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Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

submitted 1 day ago • 780 comments

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2354 comments

The premise of the electoral college when you think about it is rooted in DEI, The E word... Equity. Giving marginalized states an equal voice. I mean maybe they should get rid of that too 🤷🏽‍♂️ (they will never) Good morning

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 2 days ago • 847 comments

my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth

submitted 2 days ago • 378 comments

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

Hahahaha all I can do at this point is laugh

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m ashamed of my country today.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 1078 comments

What in the actual fuck is happening

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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

Fearing repercussions from your government. Fearing the sudden loss of healthcare for your whole family. Fearing that what the government intends for you is mere sadism—trauma without purpose or justification. This is what evil men do when we let them spend a lifetime doing evil without consequence.

submitted 3 days ago • 528 comments

RFK at his confirmation hearing: “I am not anti-vaccine” After RFK confirmed as HHS head: - CDC flu vaccine campaign pulled - Childhood vaccine schedule reviewed - Federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates withdrawn - Meeting to update flu vaccines cancelled

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

Trump wants to cut Medicaid to give you a "tax break". Will your refund be enough to cover medical bills if you lose health insurance? How much will state tax increase if they try to preserve current Medicaid coverage? Say no to medicaid cuts! Call your elected officials! 5calls.org/issue/budget...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Republicans passed their budget which provides $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich but does nothing to lower costs for the rest of us. It’s a kick in the teeth to working people to give the ultra-wealthy another unneeded break.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable. He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad. We won’t forget his face or his crimes. #vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

This tells me the White House is well aware that the American people do not support what Trump and Elon are doing. The president controlling which reporters can get access to him is another backslide into authoritarianism. It's a classic Putin move. Make some noise about this.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

I like that my mid-range financial decisions now include considerations like "will money be worth anything"

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

submitted 10 days ago • 189 comments

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

submitted 10 days ago • 88 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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submitted 11 days ago • 213 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 11 days ago • 2645 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 11 days ago • 836 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 12 days ago • 789 comments

This is heartbreaking but you must read it.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 13 days ago • 453 comments

Banned/challenged books are often difficult reads with jarring content, but we can't shield ourselves nor our children from the realities of the world forever - it's better to build empathy and understanding through books, especially by reading books by/about marginalized people.

submitted 14 days ago • 57 comments

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

submitted 13 days ago • 769 comments

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

submitted 13 days ago • 175 comments

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

submitted 14 days ago • 601 comments

I’m so glad someone is finally talking about this. As a forester by training and friend to many wildland firefighters, we are really in trouble this fire season if they aren’t adequately staffed.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 14 days ago • 2291 comments

#kentucky protest today! events.pol-rev.com/events/e5c8e...

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Today is the day

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Their goal isn’t to save money. It’s to cripple every agency working for the common good or regulating big business and then cement complete control over us all.

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 14 days ago • 1057 comments

You are fantastic. You are a Halloween-themed breakfast cereal. You are Medusa's favorite hair-snake. You are a hatching moon. You are a Scholastic book fair for cryptids in an ancient forest.

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

submitted 15 days ago • 244 comments

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

submitted 16 days ago • 73 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 16 days ago • 90 comments