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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 124 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2001 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Senate Republicans just launched an all-night voting spree to rip apart Medicaid and starve kids—all so they can hand more cash to billionaires like Elon Musk. They’re doing this while most people aren’t watching. Absolutely disgraceful.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

My statement on President Trump’s Cruel Decision to Cancel TPS Protections for Haitian Immigrants. Note that the cancellation would go into effect August 3 of this year. If you are in need of information or resources, please see our immigrant resource guide: bit.ly/RLbosguide

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans have made crystal clear they’re planning to cut Medicaid and SNAP to fund their next round of tax cuts for billionaires. But we’re fighting back 👇👇👇

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 955 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 5 days ago • 1217 comments

They’re not bringing down Egg prices, and they’re imposing tariffs that We end up paying. Now Congressional Republicans want to undo the Biden-Era caps on Bank Fees. Republicans are rewarding their donors & Big Business while Screwing US.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Republicans, explain how denying cancer screenings to veterans like Valerie Jackson "reduces waste." We're waiting. www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

submitted 5 days ago • 918 comments

Even if your strategy is "let's win the midterms" (living in delusion there will be legit elections), we do that by making Trump and MAGA unpopular. That means denying them any and every "win," from nominees to any legislation. Anything that affirms their actions, affirms them.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Our trans service members are an asset to our Armed Forces. Many of them are senior-enlisted, have deployed multiple times, and have invaluable experience. Kicking them out would cost our country billions of dollars.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

🚨Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information — tax returns, bank data, Social Security numbers — for millions of Americans. Illegal access can lead to jail time under federal law. @wyden.senate.gov and I are investigating and fighting back.

submitted 6 days ago • 661 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

No Kings on Presidents Day: Rally on Boston Common across from the MA State House (Beacon & Parks Sts) tomorrow, 2/17 at 11 am. Learn more at events.pol-rev.com/events/687b1...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty clear this is where we were headed. They’re going to weaponize audits and private data to go after political enemies.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk going after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells you everything you need to know about their priorities. Instead of lowering prices on "day one" as Trump said, he's raising costs on families by letting Wall Street cheat them.

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 10 days ago • 193 comments

Eric Adams has made a devil’s bargain with Donald Trump: he is carrying out the MAGA agenda to escape criminal charges for his own corruption. He must resign or Governor Hochul must remove him. indivisible.org/statements/i...

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Governor Hochul must use her power in this extraordinary crisis + remove Eric Adams from City Hall. Hochul also needs to stand up to Trump to undo his destruction at the federal level. There is a lot she can do to protect NY! Call her at 518-474-8390 + join this on Sunday 👇👇 @indivisible.org

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Other protest on the radar for the #BostonMA area: Feb 17: No Kings on Presidents Day Protest at #BostonCommon at 11AM Feb 17: Smaller protest associated with the one above at local city halls/town halls Feb 19: National Day of Action at JFK/Boston City Hall at 3PM #BostonProtest

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

SECDEF said the beatings will stop when morale improves ✅ ending “paid days off” on 4-day weekends ✅ floating a change in the retirement system where you don’t get disability AND retirement

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments

There’s still time to stop Kash Patel’s nomination. Patel, who helped produce a version of the Star-Spangled Banner sung by violent January 6th inmates, has salivated about prosecuting the media. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email instead: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

Gentlemen, start your looting!

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 11 days ago • 740 comments

The CFPB holds corporations accountable when they scam the American people. It has returned $20 BILLION to Americans since it was created. It was also created by Congress and is protected by law — and we’re going to fight to defend it.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 12 days ago • 179 comments

The fascists are checking whether anyone will check them. And if no one will, the assaults will merely increase. If Democrats keep refusing to exercise the limited power they're got, they will have even less power.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

So glad to see Chelsea City Councilor @robertoj.bsky.social taking action as well🙏🏽

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 179 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 12 days ago • 168 comments

One thing that’s difficult to get people to really grasp is that impoundment is both lawless and actively undermines the basis of democracy. It’s one of those areas where rule of law and democracy are extremely closely aligned, the only area where it’s closer would be election law itself.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Poster featuring cartoon Trump and Elon Musk at the CFPB protest.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.

submitted 14 days ago • 263 comments

Take a step back, see what's happening. Trump took office and abruptly gave the richest guy on earth free rein to unmake the US government without any White House oversight or coordination. That guy has been publicly radicalized into an increasingly open white supremacist and conspiracy theorist.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 738 comments

“Delete” the CFPB & IRS. Abolish bank regulators. Gut Social Security and Medicare. The Musk-Trump administration’s plots all boil down to the same thing: swindle working people, funnel money to the ultra-rich.

submitted 15 days ago • 84 comments

Ain't good. Compared to Senate Dems, House Dems have less leverage. One exception is the budget fight. But here's the Dem House Leader TODAY declining to use that leverage. If you have a Dem rep, ask them to use their leverage. And tell them to tell Jeffries to lead. Stay tuned - more to come.

submitted 16 days ago • 387 comments