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I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 19 days ago • 145 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 19 days ago • 1280 comments

Not responsible for this one, but hope the gallows humor will bring a smile to your face in these troubling times. Song comes courtesy of the good folks at the Thom Hartmann Program, and the video was put together by a member of our team. #SoundUp youtu.be/XAwev6kFAnU

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

The last time America increased tariffs like this, it was 1930 — and it triggered the Great Depression.

submitted 21 days ago • 129 comments

For those farmers and farm adjacent folks that voted for Trump, what you’re about to feel re the tariffs we warned you about. Don’t pretend ya didn’t know

submitted 21 days ago • 680 comments

Every day that large media outlets fail to put words like “illegal” and “unconstitutional” into their headlines is a day they are choosing to normalize a national crisis

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem isn’t something I ever thought I’d see, but this is what happens when you let a psychopath criminal with isolationist and protectionist policies back into the White House.

submitted 22 days ago • 1174 comments

Fuck this guy. Ask any nurse or LPN or ER doc or admin clerk or social worker if they work weekends. This disrespect to our federal workforce is disgusting. Especially from this piece of shit.

submitted 21 days ago • 3443 comments

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

submitted 21 days ago • 3934 comments

The creepy billionaires at the inauguration live on data, and Trump’s Musk-rats just got access to huge federal data sets. Watch out for the Great Thievery to go after your data. In a battle between your privacy and their profit, who likely wins?

submitted 21 days ago • 303 comments

(Bloomberg) - Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 21 days ago • 113 comments

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

submitted 21 days ago • 538 comments

Musk’s Direct-to-Cell constellation and the U.S. election. Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine. A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.

submitted 28 days ago • 74 comments

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

submitted 21 days ago • 831 comments

This.

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

A military coup might be needed? Congress & Senate is neutered because GOP control both. Supreme Court, can't count on them, been helping Trump get in. Military's job is to protect us from attacks, incl from inside. Or are they also being culled for fascist loyalist vs to Constitution & America?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 22 days ago • 364 comments

This is what Facebook/Meta said at the time: "We are appalled by the violence at the Capitol today. We are treating these events as an emergency." Someone should ask Zuckerberg if he's now ok with the Capitol insurrection and Trump's role in it, including using Meta platforms.

submitted 25 days ago • 105 comments

Truly chilling and totalitarian. “Promoting patriotic education”? We have arrived at the terrible place. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 25 days ago • 186 comments

If you are considering downloading DeepSeek, please read this first and share with others You don’t owner your data. They keep it even if you delete and worse ..

submitted 25 days ago • 1761 comments

Hey guys! I’ve started something new. My new Substack… Go check it out! jimacosta.substack.com/p/hold-on-to...

submitted 26 days ago • 1956 comments

Now, Trump is trying to solve the problem he invented as part of his anti-trans campaign strategy—by going much, much further than the earlier lies, and threatening to prosecute teachers who take steps to acknowledge or support the identities of trans or nonbinary students.

submitted 25 days ago • 59 comments

Companies that have donated to Project 2025 & Trump.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: Nvidia plunged 17%, losing $600 billion in market value in its worst day since 2020, as China’s A.I. breakthrough rattled investors.

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

I’ve often wondered why a bigger stink wasn’t raised over the voting suppression tactics by Republicans. I mean, it wasn’t a secret. They openly bragged about it. Social media commenters talked about it. Just another thing that confuses me about the Democratic Party.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here are the numbers… www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...

submitted 30 days ago • 76 comments

New report on voter suppression in 2024. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

“As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.”

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight. Could not make this up.

submitted 29 days ago • 400 comments

It is incredibly disheartening that President Trump has rolled back ethics rules and lobbying restrictions. Making it easier for special interests to influence his administration won't benefit Americans in any way. thehill.com/lobbying/510...

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments