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The violation of Fourth (privacy) and First (free speech/association) and Fourteenth Amendment (due process/equal protection) rights is beyond comprehension. A catastrophe for our country and for freedom and liberty.

submitted 71 days ago • 47 comments

Who needs accurate health information? Not the US government.

submitted 71 days ago • 266 comments

Trump handed massive tax cuts to the rich in 2017. Now he's planning even more cuts. How are Trump and MAGA Republicans planning to pay for them? By making it harder for millions of Americans to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs. Trickle up economics.

submitted 129 days ago • 154 comments

🚨 Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is just over a month away, and Musk will spend over half a million dollars to support a MAGA extremist who wants to enforce a 175-year-old abortion ban. We can't match Musk's money but we have the power of the people. 🧵

submitted 129 days ago • 29 comments

In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On his second day as secretary of the DHHS, he ended HHS funding for health and climate change.

submitted 129 days ago • 137 comments

The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.

submitted 129 days ago • 92 comments

submitted 129 days ago • 50 comments

Peace talks where the fate of a nation is decided by other nations rarely end well. @uk.theconversation.com #Ukraine

submitted 129 days ago • 7 comments

Trump announces 25% tariffs on auto imports, potentially increasing vehicle costs by thousands

submitted 129 days ago • 28 comments

The White House’s circulation of the phrase "long live the king" — and the accompanying imagery of Trump wearing a crown — stirred a flurry of immediate backlash.

submitted 129 days ago • 67 comments

Spoken like a true dictator.

submitted 133 days ago • 1238 comments

On January 19, President Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof. He claimed that violent crime is especially bad in American cities. Trump has used the purported crime wave to justify his crackdown on undocumented immigrants. But there’s a problem with Trump’s claim: it is not true.

submitted 151 days ago • 20 comments

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s City of Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling last June allowing localities to ban outdoor camping even if there is no homeless shelter space available, roughly 150 cities in 32 states have passed or strengthened such ordinances

submitted 151 days ago • 7 comments

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 151 days ago • 67 comments

Axios [Jan 28] -- Trump Exec Order ends all fed funding of affirming care for teens under 19 incl. Medicare & Medicaid. Also calls for ending funding for medical schools or hospitals that research GAC, which could end domestic study of pediatric care. [posted by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social]

submitted 151 days ago • 13 comments

Trump’s vengeance machine is even more dangerous than it was before. He's effectively the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work. Some thoughts.

submitted 155 days ago • 128 comments

US Senate narrowly votes to confirm Pete Hegseth as Trump's secretary of defense, despite concerns about his past conduct and lack of high-level experience.

submitted 155 days ago • 99 comments

Whittington: Trump’s expressed willingness to use force to erase the borders of sovereign countries signals an end to the fundamental principle of international order.

submitted 163 days ago • 12 comments

In April 2024, Trump asked Big Oil execs for a $1 billion donation in exchange for deregulation and tax cuts. Who helped broker Trump's dealings with Big Oil? Doug Burgum — who testified today before the Senate to be Trump's secretary of the interior. See how this works?

submitted 163 days ago • 75 comments

Chris Wright may think Climate Change is real. But that doesn't stop him from calling wildfires "just hype." Watch Senator Alex Padilla grill him about his statements yesterday during his confirmation hearing.

submitted 163 days ago • 13 comments

Democrats worry the Trump administration will roll back efforts to limit climate change.

submitted 163 days ago • 120 comments

Mike Johnson is threatening to condition California wildfire aid to raising the debt ceiling, which would pave the way for another round of deficit-spiking tax cuts for the wealthy. Playing politics with people's lives to make your donors richer is reprehensible.

submitted 164 days ago • 425 comments

President Biden had once hoped to be giving a second inaugural address. Instead, he'll be saying farewell to public life, and trying to frame his legacy one last time.

submitted 164 days ago • 83 comments

The president-elect had expressed concern that Democrats seemed happy to see the flag lowered during the inauguration ceremony despite the tradition of lowering flags after a president's death.

submitted 164 days ago • 360 comments

The attempt to bury Jack Smith’s report is part of a broader effort by Trump. “He wants to erase his election loss and what really happened on January 6.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

AG nom Pam Bondi... -Didn't investigate Trump University for fraud as Florida AG after receiving a $25k donation from a Trump nonprofit -Served as lobbyist for massive corporations -Was part of Trump's impeachment defense team She's a walking, talking conflict of interest.

submitted 164 days ago • 188 comments

Trump's billionaire Cabinet picks have huge sums of money tangled up in the industries they're tasked with overseeing. Can we really trust that they will act in the public interest?

submitted 164 days ago • 30 comments

For Hegseth, it was his refusal to answer key questions related to those accusations—whether domestic abuse is a disqualifying factor for the job or if he’d resign if he reneged on a drinking pledge— that proved equally damning.

submitted 165 days ago • 43 comments

“This court ruling turns longstanding legal precedent on its head in a direct, disproportionate attack on trans students.” The judge removed protections and support for queer and trans students, sexual assault survivors, and pregnant students.

submitted 165 days ago • 33 comments

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 165 days ago • 141 comments

The three richest men in the world are all genuflecting before Trump. All to curry favor so they can maintain their control over our political and economic systems — and to avoid accountability for their abuses of power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 166 days ago • 197 comments

“If you take away those federal funds, you’re taking away qualified teachers…it would be a domino effect.”

submitted 166 days ago • 17 comments

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board has endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

submitted 166 days ago • 399 comments