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submitted 8 hours ago • 282 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 7 hours ago • 1533 comments

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submitted 23 hours ago • 330 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 16 hours ago • 644 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 13 hours ago • 37 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 14 hours ago • 625 comments

Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s "central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender.” Call it the “Great Resegregation."

submitted 10 hours ago • 31 comments

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

submitted 1 day ago • 1043 comments

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submitted 13 hours ago • 283 comments

submitted 13 hours ago • 995 comments

apple.news/A2rXxmrkfSlK... www.nj.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1874 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 13 hours ago • 747 comments

The 'find out' phase is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 677 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 565 comments

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1076 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 562 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

"We are federal law," Trump said. Um, nope. Watch: Trump threatens Maine governor in public clash during White House luncheon www.rawstory.com/trump-transg...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Nouvelle visualisation des cas humains de grippe aviaire #H5N1 aux États-Unis ⤵️ • 69 cas recensés en moins d'un an (essentiellement avec symptômes légers) • dont 41 exposés à des vaches infectées et 23 à des oiseaux • 38 cas rien qu'en Californie • 1 décès

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yay! apple.news/An3-giQOYTSq... www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

They were only off by about $231 million.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

submitted 3 days ago • 667 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3427 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the original American patriots fought a fucking Revolutionary War to liberate ourselves from the rule of a king. This ain't the flex he thinks it is.

submitted 3 days ago • 715 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 1259 comments

JB Pritzker in today's state of the state very explicitly compared what's happening with Trump to the rise of Nazis: "We don’t have kings in America—and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions—but in deference to my obligations."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Honest question for Elon: What explanation would you like me to give my constituents who rely on this program? Or the other 9/11 families? Because I'm about to get in my car and drive wherever the hell you are right now to find out myself. This makes me sick.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

Proud to join almost 1,000 other DOJ alumni supporting those who are standing up for the non-partisan administration of law. The oath we all took is to uphold the Constitution, not to advance a president’s political agenda. www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 202 comments

Welcome back, Cathy.

submitted 4 days ago • 377 comments

On Monday, thousands of protesters across the country hit the streets to tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk “No kings on Presidents’ Day” in response to the barrage of alarming actions—from legally questionable executive orders to mass firings—taken by the administration since the inauguration.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 4 days ago • 204 comments

JUST IN: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fired at least 20 employees who were involved in reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink. -CNBC

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Happening now: it's 1°F outside in Chicago—a literal frozen hellscape. Furious EPA workers with AFGE Local 704 are rallying against the Trump/Musk evisceration of the federal workforce targeting new hires. Recently fired employees include those responsible for monitoring air & water quality.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Is Musk demanding the data held by the Social Security Administration in order to make it more efficient? Unlikely. Here's a better explanation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...