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Another ominous development: The Social Security Administration is no longer allowing parents in Maine to register newborns for SSNs at hospital after birth, is instead requiring them to visit a Social Security Office to register their children. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 517 comments

Felon gave the WORST State of the Union our nation has ever endured! It was the longest, most lied filled BS! Felon will use all of this hyperbole as an excuse to sell USA off to oligarchs; crush USA with price hikes; privatize gov’t; breaking Social Security; devastating longstanding USA alliances!

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

We have nailed down the time and location! Tillis Town Hall Monday March 17, 2025 College Park Baptist Church 1601 Walker Ave Greensboro, NC 6:00-7:30pm @thegcdp.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org @carolinaforward.bsky.social #TillisTownHall #NorthCarolina

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

submitted 11 days ago • 598 comments

Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!

submitted 12 days ago • 191 comments

Right-wing authoritarians rig our election maps here in North Carolina because they don't care at all what you think and only crave power for themselves and their cronies.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Believe me, I understand that my activism is a problem for you. Please know that your inactivism is similarly problematic for me. It's part of the reason I am as angry as I am. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-conce...

submitted 13 days ago • 173 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 16 days ago • 660 comments

Maine gets a lot of flak for Susan Collins but deserves kudos for Gov. Janet Mills taking a stand for trans rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Bingo. Say this. Every day. Every hour. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 25 days ago • 905 comments

It's almost like it was never about saving money after all.

submitted 16 days ago • 43 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 16 days ago • 1185 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 18 days ago • 566 comments

US Senator Roger Wicker, head of the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, commented on the talks with Putin: "No, Putin cannot be trusted. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed."

submitted 19 days ago • 616 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 18 days ago • 563 comments

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance Again, why is Mike Pence the only one standing up for the truth? I’m not a Pence fan, but I appreciate him calling Trump out & reminding people of the truth. The reality vs Trump gaslighting land of make believe.

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

It’s well past time for the Republican Party to speak the truth. I commend Mike Pence.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

"That [Musk] now gets to provide government oversight over the things that he is trying to get permission to do is one of the most significant conflicts of interest I've seen in my career, and it's inexplicable to me."

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up🎵) Sunday 16 February 2025 THIS SONG and MESSAGE is to THANK ALL OF YOU Thank you for FIGHTING for ALL THE CHILDREN They need us to fight now more than ever It is UP to US to be their VOICE KEEP FIGHTING THANK YOU 💙

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Where was DOGE during the orange felon’s narcissistic pathetic idiotic fragile dictator display at NASCAR today? I guess those several millions of wasted dollars to coddle a fractured ego are just fine. What a fucking joke.

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

🇺🇦 NOTE: It's not a fucking Ukraine "conflict." It's a criminal Russian invasion.

submitted 21 days ago • 73 comments

Woke up this morning wondering which of the Washington-based foreign journalists here will end up being their generation’s William Shirer 😬😵‍💫

submitted 22 days ago • 223 comments

Toward HOUSE MAJORITY of Democrats! Monday March 1 to REGISTER Tuesday April 1 to VOTE District 1 -- Gay Valimont ( Contact : bsky.app/profile/did:...) District 6 -- Josh Weil ( Contact : bsky.app/profile/did:... )

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

The losing candidate for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is seeking to overturn the electoral win by a current court member, Justice Allison Riggs. His strategy: invalidate more than 60,000 legally cast votes. Sign up to receive the State Court Report newsletter: bit.ly/45IXZ0M

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Crockett: "I understand when people say they are concerned about our debt, as they should be. But if you really want to look at the problem, it's probably with the Trump administration. We know that that administration, the last time they were in, ran our debt up an additional $8 trillion."

submitted 25 days ago • 103 comments

Why is Trump the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl? Because all the presidents before him realized it would be extraordinarily wasteful to spend 15-20 MILLION of our taxpayer dollars to go in person.

submitted 28 days ago • 283 comments

Super Bowl! Watch USAiD Save Foreign Aid!

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

At least $12 trillion from global oligarchs is hidden offshore in secret tax havens worldwide. And it is headquartered right here in the USA. Instead of cutting lifesaving programs like the VA, Medicaid, and food stamps, we should be cracking down on tax havens for the ultra-rich.

submitted 28 days ago • 295 comments

Where are all of those 2A militias when you need them?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love Nelson Mandela Let’s give the man who said ‘I was a racist before it was cool’ another chance Elon Musk

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

ICYMI — the Vice President of the United States defended re-hiring an openly racist DOGE staffer who wanted to “normalize Indian hate” by telling an Indian-American congressman who thought an apology was in order he “disgusts” him.

submitted 29 days ago • 150 comments

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

submitted 30 days ago • 472 comments

#Russia www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 46 comments

NEW: The ACLU warns lawmakers that DOGE's 'unchecked' access to government systems could violate federal law. The organization tells WIRED it stands ready to sue for access to government records detailing DOGE's requests for personnel data and attempts to deploy homebrew AI across federal networks.

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

Pete Hegseth attacks a former colleague and Fox corespondent for reporting on a letter sent by Dems on the House Appropriations Committee.

submitted 30 days ago • 505 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

It is notable that Big Law is completely absent from the legal fights to protect democracy. In 2017, they bragged about their pro bono work for the resistance. Now, they are silent -presumably cowering in fear of Trump and Musk. Support the non-profit law orgs and small firms doing this hard work.

submitted 30 days ago • 189 comments

DOGE now has access to the payment system responsible for disbursing social security and medicare payments. Not enough people are talking about how dangerous this is. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

Musk has given DOGE engineers barely old enough to buy beer—and with ZERO government experience—free rein over the Treasury Dept. Now they want to access data in the Dept of Labor, National Institutes of Health, and even the FAA. SIGN HERE to tell Congress to kick these bozos out of government!👇

submitted 30 days ago • 341 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 32 days ago • 138 comments