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ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

submitted 7 hours ago • 659 comments

What say you? 👇 Mad yet?!

submitted 17 hours ago • 750 comments

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1534 comments

This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 384 comments

An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

submitted 1 day ago • 588 comments

The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these: 1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps. 2. We decide who enemies are. 3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos. /1

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

submitted 1 day ago • 777 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 1 day ago • 1118 comments

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”

submitted 1 day ago • 690 comments

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

submitted 1 day ago • 688 comments

@booker.senate.gov has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 20 HOURS and counting. #RESPECT

submitted 1 day ago • 419 comments

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

submitted 1 day ago • 585 comments

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 1 day ago • 1427 comments

Pete Buttigieg hit this key question: "How did the information move from a classified system to an unclassified system?" "Somebody moved it. And that somebody would appear to be Secretary Hegseth. He needs to explain how he did that and why."

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 525 comments

Republicans are planning to ram through passage of the SAVE Act, which would bar Americans from registering to vote with their driver's licenses! This is a blatant attempt to suppress votes and undermine our democracy! #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/2w9QSuIk

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 4 days ago • 1139 comments

I have said since Trump starting laying the groundwork for the Big Lie in the first part of 2020 that he would not leave office willingly. I have been correct so far. And I'm telling you again he will not leave office willingly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 3 days ago • 595 comments

Figured I would put this out there. TransGENIC mice are NOT TransGENDER mice. TransGENIC refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been genetically altered. We use them to model human diseases & develop new treatments. This is yet another attempt to push anti-trans & anti-science rhetoric.

submitted 28 days ago • 176 comments

It’s not funny if it’s true.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

The guy who campaigned on lowering prices on day one now says he hopes prices go up Congrats, America www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 4 days ago • 930 comments

thehill.com/homenews/sen... Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he believes President Trump’s “America first” policy is making the country “America alone.”

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Goldberg: "Hegseth is promising that US warplanes are taking off in 30 minutes to bomb enemy targets that we know are protected by anti-aircraft batteries. If that's not the most sensitive information, the most secret info in the world, I simply don't know what the meaning of 'classified' is."

submitted 3 days ago • 510 comments

WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee? BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee.

submitted 3 days ago • 681 comments

They love this “run the government like a business” canard coz it conjures images of efficiency and accountability. The reality is, it’s about increasing profits for the few over the wellbeing of the many. If the government operated the way a business does, the citizenry should rightfully revolt.

submitted 3 days ago • 1141 comments

It is long past the time that leaders privy to advance information should be allowed to financially gain from that knowledge. Ban Congress from stock ownership.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Trump says he “couldn’t care less” if auto prices rise because of his tariffs. #TrumpTariffs

submitted 3 days ago • 206 comments

He said he was going to make things cheaper and now he’s saying “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices.”

submitted 3 days ago • 817 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 1472 comments

People were mean to him on Twitter, so he bought Twitter. People were still mean to him, so he bought the US government. And he is going to use it to hunt down those bad people!

submitted 4 days ago • 4930 comments

An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky

submitted 3 days ago • 280 comments

This is exactly what we need in leadership. Working class gets their fair share.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Day 68 into the GOP takeover: Prices are going up. Consumer confidence is plummeting. Classified info is being leaked. Social Security is being dismantled. Residents are being arrested for their political views.

submitted 4 days ago • 808 comments

And ICE are the Gestapo.

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NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

submitted 3 days ago • 555 comments

Unkind men so often whither in the face of unkindness.

submitted 3 days ago • 1302 comments

If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Half of the United States has been slowly and carefully inculcated by Fox News to believe that the other half of the country is their enemy and out to ruin their lives. Once this was established, it didn't take long for those viewers to value hurting these other Americans over helping themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

submitted 3 days ago • 951 comments

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

submitted 3 days ago • 1557 comments

Why is CNN interviewing this clown!

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

To answer @jeffstein.bsky.social’s question: Yes, Trump’s plan for massive tariffs would be the biggest tax hike in US history — hitting poor, working class, and middle class Americans the hardest.

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.

submitted 5 days ago • 256 comments