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"President Trump's federal government has spent about $220 billion more in his first 100 days compared to the same time period last year." Good breakdown here of how federal spending is up so much even with all the DOGE cuts.

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It’s not your imagination. Trump and the Republicans are drowning in dysfunction. They can’t legislate — all they’ve got are executive orders. 📌 Congress has passed only 6 bills — the fewest in a president’s first 100 days in over 70 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Climate change and corporate greed go hand in hand. Let Montana’s own Jon Tester break it down for you in this week’s Tales from the Tractor…🌎 🚜

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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst... #BookstoreDay

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

The hard lessons of Germany’s dark history are speaking to us today. The message: It’s easier to lose your democracy than to regain it. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

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NEW: Trump on Wednesday quietly pardoned Paul Walczak, a healthcare executive sentenced just 2 weeks ago for tax crimes. His mother & sister had played a role in an unrelated scheme to publicize Ashley Biden’s stolen diary ahead of the 2020 election.

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

Please pass it on

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We need EVERYONE to show up! Please check the links in this flyer. There are too many to post!

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!

submitted 11 days ago • 531 comments

First, Trump canceled protections against contractor discrimination. Now he's gutting the DOL office that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws by cutting 90% of its staff. #WorkerProtections

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Intuit charges big bucks just for ordinary people to pay their taxes. At the same time, they are doing everything they can to sabotage Direct File, the IRS’ free, easy, and popular tax filing tool. It’s a scam, and I'm not letting them get away with it.

submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

On June 6 veterans will march in DC to demonstrate that our oaths to the Constitution still hold. This is not partisan; it’s about service, particularly the essential work of veterans in the government and those who care for them. Unite4veterans.org www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 12 days ago • 173 comments

🚨 Still not getting the attention it deserves: Critical systems behind Medicare, Medicaid, and more—programs that serve over 150 million Americans—are at risk of collapse. Wired article explains how mass layoffs in HHS IT + cybersecurity leave our health infrastructure dangerously exposed. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw

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Can we finally say, "No. Both parties are not the same"? Yes, Dems have many issues, but we are not the ones enabling a cruel and corrupt tyrant that has no respect for the Constitution.

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

David Geier and his father, Mark, fleeced families of $5-6K per month promising prostate cancer drug Lupron as a "miracle cure" for Autism. Mark Geier had his med license pulled in 9 states and David was fined for practicing medicine without a license. Their papers were retracted. Disgraceful

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

This headline needs to include the word “illegal”. As the article states, it is against the law for the president to order the IRS to target specific entities. Everyone is talking about how bad it is without talking about how it is 100% illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

The attack on Josh Shapiro and his family did not happen in a vacuum. Incendiary rhetoric, purposeful disinformation — it all helped lead to this hateful and destructive act. Leaders need to be conscious of their words having consequences.

submitted 13 days ago • 262 comments

David Geier is RFK, Jr.’s pick to lead a federal study on autism. His father Mark Geier (1948-2025) was a de-licensed physician who wrongly testified in more than 90 cases that vaccines caused injury or illness. He had his license to practice medicine suspended or revoked in EVERY STATE. (Cont.)

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Donald Trump accusing someone of grand standing because irony is completely dead

submitted 12 days ago • 228 comments

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Intuit, the company that owns TruboTax, which makes money off filing income taxes with the IRS, gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his inauguration slush fund. #Corruption

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again. Trump killed it on day 2.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Ahem. @aoc.bsky.social was a prize winner in the 2007 Intel National Science Fair. Very intelligent. qz.com/1481551/alex...

submitted 13 days ago • 266 comments

Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

From Vance's tweets to Miller's and Homan's TV hits, don't we see a touch of desperation? Immigration is supposedly their go-to issue. But their policies are cruel and self-destructive, and they're losing control of the issue politically. Panic's in the air at the White House.

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

submitted 15 days ago • 1119 comments

Don't let this sort of thing become normalized. No criminal record. Married with a child. Complying with immigration bureaucracy. Agents wait outside his home. Smash his window while he calls his lawyer. Take him to an undisclosed location. This is Soviet secret police stuff. youtu.be/Bnlj-wSI4Bg

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Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother, Bradley Bondi, and a top deputy to Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., are vying for leadership roles at the D.C. Bar Association. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

While your benefits get cut, Donald Trump is handing out tax breaks to billionaires. Make it make sense. #BillionaireTaxBailout

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For real! 😣

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

Marco Rubio has ensured his place in history for war crimes.

submitted 17 days ago • 799 comments

A disgrace. “What emerges is a picture of how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana [and of] a sprawling, opaque apparatus designed to deport the maximum number of people with minimum accountability.” www.propublica.org/article/rume...

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

📺 Gov. @AndyBeshearKY isn’t holding back on Trump’s shady tariff deals: “The question is are we dealing with incompetence or corruption?”

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

I keep puzzling over how Rubio thinks it'll bring PROSPERITY to kidnap gay hairdressers based on their tattoos & then pay $20K/year to detain them in a slave camp. We could have spent that $6M on supporting trade with Congo instead, but Rubio has decided torture is better for profits?

submitted 17 days ago • 320 comments

This is disgusting. Someone set fire to Shapiro’s home while he and his family were sleeping. I hope this person is caught quickly and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

submitted 17 days ago • 207 comments

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

submitted 18 days ago • 304 comments

Brexit was greatest act of economic self-harm as U.K. sanctioned itself. But our idiocy got Trumped with 🇺🇸 tariff rollercoaster. Nationalist fantasies end in economic pain. Time to choose: stability/security with Europe or race to bottom on Tump rollercoaster ride? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Just another example of the genius level of the 47 administration. And yes, Rubio is the brainiac of the bunch. #DemVoice1

submitted 18 days ago • 237 comments

This is personal. I live in Milwaukee and went to these schools. So did countless others thru the decades. RFKJr. is a threat to all of us because of his ignorance. Only an idiot would appoint him to lead our vital health systems. Sadly, an idiot currently lives in the White House. shorturl.at/2Ygdq

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

“For electronics, at least, we’re now putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods. This actually discourages manufacturing in the United States.”

submitted 17 days ago • 123 comments

Wow. Great article . "Perhaps the most damning commentary about the US electorate and media is that Trump never even tried to conceal his malicious intentions and deranged policy positions." www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tari...

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

The only waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid comes from private sector health corporations. And Rick Scott.

submitted 19 days ago • 99 comments

Maybe the better question is how you negotiate with a bully. You don't. Bully, terrorist... it's just degrees of the same thing. Bullies are cowards. Always. Don't negotiate. Be strong. Stand firm. He will blink.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Marth Stewart went to prison for insider trading on one stock. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought 17 stocks just before Donald Trump declared his "pause" in tariffs that caused those stocks to rise in value. How many others were tipped off? How many stocks did Donald buy? Ivanka? Mike Johnson?

submitted 19 days ago • 231 comments