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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

The grasping at straws to defame and slander the character of an innocent man kidnapped, black-bagged, and sent to rot in a foreign prison colony is one of the most despicable things I’ve witnessed in modern American political life, and that’s saying something. Legitimately, literally nauseating.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 10 days ago • 341 comments

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 10 days ago • 586 comments

Please make time to watch this stunning 17-minute talk from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social "This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like" Then share it with all your networks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

We need to fight with every tool we have to protect the Boundary Waters, one of America’s greatest wilderness areas. That’s why I’m introducing the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

I don't really understand all this but I just bought 15 pounds of rice and some spices after reading this. I already have a years worth of cat food so I've been preparing.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of Americans, especially wealthier ones, believe they know how to weather recessions and even take advantage of them to improve their positions but nobody and nothing can survive the collapse of the dollar unharmed. This is going to be unlike the lived experience of any American under 100.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I've waited my whole life to discuss penguin tariffs on live teevee.

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

I feel like Sowell is doing what Shawn Fain is doing—applying principles to Trump's tyranny by tariffs while failing to see the larger picture. This will be great for Sowell—who hates government—and terrible for Fain—who believes in workers' rights and civil society.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

submitted 19 days ago • 542 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 21 days ago • 1035 comments

I want to sincerely thank every single one of my Senate Democratic colleagues who came to the floor, not to just support me, but to share incredibly powerful stories and ask important questions their constituents want answers to.

submitted 22 days ago • 1877 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 23 days ago • 10913 comments

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

submitted 24 days ago • 539 comments

I keep thinking back to Project 2025's Kevin Roberts saying last July that "the second American Revolution ... will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Trump didn't win a majority of the popular vote last year. His fascist movement aims to make its dominance appear inevitable. It's not.

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 34 days ago • 205 comments

In the, apparently increasingly likely, event that someone doesn't receive their Social Security benefit I would recommend that your first stop not be trying to call SSA directly. Report it to your local Congressperson or Senator's office, using their website constituent services form if possible 1/

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social shares the story of Sarah Inama, a 6th grade teacher in Idaho who is standing up to injustice in her school and state.

submitted 35 days ago • 73 comments

The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services. This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor). It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...

submitted 36 days ago • 46 comments

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

submitted 40 days ago • 150 comments

This thread made me cry. The situation we're in now with the most incompetent and cruel in charge. Once we had a dream... I thought

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 44 days ago • 179 comments

The corruption is so blatant and frequent as to anesthetize us against seeing it as problematic and demanding that it stop. Do not be dulled into thinking it’s okay. Great speech by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

submitted 47 days ago • 34 comments

This is terrifying. The tech bros are insane and taking over the government is the plan

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Everything he says about deportation camps on military bases is spot on—and alarming. But don’t get thrown off by the name Blackwater. It’s still out there—rebranded. Blackwater became Xe in 2009, then Academi in 2011, before merging into Constellis in 2014. The name changed but the op lives on. 🧵

submitted 57 days ago • 416 comments

Here are 10 suggestions for things Democrats can do right now to fight back that don't require a congressional majority or victory in court.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

We asked Senate Republicans: is there any millionaire or billionaire rich enough who doesn't need another tax giveaway? $10M a year? No. $100M a year? No. $500M a year? No. $1 BILLION a year? No. With Republicans in control: Billionaires win, families lose.

submitted 62 days ago • 122 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 61 days ago • 481 comments

This what I want from our elected officials

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 65 days ago • 1918 comments

The message, Democrats, is THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL PEOPLE. It isn't subtle, but it is true.

submitted 67 days ago • 29 comments

I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person. What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals. That domestic supply of infants.

submitted 69 days ago • 89 comments

Nailed it…

submitted 71 days ago • 349 comments

Do watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the heresies of the supposedly religious right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvE...

submitted 75 days ago • 18 comments

You are a real leader. During covid you were so reassuring and organized I listened to you everyday calming us with your leadership. Thank you!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Efficiency. Not. There’s always money in Trump world for costumes, props, elaborate stages, cast and crew.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Wow, America. Wow.

submitted 77 days ago • 109 comments

The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.

submitted 77 days ago • 618 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 81 days ago • 1294 comments