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Even before Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration’s staffing levels were at a 50-year low due to a decade of budget caps & cuts authored by GOP lawmakers. Further staff cuts and office closures can only make things worse for America's most vulnerable. New, @propublica.org

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This is the other thing we should be acting on. We could ensure SS balances & fairness- we MUST. www.pgpf.org/article/shou...

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We didn’t address this, & that’s why we are here. www.brennancenter.org/issues/refor...

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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

MAGA White Supremacists: “Message received, Mr. Trump!”

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

Well known. We said that last time!!

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Schlapp groped bar customer, per sheriff's report www.24sight.news/p/schlapp-gr...

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

🚨Trump just fired Gen. CQ Brown and threatened more firings are coming. This isn’t strength—it’s the move of a weak, insecure tyrant. Gutting military leadership for loyalty tests puts US security at risk and sends a dangerous signal to our enemies. History will judge this—& those who stay silent.

submitted 20 hours ago • 72 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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This is a useful tracker of moves Trump has taken that are probably illegal and which have already been halted by judges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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Please take the time to contact your representatives, MD listed here, about restoring science in our Nation. Please share! raskin.house.gov/help-with-a-... www.vanhollen.senate.gov/constituent-... www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/share-your-o... www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

NEW: Get ready for delayed tax refunds, long hold times + dropped calls with the IRS, thanks to Trump illegally firing more than 6,000 employees there today. *Except if you're a wealthy tax evader. You will now "feast" as the IRS strains to function. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-ma...

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Defending Trump’s power grab with the “unitary executive theory” is just a fancy way of claiming the president can rule the executive branch like a monarch. This argument has no basis in history or the Constitution.

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New York Post cover 👀

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"Frederick Douglass is the very best that this nation has produced. The cancelation of this parade in his honor [reflects] a deep animus toward anything that detracts from a white-centered view of American history. Yes, racism." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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How Elon Musk gained so much power in the Trump administration www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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As of February 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has spent approximately 9 out of 31 days of his second term playing golf. Nearly $11 million in taxpayer funds have been spent to support his golfing activities during this period.

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Looks like spending the night involuntarily at Denver airport (yet again), and bags who knows where, because of 'traffic management program' that will make us miss connection to west coast. I personally think this is a great time to be cutting staff at FAA. Thanks Doge! /s

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Trump’s war against federal workers is hurting Washington D.C.’s residents As Trump declares war on Washington, it’s worth remembering that it’s a real place filled with real people, and these attacks are doing real damage. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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The FBI has only ever had Republican directors. Trump illegally forced out the last two FBI directors for not being Republican enough. Today, Senate Republicans let him appoint a new FBI director who posted an AI video of himself chainsawing Democrats’ heads off

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Zionists, Elon Musk and the ruling class, LEAVE EARTH. These "people" will stop at nothing. Nothing. What they have is found in the DSM-V, it's called cleptomania and psychopathy. They torture. They are torturers and thieves. These people are not moral. Their army tech is 100% immoral. Fuck off all

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My German friends wanted me to read this. (I did, you should, too) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 1 day ago • 1244 comments

Nicely done.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/02... This is the fodder for an American revolution. Yep! It’s going to happen. #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

@stephencolbert.bsky.social Feb 19 you out-southern-nerded yourself. Also, if you do Trump in Black Speech again, I am going to exorcise the dang TV. 🙀

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Jeffries: President Zelenskyy is not a dictator—he was a duly elected president of Ukraine. It’s shocking—but I guess not surprising—that Donald Trump continues to play footsie with Vladimir Putin, a sworn enemy of the United States.

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