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The next time anyone tries to argue that this administration is cutting wasteful spending…

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Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

submitted 15 hours ago • 571 comments

I have heard she is a judges’ judge. She has been a sounding board for other judges who needed advice on cases. Wisconsin, you deserve to have a highly competent justice who will uphold the state and US Constitution and not put their thumb on the scale of justice like Schimel would.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

“We had always been able to assure our readers that no one restricted what we could write.… What was the meaning of ‘personal liberties and free markets?’ Without further clarification, we were like dogs that had been fitted with shock collars but had no clue where the invisible fence was situated.”

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy..." -FDR, 1936

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The Trump Administration is targeting the University of Maine and @golden.house.gov says, “Okay!”

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May I suggest that the Democratic Party look to Matt Drudge for messaging advice.

submitted 4 days ago • 657 comments

Response from student leaders at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social: “While we did not expect to be fighting for our basic First Amendment rights, we are prepared to do so—we will not waver, cower, nor hesitate.”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Guess losing $150 billion got under the old boy's skin. No surprise, he's responding by throwing around tired old conspiracy theories meant to intimidate and discredit us. Guess we better make #teslatakedown so big no one can hear him over our noise! And lol he's signing his tweets now?

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

President Trump said in his address to Congress that he inherited an “economic catastrophe” from Joe Biden. The U.S. had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it's shown signs of strain from Trump's federal funding cuts and tariffs. Follow live.

submitted 8 days ago • 162 comments

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 135 comments

Trump's first round of staff cuts to federal agencies eliminated dozens of positions at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, in charge of implementing the No Surprises Act.

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China and Canada have announced retaliatory measures against the US after Donald Trump imposed his sweeping tariffs plan, despite warnings it could spark an escalating trade war.

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Rieckhoff: He's losing his women and children. His cities are being bombed, and we're talking about his clothes? It was victim shaming, which is what trump has been doing to Zelenskyy and Ukraine since before he got elected. It's unacceptable.

submitted 12 days ago • 349 comments

WSJ editorial board: "But as with the war, Mr. Zelensky didn’t start this Oval Office exchange. Was he supposed to tolerate an extended public denigration of the Ukrainian people, who have been fighting a war for survival for three years?"

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 12 days ago • 440 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts steps in to protect the Trump administration's effort to avoid court's USAID payment order. If DOJ was testing the Supreme Court with its last-minute filing on Wednesday, Roberts gave them exactly what they wanted. This afternoon at Law Dork —>

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: senior spokesperson for the DoJ, 23-year civil servant, and disabled Marine Veteran RESIGNS citing a toxic and hostile work environment.

submitted 13 days ago • 297 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 14 days ago • 718 comments

How it started / How it's going

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 14 days ago • 289 comments

Well, that was fucking crazy. Congrats America.

submitted 64 days ago • 210 comments

"The president of the United States is using AI slop to sell war crimes and a potential genocide he considers a real estate deal. It is pitching ethnic cleansing with a meme." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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AJC: White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who is a board member of the WHCA, says that the Trump administration's new press pool rules "does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House"

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

This is a real statement put out by the real (interim) U.S. Attorney for D.C. It’s almost impressive just how much it gets so wrong in so few words.

submitted 16 days ago • 172 comments

Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 days ago • 358 comments

Tonight we proposed an amendment to ensure that the Republican budget doesn’t raise prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. And guess what? Republicans blocked it — just like they opposed us when we gave Medicare the power to lower drug prices.

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

submitted 23 days ago • 153 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 26 days ago • 2761 comments

The Acting President discusses affairs of state, while the young boy and the old man share their boredom.

submitted 29 days ago • 889 comments

“The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law.”

submitted 30 days ago • 381 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 30 days ago • 251 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 30 days ago • 168 comments

BRENNAN: Darren Beattie has made inflammatory statements against women & minorities. If he couldn't work for the first Trump administration, how is he qualified now? HAGERTY: I'm not familiar w/ Mr Beattie, but if we want to talk about qualifications, why not look back at the prior administration?

submitted 31 days ago • 202 comments

If Joe Biden had said this it would have been good for a week’s worth of programming on Fox News

submitted 35 days ago • 893 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 36 days ago • 2832 comments

More on Latte Lath to #ATLUTD and what it means www.ajc.com/sports/atlan...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

🔴⚫️ Atlanta United have completed a new MLS league-record transfer to sign center forward Emmanuel Latte Lath from Middlesbrough, per sources. Atlanta will pay a fee of $22 million plus add-ons, the biggest deal in MLS history. w/ @jacobsben.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

After talking tough in the campaign about Chinese autocrats, Trump unveils sky-high tariffs on...Canada, Mexico and Taiwan! Like dictator wannabes, Trump and Musk play-fight with their trade-cheating Chinese tyrant buddies while driving up prices on Americans and trashing our allies.

submitted 38 days ago • 271 comments

It seems like an unelected, non-Senate-confirmed billionaire who recently gave a Nazi salute onstage is directing private citizens in a takeover of U.S. federal workers' personal information? Is this okay with everyone? What am I missing

submitted 40 days ago • 123 comments