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How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 2 days ago • 3182 comments

These 9 Senate Dems are holding the line: No on CR, No on cloture🔥 Keep the pressure on! It’s working! Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote NO on cloture and NO on the CR. There's too much at stake to give up now. Call script in thread. #HoldTheLine

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

NEW Quinnipiac Poll--Bad news for Trump. -Approval down to 42% (53% disapprove). -Disapproval high on economy (54%), federal workforce (54%), Ukraine-Russia (55%), trade w/Mexico (56%), trade w/Canada (58%). -62% think supporting Ukraine is in our national interest. @larrysabato.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Contact your Senators Please 202 224-3121 NO ON CR NO ON CLOTURE (ty @bannerite.bsky.social and @jesscraven101.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 3 days ago • 1534 comments

New Quinniac poll: If there's a shutdown... 32% blame Dems 31% blame Republicans 22% blame Trump That's a majority blaming Trump and/or the GOP. Hang tough, Dems.

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

New Quinnipiac poll finds only 32% will blame Dems for a shutdown. Also, it's not just one party that gets to try to apportion blame. Dems can make a public argument as well, believe it or not. The backdrop for all our politics is not inevitably and unalterably what Republicans say about everything.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Republicans control every part of the federal government. They’re unpopular people who have been doing unpopular things — if you can’t make the obvious case that any shutdown is yet another misstep of their own making, you should get the hell out of politics

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

Virginians: please call Tim Kaine ASAP. He says this morning he's willing to give up his only leverage by voting for cloture if he also gets a vote on a clean funding bill that Republicans will obviously kill. He thinks you're stupid. Tell him you're watching: NO ON CLOTURE, KAINE! (202) 224-4024.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

EPA is terminating more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin.

submitted 3 days ago • 405 comments

The SSA might slash telephone services that millions of retired and disabled Americans use to apply for and access their earned benefits.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

TODAY IN RALEIGH, NC! My org AFV just commissioned a street puppet of Elon Musk and we will debut it in Raleigh at noon TODAY. Please join us to fight back against #FatCatElon and his slashing of Social Security, Medicaid, veterans services, and more… www.ncdp.org/anti-doge 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

This is gross and disturbing. What the hell, Democrats…

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

Supreme Court rules Clean Water Act doesn't require clean water. Shout this loud and clear to your neighbors. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Trump is using campus protest as a gateway to prohibit all protest in the long run. This is a long game to dismantle First Amendment protections. I hope that's obvious to everyone.

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

submitted 12 days ago • 217 comments

Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

ALERT: Social Security is under attack — and in grave danger. Monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans are suddenly at risk. Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is responsible for the firing of half the workforce at the…

submitted 12 days ago • 132 comments

Listen, friends, if you’re not already doing something, you better start doing something…

submitted 12 days ago • 297 comments

There are plenty of characters to still add a caveat like “in a clearly illegal promise” or “in an unconstitutional threat.” Stop framing Trump announcements so sanely.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Not for nothing but once again HE HAS NO LEGAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL ABILITY TO DO THIS

submitted 12 days ago • 136 comments

If Democrats don’t protect norms and intuitions, no one else will. You can’t count on Senator Ted Cruz to defend free and fair elections, or Speaker Mike Johnson to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights. And it’s unlikely Senator Susan Collins, despite her… www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 13 days ago • 288 comments

Start saving now, says former SSA chief www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

Elon Musk’s mom, Maye Musk, has joined her son in tagging the account “@ifindretards” when a response displeases her.

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

This GOP’s agenda is a moral abomination .. If there is anything worth taking to the streets for peaceful protest, it is this sort of massive, regressive redistribution from the already-struggling to the no-amount-is-ever-enough billionaire class. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

“Even historic milestones have been targeted. Kristen Griest, the first woman to graduate from the Army's grueling Ranger School, has been erased from some of the service's social media and its publicly accessible media database…” www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

The 2024 election told us nothing about what voters want. Harris nearly won despite a global trend against incumbents. Instead, it told us how the GOP has broken our system & how one fiend decided to take advantage of that before the consequences of his ill-gotten gains began to catch up with him.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

IMPORTANT: Social Security's ability to deliver checks, especially for disability SOC SEC but also for retirement SOC SEC checks will be severely impacted by the gutting of the agency which kicked off yesterday. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memo-...

submitted 16 days ago • 60 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 16 days ago • 1184 comments

The Trump Admin has terminated funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 18 days ago • 751 comments

Watch this. Share this. Demand more reporting like this.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 23 days ago • 131 comments

In the fight for women's reproductive rights, men can protest, vote, and... get a vasectomy?

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

"It would behoove Democrats to wake up every day trying to think how to make Donald Trump less popular." That's @brianbeutler.bsky.social on today's pod. Check out our exchange on this. I think Trump is in some key ways in a weaker position than Bush in 2005. newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

Until that happens, they need to call out this weak effort to intimidate them from doing their jobs. Don’t be intimidated; don’t give them an inch.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

84% HUD staff cuts will cause irreversible harm to towns still recovering & trying to rebuild from recent disasters. Trump is giving tax breaks to his rich friends over ensuring HUD can deliver resources to you. Hear 👏🏾 Me 👏🏾 Clearly 👏🏾 He doesn't care about you!

submitted 24 days ago • 194 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 25 days ago • 1376 comments

This is why it’s good and important to keep calling/complaining to even stronghold R congress people.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

It's a great question. Why are Republican members of Congress idly sitting by while their constituents lives get ruined? Their budget plan is a dismantling of our social safety net for average Americans. @repauchincloss.bsky.social brought the heat to NewsNation.

submitted 25 days ago • 129 comments

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

submitted 25 days ago • 103 comments

Worth remembering that Republicans are still horrible in their usual ways. They're proposing transferring trillions in wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest guys ever to live.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

The Department of Defense, which commands an $850 billion budget, failed its seventh audit in a row in November. In fact, it’s the only major federal agency that has never passed one.

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

This mentality of calling others "parasites" developing out of Elon and Silicon Valley—a man and industry that together have benefited more from taxpayers' generosity than any on earth—must remind us that weak men are driven most by a lust to destroy anything that makes them feel insecure.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Yeah, the presumption that we're not all dupes or potential dupes is getting in the way of recognizing the true horror of what's happened. One billionaire exploited the rot of our laws to scam a critical number of voters and is now using that to loot the treasury, avoid the law, & persecute enemies.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments