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“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.

submitted 17 hours ago • 551 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 11 hours ago • 111 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 936 comments

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

Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

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This is how many hours per week a person needs to work in order to escape poverty. The US is dead last. #Poverty #USA

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Show up at their town halls. They are all home the next week

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submitted 2 days ago • 599 comments

Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

"If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend." www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1122 comments

I agree, you don’t typically build an authoritarian regime by destroying state capacity. And you would want to maintain/gain support, & not piss off everybody. If, however, you think of it as an attack by Putin, that’s being perpetrated by Musk & Trump, it makes more sense.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

In a nutshell.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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Jan. 2025--Donald Trump announced $540 billion in pledged investment in AI infrastructure and called on his government to "enhance America's AI leadership." Feb. 2025--Don Jr. and Eric get into the AI data center business. me, for @forbes.com 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Mass layoffs of IRS agents who catch tax evaders. Once more, Elon Musk's very sincere crusade to cut "waste and fraud" out of the federal government just so happens to weaken government power over billionaires like him. What an incredible string of coincidences we've had here.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

A reminder I will be providing at least once a month for all of the remaining years of my life: Months before the 2024 election, the Department of Justice announced that there were at least six hundred Russian assets inside the United States and that some...were SITTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

submitted 3 days ago • 500 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

If you were wondering if there is a word to describe how the United States is currently being governed, why, yes, there is: kakistocracy!

submitted 2 days ago • 353 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 1260 comments

BREAKING: President Trump endorses the House budget, supporting major cuts to Medicaid despite recent assurances that he wouldn't touch it.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

A gov't engineer at General Services Administration quit Tuesday after being asked to give a political appointee associated with Elon Musk administrative access to the agency’s texting platform called Notify.gov, which helps gov't agencies send text reminders about benefit programs like Medicaid...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Doesn’t Medicaid pay for a great many middle class people to be in nursing homes? And 70% of people on SNAP and Medicaid work full time. Over half of those work at companies with over 100 employees. People will just go to ERs and overall costs will skyrocket.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

27 GOP members of Congress are on the fence about the budget bc they know cuts to Medicaid will be disastrous for their states. If you have a GOP rep, call and email NOW and say what a terrible idea cutting Medicaid is + if they support it now, they lose your support in the midterms. 202-224-3121.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Last night, Orange Taint said “Medicare, Medicaid- none of that stuff is going to be touched.” This morning, he endorsed the House GOP budget which included 100s of billions cut to Medicaid & ACA. The bill cuts $2T from SS, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Vet Services. That’s straight from P2025.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1463 comments

The Trump-House Republican budget includes hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, Head Start, and food assistance. Meanwhile, the rich get tax cuts. Trump isn’t lowering costs for working people – he’s raising them.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

submitted 3 days ago • 412 comments

BREAKING: Sen. Ron Wyden sounds the alarm that Trump approves of the House budget resolution -- the only way they can meet their $880 billion in cuts is by cutting hundreds of billions from Medicaid, a disaster for millions. Make sure everyone sees this.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????

submitted 3 days ago • 458 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

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“The lawsuit appeared to represent an astonishing effort by Mr. Trump to pressure a foreign judge as he weighed the fate of a fellow right-wing leader who, like him, was indicted on charges that he tried to overturn his election loss.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

How Elon Musk’s crusade against government could benefit Tesla apnews.com/article/musk...

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

submitted 3 days ago • 272 comments

DOGE is arguing in court that Trump is calling all the shots and Musk isn't the DOGE administrator. Trump here admits he's not calling the shots. So if he's not, and Musk isn't, then who is the DOGE administrator? @normeisen.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 1217 comments

Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:

submitted 4 days ago • 352 comments

At the behest of Wall Street donors, Congressional Republicans are trying to overturn the CFPB's new rule against predatory overdraft fees. The rule would have capped overdraft charges at $5, saving consumers $5B annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

BREAKING: A top DoJ prosecutor has resigned in protest after being improperly asked to open an investigation into a Biden-era government contract. www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

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“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 4 days ago • 1013 comments

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

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🚨BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses lower court decision and DISMISSES voter suppression lawsuit. A big victory for our clients the WI Alliance for Retired Americans and voting rights in Wisconsin. Another stinging loss for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments