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Shawn works to support our veterans & their families in WA state. Trump & Musk's funding freeze put his work on pause—cutting veterans off from lifesaving mental health resources. Now, the mass firings at VA are making it even harder for vets to get the care they were promised.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 6 days ago • 2728 comments

There is a reason why Elon and Russ Vought want Congress to pass Speaker Johnson's slush fund CR. We should not let Elon and Trump pick winners and losers or defund programs they either don't like or don't understand. They will hurt blue AND red states. VOTE NO.

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

In Anniston, Alabama

submitted 11 days ago • 149 comments

Dems don't have much power at the federal level, and they don't have a clear message, but they can distinguish themselves from their political opponents by simply turning up and listening to constituents.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Activists unfurled the world's largest Ukrainian flag in Washington,D.C. yesterday The rally,called Don't Abandon Ukraine,saw about 1000 people assemble outside the White House to push for continued US support for Ukraine in the war Thank u to the people of the USA for showing your support! 🇺🇦🇺🇸

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

We need to rally around @actblueorg.bsky.social right now. Trump and Musk are manufacturing lies to justify bullshit federal investigations—all in an attempt to destroy the Democratic Party’s ability to raise grassroots donations. It’s a dangerous abuse of power, and we cannot let it work.

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 103 comments

Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire

submitted 12 days ago • 457 comments

My best recommendation to huge legacy media companies right now is to hire a reporter who understands crypto, the law, and politics - and how they are currently intersecting in an incredibly corrupt way that almost everyone is ignoring.

submitted 15 days ago • 200 comments

Some are saying Democrats shouldn't attend Donald Trump's State of the Union. I disagree. They should attend. And the minute he starts speaking, start getting up, one-by-one, and solemnly leave the chamber. It will be all anyone talks about the next day. And will drive Donald crazy.

submitted 16 days ago • 1443 comments

This is sketchy as hell

submitted 15 days ago • 384 comments

The NYT writes that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has ordered a halt to offensive cyberattacks against Russia, likely indicating Trump's team is trying to establish a dialogue with the Kremlin. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Some of this was reported two days ago but in any case, not good! therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 17 days ago • 6045 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 16 days ago • 2008 comments

Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week 🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!! www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 21 days ago • 193 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 32 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 30 days ago • 200 comments

Some groups are working to archive and save government websites and data right now. Among them: WayBack Machine (my screengrab below is from) End of Term Crawl Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab ICPSR 19th News PolicyMap Public Environmental Data Partners Environmental Data & Governance Initiative

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

submitted 37 days ago • 690 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 37 days ago • 3680 comments

What can the opposition party do? Like, actually do, right now? Five concrete things the Democrats can do to fight Trump:

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments