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You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 6 hours ago • 169 comments

FUN FACT: maga is the minority maga is the minority maga is the minority maga is the minority maga is the minority AND The resistance is the MAJORITY! We will defeat you as your only plan is destroying our country while lining your pockets. Keep flooding the zone. We’re watching & we will win!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 100 comments

Dropping all current research and losing the data and findings forever. Cutting Alzheimer’s research? You have to ask how could anyone support this. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

submitted 8 hours ago • 19 comments

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The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities. Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

BREAKING: MASSIVE Ukraine rally in Washington, D.C. right now. Americans care even if Trump doesn’t.

submitted 5 hours ago • 145 comments

I spoke at the Boone County Democrats Chili Supper Thursday night…look at this crowd, friends.

submitted 7 hours ago • 52 comments

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submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

General CQ Brown is a patriot and hero. Firing him makes America less safe, but it will help bring about a Golden Age. For Putin.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1186 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 8 hours ago • 926 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 6 hours ago • 101 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 313 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 8 hours ago • 200 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2147 comments

“If a librarian accidentally allowed a student to take an anatomy book home or an encyclopedia with a picture of a naked human being, they could potentially be charged with a year in jail. That’s why I am voting no.” www.yahoo.com/news/south-d...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

submitted 9 hours ago • 124 comments

I grew up losing friends and neighbors to cancer. It’s been a fear most of my life. Certainly there’s been much advancement in detection and treatment. Fears eased but never ruled out. At 68yo diagnosed with multiple myeloma. I depend on MY MEDICAID. Do you depend on it too? Don’t Cut My Medicaid!

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

NO Oligarchs Bernie Sanders rally kicks off in less than 2 hours. Over 2000 people in line!

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 113 comments

she is lit from within they say incandescent as if she swallowed the moon whole… it’s just the hope inside her chest she refuses to extinguish because once long ago she decided to live like a lighthouse bearing the light in unbearable times Poem~A Sullins Art ~R Garton

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

From United Humanists on FB

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💥 MORE. OF. THIS. 🔵 Every Democratic leader—local, state, and federal—should be organizing rallies like this! 🦋 We need bold leadership that inspires action and amplifies our collective voice. Let’s build on this and create momentum! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Thousands Show Up For Bernie Sanders Fight Oligarchy Rally open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” —the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 45 comments

I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

submitted 1 day ago • 963 comments

Trump and Musk are a living monument to the worst excesses of human nature—an exhausting blend of arrogance, ignorance, greed, selfishness, narcissism, and the kind of misplaced confidence that has already fueled a thousand horrible decisions that will ultimately hurt millions of everyday Americans.

submitted 10 hours ago • 132 comments

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And it's going to get much worse!

submitted 11 hours ago • 234 comments

There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

submitted 9 hours ago • 270 comments

As Maya Angelou has so eloquently stated: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. This is who they are. Believe them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 64 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 233 comments

The unqualified Pete Hegseth fires a Black four-star general with a deep record of service. As if Gen. Charles Brown was just some D.E.I. hire. As if Hegseth is not some white hire, lacking in merit.

submitted 9 hours ago • 86 comments

📣 Google erased Black History Month, Pride Month, and other cultural events from their calendars—and we’re not letting it slide. ❤️ All communities deserve to be seen. ✅ Sign & share the petition NOW to demand Google bring these events back! 👉 sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Per @scaramucci.bsky.social: “He just fired the Joint Chief of Staff. Wants to install a puppet. For those who think that he is contemplating leaving, they don’t understand what happened on January 6.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 70 comments

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after stating, “MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” before engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.

submitted 2 days ago • 284 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 479 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 12 hours ago • 868 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2383 comments

Steve Bannon did a Sieg Heil at CPAC. I'm a 3rd generation Holocaust survivor. My grandparents met in a Concentration Camp. My grandfather's wife & young daughter were murdered. My grandmother's brothers were murdered. Her mother died in her arms from starvation. Is THIS what life in America is NOW?

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True.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

I said what I said.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too. The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

submitted 1 day ago • 280 comments

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments