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After an initial review of Trump’s new Executive Order on elections, I have a few major takeaways👇:

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 5 days ago • 431 comments

If a Democratic president presided over an 8% market drop in his first 75 days in office the entire front page of every major newspaper would be full of stories about how bad Democrats are for the economy

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

It's clear Chuck Schumer is not cut out to lead the senate Democrats. There needs to be a vote of no confidence and he needs to be replaced with someone willing to fight. Trump and Elon are dismantling democracy while Schumer whines and capitulates.

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

The GOP spending bill that Schumer is supporting will devastate DC. This is a choice he made.

submitted 12 days ago • 55 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 12 days ago • 3680 comments

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 12 days ago • 831 comments

Huge high five to everyone who called your senators about this.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

What Elon claims DOGE saved taxpayers: $105 billion The funding DOGE has actually cancelled: $8.6 billion How much money Elon Musk would pay in taxes under the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act: $9.3 billion Elon isn’t saving taxpayers anything.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 155 comments

"Don’t wait for Instructions. Make ripples now... digital activism matters little compared to real-world protests, boycotts, and strikes." -- @brianklaas.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

One thing I see a lot - people tend to conflate “the GOP blocked this thing” with “this thing wasn’t actually popular with Dems outside the progressive left”. A lot of stuff the GOP “blocked” under Obama is stuff that either a) we removed their ability to stop, or b) things we didn’t do on our own.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

submitted 19 days ago • 73 comments

This week, the Washington Post backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group said it signed a $115,000 agreement.

submitted 37 days ago • 29 comments

This is the guy people thought should have done the halftime show over Kendrick Lamar?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

“Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” 🫣 www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 39 days ago • 212 comments

screenshot so as not to pick on this guy but it is amazing the extent to which people have constructed a myth of McConnell procedural obstructionism that never existed

submitted 39 days ago • 20 comments

CNN: Do you think that calling Elon Musk "a dick" is effective messaging? Rep. Robert Garcia: "Well, he is a dick." I approve this message. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 41 days ago • 550 comments

Here's Looking At You, Kids Captain Elon's teen-aged incels aren't the usual suspects, but out of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, they walked into the Treasury Building. Is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship? Only if Don plays it again in 2028. by Maureen Dowd

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

“Perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

Fire Elon Musk. Use every legislative, judicial, and public pressure tactic at our disposal until we get it done.

submitted 50 days ago • 607 comments

Mexicans won’t be the only ones paying for these tariffs, Americans will too. These tariffs will hurt local border economies like San Diego, hurt U.S. manufacturers, and drive up costs and inflation for consumers – all WITHOUT addressing the fentanyl crisis.

submitted 52 days ago • 18 comments

"finding common ground" with kleptocrats and fascists is like trying to forge a deep emotional bond with a running chainsaw

submitted 52 days ago • 33 comments

in a nod to his most devout supporters, donald trump signs executive order making it a felony for mom to take away the xbox after you call her a bitch

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

submitted 54 days ago • 291 comments

Trump shut off Medicaid & was forced to turn it back on. But he'll keep pushing his order to shut off federal programs. He wants to take meals from seniors, pre-K from kids, & jobs from veterans. All so he can give billionaires a tax break. We must unite to stop Trump.

submitted 56 days ago • 67 comments

Trump doesn’t have the law on his side. What he has is power. Historically speaking, when the “rule of law” comes up against raw power and a dictator willing to use it, the rule of law always loses.

submitted 56 days ago • 73 comments

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

submitted 56 days ago • 253 comments

sam’s thread helps clarify something for me, which is the underlying theory behind trump’s action. trump does not see himself as a president in a system of shared authority, he sees himself as sovereign, with unchecked authority over everything.

submitted 56 days ago • 165 comments

If you want to fix all of this, go protest outside a Republican Rep or Senators office. As long as half the government is firmly on board with the idea that Trump can do whatever he wants, then he can. Go find your nearest Republican and ask them if they think the President is a King.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

“The thing is what it does” is quote I want to remember.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 63 days ago • 945 comments

Hoooooooly shit. Whoever got the shot of LaPorta pulling in that catch is going to be a fucking legend. #OnePride

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment