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“Awful April” hasn’t helped people to feel good about their finances.

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Trump has vowed to bring down housing costs. What is his administration doing?

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For the #HandsOff , there were a group of seniors that couldn't make it to the Capitol. So they held their very own! 57 of them came out! Aged 67-104! They all walked down to the main street! So proud of them! They had s sign making day before the event! They sent this video to me to share.🥰

submitted 9 days ago • 298 comments

Canada's own Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil. #handsoff #elbowsup

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NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

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"I came because I don't want them to take away the Social Security," #HandsOff rally-goer Jim Carson told our @juliannemcshane.bsky.social. "That's stealing it—we all paid already!" Julianne reported from her small hometown of Marshfield, which votes more red than MA, for this dispatch.

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Federal judges have the power to ensure compliance with their court orders — if they have the courage to exercise it, @david.noll.org writes. Learn more here.

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Veterans, federal workers (not named out of fear of retaliation), organizers and activists, costume lovers—thousands and thousands were out in San Francisco for the #HandsOff protest. "We swear an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic." WATCH:

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Video shows activists unveiling a massive banner with the names of Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, during a protest in Washington DC.

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Demonstrators gathered across the U.S. on Saturday for a day of protest against President Trump and his policies. Read more: nyti.ms/3Ebi0oi

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A district court judge has ruled in favor of four whistleblowers who said that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton retaliated against them for reporting bribery allegations, awarding his employees more than $6 million combined in damages.

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Our @clinthendler.bsky.social was in New Haven, Connecticut, at the town green and captured this short video showing the stream of people at the #HandsOff rally there—despite the patchy weather.

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Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3

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Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

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Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies – won’t be simple and could have unintended consequences

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“How do you push back against a tidal wave?” wrote political communication expert Dannagal Young. Overloading people with news is a propaganda tactic used by authoritarians like Putin to distort reality. A communication professor explains: buff.ly/VDoQYo2 Jennifer Mercieca @tamu.bsky.social #media

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

What Sanders has been doing recently is highly instructive—and Democrats don’t need to be die-hard enthusiasts of his particular policy portfolio to extract the key lesson and act on it: Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told.

submitted 33 days ago • 65 comments

FACT: Democrats have real power to put an end to the lawless dismantling of our government by President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump. 👇

submitted 48 days ago • 37 comments

The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates.

submitted 57 days ago • 26 comments

Two U.S. senators are raising questions about how staffing cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program will affect 9/11 first responders, survivors and residents affected by the terrorist attacks who now live throughout the country.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money

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NEW: In a court order, a judge said CFPB employees for now cannot be fired without cause, and data housed by the independent agency cannot be deleted.

submitted 61 days ago • 16 comments

Friendly reminder that if you buy a book on Kindle, you're only paying for the rights to read, not own. If a book truly gets banned, it will be taken away from digital platforms like Kindle, nook, etc. Consider getting physical copies of banned (or other) books! READ BANNED BOOKS #booksky

submitted 88 days ago • 357 comments

ALL EYES ON CHICAGO!! RESISTORS!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The DJT Regime will begin Mass deportations and raid ice Patrols into Chicago beginning Tuesday. WE RESIST!! WE FIGHT BACK!! Help my home town from being Ground Zero!! #makeitgoviral #savechicagomigrants

submitted 87 days ago • 390 comments

Oh my god this shit is like a parody

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Folks, you might wanna benefit from Freya Zank’s disciplined hard work in reviewing material comprehensively, such as Trump’s executive orders, with info soon on implementation of Project 2025. People have been reposting this Substack link; now you can follow Freyfrey directly here on Bluesky!

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

An actual depiction of today’s press conference regarding American Airlines flight 5342

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

Egg prices have now surpassed $7 per dozen

submitted 76 days ago • 127 comments

Some buried news about DOT - last night Sec. Sean Duffy released this unhinged memo which directs DOT to prioritize funding for “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”, and prohibits DOT funding from going to communities with vaccine requirements. Link below 1/

submitted 77 days ago • 24 comments

Reposting from roomrater

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

One of the Senators should ask Tulsi Gabbard about her cult-an off shoot of the Hari Krishnas-that is so wacked the Hari Krishnas want nothing to do with them.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Two major unions representing US government employees filed a lawsuit aimed at slowing President Donald Trump's effort to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers and make it easier to fire them reut.rs/4gj1mjt

submitted 77 days ago • 22 comments

Unions and attorneys who represent federal employees are telling workers not to take the offer from the Trump administration to resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 and still be paid through September.

submitted 78 days ago • 66 comments

“RFK Jr is a Democrat plant, a radical left liberal,” one clip from May showed Trump saying. “He makes the ‘Green New Scammers’ look very conservative by comparison, and he’s anti-military and he’s anti-vet.… I’d even take Biden over Junior.” https://newrepublic.com/post/190889/mike-pence-video-tr…

submitted 77 days ago • 18 comments

Meanwhile in Russia, top Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov & others on Russian state TV can’t hide their excitement about “their boy and girl,” Kash Patel & Tulsi Gabbard, becoming the Director of the FBI & Director of National Intelligence in the US

submitted 79 days ago • 173 comments

My Harris vote is looking better every minute

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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

submitted 78 days ago • 191 comments

Unlike Google, I will never EVER refer to it as the Gulf of America, that's just fucking stupid.

submitted 79 days ago • 525 comments

Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who agrees that Jim Acosta was one of the few watchable journalists on CNN before they let him go, and MSNBC should prioritize hiring him to replace Andrea Mitchell or Katy Tur. Or BOTH.

submitted 79 days ago • 1206 comments