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"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 1563 comments

The thing you need to understand about Gavin Newsom is that

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 28 days ago • 93 comments

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

submitted 4 days ago • 712 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Millionaires stop paying into Social Security today. That’s because they've now made $176,100, and hit the contributions cap. Billionaires made that much about an hour into the year. Elon Musk did in just 15 minutes. Tax the rich. Scrap the cap.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 5 days ago • 252 comments

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

submitted 5 days ago • 183 comments

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

submitted 5 days ago • 305 comments

Federal prosecutors who investigated Eric Adams put on leave by Justice Department Also put on leave were the prosecutors who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and former crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried. abcnews.go.com/US/federal-p...

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

I guess sleep weeping is a thing now? (from an inter-game ad for a sleep tracker app)

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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

submitted 14 days ago • 543 comments

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

submitted 17 days ago • 1255 comments

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

In an effort to avoid doomscrolling, I've been enjoying lots of ragebrowsing

submitted 37 days ago • 22 comments

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

submitted 50 days ago • 1517 comments

Super creepy stuff, also the A in DEIA is accessibility meaning programs for the differently abled are affected as well. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

submitted 52 days ago • 2530 comments

I can't imagine a better debunking of all the lies tied to the California fires. Kudos to @politicsgirl.bsky.social for creating such quality content! youtu.be/JG1G0P0C1_s?...

submitted 57 days ago • 11 comments

Altadena isn’t a rich bastion of white celebrities, it’s one of the country’s oldest black communities, started by abolitionist John Brown’s son Owen.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

This is the level of information I can handle these days.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out to libraries 🔥 (Sorry - whisper out)

submitted 78 days ago • 89 comments

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

submitted 100 days ago • 181 comments

It sounded like the sky was falling from where we are 3 small blocks away!

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments