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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.

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Trickle up economics.

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Russia launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. Since then, thousands of Ukrainians have perished. Entire towns and cities reduced to rubble. It will take them decades to recover, if at all. For Trump to casually flip the narrative via tweet is beyond disgusting.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

💥💥💥WATCH THIS! “Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and health care for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs …” — @jbpritzker.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

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 4 days ago • 271 comments

I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.

submitted 5 days ago • 654 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 6 days ago • 2288 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Seven prosecutors have now quit over the order to dismiss the case against Eric Adams.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

NEW: My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.

submitted 10 days ago • 1564 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 8 days ago • 261 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

She’s 100% here.

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AOC: The House is governed by a Republican majority. The Senate is governed by a Republican majority, and The White House has a Republican president. And if they want to pass their agenda, Republicans need to conjure up the votes to pass their own bills.

submitted 12 days ago • 186 comments

Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!

submitted 12 days ago • 321 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 12 days ago • 252 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 12 days ago • 1916 comments

Everyone should be pointing out what is happening at CFPB. There is zero argument to be made here that this is being done to provide taxpayer value. The agency's budget is minuscule, averaging like $600 million/year, yet it has obtained $20 billion in payments from corporations to Americans

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 13 days ago • 429 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 18 days ago • 942 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 20 days ago • 1567 comments

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar lead Grammy awards in aftermath of LA fires

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Here's a fact most Americans don't know: The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world. The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits. We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.

submitted 21 days ago • 957 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 503 comments

The thing about running in 2025 is you might just win. @runforsomething.bsky.social will help you. runforwhat.net

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Brexit caused people to put new hires and take a wait-and-see attitude. Almost a decade of waiting in that graph now. 👀📈📉

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I was on WIC when I left my abusive husband with a toddler in tow. I think it's super important to highlight that their are real people behind these acronyms. This will hurt so many families.

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

submitted 26 days ago • 383 comments

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

submitted 26 days ago • 226 comments

What is the plan here exactly? No way we currently have sufficient capacity to replace Taiwanese chips www.pcmag.com/news/trump-t...

submitted 26 days ago • 147 comments

Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’

submitted 28 days ago • 59 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 30 days ago • 1358 comments

The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…

submitted 28 days ago • 998 comments

Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

submitted 29 days ago • 566 comments

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

submitted 29 days ago • 483 comments

ATTN: VA EMPLOYEES. I would recommend against using the Office of Accountability & Whistleblower Protection. In 2019, the VA Inspector General found that Trump used OAWP to TARGET whistleblowers. Contact democrats on congressional veterans affairs committees instead.

submitted 29 days ago • 94 comments

Trump’s solution to water in California: “All they have to do is turn the valve.” 🥴 Here are some facts about California water, and it doesn’t involve just turning on a valve so that water can flow south to Los Angeles.

submitted 30 days ago • 278 comments

Dear price of eggs Trump voters, Not only aren’t they any cheaper, there’s an actual shortage because of the raging Bird Flu we’re not getting any public information about because the food safety & public health agencies responsible for that shit have basically been shut down. Bravo.

submitted 30 days ago • 728 comments

Banksy drops another bomb.

submitted 32 days ago • 96 comments

There are 17 towns in Greenland and the learning curve for people in the US is going to be mind blowing.😂

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

“Yesterday we witnessed the inauguration of a man whose ideology embodies everything the EU was founded to reject” “Standing up to Trump will come at a cost, but it is much less than letting this poison win” “Europe must resist because our history demands it” - My Speech on Trump’s inauguration

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments