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So every Social Security recipient now has to worry about their benefits and their personal information. Americans are being terrorized by Trump and his gang.

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“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” she said.

submitted 7 hours ago • 197 comments

Challenge for MAGA: go one month without someone doing a Nazi salute at a rally or conference.

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5 so far.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 19 hours ago • 48 comments

There are 72 Republican veterans currently serving in Congress. Maybe a couple of them could weigh in on this.

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After Raskin issued a harsh takedown of Musk, triggering a Twitter fight between the two, Raskin pressed further, asking Musk a simple question: As someone who supposedly works for the government now, will he submit to basic financial disclosure and conflict-of-interest rules?

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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The family values party.

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Renamed Ft. Bragg, but a different Bragg. Republican sleight of hand. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

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Send Dems into rural America to talk about what Trump is doing. The Republicans are too scared and won’t show their faces…in the vacuum of messaging, there is power. Tell the folks who is hurting them. Point to the GOP. Be the foil to the shit that’s happening. Be the party of the people.

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No matter how many times he tries, Donald Trump just can’t seem to get this one geography question right.

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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court won’t take action on Trump’s emergency petition over the firing Hampton Dellinger, head of a watchdog agency. Dellinger will remain in his role until at least Feb. 26 as litigation continues in a lower court. Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u... Background:

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We refuse to let the oligarchs win and control us, and I feel a sea change (link to full video in reply)

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

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Bannon denies making a Nazi salute but it was clear enough for Jordan Bardella, a leader of France’s far-right National Rally party who saw what Bannon did and canceled his speech at CPAC, citing the gesture as the reason. #USDemocracy apple.news/Abcph9h-CTMy...

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After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

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"The moment was captured yesterday at what are now the more or less constant CPACs" 😆

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22 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Cili Been, was born in Rotterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1942 and murdered in the gas chamber.

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They keep showing us exactly who they are.

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Starting to think the right’s mEmE KiNg WhO LeGaLiZeD CoMedY is actually just a whiny little bitch with a fragile ego.

submitted 23 hours ago • 721 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 23 hours ago • 507 comments

Installed by Trump and now reassigned. Whoopsie! Acting ICE director removed amid White House pressure to boost arrests wapo.st/41apYFB

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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Did you know that 72 MILLION Americans rely on Medicaid for healthcare? The Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans in Congress want to take it away to give tax breaks to billionaires. Don't let them take away our healthcare. Let them know you didn’t vote for this shit.

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NOBODY VOTED FOR MUSK'S LITTLE INTERNET RANDOS, ANY NOBODY SHOULD ACCEPT WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING.

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📉📉📉

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

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