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MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

submitted 11 days ago • 974 comments

The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.

submitted 11 days ago • 197 comments

I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:

submitted 20 days ago • 1836 comments

NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The savings have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 341 comments

Germany did destroy itself almost a century ago. It wasn’t because it took in too many migrants. It was because it fell for arguments uncomfortably close to Vance’s.

submitted 30 days ago • 186 comments

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

submitted 31 days ago • 127 comments

Trump swing voters in a Michigan focus group have buyers’ remorse: “Erratic," "frightening," "disruptive" and "dictator" were among the words they used to describe their concerns.

submitted 31 days ago • 182 comments

"The era of letting Republicans break all the rules, not follow any of the laws, run roughshod over the Democrats, while the Democrats continue to just try to protect every possible existing norm and institution, that era is over." Time for Chuck Schumer to get the memo. Tim Miller:

submitted 31 days ago • 80 comments

Trump claims Ukraine doesn't want peace, but Russia started this war. Trump is Russia's best pawn, and they're using him to get everything they want.

submitted 32 days ago • 146 comments

"Our national government would start to resemble Tammany Hall—a corrupt political machine. Mike Lindell might end up determining how federal health and safety regulations apply to the pillow business." From the archives, and not too far off:

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Tim Walz: “I’m hitting the road, traveling to red states across the country to lend a megaphone to the people. Your congressman may not want to listen, but they’re going to hear from us anyway.”

submitted 32 days ago • 353 comments

At Country First, we believe America’s foreign policy reflects our values—it defines who we are. That's why C1 is stepping up and sending 10 volunteers to provide humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. To help, click on link… all proceeds go directly to mission 🇺🇦 www.country1st.com/support-ukra...

submitted 36 days ago • 83 comments

Every possible orifice in every conceivable institution is being stuffed with sycophants, criminals and grifters.

submitted 38 days ago • 739 comments

TRUMP'S HALT TO REFUGEE ADMISSIONS means thousands of Afghan former allies and workers who have been waiting in Pakistan for relocation to the United States could now be sent back to Afghanistan and the Taliban @ricknoack.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

Something darkly comic about the Trump administration, run by shameless liars from the very top, forcing polygraph tests on some employees. Trump, Vance, Musk, Noem, Lewandowski, et al, should take polygraph tests to set a good example. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 37 days ago • 84 comments

Look, the USA is de facto no longer in NATO, and it would be better for Europe if this became legalized. The USA is a stalking horse for Putin in European security. The future is: NATO-US out, Europe and Canada in.

submitted 37 days ago • 55 comments

🚨Measles cases in the US surge 35% in ONE WEEK—now at 222 in 12 states. We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases. The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.

submitted 37 days ago • 503 comments

Elon Musk’s unusual governing arrangement with President Trump and signature slash-and-burn style has reverberated far beyond the Capitol, making even lawmakers from deep-red states begin to sweat.

submitted 37 days ago • 164 comments

US aid to Ukraine since Feb 2022 totals $128 billion, mostly older weapons, not cash. The crypto industry is seeking a bailout of $100 billion from the US Treasury. That is cash. Remember that when crypto CEOs accuse anyone else of "grifting." www.cfr.org/article/how-...

submitted 37 days ago • 58 comments

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Friday for Stand Up for Science, a rally to protest the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the federal work force and to federally funded science. nyti.ms/3DruZlu

submitted 37 days ago • 43 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 170 comments

Many of the cuts from a sweeping tax bill Republican lawmakers passed during President Trump’s first term in 2017 are set to expire this year. Here's how your wallet could be affected.

submitted 37 days ago • 20 comments

"Women and children following brutal rapes, blood on nursery room floors, little old ladies starving in ruined apartment blocks. To see all that and realize that the United States does not have your back any longer—what is there but shock?"

submitted 38 days ago • 28 comments

“I think people don’t realize how much Medicaid pays for,” said Stephanie Altman, director of health care justice and senior director of policy at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law in Chicago, noting that Medicaid covers most nursing home stays.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

It’s borderline criminal.

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submitted 37 days ago • 1076 comments

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

submitted 37 days ago • 1159 comments

"On behalf of the entire state of Wisconsin, I would like to apologize for the statements, actions, and indeed the very existence of U.S. Congressman Derrick Van Orden....this guy embarrasses the hell out of us." ICYMI Bill Lueders: www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trut...

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

In a move that could upend a popular federal program, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday directing his education secretary to revise eligibility requirements for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

submitted 37 days ago • 80 comments

Whatever strategy Democrats choose, they need to understand that the fight they’re in is different from any fight they’ve experienced in the past. Here's how they can approach the looming funding fight. New from @tommalinowski.bsky.social:

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

"I don’t think Vance—or Trump, for that matter—really understands Putin’s burning hostility toward all Americans, especially American leaders." Or what he's doing to Ukrainians. @nataliaantonova.bsky.social on America's betrayal of Ukraine:

submitted 39 days ago • 54 comments

"With bold leadership and clear thinking, the Europeans can provide Ukraine with the support it needs to prevent much further Russian conquest while America-proofing itself in the longer run." This is now the world we live in.

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

RFK Jr. came under fire after posting a photograph of himself hiking in California’s Coachella Valley at the same time that a deadly measles outbreak is raging through West Texas.

submitted 39 days ago • 2090 comments

Give you one guess

submitted 40 days ago • 286 comments

Breaking News: The State Department has drawn up plans to shut a dozen consulates overseas, causing some U.S. officials to worry about potential effects on national security.

submitted 39 days ago • 88 comments

Musk: Social Security is "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time." Trump: "We're identifying a shocking level of corruption and probably fraud." "Thoughtful" both-siders: The Trump administration's intentions on Social Security are kind of mystifying.

submitted 39 days ago • 46 comments

The newly installed caretaker at the Social Security Administration acknowledged this week that Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is calling the shots as the agency races to slash thousands of jobs and shrink its budget. “Things are currently operating in a way I have never seen in government before.”

submitted 39 days ago • 48 comments

“Trump’s overriding goal is destabilizing democracy and creating American Orbánism. That’s his agenda. Pursuit of this agenda has very little to do with passing legislation and a great deal to do with atmospherics and the raw application of power.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 40 days ago • 20 comments

Last night was basically what we have seen before, except this time the GOP lacks anyone willing to do anything but dutifully stand and clap like its Kim Jung Un’s birthday. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-lies...

submitted 40 days ago • 253 comments

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

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"The goal of 'America First' isn’t 'America First.' It’s 'Trump Forever.'"

submitted 41 days ago • 35 comments

People were killing themselves and eating their own horses to survive during the Depression. And I never forgot the book The Grapes of Wrath describing how the Salvation Army made people crawl on the dirt and bark like dogs to amuse them in the bread lines.

submitted 41 days ago • 236 comments

Democrats should hold 435 town halls this weekend. The ones in Republican districts hosted by local Dems or nonpartisan local officials or even ex-Republicans, with everyone, Democrats and independents and Republicans, invited.

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"This idea—that the best way to manage a murderous bully is to assuage him—is the kind of rosy nonsense conservatives used to mock."

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 41 days ago • 1806 comments

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s focus on vitamin A use to combat a growing measles outbreak in Texas is raising concerns among public health experts, who fear he is sending the wrong message about preventing the highly contagious disease and distracting from the importance of vaccination.

submitted 41 days ago • 249 comments