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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1709 comments

Everyone is blaming Waltz, but why did no one—not even the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—say that they should not be discussing classified information on Signal.

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

Trump is already defying the courts. He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court. Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.

submitted 5 days ago • 292 comments

📌I seldom type anything I'd call a "must read" but I am politely suggesting you must read this one. 📌It is the beginning of the way out of this terrible mess. 📌We MUST win this election in Wisconsin April 1 to hold the court and send the hideous Elon Musk packing. 📌Support Judge Susan Crawford.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Release the visitor logs

submitted 23 days ago • 82 comments

Here I am on CNN, saying it out loud: We are in the middle of a totalitarian, fascist coup and our incumbent, institutional, mass media are soft-pedaling it. Full block here; the sound bite below. youtu.be/lxLsBTjaTsA

submitted 29 days ago • 41 comments

This, this, a thousand times this.

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 37 days ago • 1399 comments

AP's still banned and the rest of the White House press corps leaves them hanging. I honestly don't get it. Didn't they all rally around Fox News a couple years ago?

submitted 44 days ago • 91 comments

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

submitted 50 days ago • 95 comments

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

submitted 52 days ago • 453 comments

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

submitted 54 days ago • 845 comments

Big national media outlet still failing. Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID. *Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves. *Not conveying illegality. *Not communicating constitutional crisis.

submitted 53 days ago • 126 comments

Elon Musk, who has taken control of the US Treasury and is bragging about unilaterally cutting off payments to disfavored populations worldwide in defiance of Congress and the American people, is nowhere to be found on the homepage of the New York Times. @nytimes.com, this is pathetic.

submitted 54 days ago • 97 comments

By freezing federal aid that was approved by Democrats and Republicans alike, Trump is stealing the power of the purse from Congress. It is blatantly illegal and has caused a constitutional crisis. Here's what you can do:

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

submitted 81 days ago • 2879 comments

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 83 days ago • 195 comments

Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke. (Team @anntelnaes.bsky.social) anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 83 days ago • 184 comments

You can’t make it up President-Elect Elon Musk and his sidekick Vivek Ramaswamy Who want to eliminate the Department of Education and severely restrict immigration Are lamenting the fact that America doesn’t have enough skilled workers to do tech jobs So they want to bring in immigrants instead

submitted 92 days ago • 181 comments

Europeans should treat Musk like a rogue state. From @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 98 days ago • 84 comments