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At a time when our allies and adversaries are questioning America's leadership on the global stage, we cannot afford to confirm a Director of National Intelligence who lacks the judgment, qualifications, and credibility to lead.

submitted 19 days ago • 322 comments

Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation vote is in the morning. No ally would be dumb enough to trust us with important intel with Gabbard at the helm. Gabbard doesn’t have the experience to be an intern there, let alone the lead role. Join me in telling your Senator one more time to vote no:

submitted 19 days ago • 101 comments

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

submitted 19 days ago • 1351 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 19 days ago • 914 comments

We have tens of thousands of new listeners because bluesky isn’t a Nazi propaganda site and we can share third party links without being throttled! YAY! Thank you all so much 🙏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 86 comments

Rep. Jamie Raskin to workers at the CFPB: "If you were saving billions of dollars right now for the plutocrats, and the autocrats, and the theocrats, the dictators, and the bullies, and the rip-off artists, they'd be putting you on the board of the Kennedy Center tonight." Spot on! 🔥

submitted 21 days ago • 168 comments

BREAKING NEWS: It is much worse than previously reported: Not only were at least 30 federal attorneys who worked on January 6 cases fired, but all six of the FBI's most senior executives and multiple heads of field offices have been escorted out. This is terrifying.

submitted 30 days ago • 663 comments

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 2169 comments

The control tower was understaffed due to Trump’s slashing budget cuts. These deaths are just the beginning of the thousands that will die due to Trump‘s cruelty and incompetence.

submitted 31 days ago • 126 comments

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submitted 35 days ago • 95 comments

Starting an avoidable trade war is not strength. It’s weakness. Strength would be able to fix this without pouting and throwing a fit. Trump is still a child, a weak, scared, whiney, child

submitted 35 days ago • 714 comments

Donald Trump has promised retribution. When you hear that a Trump foe is under investigation, be skeptical. When you read about anonymous leaks against pro-democracy leaders, consider that it may be part of an effort to discredit their work. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 35 days ago • 108 comments

Just hours after Trump’s allies cheered when he imposed 25% tariffs on Colombian goods, Colombia responded by imposing reciprocal 25% tariffs on goods imported from the US. In addition, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said the time of being a close US trade ally is over. What a fiasco for Trump!

submitted 35 days ago • 277 comments

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity Trump: Trade war! Colombia: OK Trump: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights Colombia: Good. Was that so hard? Trump: They gave in!

submitted 35 days ago • 148 comments

The U.S. Air Force will resume teaching about the nation's first Black pilots and the women pilots of World War II. This followed widespread public outcry over their earlier decision to stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPs.

submitted 35 days ago • 481 comments

Funny, that.

submitted 35 days ago • 289 comments

Every inspector general who Trump unlawfully fired must remain in their positions until the courts order them to leave. Trump is both appointing unqualified flunkies and trying to eliminate any form of accountability. Senate Republicans can stop him by rejecting Kash Patel.

submitted 35 days ago • 140 comments

This is where Republicans are heading.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin. He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

submitted 35 days ago • 84 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 35 days ago • 1092 comments

Trump firing these inspector generals without notifying Congress is an impeachable offense.

submitted 35 days ago • 703 comments

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

submitted 35 days ago • 684 comments

Is it just me or is it obvious to everyone paying attention that our Legislative branch needs a permanent and organized fact-finding infrastructure with the ability to pierce and observe the Executive branch? This purge of IG makes that abundantly clear.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

One of the first moves for dictators' seizing power is control of information. With media controlled and independent watchdogs subsumed, control of information allows thought-control of the masses. We're in trouble folks and most Americans haven't a clue. Waking them just got much harder.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Friday Night Massacre: Trump fires 12 inspectors general, including State, Veterans Affairs, HUD, Interior, Energy, Transportation, and Dept of Defense. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 37 days ago • 776 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 902 comments

50 Billion in meme coin money is not from small donors or big ones either. 50 Billion is larger than the GDP of 90 countries. IMHO the only explanation: the world's most ruthless dictators, just paid the felon to look the other way. That's what just happened. In broad daylight. #emoluments

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

ICE attempted to enter a South Side elementary school this morning and were denied entry, Chicago Public Schools officials claim abc7chicago.com/amp/post/us-...

submitted 38 days ago • 183 comments

Don't know the original source but so very accurate.

submitted 38 days ago • 124 comments

The principal said they followed protocols, and did not allow the agents inside. All students and staff are safe, officials said. Chicago — ICE agents show up to elementary school 👇🏼

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

He is violating it with distaster funds, with infrastructure law funds, and with foreign aid. It's unconstitutional since it would allow the Execuyuvr to subsume the entirety of congressional funding purse strings. It's a naked power grab.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Just know that the utterly horrific or unconstitutional thing Trump is doing right now is just meant to distract you from the 15 other utterly horrific or unconstitutional things Trump is doing right now.

submitted 38 days ago • 34 comments

Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified nominee for Secretary of Defense in modern history. He should be rejected by the Senate.

submitted 38 days ago • 2284 comments

This is the pattern, over and over, a mobster demanding tribute: "wouldn't it be awful if your place burned, for a small fee I can make sure it doesn't happen". With wildfires, with tariffs, with impoundment - all the same mobster schtick.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I’m hearing from constituents whose jobs are at risk because they do agency outreach to minority communities. Consider what this means for public health, national security, agriculture and justice. The war on DEI has become a war on public service and government for all.

submitted 39 days ago • 1188 comments

Maybe its a good time for a little Executive Order (EO) primer, a few wee tools for sorting wheat from chaff so it seems like less of a deluge. Item 1. EOs have to comply with the Constitution & laws, including acts of Congress. Any that don't will face long court battles before anything changes. /1

submitted 42 days ago • 35 comments

President Biden makes his official announcement to the nation and world on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. FINALLY! Thank you President Biden! 🙏

submitted 47 days ago • 539 comments

My heart is full because people are listening to the audio version of Vol I of Jack Smith’s final report. The truth matters!

submitted 47 days ago • 269 comments

The Judge & DANY prosecutors in court today are American heroes. They've put themselves squarely in the sights of a very powerful man. Their sacrifice & willingness to stand up for the rule of law is something we should all honor. It's a true act of courage. They refuse to obey in advance.

submitted 52 days ago • 275 comments

I’m worried that the exodus from Meta and Twitter is what they want. To isolate us from each other. Isolation is a big part of autocracy. It makes people easier to lie to and abuse. I don’t have a global answer, but I am working on building a social media space for our podcast listeners.

submitted 52 days ago • 2005 comments

BREAKING: Heads exploding all over MAGA world as President Biden bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Hillary Rodham Clinton! 🥇 BRAVO! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

submitted 58 days ago • 778 comments

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submitted 58 days ago • 195 comments

This is highly disconcerting. WaPo editors killed an editorial cartoon that mocked Bezos and other tech oligarchs. Will the Post respond to this? Democracy dies with accommodation. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 58 days ago • 383 comments

Simple, direct, accurate framing that informs the public. NYT is incapable of this apparently.

submitted 69 days ago • 88 comments

Sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor, statutory rape, cocaine/ecstasy use, bribery, abuse of his office, obstruction of justice Federal prosecutors knew ALL this about Matt Gaetz And yet they didn’t charge him with anything — they let him walk

submitted 69 days ago • 137 comments

NEW: AUDIO GAETZ REPORT. I have recorded a two part, public audio version of the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz. It’s free wherever you get your podcasts. Here is Part One. the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

submitted 69 days ago • 69 comments

Matt Gaetz “was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office”

submitted 70 days ago • 166 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 70 days ago • 518 comments