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I wish we could have snap elections, and that our general elections were limited to 51 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

"deal" is a magic word, part of the Trumpian spell, but vacuous. Challenge to reporters: write the news, especially regarding Ukraine, without using it.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

JUST NOW: Leader Jeffries, Senator Coons, and Senator Booker sat on the Capitol steps, watched the sunrise, and talked about the budget fight. This is what we need—bringing people in and speaking plain truth. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @coons.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 472 comments

Probably just scratching the surface of the cost for having Elon Musk rampage thru our Government Institutions. Lost IRS revenue, cost of court procedures, devastation for throwing away employees, incalculable cost of expertise and soft power.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Ed Martin’s appearances on Russian state television should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 12 days ago • 242 comments

Yes!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

so true!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Representative Stansbury, Thank you!! #USDemocracy

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

It’s now or never. GOP is ramming thru a $7 trillion tax break for billionaires—while slashing Medicaid, food stamps, & veterans’ health care. Hakeem Jeffries is calling for a 1-on-1 debate to expose the truth. It’s up to you to spread the word. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

If anybody should get a third term, it should be THIS guy.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 22 days ago • 154 comments

They should have listened to Kamala!

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

Brilliant!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

submitted 24 days ago • 620 comments

Lordy

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Yes!!! Please!!! When I heard someone announce that it was day 75 of the Trump administration. I immediately thought oh no @maddow.msnbc.com please don't leave us!!!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Great Read! Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Teachers get capped at $300 for tax write-offs. Elon gets $11 Billion. #TaxTheRich

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should never rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...

submitted 30 days ago • 137 comments

Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.

submitted 31 days ago • 386 comments

NEW — The guy who for years said he would be too busy working to play golf is back at his West Palm course. Playing golf. Of the 10 weekends since Jan 20, he has been on one of his courses for nine of them. Updated cost to taxpayers: $26 million. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

The Atlantic has released the Signal messages. My company's client data includes financial info and personal information. They're VERY strict about protecting that data, and train all new employees on security. If I made the mistake Hegseth made, I would be fired. #FireHegseth #FireWaltz

submitted 34 days ago • 43 comments

The Trump administration is persuading former close allies to regard the US as a dangerously hostile power ... and is assuring former adversaries that the US is run by easily deceived and manipulated patsies, fools, and stooges.

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

submitted 33 days ago • 839 comments

Because of the pay gap, women have lost out on more than $60 trillion in wages since 1967. Yes, trillion. On an hourly basis, women were paid 18.0% less on average than men in 2024. We must ensure fair wages for all.

submitted 35 days ago • 382 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 34 days ago • 1066 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 42 days ago • 2677 comments

The numbers don't lie

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 43 days ago • 645 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 43 days ago • 1857 comments

New data from the US Treasury reveals that federal spending was $603 billion in February, which is $36 billion HIGHER than February last year under Biden. This suggests that DOGE has done nothing to cut spending.

submitted 47 days ago • 263 comments

Great message!!! Dem leaders please listen!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

No CR until military aid and Intelligence sharing re returned to Ukraine!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Some Democratic member of Congress should propose a bill saying that a POTUS may golf at government expense no more than, say, once every 14 days, and must reimburse the Treasury for anything beyond that.

submitted 51 days ago • 609 comments