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Measles, plane crashes, looming missed social security payments - time for Dems to loudly point out what a functional government actually does, and why it’s needed. And incessantly hammer home the corruption of the Trumpies.

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American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022

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I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

submitted 6 days ago • 636 comments

Bluesky passed the Earthquake test

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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 6 days ago • 277 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 133 comments

Make Death Great Again www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Oh. @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social when is this happening in the District? You are doing great - but please step it up hard.

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

To understand the moment we are in as a country, this is incredibly important to take in:

submitted 43 days ago • 77 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 11 days ago • 362 comments

Elon Musk wants to know five things you did to justify your existence (as a federal employee) last week. But anyone can email him at: [email protected] You know what to do...

submitted 11 days ago • 69 comments

"In short, there is method to what seems to be madness in these first few weeks of the Trump administration. The executive orders create a coherent picture of what I’ve called a counter-constitution, an alternative constitutional reality proposed in place of a current constitution."

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Refugees in the US give money to US taxpayers. From 2005–2019, refugees paid $123.8 billion more in taxes than they received in expenditures: aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fisc... That's federal, state, and local combined. Everything. Now we have obliterated that low-cost, high-return investment—>

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

Honestly, though, if you're shocked, are you really up to this moment as a member of Congress?

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NEW: One of Trump’s most damaging strikes against U.S. climate policy is buried in an executive order that would obliterate a critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change imposes on the economy. By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

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 13 days ago • 62 comments

Where is AARP is a good question and a subset of a larger question, which is where are most of the fearsome American interest groups? A few went shares in Trump/Musk, but what are most of them doing?

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Wow. This whole thread.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Quite the pairing

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 482 comments

Gessen is indispensable right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

It’s amazing how smart people like Ezra Klein fail to see the significance of the Eric Adams case. In an operational democracy, it would indeed be a disaster for the president; in our current autocratic logic, it could very well make Trump stronger.

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Well, well, well. I would say: follow the money. Fewer judges in an already overwhelmed immigration system means longer detentions means more money for private immigration detention contractors

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It was called Gulf of Mexico for a reason. Mexico En 1794. #HistoryMatters

submitted 18 days ago • 379 comments

Today’s fuckery; Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Country is descending into ever lower levels of hell, there is another snow storm coming, but these little guys intrepidly show up. Noted.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

can the entire world government be cool for like 5 minutes i'm kind of going through a lot rn

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

What Donald Trump is allowing Elon Musk and his DOGE team to do is not an audit. It is a coup. This an incredibly dangerous moment—and it is all the more dangerous if people don’t understand what is happening. https://youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE

submitted 23 days ago • 58 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 23 days ago • 488 comments

Sports BlueSky has struggled in general but Super Bowl BlueSky had the juice

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Sam L Jackson Serena Crip walking Kendrick doing Kendrick An American flag made entirely of Black folks A Black AF halftime show during Black History Month. I can dig it. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 #SuperBowlLIX

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

a reminder that those religious orgs who can afford super bowl ads have ties to the very people/groups perpetrating the very transgressions the ad is targeting

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Love how the Super Bowl commercials make it like we live in a country where people are nice and respectful to eachother.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 80 comments

But of course

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shibas against doge

submitted 27 days ago • 61 comments

The Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and hold the White House and they could pass basically whatever agenda they would care to enact, but they have instead decided on a unique strategy of letting someone unelected do crimes all over the federal government.

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 30 days ago • 424 comments

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

submitted 30 days ago • 54 comments