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I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.

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🇺🇦Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest Ukrainian flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”

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Everyone who cares about the Constitution needs to read this. DOGE has restructured the Treasury Dept to automatically block payments by federal agencies that do not align with EOs, impounding federal funds appropriated by Congress. This is a Constitutional crisis. @nathantankus.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 1923 comments

Anyone who cares about the shocking resurgence of antisemitism and its relationship to the attack on democracy all over the world must read this powerful analysis of the Trump-Vance attempt to humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Tim Snyder’s analysis is devastating.

submitted 14 hours ago • 75 comments

The next time that someone aligned with the current administration blusters about how they support free speech, post this list of words federal agencies are being told to avoid using. Heaven forbid you use the word "injustice." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/c...

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

This grim Orwellian development is of a piece with the “Gulf of Mexico” nonsense but more ominous. First, they demand some words and forbid others. Next, they’ll try telling us what to think. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 162 comments

Wow, this opened my eyes a bit more

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JPMorgan sounds as exasperated as the rest of us.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

TRUMP TARIFF CHESS Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

submitted 2 days ago • 738 comments

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

submitted 4 days ago • 1871 comments

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

submitted 6 days ago • 280 comments

www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/p... "We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country." Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

submitted 6 days ago • 1363 comments

A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

submitted 8 days ago • 871 comments

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

submitted 9 days ago • 1012 comments

CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

submitted 10 days ago • 1188 comments

Good idea!

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Republicans are crashing the economy in real time. The American people are taking notice.

submitted 10 days ago • 559 comments

Name every victory when they come

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

On Capitol Hill

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Research saves lives. Science saves lives. Cutting funding for medical research will kill people. DOGE's erratic cuts are cruel and uninformed. I will fight to fund and give people access to lifesaving research.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I know I keep banging on about this, but it's simply unfathomable to me that legitimate news organizations continue to participate in the WH press pool.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

Federal workers choose public service to serve our people, but the Trump administration wants to traumatize them. We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors. We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.

submitted 11 days ago • 198 comments

They are stealing from you.

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

katebowler.com/podcasts/we-... Worthwhile listening

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The CFPB has returned over $21 billion directly to Americans scammed by Wall Street. If you have been personally helped by the CFPB - if you've filed a complaint, got money returned to you, or benefitted from their work, I need to hear from you. www.warren.senate.gov/share-your-c...

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Democrats should NOT be playing possum right now

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You know… Congress and the senate could always pass resolutions calling Russia the aggressor, supporting NATO and calling for a Ukraine victory. Just sayin…. Stop tweeting start forcing.

submitted 12 days ago • 371 comments

@raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov friends, I’m good with the dems shutting down government to stand firm against the unlawful nonsense

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1st is crucial! Susan Crawford stands for defending our freedoms and upholding justice for all. Let’s make sure we have a justice who values fairness, equality, and the rights of every Wisconsinites. WI Supreme Court Vote For B Freedom

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Brad Schimel is lying about abortion! Behind closed doors, he says he'll ban it. Susan Crawford will uphold the freedoms that Wisconsinites hold dear. 🗳️ Toolkit for WI Supreme Court race ➡️ social.demcast.com/toolkit/WISu...

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 13 days ago • 298 comments

Black people, protect yourselves.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Holy smokes.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump on Tuesday night: Promises not to cut Medicaid. Trump on Wednesday morning: Endorses a GOP plan to cut Medicaid. You know who’s on track to pay the price for this broken promise? Your grandma in her nursing home.

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

“We’re f*cked” is what the scientific review officer had to say about the current situation at NIH. As someone with a grant currently somewhere in the ether awaiting a theoretical review that may never come and another that’s funded but on the chopping block, I tend to agree.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This minute’s new disaster

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

#MasculineMaximalism 🇺🇸

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 18 days ago • 748 comments