards are declining here, Trump was impeached for secretly pausing transfer of weapons to his Ukraine in his first term.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

HANNITY: The Biden administration called Putin every name in the book JD VANCE: And he still invaded anyway! hah hah hah

submitted 9 hours ago • 378 comments

Sure. So long as Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the rest of the nation's public goods, might as well stomp on the Endangered Species Act and turn over national forests to the logging industry. To destroy simply because he can.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

He doesn’t believe laws or institutions apply to him or 🇺🇸, just like he’s never believed laws or contracts apply to him or his businesses. And the problem is, his entire life has proven him right, bc there have never been any consequences for this behavior. A total societal & constitutional failure.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Can we stop prattling on about midterms and "swingstates" - the entire idea of this authoritarian Musk/Trump regime is that there will not be meaningful elections any longer. What do you think this birthright citizenship thing is about? It's about disenfranchisement.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.

submitted 18 hours ago • 83 comments

Narrator: Lawler just voted for a budget that requires massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and/or Social Security.

submitted 19 hours ago • 83 comments

There is no silver lining to this government, no saving grace. Where he isn’t inflicting outright cruelty and malice, Trump is taking a wrecking ball to American prosperity. What an astounding moment of national self-harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

The future of higher education has never been more perilous. #Trump #Musk #Vought are out to destroy universities. Read more in my latest for @TheNation. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

submitted 1 day ago • 640 comments

I’m going to be a broken record on this. Stop treating people’s lives as a political calculus. Stop sacrificing communities as a part of chasing power. That’s what Trump is doing, and it’s unforgivable. Be out there using your political power to protect people. That’s what you got elected for.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Amazon’s drones met more resistance in College Station, Texas, than in any other city in the US. Now they’re gone—and a sense of peace and privacy has been restored.

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House Republicans still can’t pass a budget, but they are still laser focused on making your lives better.

submitted 1 day ago • 309 comments

The point is less that charges are paused after $75m paid into Trump crypto, but that nobody’s even bothered to come up with a pretext. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets." Support pro-democracy independent media.

submitted 1 day ago • 1624 comments

So Musk’s people, who misread $8 million as $8 billion, who counted the same contracts multiple times and counted as savings programs that ended last year, claim that their AI is finding lots of Social Security fraud. Why should anyone worry?

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

If you are the kind of person who is reflexively angered at the sight of someone looting a $2,000 TV during a riot, well this plundering of the FAA amid fires across the federal government is Elon Musk walking out of the Best Buy with a $2.4 billion TV.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Democrats should make sure as many people see this as possible: that Trump's #1 adviser wants to destroy Social Security. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Bill from "Bill & Ted's" is doing more work to stop Musk than clowns in the Senate like Ruben Gallego.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry to say it but: The emporer is actually naked.

submitted 2 days ago • 2058 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 3315 comments

If the president defies the courts and Congress does not impeach him for it, the Constitution simply ceases to exist.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Enjoying everyone's dunks on Rahm Emanuel but I have to note, once again, that he is still the undisputed champion of Worst Political Instincts for saying, in 2009 as White House Chief of Staff, "I don't give a fuck about judges." Whoops! Maybe you should've cared about them, Rahm.

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WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit. The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 1397 comments

The Oval Office has long been a symbol of American leadership, diplomacy, and decorum—a space where world leaders engage in high-stakes discussions with mutual respect, even amid disagreement. Yesterday’s debacle shattered that image.

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social There needs to be a face of the Democratic Party - now. Someone out every day clearly stating what is happening to our govt institutions, our global standing and how changes will impact avg Americans. It’s time, I’m begging you to meet the moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow. Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.

submitted 3 days ago • 300 comments

📌NOTE: Immediately after the vile attack on Zelensky by Putin's puppets Friday, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should have called a joint press conference and explained to the American public the significance, heinousness and danger of that sickening surrender. 📌They should STILL be talking now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2556 comments

I can’t stop thinking about how so many people voted for Trump because they thought he was going to punish people they hate and now he’s hurting them also.

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

It's all a fucking game to these people.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 2 days ago • 285 comments

Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

submitted 2 days ago • 685 comments

It’s beyond insane that a single individual can CREDIBLY threaten the entire republican Caucasus to bankroll a primary opponent if they don’t fall in line. A Total failure of both our electoral laws and tax code.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments