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Here are the ramifications of shutting down USAID on @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com tonight. Millions of people around the world, especially Africa, are affected by this. All I can think is this is a form of genocide by Trump & Musk.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Holy shit! The White House really is an arm of the Kremlin, and Trump is Putin’s asset. 🚨 The Kremlin praised the U.S. for changing its foreign policy to align with Moscow.

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

Where is the Democratic leadership and why aren’t they shouting from the rooftops against this capitulation to Putin & Russia We need you to fight back!!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t give a fuck about what Zelensky was “wearing.” I care about the fact that my once upon a time beacon of democracy nation kicked him to the curb in favor of an evil despot. That’s what I fucking care about.

submitted 3 days ago • 695 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 3 days ago • 2265 comments

"I’m not sure which is worse: the fact that Republicans are moving to gut the last lifeline for 72 million Americans who rely on Medicaid and 43 million Americans who rely on Food Stamps or the fact that they’re lying about doing it." Read more: plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republican...

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 3 days ago • 3181 comments

“We’ve almost fully switched sides here” — Mark Kelly

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“During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC, …Conway opined that Republicans ‘just want to burn it all down. … It is an attempt to destroy what they perceive to be as the enemy, which is the very government that they are charged with administering.’”

submitted 6 days ago • 373 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 6 days ago • 1240 comments

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 6 days ago • 255 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 6 days ago • 685 comments

Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

submitted 6 days ago • 2111 comments

Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them. Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.

submitted 8 days ago • 732 comments

The heartbreak. Trump claims USAID is bankrupting America—it’s less than 1% of the budget. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is gutting the largest food aid provider. He could end world hunger & still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Not just greed. We’re watching evil at work.

submitted 8 days ago • 424 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 8 days ago • 5202 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 9 days ago • 3904 comments

REMEMBER AMERICANS: IT'S NOT ABOUT "MERIT", nor "DEI"; it IS all about WHITE NATIONALISM, WHITE SUPREMACY ( like the NAZIs ), and CRONYISM. Trump appoints whomever is most "LOYAL" only to HIM ( not to our Constitution or the USA ), and/or who's most corrupt / corruptible to head all GOV agencies.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 9 days ago • 1053 comments

February 22, 2025

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

Medicaid supports over 80 million Americans— 1 in 4 of us—keeping us healthy. Republicans are pushing to cut it. #DontCutMyMedicaid

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

In Memoriam Congressman John Lewis 2/21/1940-7/17/2020 Honoring the little boy from Troy who dared to dream of freedom and equality for all and believed all things were possible if you got in good trouble. There is no need to miss our precious hero because he lives in each ballot we cast. 🧵1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

He should be our messenger.

submitted 12 days ago • 822 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 12 days ago • 2645 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 12 days ago • 2017 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 12 days ago • 568 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 14 days ago • 571 comments

We all see what’s happening—because we are the target! Who doesn’t know someone affected? “It’s a level of incompetence that we’ve never seen before in government. To say that Elon Musk is not running the United States right now is really a fallacy.” — @dougjones.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

February 18, 2025

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I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

submitted 13 days ago • 2208 comments

Elon Musk posted these two tweets the same day, just hours apart. Don’t sugarcoat it — he’s not just a far-right authoritarian, he’s an outright fascist. Musk isn’t even trying to hide his true intentions at this point. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM.

submitted 15 days ago • 449 comments

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

submitted 15 days ago • 679 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue “I’D JUST LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE GIVE A DAMN”… ~Michael Steele

submitted 16 days ago • 273 comments

Please consider joining us and participate in the Economic Blackout on February 28. 💙🙏

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6

submitted 16 days ago • 124 comments

“The reason we face the worst is because it helps us imagine the best.” What a fantastic, hopeful read. Treat yourself to this, and then spread it around.

submitted 15 days ago • 225 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

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submitted 15 days ago • 274 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 16 days ago • 2107 comments

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

submitted 17 days ago • 2398 comments

As I've said, Europe is gonna step up. They might even be the ones who have to rescue us like we did in WW2. We're no longer that US from the 1940s. We no longer have leaders in office with any kind of spine to stand up to fascism. Just fecklessness or malice.

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🦋💙🦋 Keep posting it. I did.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 21 days ago • 567 comments

Trump & Musk are now stealing congressionally appropriated money out of city bank accounts. The money in a NY account had been approved by Congress and signed off on by Biden to turn a firmer hotel into another Ellis Island to process immigrants. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/A75ci2JwFSnm...

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools. Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 17 days ago • 396 comments

#ProudBlue #DemocracyWarriors 🧵 There is a new show on Hulu called “Paradise”. It is about the billionaires creating an underground city to live in after a catastrophic event happens on earth. They hand pick a small amount of people who will survive & live there. Queue what is happening now.

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