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March 22, 2025

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Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.

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📢 Democracy Needs You! Volunteer from Anywhere! 📢 2 key special elections can shift power in Congress + protect our democracy. These races will help determine whether we can stop dangerous policies and ensure fair representation for all. D6: Bit.ly/flipfld6 D1: Bit.ly/flipfld1 @polrev.bsky.social

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🚨🇺🇸🚨 IMAGINE: I Time-Traveled to the Future Where America Fought Back and Won I landed in a future I barely recognized—we had defeated the oligarchy. Billionaires no longer controlled our government. The people were in charge. April 5th changed everything. 📢 The revolution has already started.

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Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that. insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...

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The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists reut.rs/4imU0gP

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We are organizing rallies at Social Security field offices around the country as part of the mass mobilization on April 5th. Join us to tell Elon Musk and Donald Trump to keep their hands off our earned benefits! HandsOffSocialSecurity.org

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A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.” 🔗: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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SCOOP: The USPS Union President has sent out an email to employees warning them of impending privatization concerns after Elon Musk moves to fire 10,000 postal workers. Read the full email here: shero.substack.com/p/privatizat...

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Very proud of this partnership between @wired.com and @freedom.press. These records belong to the public, and you should be able to read about them any time you want. Having access to this information is especially important now. Support WIRED and others. $10/year: www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

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March 17, 2025

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Security Expert Agrees Vote Tabulators Hacked open.substack.com/pub/tinfoilm...

submitted 8 days ago • 170 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..." abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...

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The Trump administration is trying to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

The tech magnate has many links to the new Trump administration and the cost-slashing effort led by Elon Musk.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

submitted 13 days ago • 100 comments

New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

Scott knows a thing or two about bankrupting Medicare. He served as CEO of Columbia/HCA Hospital which, at the time, executed the the largest health care fraud in history.

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"Will Donald Trump attempt to use the powers he is now arrogating to himself to rig the 2028 election and stay in office in defiance of the Constitution? This question answers itself; this question was answered on January 6, 2021: yes, he will." www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

Trump’s team is taking a hatchet to the First Amendment, and waging a war against the media and against universities that is starting to look remarkably similar to wars in other countries that have embraced autocratic leaders in recent years.

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NEW: Several groups representing “startup nations”—tech hubs exempt from the taxes and regulations that apply to the countries where they are located—are drafting Congressional legislation to create “freedom cities” in the US that would be similarly free from federal laws, WIRED has learned.

submitted 15 days ago • 223 comments

Ukraine: now Musk’s betrayal is feared, he could shut down Starlink and it would be a disaster

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Beware the “ketamine-fueled jester.”

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: An Arizona appellate court revives a Republican challenge to the state's election procedures manual, reversing a lower court's dismissal of the case. The lawsuit will now return to the lower court for further litigation.

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Former SSA Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social: The truth is, Social Security for 90 years has never missed a monthly payment, but given the wrecking ball and the people they are driving out of this agency, we are going to see several things happening in the very near term future.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

"Jobs were also eliminated at the National Hurricane Center and Storm Prediction Center... and the tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 470 comments

Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

submitted 18 days ago • 495 comments

"It's time to stand up and speak out."

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Federal buildings in Ashland, Bowling Green, London, Louisville and Pikeville are on the list. @jennifershutt.bsky.social shutt kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/04/r...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

submitted 20 days ago • 238 comments

March 4th For Democracy!! 🚨 Get more info, resources, or find a protest: fiftyfifty.one (check back next week for protest listings). 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social FAQs + talking points + other ways to act next. 🪡🧵

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