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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2638 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 22 hours ago • 3784 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2471 comments

Elon Musk isn’t just trying to bypass all checks and balances, ignore popular will, plunder our public goods, and wreck the world. As we protest this vandalism, we need to remember that he aims to build a future in which we have nothing left to defend.

submitted 16 hours ago • 42 comments

Several Trump administration officials leading federal agencies urged their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s order to summarize their accomplishments for the past week or be removed from their positions, even as Musk doubled down on the demand over the weekend.

submitted 17 hours ago • 128 comments

Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

Another department tells its employees to ignore Elon…

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1575 comments

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 22 hours ago • 502 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

submitted 22 hours ago • 494 comments

Within minutes of Trump’s guy Witkoff absolving Russia of blame for attacking Ukraine, Russian’s state-controlled international media outlet RT picks it up.

submitted 22 hours ago • 56 comments

NPR reports that the RFK Jr.-led CDC has halted the "Wild to Mild" flu vaccination campaign that promotes flu shots by emphasizing their role in reducing symptoms and severe illness The decision to pull the campaign comes as flu hospitalizations hit a 15-year high, with 50,000 admissions in a week

submitted 1 day ago • 222 comments

The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 2778 comments

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 1 day ago • 2522 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 1 day ago • 2867 comments

This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 659 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 1714 comments

> @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 1286 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 2 days ago • 2093 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 1 day ago • 1000 comments

"Trump’s cronies have tried to discredit the federal workforce precisely because it is often more meritocratic, and therefore more integrated than the private sector," writes Adam Server. Unlike the private sector, it’s hard to get hired in the federal government simply through an informal network.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 958 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 359 comments

NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting 8 asylum seekers who say they're fleeing violence, torture, rape and other horrors in their home countries. But one may already be on her way home. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

BREAKING: Judge Nichols has rejected further relief for USAID workers and has dissolved his restraining order on the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the agency. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

NEW: DOGE has operated in relative darkness even as it appears to be behind an explosive — and legally disputed — overhaul of the government. But details about the Musk-led agency teams have emerged in court. We review (and link to docs) here: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to stop funding grants and contracts that have DEI components, saying it is likely viewpoint discrimination and worded so vaguely that it will chill free speech. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 2 days ago • 1561 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 568 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 3 days ago • 682 comments

If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 3 days ago • 290 comments

My grocery store sells through their egg allotment by 10 am every day and the cost of a dozen white large eggs has risen from $3.49 to $4.99. Where are all the people who said they voted for Trump over egg prices (not facism) and all the journalists who wrote those stories with a straight face?

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

“Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service” www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments