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I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

submitted 8 hours ago • 79 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 6 hours ago • 221 comments

What’s wasteful is ordering feds to explain their jobs instead of letting them DO their jobs.

submitted 9 hours ago • 324 comments

Diversity, equity, inclusion prevents mediocrity.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

He nails it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1407 comments

Yes, critical thinking!

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1612 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 9 hours ago • 1743 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 10 hours ago • 925 comments

✊🏼We stand with Ukraine! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 3307 comments

👇🏻

submitted 3 days ago • 1368 comments

A sovereign democracy in Europe was invaded by Putin. His forces have inflicted immeasurable destruction, pain and deaths upon Ukraine and its people. The notion that Ukraine should surrender land or pay US ANYTHING for providing help for Ukraine to defend itself is obscene.

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🙏🏼 Spend just six minutes of your time with this one, good people, while the 82-year-old Paul McCartney deals in art and genius ... 🙏🏼 Be brave enough to listen to it through the prism of these difficult times. 🙏🏼 It'll break your heart, bring much-needed tears, and fill the well of undying hope ...

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 5 days ago • 605 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

The extreme MAGA Republican budget will close hospitals, shut down nursing homes and deprive children of healthcare. There are 215 Democrats in the House who actually want to love and cherish Medicaid, not destroy it. We only need three House Republicans to join us.

submitted 6 days ago • 1300 comments

They were discussing Mary Poppins on @alltherightmovies.com and they mentioned that ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by one of the composer’s sons getting the polio vaccine in a sugar cube. A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.

submitted 7 days ago • 285 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 7 days ago • 518 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 7 days ago • 917 comments

Student loan forgiveness is a Band-Aid that only helps one generation. What we need is structural reform that addresses the cause, which requires legislation. If politicians don’t come at it from that angle, they’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Well done Rep Jahana Hayes 🔥 (CT-5)

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

if Trump and Musk want to find corruption in the government, maybe the best forensic start for the search would be for them to buy a mirror.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments

I mean I'm on board with this idea.

submitted 9 days ago • 287 comments

A message to EVERY elected Republican: . You don't work for the president. You work for US!

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 9 days ago • 1246 comments

Why aren’t Dems not pushing messages like this on every podcast and/or legacy talk show? “How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?”

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Who could have imagined that dismantling and defunding Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cause inflation to rise?

submitted 10 days ago • 267 comments

I don’t care how many pilots placate the current White House resident, down here in South Texas we know the Gulf of Mexico when we see it!

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Making sure everyone understands: Afrikaners—Elon Musk’s people—built, enforced, and thrived under the apartheid system they created. Not just “white-ruled segregation”—it was systemic racial oppression to keep the white minority in power. They don’t deserve refugee status—they were the oppressors!

submitted 14 days ago • 483 comments

Instead of gutting government programs that make the world a safer place we should be cracking down on ubiquitous tax avoidance by our country’s biggest corporations.

submitted 14 days ago • 185 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I love this so much!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that we can always make gov’t more efficient doesn’t mean that Elon Musk, someone with conflicts of interest everywhere you look, should be running the show. Trump could have started with the inspectors general, whose job that is, but instead of empowering them, he fired them.

submitted 15 days ago • 178 comments

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

submitted 16 days ago • 1099 comments