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Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 12 hours ago • 628 comments

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

submitted 17 hours ago • 1302 comments

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

submitted 8 hours ago • 675 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 1 day ago • 1535 comments

Thank goodness we have United States Senators who take very, very seriously their Article I responsibility to engage in … {checks notes} … fact-checking www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 406 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 2 days ago • 569 comments

DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 841 comments

THIS is how you communicate. Say it plain.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1412 comments

HELL YEAH: In a masterful speech, the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker announces not ONLY a balanced budget in his state but alludes to Donald Trump and Elon Musk as being “IDIOTS.” Let me know if you agree with him.

submitted 3 days ago • 315 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

Dear World, I apologize. We have a Russian asset in the White House. Trump stands with Putin. He doesn’t stand with Ukraine, NATO or the free world. Many, many, many of us Americans apologize profusely for this. Sincerely, A Ukraine-Supporting, NATO-Supporting American

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Dear media: Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment. It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking. Focus on those.

submitted 3 days ago • 3450 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 921 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1213 comments

EMERGENCY VIDEO: Doesn’t it make sense, since we evidently don’t have enough money to stop AIDS in Africa or utilize that we cut Congress’ budget? Doesn’t it make sense for the White House to live on less? Shouldn’t Elon Musk take a cut to his Space x? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 3 days ago • 282 comments

Per @isabellacueto.bsky.social: “Deep cuts at Health and Human Services over the weekend = loss of workers who: - inspected pharma manufacturing plants - guarded infant formula supply - reviewed medical products - monitored wastewater for mpox - expanded maternal health access +++ more”

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Folks, I can’t stress this enough: Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit! Lock your credit!

submitted 3 days ago • 1142 comments

"Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge."

submitted 3 days ago • 403 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 3 days ago • 1112 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 3 days ago • 1469 comments

If you’ve been directly impacted by the Trump purge of government workers or his Executive Orders, please DM me. I’d like to highlight your story and also see if there are folks in your community that can provide help, if you’re in need. We’ve got to take care of each other.

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 4 days ago • 454 comments

Elon Musk --who is in business with the Chinese Communist Party--now has access to our IRS and Social Security data. If Musk were an app, he would be banned like Tik Tok. But because he is Trump's top funder, he can access our data. If Musk shared it with China, Trump would protect Musk.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1216 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?

submitted 4 days ago • 634 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments? Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!

submitted 4 days ago • 1203 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 4 days ago • 1253 comments

YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS: CDC disease detectors—fired. The Trump administration is using a hatchet, not a scalpel, to slash jobs during a bird flu and measles outbreak. At this rate, we’ll be relying on word of mouth for disease outbreaks like it’s the 1700s.

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

BREAKING: Utah BANNING firefighters, police, teachers, and other govt workers from negotiating for better pay and benefits for them and their families This is MAGA: 1) False promises to help people against elites 2) Destroy middle class workers and families -- to benefit elites

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

NEW: “The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over their attempts to access sensitive government records.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

What the actual fuck.

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

You cannot make this up

submitted 5 days ago • 134 comments

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 403 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

“DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role”—in other words, that the “National Nuclear Security Agency” was an agency having something to do with national nuclear security

submitted 5 days ago • 434 comments

what would you do differently if you were actively trying to cause more plane crashes? www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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