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As with social security, they're now breaking student loans, as well: "Colleges nationwide complained of similar problems accessing student records and of getting a boilerplate message confirming the problems but providing no other information..." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 6 days ago • 123 comments

"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported. "The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over... www.wral.com/story/they-f...

submitted 6 days ago • 742 comments

"Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst gets her first Democratic challenger for 2026 "Nathan Sage touts his background as a veteran, mechanic and sports radio host, pushing for a party that 'people like me will actually want to be a part of'..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... youtu.be/wOYyZYSn_vg?...

submitted 6 days ago • 161 comments

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

submitted 6 days ago • 308 comments

Trump’s plan to gut the VA will leave thousands of veterans without access to the health care they need, and will devastate an entire workforce. I was proud to join nurses in San Diego to stand up for our veterans.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

Maine Gov. Janet Mills: "This matter has never been about school sports or the protection of women and girls, as has been claimed, it's about states rights and defending the rule of law against a federal government bent on imposing its will, instead of upholding the law" apnews.com/article/main...

submitted 5 days ago • 217 comments

www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

submitted 5 days ago • 109 comments

"Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst is directly challenging Israeli military’s explanation for deadly March attack in Gaza that killed 15 aid workers citing new video evidence." Netanyahu does not view Christian and Muslim Palestinian as human beings. www.mediaite.com/news/fox-new...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE protest is taking place in downtown Chicago for the "Hands Off!" movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

HAPPENING NOW: An aerial view of the MASSIVE protest today in Boston, MA for the "Hands Off!" movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

submitted 17 days ago • 1027 comments

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

submitted 17 days ago • 1432 comments

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 17 days ago • 1030 comments

Convicted Felon, Donald Trump’s March 25th Executive Order targeting voter registration is an authoritarian move to prevent free and fair elections. Listen to @marcelias.bsky.social explain why we need to be paying attention. www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

Exactly

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA = fool For proof look at the economy

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Asked, and answered…👇 Any Questions?!

submitted 19 days ago • 388 comments

Wow. According to JP Morgan, Trump just enacted the largest tax increase since 1968. This is going to be miserable for middle class families.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 20 days ago • 227 comments

Trump/Russia may have a match in Musk/China. “As the Department of Government Efficiency roars through agencies across government, its targets have included some of the organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.”

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

She helped the Federal Trade Commission sue massive corporations for abusing their power and ripping off customers. Then Trump fired her. Join us in conversation with "fired" FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. https://youtu.be/HxQJinGZijY?si=H6Sz5YHqU3icHh2v

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

NEWS: The Trump Administration has engaged in one of the largest national security blunders in the 21st century, Trump increases threats on law firms, and Ohio Republicans roll back child labor laws. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

Smh

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs IS the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

submitted 29 days ago • 203 comments

Leon Panetta, one of the most qualified people in Democratic party history to talk about this stuff, is calling for firings. Not just hearings. Firings. The @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov should be doing the same right now. Leon gave you all the cover you need to do it.

submitted 29 days ago • 72 comments

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

submitted 29 days ago • 516 comments

Fire him

submitted 29 days ago • 378 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 29 days ago • 330 comments

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 29 days ago • 184 comments

Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal’s whereabouts are still unknown.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 60 days ago • 1293 comments

I think we all need to read up on ketamine.

submitted 114 days ago • 480 comments

I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.

submitted 114 days ago • 248 comments

Over the last 12 months the Walton Family’s wealth has increased by $328,577 EVERY MINUTE

submitted 114 days ago • 141 comments

The Citizens United decision unleashed a tsunami of dark money into our elections, allowing special interests to drown out the voices of Americans. We must pass my DISCLOSE Act to restore transparency and accountability to our democracy.

submitted 113 days ago • 61 comments

Please remember that President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench. A key aspect of his legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

submitted 114 days ago • 186 comments