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Notice: “due to LOUD PUBLIC OUTCRY” ☎️ That’s YOU calling your Congresspeople. ☎️ YOU are stopping them. Keep up the good work!

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👏🏻 CORRUPTION IS AT THE HEART OF ALL AUTHORITARIAN AND FASCIST MOVEMENTS 👏🏻

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I was wondering when they would hit the SSA. He doesn’t need personal information to cost cut. I don’t understand why this is being ignored.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

MAGA: USAID Dismantler Peter Marocco Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Hey DOGE bros - found some of that wasteful spending you were looking for. How many gov employees could have kept working and feeding their families with the estimated $2.5M this stunt cost?

submitted 6 days ago • 577 comments

During the last Trump administration soybean farmers lost their Chinese markets Now they’re going to lose their European markets as well So. Much. Winning.

submitted 6 days ago • 106 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

10 PM Weather Update The line of strong to severe storms is now entering NW AL. There is a tornado warning near Tupelo, MS with a spin-up along the line. We will watch for more of these tonight. The line will enter all of Western AL during the next hour. Be Weather Alert! #alwx @cbs42.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 7 days ago • 941 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3192 comments

Quid, meet quo.

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

RETIRED GENERAL: “I’m a big fan of USAID — To hack apart this vital arm of American soft power like a side of beef without a proper assessment of the harm it will do will diminish our standing in the world.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-usaid-...

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

On Wednesday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ripped Donald for unlawfully firing a top government watchdog, and ordered they be reinstated—at least for now. In a scathing footnote of the order, the Judge wrote: “It's as if the bull in the china shop looked back over his shoulder and said, ‘What a mess!’”

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees. Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more. Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.

submitted 8 days ago • 372 comments

Hagan Scotten’s letter is excellent and only one page long. Read it! Send it around!

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Stand strong!! AMericans are with you

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

🤯😡🤬

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"When they actually did the claw back, it caused the account to overdraft by $79.5 million," says NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on Trump yanking back funds from NYC. "Citibank charged us a $15,000 overdraft fee. I'm happy to say, I reached out to Citibank, and they have refunded the overdraft fee."

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 9 days ago • 598 comments

Senator Jennifer Boysko is pushing the Constitutional Amendment that will guarantee access to reproductive rights in a post-Roe Virginia.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 9 days ago • 1246 comments

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is rallying outside VA HQ now, leading Senate Dems in a powerful stand against Musk’s takeover. “Elon Musk… 9 million veterans are watching you give them the middle finger, & we’re not going to stand for it!” 🔥 LFG for our vets 🫡 @blumenthal.senate.gov @votevets.org

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

Vince McMahon is no longer being probed for allegedly covering up sexual misconduct allegations, a day before his estranged wife is scheduled for her secretary of education confirmation hearing.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

IMPT: Federal Judge Nancy Gertner (rt) frankly and eloquently explain Trump’s recent behavior and the consequences. She speaks for all those on the bench who speak only through their rulings…. youtu.be/UTrWIU5yF90

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Insane. According to CNN, Elon Musk’s X has agreed to settlement with Trump in the media defamation cases I describe below. A govt employee and wealthiest billionaire on earth paying millions to the sitting president.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Just a few years ago she called him “Saudi Arabia’s bitch” and now she’s his Director of National Intelligence. American politics is a strange, strange world.

submitted 10 days ago • 1809 comments

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

Musk's teams scours government team for questionable grants and contracts, and he determines his own conflicts of interest. Guess which contracts will be ignored. There isn't even a pretense that this sort of corruption won't occur. Any Inspector General who flags this would be fired.

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If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:

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Musician/producer @johnlegend.bsky.social discusses Trump’s long history of racism & discrimination against the Black community in an exclusive interview with @jrpsaki. John is a longtime, fearless advocate for justice. His #CupOfJoe is bold, yet smooth. #BlackHistoryMonth

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"Let's just call this what it is. It's voter fraud."

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Too big to fail The big short The automotive bailout Enron You know what happened Wall Street created huge problems. America bailed them out. The rich got richer. Very few paid a price. And the little guy got screwed Until Obama created the CFPB Now Trump wants to let them do it All Over Again

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 12 days ago • 2372 comments

Too few Americans grasp the chaos and human hardship the Musk-Trump unconstitutional tear has already unleashed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Boston Dynamics Dog Unstoppable At Puppy Bowl theonion.com/super-b...

submitted 13 days ago • 156 comments

This is 100% true and it doesn't get enough attention.

submitted 14 days ago • 90 comments

“By undermining systems meant to safeguard the public, the Trump administration has not only dramatically reduced the chance for genuine reform but also put the country at risk” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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“This abrupt change..will have devastating consequences on medical science. Many people will lose jobs, clinical trials will halt, and this will slow down progress toward cures for cancer and effective prevention of illness” “A sane government would never do this” apple.news/AuphtalGfSpy...

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Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

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Today, Trump signed an Executive Order to “prioritize … admission & resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” (Afrikaners are white.) 2/7/25 1/ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 15 days ago • 111 comments

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

submitted 15 days ago • 109 comments

Want to know what evil is? It's having $400 billion—and being projected to earn $600 billion more over the next 4 years—and knowing that you could awaken every morning for a month and point to a country and say I will end all hunger THERE without denting your lifestyle at all and instead you do this

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NPR's findings show that January 6 rioters pardoned by tRump include a disturbing number of individuals with serious criminal backgrounds. These pardoned criminals have been convicted of rape, child abuse, domestic violence, and drug trafficking. #tRumpsMoralBankruptcy www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

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We'd seen enough election irregularities on Election Day to question the result. And then, like the villain in every Bond movie, he bragged about how he did it. So WHY did they let him get away with it? Read my latest Substack and find out. brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/trumps-con...

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

Instead of purchasing food from American farmers, we can instead subsidize them as their farms go to shit … on top of the subsidies we’ll pay them as trade war casualties (again) of Chinese retaliation.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments