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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2407 comments

I have a better idea: Email [email protected] or DM @cfpb_tipline on X and tell President Trump and co-president Elon Musk to stop letting Wall Street scam you.

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

A billionaire who has attached himself to the federal government while sucking massive amounts of money from it thinks other people are “parasites”

submitted 9 days ago • 202 comments

here, let me help: After Purge, Trump Installs Himself as Chair of Kennedy Center

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Musk entered the WH & immediately started slashing staff in fed. agencies investigating his own conduct This raises some of the most serious Ethics questions we’ve ever seen for an appointee I explained @cnn.com 👇

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

Republicans in Congress may not be interested in investigating Musk's COIs but that doesn't mean he's invincible We can & will hold Musk accountable through the courts & ultimately the voters I discussed @cnn.com👇

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Undermining checks & balances is a key strategy of autocrats around the globe But other countries have successfully pushed back against illiberal forces—& Americans can learn from their examples Read more in our Democracy Playbook👇 www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: We are suing Musk & DOGE for violating the constitution They have no right to your personal data & no authority to dismantle entire agencies We’re calling their bluff & taking them to court statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 546 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 9 days ago • 788 comments

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 12 days ago • 236 comments

What y'all have to understand is what we were taught about the Civil Rights Movement was distorted and wrong. It was not a sudden uprising of marches and actions, resulting in quick change. It was a carefully built machine, with test cases, trials, and planning. Extensive, intensive planning and

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

There’s no “despite” here. Executive orders are not laws!

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Just looking at my bottle of Tagrisso, a cancer drug that literally reduced death by half in people like me. The product of intense clinical trials and meticulous science. The trials were supported by the National Cancer Institute, a part of NIH.

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

Wild abdication of journalistic responsibility to publish this story without mentioning at all, much less at the top where it should be, that just about everything Trump and Musk are doing to quote-unquote "disrupt the federal government" is manifestly illegal

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Vince McMahon's wife Linda spent at least $22 million in support of Trump's candidacy, including paying for his pre-election rally at Madison Square Garden. She got a cabinet position and her husband got his case dropped. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

Trump and Musk want to shut down the Department of Education and slash money from our public schools — all to pay for billionaire tax breaks. So we came to the Department of Education to ask questions. They locked the doors on us. Save the Department of Education. Fire Elon Musk.

submitted 15 days ago • 95 comments

CORRUPTION: Musk is abusing his position to block investigations into his own corporations⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 134 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 897 comments

Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.

submitted 14 days ago • 263 comments

@warren.senate.gov gets it. Maybe she can wake up the dopes who voted with Repubs to confirm Bessent, who promptly handed the keys to the U.S. Treasury to Musk and his kinderchuds. Those senators should feel pretty goddamn stupid now. They got played. youtu.be/RIHNlUygxlI?...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Mr. Kennedy has not come remotely close to providing adequate assurances that he will follow the well-established science on vaccines, nor remedy the ways CMS hurts Rhode Island, so I cannot support his nomination.

submitted 18 days ago • 242 comments

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.

submitted 20 days ago • 3503 comments

In plain English: Republicans in Congress plot more severe budget cuts to health care, nursing homes, and school lunches to pay for tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk. It sounds absurd, but it’s true.

submitted 20 days ago • 610 comments

RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences. When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.

submitted 18 days ago • 570 comments

Elon Musk wants the power to cut off programs that pay for your grandma's nursing home stay. There's nothing "efficient" about ripping health care away from millions. www.nytimes.com/.../musk-fed...

submitted 18 days ago • 426 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 19 days ago • 2484 comments

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

submitted 33 days ago • 142 comments

Pete Buttigieg sets the record straight.

submitted 23 days ago • 122 comments

Kaine: "The president has two Republican houses. If he wants to cut the budget, he's go majorities in both houses. He could just work with them to do it the lawful way...that he's not doing that means he doesn't have confidence that the GOP leadership will go along with the extremity of his actions"

submitted 25 days ago • 360 comments

Caroline Kennedy has released a statement warning senators against confirming RFK Jr.: "It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator."

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Trump needs to reverse this immediately. It'll wreak havoc on TX hospitals, schools, police, food banks, & emergency responders that depend on federal grants. If you're in TX-30 & your organization is affected, I want to hear from you. Email us: [email protected]

submitted 25 days ago • 156 comments

I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

If you're born in America, you're an American. Period.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

What are the most significant threats to voting rights, and which cases should you be keeping an eye on? Our new guide takes you through them and explains what's at stake: boltsmag.org/voting-...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

Ventura County strawberry workers are harvesting in heavy smoke from the Hughes Fire. We remind workers their employers have to provide them with respirator masks if the AQI exceeds 150. Stay safe! #WeFeedYou

submitted 31 days ago • 228 comments

When the Journal polled on immigration policy, the most popular option was creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

submitted 31 days ago • 641 comments

Efforts to downplay the severity of Jan. 6 overlook that, across more than 1,000 distinct convictions and plea deals, rioters were sentenced to a collective 1,300 years in prison (plus 1,000 in probation and 1,100 in supervised release). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 65 comments