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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Regrettably I think there is a strong chance this loathsome unamerican creep will keep his job. Keeping him is a flex, like rehiring the “normalize Indian hate” guy was. They are steadily dragging the Overton window to allow more overt white nationalism and racism.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

submitted 4 days ago • 2109 comments

Moscow, the winter of 1992, humanitarian aid from the USA is given to the hungry Russians. During that period, in charge of the distribution, as a right hand of the Sankt Petersburg's mayor, is a KGB captain. His name is Vladimir Putin. 1/1

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

When you're definitely not walking into the White House zooted out of your mind.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

So Elon and Duffy lied about DOGE just getting a tour of FAA. By the time Duffy lied about doge they were already being on boarded as staffers. They’re there to “fix” air traffic control. www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

It’s scary to have threats of violence directed toward you. It is fucking reprehensible to use your power to deflect those threats and in so doing amplify them ten thousandfold against the population you claim to represent.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

counterpoint: no they aren't, they're going to come up with increasingly intricate and convoluted explanations for why things aren't lining up with their expectations of reality. Stop waiting for people to "come to their senses", you're not going to get to say "I told you so" to anyone

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting. ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

"we, your representatives, can do nothing and we plan to do nothing" is just not very inspiring, whether it's said by chuck schumer or bernie sanders.1

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Compare this to any random statement from AOC, Crockett, Frost and you see the difference between a schlub playing pick up basketball and an NBA all star. Maybe don’t pick your leaders from the people who just hang around a long time and make the right friends (Pelosi).

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

While I'm at it and it's early, I'll also say that FAFO discourse doesn't feel good to me at all. I think that the people who will find out the most are the same people who are always finding out: the most marginalized. I also think that it destroys potential solidarity and solidarity is needed now.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

They also test drinking water

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 5975 comments

State Department buries massive payout to Tesla after public outcry www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

TBH lot of people are on public assistance and don't even realize it, because it's not explicitly framed as govt assistance.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Military says "Nah, we good," to orders that they discriminate against transgender servicemembers. Add to this that Pete Hegseth got booed by military families, and we may be seeing something really importantly good happening, here. (original image reposted with alt text)

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

DOGE at the local government level already exists it's called ransomware

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

middle school kids at a military base have shown more resistance to the trump administration than senate democrats

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Trump is dangerously weakening the FBI, reports NBC’s @ryanjreilly.com per federal law enforcement sources: "We are living a nightmare and are so distracted right now from the real work.” “If their goal was to paralyze law enforcement, they’ve achieved it.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

As Elon Musk spreads nonsense about USAID, in Nebraska we see $8.52 back here for every dollar invested. Real programs with real impact right here in Nebraska. Democrats support helping people. Republicans support wrecking balls.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Had Cy Vance chosen to prosecute Ivanka and Don Jr. in 2012 we might not be in this mess. Instead, Vance got a $25,000 campaign donation from Trump's attorney, dropped the charges and, well, here we are.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Senator Chris Murphy: "If you roll up USAID, it is just a massive gift to China in particular, and that is very bad for U.S. national security interests, very bad for the U.S. economy, and U.S. workers." Nailed it.

submitted 14 days ago • 172 comments

When the Tea Party took over they lost all of the people who understood that the culture war complaints were fake, made up to keep people angry. Now the angry people are in charge and think they're real, and they're going to be more mad when they don't find the people who they were complaining about

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1018 comments

America's enemies are the dog that caught the car and now realize they have a psychotic madman who has never made a deal he didn't later break controlling an arsenal of miniature suns he can drop wherever and wherever he wants in 20 minutes or less to deal with.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

MAGA propaganda so bad that even russian propaganda is debunking it, what the hell is going on anymore

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

I just came off the floor after speaking for an hour. I refuse to let Republicans confirm Russ Vought the easy way, so we're holding the floor through the night for 30 straight hours. Vought has shown he'll ignore the law & constitution. I'll be voting NO tomorrow.

submitted 18 days ago • 293 comments

Extremely useful in a time when the fash zerg rush seems overwhelming. It's not: it is trackable and actionable. Sometimes organizing is simply organizing.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

submitted 19 days ago • 190 comments

This.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Spent my weekend digging into the 5051 protests scheduled for tomorrow at the capitol buildings. These protests are grassroots and decentralized, but people are putting a ton of effort into trying to be safe and organized in their cities. I've been on safety training calls, organizing calls, etc.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

With everything going on in the US right now it’s easier to ignore some of the other big issues, but Gary’s videos are fantastic at putting the wealth inequality problems in perspective. If we didn’t have $ inequality as a slow burning disaster, we might not have the other conflagrations either.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (Link at the end)

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

tapping the "Elon Musk's actual area of expertise isn't engineering, business or technology but bad faith abuse of the legal system" sign

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Every lawyer who signs their name to a brief or pleading arguing the president can cancel birthright citizenship by executive order should be disbarred. I'm dead serious.

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

Withholding foreign aid was what Trump was impeached for! The laws have not changed. But he wasn’t convicted so now he is doing it on a much greater scale!

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments