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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1188 comments

There's a concept in management called "Public Service Motivation." It's the idea that civil servants are motivated by the good they can do more than the money they can earn (within reason). Federal employees are significantly underpaid, but we keep reporting for duty. But we're the corrupt ones?

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We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 1047 comments

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

submitted 2 hours ago • 462 comments

From United Humanists on FB

submitted 9 hours ago • 525 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 13 hours ago • 472 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 1160 comments

Hey, Morelle is having a telephone town hall next Wednesday! RSVP and ask questions here! morelleforms.house.gov/forms/form/?...

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 18 hours ago • 845 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 15 hours ago • 1770 comments

Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

submitted 12 hours ago • 147 comments

MUST WATCH: Wisconsin showed up to demand answers from republican Glenn Grothman about Trump and Elon’s fraud, Social Security cuts, and abuse of power. His response? He ignored them and praised Trump for ending birthright citizenship. The crowd BOOED him into the ground.

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 16 hours ago • 690 comments

I would like to see stuff like this coming from the Democratic Party - and I mean qualitatively on the same level and frequency. Why? Because when it comes from a democratic group build specifically for this purpose, it would have more traction, because it's not the Lincoln Project on the ballot.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Historically. Low. Poll. Numbers! HISTORICALLY. LOW. POLL. NUMBERS!! One month in…

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

In case anyone says “it’s just measles”.

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I’m asking Congress to provide disaster funding to help Californians recover and rebuild from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. It’s all-hands-on-deck to support our fellow Americans and get them back on their feet to begin rebuilding as soon as possible.

submitted 13 hours ago • 252 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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NEW: President Trump’s firing of the country’s most senior military officer on Friday night rattled the foundations of the armed forces It also intensified an already-furious game among senior lawmakers and Washington officials: Who’s next? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

It has been a long and grueling week. Thank you to everyone who offered kind words of support. If you want to follow everything happening to democracy in court, while also supporting pro-democracy independent media, please sign up for Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 14 hours ago • 493 comments

This is very, very bad in a world where politicians are making it illegal for public health departments to promote immunization (or even let people know they’re available). www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/ten-...

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Can we just make Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Lassen, Pinnacles and all the National Parks in California into Cal State parks? We can hire the rangers back and take care of our lands. We have 9 of the 63 National Parks here. The park rangers were treated so cruelly, and our lands are forever.

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There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1086 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 16 hours ago • 821 comments

Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

submitted 13 hours ago • 842 comments

📉📉📉

submitted 16 hours ago • 864 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1007 comments

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

submitted 13 hours ago • 723 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 1 day ago • 545 comments

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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Rep. Crockett needs to have a hot mic on at all times. God she's great.

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The men & women of the FBI will have a very serious choice to make in the coming days. At some point, they will all need to decide whether to uphold the rule of law or follow lawless orders. What they do from this point on will not exist in a vacuum. It will be witnessed, and it will be reconciled

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Woke or biology? There are actually more than the basic “male” XY & “female” XX sexes. Why? Because biology also creates people with single X chromosomes, or extra chromosomes like XXX, XXY, XYY, or XXX+, plus many 🧬genes. 👉All I’m asking is— please be kind to others. Thanks🙏

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

JUST IN: HNL Lab Medicine will begin subtyping all positive influenza A samples from hospitalized patients to detect H5N1 bird flu.

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BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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This is really something

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John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:

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“Should I run again?” He’s not joking. It isn’t funny. Once more, he’s telegraphing his intent to cling to power and end our democracy as it has stood since its inception by attempting to normalize something overtly unconstitutional. Nothing about this is okay. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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