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It is essentially a coup by an unelected bureaucrat 👇 Tell Congress to pass the "Stop the Steal" bill to prevent Elon Musk from meddling with our payment systems and data here: bit.ly/4gnneKE

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

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

submitted 7 hours ago • 2142 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 336 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

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries. There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

submitted 1 day ago • 323 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1173 comments

PAY ATTENTION: Trump is replacing the military’s top lawyers with people who will legally justify ANYTHING he wants. You know what that means? He’s getting the military ready for some dark shit. This is how dictators move. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 965 comments

JUST IN: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

WATCH Bernie Sanders lay out exactly what's at stake if Republicans gut Medicaid. Don’t cut my Medicaid!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 977 comments

Afraid we will lose our government because Judges will sit on their hands rather than act with any sense of urgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate: - Emergency response in natural disasters - Education and healthcare for disabled children - Clean air and water programs - Gang crime investigations - Monitoring of nursing home abuse - Nuclear reactor regulation - Cancer research

submitted 3 days ago • 168 comments

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Americans are outraged that Elon Musk is laughing with a chainsaw about coming to gut Social Security and Medicaid on Trump's behalf. Last night GOP Rep Rich McCormick heard it first hand as he was slammed for this. The ANGER is building! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1012 comments

Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

Hey everyone! I did an emergency live over on Substack, reminding us all that we will win this thing! Take a look! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 2 days ago • 876 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 432 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 1057 comments

A Must Read👇 "Once our justice system is destroyed and replaced with one in which power and cronyism make adherence to laws optional, who will want to spend large amounts of money on highly credentialed and knowledgeable lawyers trained to counsel clients in how to comply with them?"

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

Trump has discussed privatizing the Post Office. Removing its independence is a step toward doing that. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Threatening to use the criminal sanction of the state against an elected opposition figure for making statements well within the ordinary scope of political discourse. This is a deeply disturbing letter.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch." --Jacob Knutson

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1122 comments

Republicans want to throw Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and veterans’ benefits into the wood chipper—they are calling for $1 trillion in cuts just this year alone! All so billionaires get MORE tax cuts. No way. I'm speaking out, and I'm voting NO!

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

This morning, my colleagues and I stood in front of FBI headquarters to make it clear to everyone who wants an FBI focused on violent crime and not on political retribution: Kash Patel would be a disaster as FBI Director.

submitted 2 days ago • 833 comments

Two things that make America a democracy: Not having a king, and having a free press. A look inside the chilling cases from San Jose to Clarksdale that show a nation already on the brink of losing our First Amendment rights after just 1 month of Trump My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the United States. It is also laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. And the oligarchy is cheering them on. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/paying-off-putin

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

This isn’t about cutting costs or efficiency. Republicans are willing to rip away healthcare from 20 million low-income families to pay for an extension of the 2017 tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest Americans.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will investigate the Trump-Musk attack on American consumers. I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

BREAKING: Judge blocks deportation from US of 8 asylum-seekers. Judge Randolph Moss (Obama appointee) enters administrative stay as legal basis for the deportations isn't clear at moment. But one woman may be gone already (more below) w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 1377 comments

Let's donate so we can flip the Senate blue! 🌊 We can do this. Let's go! 💪

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments