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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

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Trump says millions of people over 150 years old are getting Social Security checks. That is a LIE. He is sowing doubt so he can gut benefits for tens of millions of Americans. Social Security is not broken—it is a lifeline. And we are going to fight like hell to protect it. 🚨

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford on CNN: "There's no reason for a recession." "I call it the 'self-made Donald Trump recession.'"

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Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has blamed the turmoil that erupted at a recent town hall meeting in rural Kansas on “paid Democratic operatives.” But the people who attended the meeting say they are just concerned Kansans who wanted their senator to hear their concerns.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

submitted 3 days ago • 1391 comments

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

submitted 5 days ago • 251 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 5 days ago • 1323 comments

Tell your boy @durbin.senate.gov

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@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

submitted 5 days ago • 543 comments

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

I will never in a million years understand it, even if I factor in racism and sexism and all the isms. #ThePoet

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge is the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

NEW: former Putin adviser Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelenskyy's White House meeting on February 28t Zelenskyy's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 371 comments

Let this sink in.

submitted 8 days ago • 955 comments

A federal judge said President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by firing the head of a key federal whistleblower agency without cause. Trump has appealed this decision.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 11 days ago • 3342 comments

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

submitted 9 days ago • 278 comments

LAWSUIT: "Despite four attempts by CCFW on January 29 and 30 to obtain payment of obligated grant funds ... and another ten requests in the following four weeks, Defendants have persisted in unlawfully preventing CCFW from obtaining over $36 million under its open grant agreements ...."

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I continue to speak out against every bill that attempts to remove trans people from public life. And I will continue to do so for as long as I draw breath. I hope one day the government will leave my people alone.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

My wife, Rep. Zooey Zephyr, is working her ass off in the Montana legislature, railing against bill after bill, day after day. This is just one of many speeches I've watched her give... but it's one of the most powerful. This on a bill that criminalizes us for being trans. Watch her speak.

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

submitted 10 days ago • 404 comments

I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 530 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's firing of Hampton Dellinger, the head of a key federal whistleblower agency, was illegal. The judge has ordered the Trump administration to recognize Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 11 days ago • 75 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

What you saw today was the Russian mob acting out of the Oval Office.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 12 days ago • 748 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 12 days ago • 1712 comments

HHS Secretary Kennedy has been scarce at headquarters, has not visited a number of HHS agencies and has not sent all-staff emails to the department's workforce, according to one department official. Notably, this person says, Kennedy has not done anything to address the measles outbreak.

submitted 13 days ago • 179 comments

"daddy, what did you do in the war" son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet we all did our part

submitted 14 days ago • 758 comments

Some “moderate” Republicans flipped & ended up supporting this evil budget resolution. They voted to cut Medicaid & services their constituents depend on. The budget fight isn’t over. But if you are represented by any of these people that voted yes.. make sure they hear from you.

submitted 15 days ago • 179 comments

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

submitted 15 days ago • 747 comments

“In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” — WHCA president on PressSec’s bid for the White House to choose the press pool

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I am the firestarter

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Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

submitted 16 days ago • 815 comments

MSNBC, the alleged bastion of liberals, has former GOP rep Scarborough, former head of RNC, Michael Steele, former Bush spokesman Nicole Wallace. No Joy Reid and Mehdi Hasan though.

submitted 17 days ago • 400 comments

The disrespect has been shocking but this is now full on contempt. All it takes is 3 Republicans to join us and leave behind the silence and complicity. We must call out Musk on his harassment of the civil servants who keep our country running. Keep the pressure on.

submitted 18 days ago • 71 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 18 days ago • 363 comments

🚨 Stay Prepared, Stay Empowered! We’ve created a Citizen Guide to help you navigate extreme situations like Martial Law- not to alarm, but to inform. 🌐💡Again - not sounding an alarm, just informing. Print it out or save it offline so you can access it anytime, even without the internet.

submitted 18 days ago • 52 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments