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On the road. Accepting USA needs to go through some things. Finding the joy anyway. Writer.
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Also, this is a *perfect example* of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 697 comments

JEFFRIES: “we have no leverage” SCHUMER: *pulls out a lime and limply waves it around* BERNIE:

submitted 9 hours ago • 186 comments

Let's be very clear. The Constitution says that presidents are limited to being elected twice. Anyone who says otherwise needs to read the 22nd Amendment.

submitted 9 hours ago • 40 comments

Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

Tom Krause is Dept of Treasury fiscal assistant secretary. Yet will simultaneously continue as CEO of Cloud Software Group. So he's now in charge of the most sensitive govt payment system AND a company w millions worth of federal contracts. Welcome to fascism. www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries. There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

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Spoiler: Yes!

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This is what Democracy looks like in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District with @repshontelbrown.bsky.social #townhall. www.youtube.com/live/QR4Zfi8...

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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.

submitted 1 day ago • 2350 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

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I've been a Dolly fan since the late 60s. Anyone who's followed her over the years knows she's been committed to remaining apolitical. That makes this stunning.

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BREAKING: The Department of Energy said DOGE firings of nuclear safety officials were non-critical staff. That is not true. In fact, one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd.

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Can we just seize the Russian assets already and give them to Ukraine? Good lord just do it

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W/ Kash Patel's confirmation, he now has the power to weaponize the FBI against his so-called "enemies" Weaponizing law enforcement is a tactic used by autocrats around the globe—but Americans can push back We discuss how👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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