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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 840 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1019 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 18 hours ago • 879 comments

"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup." there, i did it for you. just repeat that.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

This is competitive authoritarianism is action.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

This is an “initial” purge. Reports suggest this could expand to “tens of thousands” over the coming weeks. Shock and awe now hitting the Pentagon

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2550 comments

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

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“A threat anywhere impacts all states. It’s important that information is not confined to state lines.” Derek Tisler talked with Stateline about the federal government’s important role in protecting election security and the risks of gutting agencies that help in that work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: Idaho is trying to become the first state in the country to exclude women who have abortions from its expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage. The Biden admin rejected their proposal. The Trump admin announced today that it will reconsider it. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Bad messaging: We need to educate our constituents so they know we don't have any power. Good messaging: We will do everything possible to protect our constituents and democracy, we hear their concerns, and we're going to tell them daily how they can help us oppose autocracy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

This is what I mean by news outlets willingly letting themselves get language-policed by the far right. You used to be able to just call this a "Nazi salute." Now it's "a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month."

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bannon was not “mimicking elon musk”, he was “being a nazi”. hope that helps.

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

This is everything in everyones worst nightmares.

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Meanwhile, “Russia believes it is in conflict with what it calls ‘the collective West,’ and is acting accordingly, up to and including threatening us with nuclear attack and building up its military” from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 683 comments

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create.”

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 1 day ago • 1242 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

submitted 28 days ago • 100 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 274 comments

The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

The government cannot stop you from informing others about their legal rights. Know your rights when educating your community.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

‘“Since 2020, Starbuck’s [sic] workface [sic] has become more female and less white.” Bailey’s typo-ridden complaint assumes that a more diverse workplace is a bad thing, but perhaps a “more female and less white” staff would have proofread his filing.’

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 3 days ago • 747 comments

Every day, multiple things that make Watergate look like a harmless middle school prank. Total failure of Article I and the current leaders of Congress who swore oaths to country & Constitution.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

Trump’s first weeks in office have been marked by disregard for the rule of law. Join Brennan Center experts as they discuss what should happen next on Monday, Feb. 24, at 3pm ET. RSVP:

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Someone show Homan my viral piece educating my fellow immigrants of their rights against ICE: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas... Let him try to prosecute me, a literal human rights lawyer, for upholding due process of law & rights afforded to ALL PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY under our US Constitution.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Every day there is a new Watergate-level scandal and nothing happens.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Kind of wishing I had paid more attention to the early-70s government database privacy debates that were adjacent to other stuff I was reading. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: Zelensky accuses Trump of living in a "disinformation space," a day after the US president falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia

submitted 3 days ago • 293 comments

Here's one more action, bc I realized that Chair of the House Ag Committee's district (appropriately) includes State College. If you're at Penn State, plan a trip to one of his offices to ask him he's not holding a hearing on USDA firing people in charge of bird flu. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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FORMER FCC CHAIR WHEELER: “.. The fact that they're saying that because you have a corporate philosophy of inclusion, I will launch an investigation .. maybe that was my breaking point.” @status.news www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments