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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4198 comments

Donald Trump is a weak coward, who has never done anything difficult in his life, thinks all caps tweeting is tough, and threatens Allies because hes too scared of Iran/Russia/China And he wears MAKEUP CONSTANTLY. LOL

submitted 4 hours ago • 398 comments

My vote is an unequivocal no. This bill lacks decency and good old fashioned common sense. Read a book or a Bible and you’ll know how this turns out.

submitted 10 hours ago • 134 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 13 hours ago • 3043 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 1 day ago • 5269 comments

Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.” Oh. The. Irony.

submitted 1 day ago • 724 comments

The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer. Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.

submitted 1 day ago • 589 comments

Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These funds should be protected so we can protect each other. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

you’re telling me that yet another one of these guys is a degenerate sex criminal? i’m shocked

submitted 2 days ago • 434 comments

This is all to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

I am in shock at the stupidity of @gavinnewsom.bsky.social inviting Steve Bannon on his podcast. Many of us on the right sacrificed careers to fight Bannon, and Newsom is trying to make a career and a presidential run by building him up. Unforgivable and insane

submitted 2 days ago • 1653 comments

It’s why there’s such an appetite for independent news. You’re real with people about what’s happening in plain sight and to them it feels like you’ve uncovered these massive hidden truths. It’s honestly scary.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 304 comments

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

submitted 4 days ago • 1403 comments

Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”

submitted 4 days ago • 452 comments

A leaked memo reveals that DOGE's next target is the VA, with plans to fire more than 80,000 agency workers who provide critical services to veterans and their families. More than 25% of agency staff are veterans themselves. How is this "efficiency"?

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

TSLA is down 13% so far today, in case you were wondering whether it was a good idea to put its owner in charge of the US government.

submitted 4 days ago • 236 comments

Bernie is running. And I think that’s cool.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Got any plans for next Friday? Cancel them and do this instead, we need you. ❤️🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

submitted 8 days ago • 10816 comments

The U.S. Capitol Police said the chief of staff to Speaker Mike Johnson was arrested for drunken driving on Tuesday night after the top aide backed his car into a parked Capitol Police vehicle.

submitted 9 days ago • 212 comments

Protect your peace.

submitted 10 days ago • 1341 comments

"A little disturbance but we're okay with that."

submitted 10 days ago • 195 comments

Where are the former presidents? Why aren’t they speaking against Trump? It’s not like Trump followed the norms when Biden was in office.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

No. Now is not the time to play dead. The Democrats have already played dead for too many years. 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Millions of seniors are going hungry. Now is the time to stand up for the working class of this country.

submitted 11 days ago • 349 comments

MORE DOGE DELETIONS... Elon Musk's error-plagued effort has deleted about $4B more of the savings it claimed on its "wall of receipts." The total amount it claims to have saved has shrunk from $16 billion to $9 billion. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

submitted 13 days ago • 413 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 13 days ago • 676 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 12 days ago • 3510 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 13 days ago • 6049 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 14 days ago • 301 comments

I was surprised to see a pundit suggest Democrats take a “tactical pause” from fighting Trump and his cronies. It’s unacceptable to sit back and let Republicans harm us. I wrote more on what I think we should be doing to fight back: katieporteroc.substack.com/p/this-shoul...

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Lol

submitted 14 days ago • 372 comments

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

submitted 14 days ago • 881 comments

Five former defense secretaries condemned President Trump’s firing last week of senior military leaders as "reckless" and urged Congress not to confirm their successors.

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

submitted 15 days ago • 1942 comments

Donald Trump SPOTTED in Jeffrey Epstein's personal address book. Full list of contacts here (this was already released in 2015 FYI): www.documentcloud.org/documents/15...

submitted 15 days ago • 302 comments

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

submitted 15 days ago • 1493 comments

Bankrupt? Republicans just advanced a budget that will add $4 trillion to the debt! They’re not preventing bankruptcy, they’re expediting it.

submitted 16 days ago • 326 comments

the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

submitted 16 days ago • 277 comments

Breaking news: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. granted the Trump administration’s late Wednesday request to pause a lower court’s midnight deadline for the government to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments suspended for weeks.

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

🚨 Trump & Musk’s budget plan: Slash education, food aid & healthcare—while handing the rich a $4.5T tax cut. Kids, the poor, even military families will pay the price. 🙃 adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-grinch...

submitted 16 days ago • 311 comments

An unvaccinated child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. measles death since 2015. The outbreak of the once-eradicated virus has reached 124 cases across nine Texas counties, largely affecting the low-vaccination Mennonite community. ground.news/article/firs...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Another day, another plane incident NEW: An American Airlines flight from Boston aborted its landing at Reagan National Airport on Tuesday morning to avoid a plane taking off on the same runway, the FAA said in a statement

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