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Don't believe the puff pieces: Musk and his MAGA minions are still carrying out their hostile takeover of our social security and health care. Musk might want you to believe otherwise to save his failing car company, but their attacks on the services we've worked hard to earn are continuing.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

“Operation At Large includes more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement and up to 21,000 National Guard troops…Drawing those numbers has been a source of tension among officials who feel they have been taken off core national security missions.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

Some news! Resistance Summer School has an official home! I will teach Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 at the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., starting in mid-July. Thank you to everyone for their support! karenattiah.substack.com/p/studying-t...

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

hey everybody stay calm but just FYSA there are FIFTEEN HUNDRED No Kings events on the map right now for June 14th

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Maybe instead of one big monster bill, Republicans could vote on each item individually. You know, single-subject legislation.

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

📌"I'm sick and tired of hearing about some alleged feud that has developed between Musk and the only person who is more disgusting than him on the entire planet: the orange, wrinkly America-attacking Trump. They have both done immeasurable damage to real people's lives and THAT should be the focus."

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

White nationalism wearing an I.C.E. badge.

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

submitted 1 day ago • 897 comments

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

submitted 1 day ago • 515 comments

this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

We're LIVE now! Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1S3...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Even though America’s infrastructure is crumbling beneath our feet, Trump paused funding for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Day One of his administration. Now, incredibly, he’s slapping his name on signs for jobs funded before his freeze and taking credit for progress... 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 291 comments

#Pride

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Oversight is not optional. We will not stand by while Trump shreds the constitution, treats people with cruelty and spreads fear across the nation. I will not back away from this fight.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

submitted 5 days ago • 741 comments

"They’re surely not like the Stephen Millers and Kristi Noems of the world, or for that matter the JD Vances and Donald Trumps....But these normie Republicans have become the willing enablers of the cruelty and autocracy." This is the problem.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

As the climate crisis brings on increasingly hotter summers, keeping our homes cool can be a matter of life or death. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to eliminate a program that helps millions of people pay their energy bills and keep the AC on. Hello?

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Trump needs to mind his business and let California do California. It’s the largest economy in the US —a donor state. Maybe it’s time they withhold tax dollars until red states end gerrymandering and start playing fair. See how that works?

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

This is 🏆 “The problem with speaking up for each other is that everyone is left without a voice.” What I heard here: the struggles of the oppressed are only taken seriously or heard through the voices of their oppressors.

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

Instead of protecting the nation from sickness, US is now taking away people’s rights + tools for prevention. Insurance companies should know that the cost of a shot is immeasurably lower than the cost of infection, treatment, hospitalization, death or #LongCOVID. www.instagram.com/p/DKOBWYAu7sY/

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

A federal trade court has blocked Trump from imposing tariffs. Trump claims he has the power to bypass Congress and impose tariffs because US trade deficits are a national emergency. But the law requires an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” and the US has run a trade deficit for 49 straight years.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

i’m a woman in a major city who takes public transit twice a day and is rarely scared, most likely bc i have not sequestered myself in places where people are taught to fear everyone who isn’t Just Like Them

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

Whitmer kidnap plotters were represented by counsel, given due process, and convicted by a jury unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt. A pardon would reward political violence. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

Trump has no clue what’s going on because the people implementing Project 2025 no longer need him. He’s basically the MAGA mascot now. Which is why you folks longing for his demise are totally missing the point. This doesn’t end with Trump—it’s just beginning.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

submitted 8 days ago • 128 comments

Instead of revitalizing redlined areas, gentrifying segregated communities or "fixing" the hood, what if researchers & urban planners focused on the resources needed to flourish? That's just what the Institute for AfroUbranism, an urban planning think tank, is doing.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The “law and order” president is using the justice system to reward his allies and punish his opponents – something he complained about on the campaign trail.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

After pleading guilty to tax crimes, Paul Walczak was set for prison and $4.4M in restitution. Then his pardon application noted how much money his mother had raised for Trump. Then she attended a $1M-per-person dinner at Mar-a-Lago. 3 weeks later, a full pardon. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Trump has removed another top Black government official, ousting Mike Nedd, the deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management. Nedd worked for the Department of Interior for 35 years -- 30 in the bureau that oversees oil, natural gas, and mineral production on 245 million acres of federal land.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

ICE agents making arrests while masked— no warrants. This is about basic civil rights. What are our protections? Who’s accountable? Congress must act. Hold hearings—sanctioned or not. ☎️ Call your Senators and Representatives NOW: (202) 224-3121 @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

submitted 7 days ago • 253 comments