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Nothing important here. Just a publicly-traded company disclosing to investors that it’s attempting to bribe the President of the United States by buying his cryptocurrency in order to influence his trade policy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 211 comments

Pay attention! Trump’s end game here is to sell off our national parks to the highest bidder. We can’t allow that. SPEAK UP

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

submitted 1 day ago • 379 comments

This is indeed a surprise -- if you were dumb enough to believe the New York Times' pre-election article claiming the Trump/Musk alliance was about their shared commitment to government efficiency. (Details: www.findinggravity.net/p/the-trump-... )

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S.1006 Federal Workforce Freedom Act SPONSOR: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R), TN № CO-SPONSORS: 1 STATUS: Introduced LATEST ACTION: Senate - 2025-03-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on ... #Republicans Details at congress.gov

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Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:

submitted 3 days ago • 519 comments

After Karoline Leavitt wouldn’t rule it out, Democratic House Rep. Jared Moskowitz introduced an amendment to block arresting Supreme Court Justices for voting against the executive branch. All Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted against it.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Harvard just handed all school and disciplinary records of international students to DHS. Absolutely contemptible. They're putting their own students in danger and lying by telling them that everything is ok. These students could be black bagged to Louisiana or El Salvador after this.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

submitted 6 days ago • 236 comments

UNBELIEVABLE! The family's address was posted online, and they've now been forced to go into hiding. Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government posted their home address on social media

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Trump kills programs to combat opioid addiction: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 days ago • 360 comments

Well this is sad, aggravating, and not at all surprising.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February. If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine. Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

Artificial Intelligence that's being built by private labs to store sensitive U.S. national security information is at risk of being hacked by the Chinese government. At risk is not just tech companies’ money, but also U.S. national security. time.com/7279123/ai-d...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

The NSF has stopped funding research into disinformation, a disinformation researcher highlighted why this is such a bad idea: “We know false information is out there, we know it spreads widely, and it’s important for people’s health and for democracy to understand what we can do about it.”

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

Opposition to Trump's authoritarianism is very much standing up. But we are SOOOOOO FARRRRR from being able to focus on corruption in the way that needs to happen.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

This decision is all about punishing student loan borrowers. Instead of lowering costs, Donald Trump wants to take money out of your grandma's Social Security check.

submitted 12 days ago • 62 comments

PSA: Social security is only a “Ponzi Scheme” if it’s not there when you actually need it. What Elon really means is they’re working to turn it into a Ponzi scheme. Every accusation is a confession.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

So $1.4 trillion was erased from the stock market today btw

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 1850 comments

Essentially using a Sharpie to draw a gang tattoo on a picture of Abrego Garcia.

submitted 15 days ago • 56 comments

SCOTUS has ruled the Trump administration can deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act The Good-Immigrants are allowed judicial review The Bad-They can be deported immediately The Ugly-For years conservatives argued SCOTUS has no “shadow docket”. Justice Jackson brutally exposed this lie

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

Big Journalism (esp. @nytimes.com) failed to adequately & accurately cover the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations. Local outlets did much better. Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy. Read our latest blog post. 1/n mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/local-news...

submitted 26 days ago • 42 comments

BREAKING: Supreme Court Green Lights Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act. Here's what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 26 days ago • 90 comments

That’s really the best word to describe SSA right now, just complete, utter chaos. They couldn’t understand the coding, so everything they said SSA was doing illegally, they weren’t. Common sense is something they lack. They don’t know what they’re doing.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

if there were a smithsonian of tweets that aged terribly this would have its own exhibit

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

@sharonwm.bsky.social i just suggested the lists on FB. here's where to find mine. to add someone to your lists, click on their name to see their profile, tap the 3 dots in the upper right corner & then tap on add to lists.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Navarro: "This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency associated with chronic and massive trade deficits."

submitted 31 days ago • 396 comments

Shame on the Trump admin for abandoning a long standing bipartisan policy to support both people's health and political stability around the world.  Contraception is essential medical care. Ripping it away puts millions of women at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

Remember when Elon Musk "accidentally" canceled Ebola prevention programs? That was pretty bad, but then he said those programs had been restored. Good news, right? Wrong. Turns out that was a bold-faced lie — Ebola prevention was never restored. Watch⬇️

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.

submitted 31 days ago • 74 comments

According to the Yale Budget Lab, tariffs could cost average Americans thousands of dollars more a year. (That's a conservative estimate.) And Donald Trump just announced A LOT OF THEM.

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

In today's speech Trump made false claims about: – US trade deficit with Canada – Canada's dairy tariffs – Who pays tariffs – US wealth – Gas prices – Inflation under Biden and Trump – Previous presidents’ tariffs on China www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

Susan Crawford explains how Brad Schimel only tested less than 10 rape kits in 2 years.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

During the period when Michael Waltz first set up his Signal list, Steve Witkoff was sitting waiting to meeting with Putin. news.sky.com/story/trumps...

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

wonder if this will be applied to elon to curtail his unmitigated greed

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments