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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 11 hours ago • 550 comments

Good words here. When Rs break with Trump on an issue like this let’s encourage it.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Trump voters wanted the rest of us to suffer to feel great again. They wanted us to experience pain. The ones crying now with "I didn't know Trump would do that" mean they didn't think it would affect THEM. But they were perfectly fine with everyone else suffering. Alas. We're all in it now.

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

This makes so much sense

submitted 2 days ago • 639 comments

70 year old Senator Tommy Tuberville can’t think of the word “triangle”

submitted 2 days ago • 579 comments

"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 980 comments

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

He should be our messenger.

submitted 2 days ago • 823 comments

Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to follow court rulings if they conclude he has overstepped legal bounds. From a new WaPo survey: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in his state of the state address: “it took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. ” Exhorts constituents to “gather your justice and your humanity.”

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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.

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

They are getting rid of all the new hires, but also all the talented people who were most recently promoted.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 4 days ago • 1335 comments

Elon said this last Tuesday:

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

On this #PresidentsDay, I joined hundreds of patriots in Annapolis as part of a nationwide effort to defend our democracy against the illegal actions of autocrats and kleptocrats like Trump and Musk. We can’t let them cut vital public services for Americans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

Musk just posted a photo on X that supposedly showed migrants with axes and knives taking over a hospital, but the photo turned out to be a screen shot from the movie Dark Knight Rises.

submitted 5 days ago • 723 comments

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 7 days ago • 2770 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 7 days ago • 6491 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS: there have been times when you controlled the House & Senate, yet Republicans still found ways to block your legislation. DO THAT TO THEM! And—since the GOP won’t hold hearings, go home to your districts & hold mock hearings yourselves. Let the people see what’s really up!

submitted 8 days ago • 416 comments

Reminder: measles can kill, especially young children. The outbreak in Samoa, that RFK Jr. helped take hold with vaccine disinformation, killed over 80, mostly young kids. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/01/30/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 7 days ago • 231 comments