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This is in one of the most conservative districts in Wisconsin ⤵️

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

Lutnick: "I'd like to thank you President Trump. It is the greatest honor to work for you, to be with you, to carry your name, your leadership, and your flag throughout the world ... I know him as the smartest, most thoughtful, and most intuitive person I've ever met."

submitted 1 day ago • 1325 comments

Authoritarian leader cult alert

submitted 13 hours ago • 72 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. As you know, my name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

submitted 2 days ago • 254 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 1 day ago • 682 comments

McConnell's legacy is grim - he fought campaign finance reform, stonewalled Supreme court nominees - but what stands out most? More than any single person, he had the chance to end Trump but chose not to do so, even as he understood the risk Trump posed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

submitted 2 days ago • 483 comments

Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

A bus bombing has just occurred in central Israel in a suspected terrorist attack. To enact a terrorist attack on the same day they return the coffins of our murdered; it's so despicable I don't know how it wasn't obvious Hamas would do this.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Exactly

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it's happening www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

You are right. But it's 2025. Talking about it as if it will happen is how politics works. It also forces right wing media to talk about it and if there is enough Dem proposed legislation, Trump and Elon have to respond to the Dems rather than vice versa

submitted 2 days ago • 462 comments

Imagine, by the time Donald and Elon break up, Elon will have all of Trump's financial records and tax information in his back pocket. Then we will see all of Trump's tax returns.

submitted 4 days ago • 290 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2047 comments

Unreal.

submitted 5 days ago • 765 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

Please don’t wake me up. I’m having the most wonderful dream where I’m watching an episode of SNL that brought all seasons and cast together and ended with Paul McCartney performing Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End. I must be in heaven. #SNL50

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @charlesornstein.bsky.social I want to do something to respond to the moment but want it to be impactful. What organizations really make an impact on preventing democratic backsliding, fighting fascism, promoting rights, and the value of education?

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submitted 6 days ago • 783 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

I want to do something to respond to the present moment but want it to be impactful. What organizations really make an impact on preventing democratic backsliding, fighting fascism, promoting rights, and the value of education?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Non-Fascist Europeans, The current US leaders believe they're allied with fascists inside your country against you, not allied with you against foreign invasion and threats to democracy. I'm sorry, I wish it weren't true, but it is. You really need to adjust. Sincerely, Non-fascist Americans

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

“increasingly looks as though [Trump] and his allies are targeting academia more broadly” @michellegoldberg.bsky.social Higher ed administrations need to recognize that these forces cannot be appeased. They’re at war with the value of truth itself, and their conspiracy theories say destroy you.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

The NYT "The Daily" podcast incorrectly reported that CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers, or "Disease Detectives", were terminated. Not true. They are at-risk of termination. There's still time to advocate that they and other brilliant, dedicated Title 42 and 5 probationary staff are kept

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest: "For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy have removed all web pages highlighting women’s military service. Weak men always fear and are threatened by strong women. I’ll never regret voting for VP Kamala Harris.

submitted 11 days ago • 609 comments

I spent the last eight years freaking out about the woke kids. But I’m writing a very serious piece this week about what a threat Trump is. So you can’t blame me for what’s happening.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Why does Ezra Klein feel the need to take gratuitous swipes at Joe Biden every chance he can? I’m not sure who that helps. Actually embarrassing for him and agist.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The goal here is not reform but destruction. Think it makes no sense? It doesn’t. Authoritarians want to bring universities to their knees. This is how to do it. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

submitted 16 days ago • 203 comments

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that they can.

submitted 18 days ago • 199 comments

She's right.

submitted 18 days ago • 271 comments

Pretty much how they spin it!

submitted 18 days ago • 129 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 19 days ago • 207 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 18 days ago • 77 comments

So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?

submitted 19 days ago • 391 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments

You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

submitted 19 days ago • 97 comments