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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 17 hours ago • 865 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2502 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1163 comments

Yes the Feb 28 economic boycott is real! The organization behind it is The People’s Union USA founded by @theonecalledjai.bsky.social Here is the website: theonecalledjai.com if you scroll to the bottom of the website, it explains what the 24 hour economic blackout entails . 1/2

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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This absolutely fucks me. This absolutely fucks me. This absolutely fucks me. I NEED telehealth. Please contact your reps and tell them to fight this. This is going to harm so many people. Do this for me.

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VERY important we stop the SAVE act.

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I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 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 2 days ago • 844 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

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If Brazil can arrest a former president for attempting a coup, the United States can arrest a sitting president (sic) for successfully staging a coup, seizing power, abusing that power, and illegally destroying our government. Now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Reprehensible yet so predictable. 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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👀 “[I]f there is an intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned.” Powerful warning from @socialsecurityworks.org as Musk’s DOGE hacks reportedly are breaching Soc Sec Admin.

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Elon Musk is ILLEGALLY accessing our Social Security data through a gross breach of our private information.

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this is #Oligarchy. Mega-rich company leaders deciding future of healthcare in private with the president. "Inside Trump’s Million-Dollar Dinners With Healthcare Execs...In the gold-covered, chandeliered dining room just off the lobby at Mar-a-Lago" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/p...

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I appreciate this summary of this Hannity-Trump-Musk interview thingy on Fox I would have never watched anyway. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Money and markets, y'all. It's your superpower.

submitted 3 days ago • 321 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 4 days ago • 1013 comments

I reviewed a copy of the email received by a fired FDIC employee (who was told by phone they were not being terminated for performance) and it had some very peculiar language: “FDIC finds that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the FDIC would be in the public interest.”

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

“The head of the Social Security Administration has resigned after she refused to by DOGE staffers access to sensitive information. Your information.”

submitted 4 days ago • 293 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

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Call your house reps. This is up for a vote and would basically do away with mail in voting by requiring voters registering by mail to produce citizenship documents “in person” to an election official before the registration deadline. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Elon Musk’s agency has fired the regulators reviewing his company www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

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Elon Musk’s claim of Social Security fraud is…a fraud. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

submitted 5 days ago • 541 comments

This is absolutely chilling. A glimpse of the totalitarian state to come.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 4 days ago • 233 comments

Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

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RED STATES: Remember this when you’re on your own… Trump said: “If it was up to me … I’d end (FEMA) right now.” He wants your state to handle disasters alone—no federal help.

submitted 5 days ago • 412 comments

Folks, Elon's taking over air traffic control

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In case AirBnb is wondering, Joe Gebbia joining the Nazis in ransacking our country is why we deleted our AirBnb accounts. #AirBnb www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Our long post-WWI & WWII alliances with Western Europe have long been the foundation of global security & trade. Trump, who's destroying our federal government, tells them to get lost. He prefers Vladimir Putin because there is more personal profit in it for himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/u...

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#DOGE are just criminals, pure and simple. They are getting access to all of my and your, tax records. All SS#'s, every wage statement, every bank account #. The largest personal information #databreach in history. Gift article. wapo.st/3QizwcN

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2244 comments

Hey, you guys wanna see a dead body?

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Friendly reminder: there’s plenty of time left to claim up to $1,750 per child with our nation-leading Child Tax Credit. Last year, we put over $550 million into the pockets of nearly 225,000 families. Don’t leave money on the table, Minnesota.

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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Musk is acting like he runs the U.S. government—but the Constitution does not allow an unelected super-president We’re taking him & DOGE to court to impose consequences I’ll discuss tonight at 6PM ET on @msnbc.com w/ @jonathancapehart.bsky.social

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