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🟥 Blindspot for the Right: Five former defense secretaries condemned Trump’s recent firings of the Joint Chiefs chairman and top military officials, saying they were “fired for purely partisan reasons.” They urged Congress to launch hearings. ground.news/article/form...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Governor Tim Walz says when Democrats are back in power, people are "not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA; they're going to expect universal healthcare."

submitted 17 hours ago • 216 comments

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna has introduced the Drain the Swamp Act. It will ban White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists or becoming lobbyists during the Trump term.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Nothing about kids dying from measles is normal. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and the Republicans who enable them are responsible for every single one of these deaths.

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 394 comments

📌If Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer were coaches for some sports team, they would have been fired by now… This has to be the meekest, non-response to a daily ass-kicking I have ever seen.

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

How come this guy sits around and protests? HE is an elected official with the right to actually be in the building, having his voice heard, WE do not. the Democratic Party needs a real leader, not this spineless cheerleader

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in foreign aid within two days, citing noncompliance with a previous court ruling. ground.news/article/judg...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 5 days ago • 2973 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 4 days ago • 2158 comments

🟥 Blindspot for the Right: Donald Trump took to social media to declare victory over New York’s congestion pricing plan, sharing a mock Time magazine cover featuring a painting of himself wearing a crown, with the subtitle Long Live the King. ground.news/article/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

I have friends who are genuinely confused when I point out to them that being politically engaged is a luxury item lots of folks don't invest time or money into. They don't think deeply about politics until and unless it directly affects them. It's an alien thought (and I get it!), but it's true.

submitted 12 days ago • 433 comments

Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel just disclosed holding $800,000 worth of stock in Trump Media & Technology Group. Reminder that Patel also has compiled an "enemies" list that is identical to Trump's. Does anyone actually believe he won't be a loyal cog in Trump's vengeance machine?

submitted 17 days ago • 129 comments

So much for transparency. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-finances.html

submitted 16 days ago • 145 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 21 days ago • 6588 comments

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

submitted 21 days ago • 720 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 23 days ago • 1278 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 23 days ago • 2611 comments

For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it

submitted 23 days ago • 349 comments

I can think of at least eight federal laws that have been broken by Musk and his goons over the last few days, and at least two provisions of the U.S. Constitution. They must be stopped. Some thoughts: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mu...

submitted 24 days ago • 298 comments

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

submitted 28 days ago • 765 comments

Three things about Kash Patel's enemies list: 1. It is disqualifying. 2. But if Patel is confirmed, should we assume that any federal legal trouble directed at these folks has been illegally targeted at them? 3. I'm embarrassed not to have earned a place on it. Feels like I wasted those years.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

🟥 Blindspot for the Right: Navajo Nation leaders have raised concerns over reports that at least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico were questioned or detained by federal agents during recent immigration sweeps. ground.news/article/repo...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 31 days ago • 157 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 29 days ago • 840 comments

A reminder: the GWBush Admin built a prison at Gitmo not because of its size or facilities, but on the theory that because it was not in the US, US laws would not apply, and because US didn't recognize Cuban sovereignty over it Cuban law didn't either. It's a stateless, lawless zone of impunity.

submitted 29 days ago • 231 comments