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While we are being distracted by Trump's lies about Ukraine And his fantasies about being a king The Senate is preparing to confirm an FBI Director who has threatened to use the bureau to attack Donald Trump's enemies CALL YOUR SENATORS TELL THEM TO OPPOSE KASH PATEL (202) 224-3121

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

submitted 4 days ago • 449 comments

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 5 days ago • 665 comments

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered its entire investigations division — composed of 6,000 agents — to divert its focus from drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting people in the U.S. illegally.

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 6 days ago • 891 comments

Here is the oath all executive branch employees take. It is to support and defend the Constitution, not to “implement the president’s agenda.” If the two purposes diverge, the Constitution prevails.

submitted 8 days ago • 276 comments

Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

submitted 7 days ago • 371 comments

A new bill would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in Utah schools and government buildings, but pride flags would be banned.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 558 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

True.

submitted 16 days ago • 2034 comments

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 20 days ago • 2320 comments

Just two weeks ago, everyone was screeching about China stealing all of our data through TikTok, but now Elon steals it and the MAGA crisis actors are OK with it? That's some fucking bullshit.

submitted 20 days ago • 607 comments

As Trump cites fentanyl as a reason for 25% tariffs on our allies, a reminder that after taking office he ORDERED LAW ENFORCEMENT TO STOP INVESTIGATING DRUG TRAFFICKERS so he could divert resources to prosecuting immigrants instead. He's making our communities poorer and less safe.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Trump tariffs go into effect today. Canada & Mexico - 25% China - 10% There will be retaliatory tariffs. Consumer prices will go up across the board. The markets will panic. Fear and financial anxiety will set in. It's by design. They're priming us for their big heist.

submitted 22 days ago • 384 comments

The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.

submitted 23 days ago • 130 comments

Trump just ordered 2 dams opened up in California in an unprecedented move that risks depleting the reservoirs ahead of the dry summer months. And the kicker? The water from the dams doesn't even flow to Los Angeles.

submitted 23 days ago • 892 comments

The United States is under attack. Elon Musk—who has been elected to nothing and is a deeply troubled person—is literally destroying our government from the inside and doing so without authority or consent of the governed. Working on a report on this right now. It’s an emergency.

submitted 23 days ago • 499 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 23 days ago • 2955 comments

“The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.”

submitted 24 days ago • 912 comments

REPORTER: With your efforts to reduce the federal workforce, are there any concerns about protecting the public? TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.

submitted 23 days ago • 506 comments

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries. They're eventually paid by us at the check out line. The tariffs Trump is unleashing tomorrow on Mexico, Canada, and China — our biggest trading partners — are estimated to cost households an extra $1,250 annually.

submitted 23 days ago • 305 comments

“We can absolutely win this fight.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos this week. Let’s get to work: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 24 days ago • 1413 comments

Dems should call for immediate hearings on what caused tonight’s plane crash, including the impact of the removal of FAA safety protocols and personnel.

submitted 25 days ago • 334 comments

One week apart.

submitted 25 days ago • 178 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 25 days ago • 1669 comments

A toddler, his mother, and his grandmother — all American citizens who were born in Puerto Rico — were detained and taken to an immigration detention center by U.S. officials in Milwaukee after they were overheard speaking Spanish.

submitted 25 days ago • 705 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

submitted 26 days ago • 1099 comments

Democrats in Congress: WHAT IS THE PLAN? Going on Sunday shows and spewing consultant speak isn't going to cut it. Twelve inspectors general fired and there's no sit-in? No filibuster? No direction to voters? And in fact, some of you are actually voting for Trump's agenda?

submitted 27 days ago • 268 comments

This is a great morning to call all your elected officials and ask them to absolutely lose their shit

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

RADDATZ: What criminals are hiding in schools? Middle schools, elementary schools -- you gonna go into those? HOMAN: How many MS-13 members are aged 14-17? Many of them.

submitted 28 days ago • 622 comments

No other word to describe this in the English language other than racist.

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

Project 2025 is all about dismantling the federal government, just like this ….

submitted 29 days ago • 442 comments

I expected a lot of things from the Trump Administration but one thing I didn’t expect was them joining the war on cancer on the side of fucking cancer

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump has just signed an Executive Order that appears to officially suspend US military aid to Ukraine. The order is effective immediately. There is no denying that Donald Trump is Putin’s pawn.

submitted 30 days ago • 708 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 31 days ago • 2540 comments

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 31 days ago • 483 comments

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

submitted 31 days ago • 1811 comments