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ATTN HHS employees: read this!!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

submitted 7 days ago • 505 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 14 days ago • 1528 comments

Spread the word for Super Bowl Weekend! #superbowl

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

If you're protesting tomorrow: "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present." MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

submitted 18 days ago • 189 comments

Yes coz when all the kids have polio, you won't care about the autism...

submitted 18 days ago • 1653 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 18 days ago • 2271 comments

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

submitted 18 days ago • 3221 comments

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

submitted 19 days ago • 1114 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 18 days ago • 852 comments

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

So now add this up, NYTimes: International hostility; financial (to use a mild word you might use) impropriety; cruel inhumanity; no oversight. It adds up to totalitarianism; fascism. See it. Say it.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Legacy media has bowed down and will obey. That is what there is to know. Support pro-democracy, independent media.

submitted 20 days ago • 575 comments

Discretionary non-defense spending in total is about $2.5 billion/day. That means in addition to nuking the federal government in his lawless coup d’etat, Elon plans to freeze some payments to the following: -Social security -Medicare -Defense -Medicaid -Interest on the debt

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A civic hero - right up there with Phyllis Fong, the Agriculture Dept. Inspector General who refuse to recognize her illegal firing. More of this desperately needed; fewer resignations and quiet compliance (Wray, Barr, Santos, and so many others). Like @preetbharara.bsky.social, make them fire you.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 20 days ago • 707 comments

Time sensitive: we've created a generic informal grievance template. Always defer to your collective bargaining unit. This isn't legal advice, just a recommendation based on personal experience. www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 20 days ago • 73 comments

Saw this at the bad place, and it pretty much sums it up.

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 20 days ago • 817 comments

Some people voted for trump. Some people voted for Kamala. Some people voted 3rd party. But I guarantee you that NOBODY voted for a fucking billionaire to be raiding our Social Security. What the fuck is THIS bullshit?

submitted 20 days ago • 1352 comments

The problem with American political discourse is that you can’t explain the impact of tariffs to people dumb enough to think DEI programs cause plane crashes.

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

Canadian Liberal Party leadership contender calls for 100% tariff on Teslas. www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

submitted 20 days ago • 704 comments

You are an active participant in the world you want to see. You are an active participant in who you needed to help you when you needed someone. You are the change the world requires. You are the resistance.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

See it's funny, because there probably was a time in U.S. history when an unelected plutocrat gaining illicit access to government systems would have resulted in him being dragged out of whatever government building he was in at the moment by his balls by armed government agents within +/- 3 minutes

submitted 20 days ago • 454 comments

Good news since we're not going to Target anymore. Costco also raised wages for most workers to $30/hour, minimum $20/hour. A good company. And hot dogs. Strike averted at Costco as Teamsters reach a tentative deal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 103 comments

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

submitted 20 days ago • 1110 comments

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

submitted 20 days ago • 946 comments

My fury knows no limits.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

submitted 21 days ago • 241 comments

The very first real victims of Trump's EOs on California #water are California farmers and Central Valley congressional districts that reliably vote red. He's ordered his dam operators to throw away their stored water, just for a photo op and tweet. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives: Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could. That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 21 days ago • 62 comments

¿Qué bolá? This should be bigger news (but is completely not being reported by US media). Cuba rejects use of Guantanamo Bay as a migrant internment camp, and their statement is a blistering indictment of how badly the US has lost its way.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

submitted 21 days ago • 666 comments

Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois: “I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

submitted 22 days ago • 681 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 21 days ago • 4421 comments