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Good. Stand your ground, Dems.

submitted 13 hours ago • 333 comments

INSANE: Trump's admin, including the FBI, has ordered a bank, an authorized agent of the USG to handle financial transactions, not to disburse funds appropriated legally by the USG, because the Trump regime has launched a phony criminal fraud probe into a greenhouse gas reduction program

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Check out the career trajectory from Jeff Sessions aide to OPM fashion grifter influencer www.legistorm.com/person/bio/2...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Privatization you say? And it's not just Social Security. It's the VA, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, schools, the police, prisons, NASA, scientific research... They want to privatize everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 474 comments

Republicans just snuck a provision surrendering power to revoke Trump's tariffs into a procedural vote. All Dems opposed. Every Republican who voted for this will own the economic consequences of expanding Trump's tariff powers. Statement with @repdelbene.bsky.social: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

"Don't worry, folks, the president will illegally take care of everything."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Second dumbest thing this morning: Trump bashing the CHiPs Act solely because it happened under Biden. CHIPS has wide bipartisan support and is designed to do what Trump thinks tariffs on China will. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that rhe actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of Trump, should have his gun rights restored. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

The Trump admin has suspended a federal program that provided free at-home COVID testing.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Wow this guy totally gets it

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

This Trump proclamation was demonstrably false when he shrieked it but was a good prognosis of what he managed to do in just the first seven weeks of his insane second term as president:

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

submitted 2 days ago • 1375 comments

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

submitted 2 days ago • 454 comments

no paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

90-minute holds are expected. 😲 #SpaceX #Starship #aviation

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I just looked out the window of our cruise ship cabin and saw the remains of the SpaceX Starship exploding!

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Marshals Escort DOGE Team Into African Aid Agency (New York Times) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Keep a list. 19 Democrats including, Chuck Schumer, backed MAGA Republicans in making corruption, tax evasion and fraud easier. They voted to repeal the rule requiring cryptocurrency bros to adhere to the same tax reporting rules as stock brokers. #3E #EndOligarchy

submitted 6 days ago • 523 comments

70 year old congressman Sylvester Turner died in office last night. He was elected in November to replace Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who also died in office at age 74.

submitted 7 days ago • 158 comments

I know because I’m old enough to have been there when they adopted it.

submitted 7 days ago • 210 comments

“Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites.” Trump’s timber order is based on nothing but lies, greed, hatred, and monumental ignorance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just weakened the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.

submitted 8 days ago • 183 comments

Musk has been no more successful at finding fraud than Pam Bondi was at revealing new Epstein details. But his effort at riding the enthusiasm of the base has advantages hers lacked. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

This is just a game for Elon, but the consequences for families in Oregon and across the country are real and dire. His purge of the federal government is going to make life harder and more expensive for all of us.

submitted 9 days ago • 255 comments

BREAKING: The U.S. Treasury Department has said it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners, per Reuters

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

Incredible chart

submitted 10 days ago • 80 comments

Trump and Musk are messing with Social Security by demanding 15% cuts to staff. “We are already short-staffed as it is. Right now we are working on applications generally from 2023-ish.” These Trump and Musk Social Security cuts could mean that "easily the wait times will be extended by one year."

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 10 days ago • 1996 comments

This is insane. They are going to destroy the entire planet.

submitted 11 days ago • 487 comments

Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One. Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

submitted 12 days ago • 413 comments

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 12 days ago • 1656 comments

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

Russia, Russia, Russia.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

submitted 12 days ago • 1161 comments

isn't this illegal under the APA

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

in fairness, the white house was explicit about its interest in allowing access to more trump-friendly outlets

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

"We have an administration that doesn't believe in science," @vinguptamd.bsky.social tells @katiephang.bsky.social in the wake of RFK Jr. pausing the development of a new Covid vaccine. "It's like Jurassic Park, 'nature finds a way.' ...It feels like a ticking time bomb."

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

We are in trouble.

submitted 14 days ago • 304 comments

Cool cool cool.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Not cool. Terrified...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"The teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an Ebola outbreak have been dismantled..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 79 comments

He needs time to shred the parts where Trump and his friends are mentioned so he can quietly leak the rest to Fox News.

submitted 14 days ago • 110 comments

BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts grants stay, pausing district court order for USAID to pay about $2B in foreign-aid bills by midnight.

submitted 14 days ago • 331 comments

This is going to kill so many people for no reason.

submitted 14 days ago • 64 comments

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 15 days ago • 253 comments

Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB? (Alexander J. Motyl/The Hill) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

NEW—Despite pressure, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not relent on forcing steep Medicaid cuts. Medicaid pay for over 40% of all births in the US, and over 60% of all seniors in nursing homes. All to pay for multi-trillion $ tax cuts for billionaires. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments