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Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 1 day ago • 929 comments

So who decides now if someone is a gang member or if someone has a valid asylum claim under the law? Tom Homan? A random ICE agent? A local Sheriff’s deputy? A neighbor? An informant? So they just say a person is in a gang and they get disappeared to a prison in El Salvador?

submitted 1 day ago • 1006 comments

Just one example of how breaking the government can be the opposite of efficiency: Trump’s push to layoff half of the IRS workforce would cost the govt $350B over 10 years, as the revenue lost from unpaid taxes is about 9x the amount saved from layoffs. cc: @budgetlab.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

I commend my Senate colleagues @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov for refusing to cede power to #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk, and I stand with Democratic House Leaders in urging Senate Democrats to oppose this disastrous GOP CR and instead work toward a bipartisan solution.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 4 days ago • 2375 comments

Jon Ossoff just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 187 comments

If Chuck Schumer votes for cloture tomorrow, it’s proof that he’s weak and is a clear sign that we need new Democratic leadership. Polling shows that only 22% of independents would blame Democrats for a shutdown, while 56% would blame the GOP or Trump. Americans want Democrats to FIGHT, not CAVE!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 272 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 6 days ago • 661 comments

This. Should. Not. Be. Legal.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 6 days ago • 2729 comments

I was only able to leave voicemails for my two California senators which I’m hoping is because everyone is calling. Keep calling keep putting pressure on your Dem Senators!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It’s totally unacceptable, Elon Musk is giving Trump political operation ANOTHER $100 million as he giggles with a chain saw and cuts staff, veterans, and needed services. This is NOT what our founding fathers envisioned, an oligarchy in all but name.

submitted 7 days ago • 532 comments

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

submitted 7 days ago • 173 comments

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

submitted 7 days ago • 174 comments

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

#Resist

submitted 8 days ago • 255 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 11 days ago • 249 comments

This is a Facebook post by Missouri State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia). Rep. Mark Alford is one of the members of Congress who got rocked at a townhall in late February. So now they're not just refusing to hold townhalls. They're apparently demanding people keep their office number a secret.

submitted 11 days ago • 177 comments

The goal seems to be to get rid of librarians altogether. This is absolute madness.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Free law review title: "Thank You, I Won't Forget: The Roberts Court and Democracy"

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

submitted 16 days ago • 565 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 17 days ago • 6045 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Every abuser, ever.

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

submitted 19 days ago • 1182 comments

I don't think I've ever seen a man who hates America more than the current president.

submitted 19 days ago • 453 comments

That’s Tammy Baldwin — not me. You can keep track of all the hundreds of white men but it’s the 28 women in the Senate that trips you up, Fox News?

submitted 21 days ago • 216 comments

@rbreich.bsky.social: “For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.”

submitted 21 days ago • 324 comments

yes. love it. do this.

submitted 23 days ago • 55 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 24 days ago • 2227 comments

Los Angeles peeps—spread the word about ICE. We won’t know for sure until it happens, but better safe than sorry. Be prepared.

submitted 28 days ago • 223 comments

You know, the rest of the White House Press Corps could collectively decide to not attend briefings, pressers, or pools until their AP colleagues are reinstated with access, but that would take a modicum of courage and integrity in this moment, wouldn't it?

submitted 32 days ago • 95 comments

I find it bizarre that we managed to go through 44 Presidents in over 200 years without hearing the term "quid pro quo" related to them, and now we've had it at least twice with the same crooked fucking asshole. So tired of this shit.

submitted 32 days ago • 277 comments

So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering

submitted 41 days ago • 2237 comments

I loved @aoc.bsky.social's Instagram Live. She mentioned at the start about turning it into a handbook, so I did, using as much verbatim material as I could. Here's the UNOFFICIAL, unsanctioned PDF, no info to give, no forms to fill. Please share. www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

But her emails…

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Alex Padilla, I hope you’re ready for this in DTLA. Go tell these people that we didn’t send our money to Washington to be robbed of our rights by Project 2025.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

submitted 47 days ago • 313 comments

Such an important point… “The country has been hardened by a nine-year deliberate campaign of dehumanization.” — @NicolleDWallace We didn’t get here overnight. This wasn’t a quick process.

submitted 47 days ago • 676 comments

ICE detained a family—including a toddler—after they were overheard speaking Spanish. They’re US citizens from Puerto Rico. No chance to explain. The mother, grandmother, and child were shopping when ICE agents took them into detention before admitting their “mistake.” This is Trump’s America.

submitted 47 days ago • 488 comments

If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at [email protected]. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.

submitted 49 days ago • 179 comments

Bob is a Democrat, as am I. Bob committed a crime. Bob got 11 years. And as a fellow Democrat, I am HAPPY he got convicted and got eleven years. See how this works,? www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-me...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

"I was a heroin addict for 14 years," RFK Jr just now in his bid to be confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Imagine a person of color or a woman saying that and people shrugging it off as cool. That is 100% pure uncut white male privilege right there.

submitted 48 days ago • 556 comments