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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 • 2405 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

Most modern business is a scam. Instead of acquiring and keeping customers with a product or service people love, companies instead work to trick people into paying for (or using) something, then trapping them by destroying competition, while slowly reducing quality and service to increase profit.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

ICYMI: I’m leading a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United. After an election where a billionaire bought a seat as Shadow President, we must ensure our democracy is truly of, by, and for the people — not corporations and billionaire donors. truthout.org/articles/jay...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

I'n glad Mitch McConnell lived long enough to taste the rotten fruits of his harvest. He was responsible for creating the extremist MAGA movement that has fully turned on him. One of the great villains of the past 30 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

“No more kings” From Schoolhouse Rock

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Well?? Is it time that we make the boys in tights proud? Seems like it! 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

The entire cost of all federal employees is $278 billion. Elon Musk’s net worth is $433 billion. The 802 billionaires in America have a net worth of $6.2 Trillion. Therefore, if we taxed the net worth of billionaires only, by 5% only, we could pay the salary of all US federal employees.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 5 days ago • 359 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

fox news genuinely is the most successful right wing propaganda apparatus ever constructed its mission has never been subtle, and all the politicians and journalists that pretend it's a real boy share a lot of the blame

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Maybe if I keep scrolling the news will get better?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8247 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

submitted 8 days ago • 296 comments

People will die because Trump and Musk are reckless clowns.

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

I wish I had something smart to say here but honestly as a mom of young kids I just find this unspeakably bleak and frightening

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

The right keeps making clear how all our fights are connected. We need to make that clear in how we fight our fights.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Federal workers make democracy work for all of us—but their hard work often goes unnoticed. Today, let’s change that. Share your stories of how civil servants have impacted your life in the comments below and use the #FedLove hashtag to spread the message! (1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

This is what makes us human that AI can never have, and its why people love Kendrick so much: the ability to be a hater. A huge, spiteful, relentless hater.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments

This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

if you need me I'll be shouting this from the nearest rooftop

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

The confirmation hearings are another example of the Democrats still playing old, democratic defense against the Republicans' new, anti-democratic offense. It should be absolutely clear by now that this Democratic Party cannot save US democracy. It will have to come from the grassroots and courts.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

This is a great piece about an uncomfortable truth: most Democratic leaders are too old, too calcified in their ways, and having circles run around them by a new and much younger generation of far right politicians and thought leaders.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

I’m not sure people who aren’t in online parenting groups/communities know how bad the antivax stuff has gotten. It used to just be in bigger groups. Now my local groups - blue state and blue county - have the same garbage “anyone recommend a local doctor anti vax friendly??” posts.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

For over 150 years, the anti-abortion movement has used disinformation as a tool to build political power for itself and the broader far right. This is a huge part of how we arrived at a place where so many of our elected officials tolerate (and even promote) outright lies.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

Folks outside the United States - if you want to help the Americans who didn’t vote for this nightmare, please petition your governments to place their most severe sanctions on Elon Musk and all his companies

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

The local economy in DC (and likely several other major metropolitan areas) is going to be devastated by Musk's actions. There just won't be jobs for people.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

In middle school I got kicked out of class for laughing too hard. I had to go stand in the hallway to calm down, which I was unable to do as it was quite funny.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 10 days ago • 432 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 11 days ago • 72 comments

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending. The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump." These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

for sale: checks & balances, never used

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments