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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 17 hours ago • 139 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 1 day ago • 841 comments

Susan Rice on Pete Hegseth attacking DEI while betraying his own incompetence: "If you're a white, Christian, cisgender, macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. That's apparently what we've learned from this episode."

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

RFK is a eugenicist. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

submitted 4 days ago • 450 comments

The Trump regime isn’t just sucking up to the anti-science crowd with its foggy messaging on vaccines. It’s promoting measles, which can be fatal, especially to children under age 5. I can’t say it any more plainly than this: Republicans are killing children.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 7 days ago • 195 comments

Go Harvard.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

FYI rabbis and cantors who are alums of Brown University are organizing, asking the university not to capitulate to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism on the path to destroying higher ed and the diversity and freedoms that should accompany it. Glad to be one of them.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

The closure of the CDC’s entire FOIA office is unacceptable and in fact, illegal. Americans shouldn't be left in the dark about how the CDC is operating. Transparency matters. So we're suing.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Since Trump took office: Dow: DOWN 13.8% Nasdaq: DOWN 20.5% S&P: DOWN 15.5%

submitted 6 days ago • 379 comments

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 222 comments

"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 1854 comments

Oops! He did it again. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly shared flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets targeting the Houthis in Yemen with his wife and his brother on Signal. This is SignalGate 2. How many times does dude have to screw up before he’s fired?

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

NYT: "Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife - (a former Fox News producer) - and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January." Insert mine

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration says that Western NC doesn’t need any more help. This decision is enabled by the Republicans.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’” Says DJT. So we’re finally going to tax the churches then? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not the video games. Not the social media. It’s not the pot or the porn. It’s not that there are too many doors or too few police. It’s the gun the shooter was able to get. And it’s the gun the shooter was able to fire. It’s the gun. It’s the gun. It’s the motherfucking gun.

submitted 10 days ago • 165 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

submitted 10 days ago • 69 comments

Keep fighting, Harvard. Don't bend the knee. Columbia University, was it worth it? Nope. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 11 days ago • 606 comments

The Republican Party. Getting rid of women’s rights one by one

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

submitted 14 days ago • 1323 comments

Dear Decent Human Beings in the Military and Law Enforcement, If you are ordered to violate the Constitution by this president, please disobey. The millions who served, suffered, and died before you deserve your courage now.

submitted 14 days ago • 306 comments

The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

submitted 15 days ago • 178 comments

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported. We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back. That would be the end of democracy.

submitted 14 days ago • 287 comments

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that approximately 5,000 military and overseas voters should have to cure their ballots to have them counted in the 2024 state Supreme Court election. Justice Riggs is now asking the federal courts to intervene. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 16 days ago • 1651 comments

Welcome to authoritarianism in North Carolina. The judges decide elections here. www.instagram.com/p/DIUl1oUJuf...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Republicans are stealing votes in NC in order to install their judge onto the state Supreme Court. See this post for a great explanation of who is affected and what you can do if you are: www.instagram.com/p/DIM5sPcOmx...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 19 days ago • 789 comments

Remember SignalGate? (One of Trump's superpowers is being involved in so many scandals all the time that very few of them end up having staying power beyond a news cycle or two.)

submitted 19 days ago • 325 comments

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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 20 days ago • 382 comments

Heads up!

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”

submitted 21 days ago • 369 comments

This is important - GOP members of Congress own this crash as much as Trump. House and Senate seats will be up for election in 2026. We cannot let any of those enablers get a free pass because we are focused on Trump. Every Republican is to blame.

submitted 20 days ago • 124 comments

"Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world" With this many active Signal chats, how could they be complying with records law?

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

The economy is in free fall. The markets are collapsing. Our soldiers are dying. Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail. Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons. And Trump is fucking golfing.

submitted 21 days ago • 588 comments

As a reminder, when Trump came into office in 2017, the US trade deficit for the prior year was $735.3 billion. When he left office, the deficit the year-end 2020 was $901.5 billion, an increase of 22.6% That was with targeted tariffs that cost us 100s of 1000s of mfg jobs & billions in bailouts

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

There is no end to the depths of the 🍑 idiocy

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"So Trump will impose these tariffs and sit back and wait for other world leaders to petition the king with their offerings that will ultimately expand his own power, all the while we are the collateral damage. We all get thrown under the bus; 350 million people suffer so that one man can benefit."

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