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Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

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For those that still insist that “they wouldn’t dare touch social security”……….

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submitted 5 days ago • 897 comments

Wow, this is outrageous! DOGE claims they found fraud where 150 year olds were receiving Social Security! What a joke these incompetent, inexperienced folks running this department are! #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

submitted 6 days ago • 458 comments

Republicans aren’t hiding anything. Their priorities are written in black and white: trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich, while making savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition and education. The reconciliation bill will make the rich even richer and the poor poorer.

submitted 6 days ago • 213 comments

Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders rolling back abortion protections in the middle of the night, hoping that no one would notice. This is — and always has been — about controlling women’s bodies. I’m fighting back.

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I really don’t care, do u?

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Trump and DOGE accused federal civil servants of fraud (with no evidence). Meanwhile, they're halting enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law, dropping criminal charges against Eric Adams, and pardoning a former governor who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat. Hello?

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2109 comments

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the health care you need. The people who make sure medical devices are safe for you to use. The people who approve the lifesaving drugs you rely on. How does this help working people?

submitted 5 days ago • 174 comments

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 221 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 6 days ago • 164 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 6 days ago • 942 comments

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 703 comments

They’d have to physically carry me out as I kicked, scratched, bit, punched, pulled hair, spit, and screamed. But, hey, that’s me.

submitted 6 days ago • 170 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

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the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

submitted 7 days ago • 513 comments

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday the time has come for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe” because the U.S. may no longer be counted on to support Europe.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

The IRS Free File pilot program helped 140K taxpayers save $5.6M in tax filing costs in 2024. Despite recent claims, the program is still running and is now available to 30M people in 2025. Any attempt to dismantle it will enrich the tax prep industry at your expense.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

How’d I miss this? “It’s Denali,” says @lisamurkowski.bsky.social www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/releas...

submitted 6 days ago • 218 comments

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

submitted 7 days ago • 171 comments

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.

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Are you a VA employee who has been terminated from your position since January 20th? If you're comfortable sharing your experience, please follow the link below to share your story.

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Elon is not prepared for the national meltdown that awaits him when people can't get their Medicaid coverage or social security checks. He is poking a sleeping dragon. Watch @therickwilson.bsky.social and @mayaonstage.bsky.social on this week's episode of The Breakdown here: bit.ly/4b1MYv5

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Does it get any more cray cray? Brace yourself.

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🇺🇲👇💯

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Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here. We are long past the warnings of an approaching existential threat looming on the distant horizon of our story, which many of us spent the past decade imploring people not to ignore. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...

submitted 7 days ago • 506 comments

Target thought rolling back #DEI was cost-free? Perhaps they are about to discover how many people care enough to shop elsewhere.

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Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.