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This letter is almost psychotic.

submitted 10 days ago • 643 comments

Now that Trump has fired the Kennedy Center leadership and installed a bunch of cronies who made him the new chair, the theater is canceling programs with even a hint of LGBTQ themes and scrubbing them from its website. Dark stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 9 days ago • 187 comments

If Republicans get their way in Kansas, owning guns will be a god-given right, but owning your uterus will not.

submitted 11 days ago • 111 comments

🚨Hegseth just handed Putin a win—ruling out Ukraine joining NATO and denying its right to reclaim illegally seized land. This isn’t just betrayal—it puts American Troops at risk. Hegseth backed the Iraq War, now he’s pushing us closer to war in Europe. Fred Wellman with more:

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

submitted 11 days ago • 3643 comments

For those of us who love libraries, it's no surprise that they make our lives better. But thanks to a groundbreaking new study from the New York Public Library (NYPL), we now have the data to prove it. buff.ly/3CGF6lU via @everylibrary.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has agreed to RESTRICT DOGE ACCESS to Treasury Department payment systems. The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an "unlawful action" by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. 1/2

submitted 17 days ago • 404 comments

The mess of Trump’s attempt to seize power and shut down the government in one chart.

submitted 23 days ago • 108 comments

This is a disaster. Medicaid payment portals for providers are completely shut down, and there’s zero guidance from the Trump administration. And that’s not all! Watch this clip… Trump has left everyone high and dry—including his own supporters. No plan, no answers—just chaos.

submitted 26 days ago • 256 comments

Following reporting of @marisakabas.bsky.social , freezing of grants means freezing of grant related activities at the National Science Foundation. Because DEI. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 26 days ago • 1664 comments

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose appeal to President Trump for mercy on behalf of immigrants and the LGBTQ community made headlines on Tuesday, was also critical of Trump during his first term. Bishop Budde is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.

submitted 32 days ago • 231 comments

I hope local news outlets all over the country are doing this. People should know if pardoned J6-ers who assaulted cops are returning to their communities, and what they did.

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

submitted 32 days ago • 367 comments

Before the election, I warned that Trump would pardon all of the Jan. 6 defendants and some of them would form the core of a new rightwing paramilitary organization loyal to Trump. At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.

submitted 33 days ago • 1058 comments

Gotta love the British press.

submitted 32 days ago • 1728 comments

The People’s March is moving through the streets of Washington: “We won’t go back!” A broad coalition of activists — among them climate, women’s rights, immigration, anti-war, LGBT, D.C. statehood, racial justice — are mobilizing in unison against Trump, three days before his inauguration. 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 187 comments

This is an interesting read.

submitted 43 days ago • 54 comments

NC Supreme Court's Move to Block Election Certification Undermines the Will of Voters Read more here: https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/press-releases/aclu-north-carolina-statement-block-supreme-court-election-certification

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, tells a story about his grandfather when he first got a cell phone. So funny and so relatable! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 45 days ago • 602 comments

We need to bring back the old days: duels, assaults and spitting tobacco everywhere 😉

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

They really need a psychiatric evaluation for anyone who is in a position of responsibility and power within the United States government.🙄

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Competition in 2024 House races was scarce, with only 37 districts decided by 5 or fewer percentage points. For the most part, it’s because of gerrymandering.

submitted 51 days ago • 16 comments

If GOP Did not CHEAT in North Carolina with outrageous gerrymandering, today Democrats would control the House. Again the ONLY reason GOP controls the House is because of CHEATING!

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: President Biden awards Liz Cheney with the Presidential Citizens medal, the second-highest award. Standing ovation for the role she played on the Jan 6th Committee.

submitted 52 days ago • 440 comments

Officials are still trying to identify the person who placed bombs outside of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee offices in 2021. Now they have fresh details. via @carriejohnson.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 106 comments

Trump: “Tariffs, and tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our country.” Trump, like Republican approved social studies textbooks, seems to have forgotten about slavery.

submitted 52 days ago • 74 comments

I don’t think that the “car fire” at🍊💩🤡hotel in Vegas was actually a “terrorist” attack. I think it was as real as his two “assassination” attempts… absolutely bullshit.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

As we depart 2024 I just want to once again say thank you to the Biden administration for its domestic policy You cannot find a historian who has any doubt that Biden was an above average POTUS or that the first Trump term ranks in the bottom five administrations in the history of the United States

submitted 53 days ago • 97 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 54 days ago • 402 comments

“A Shot in the Arm” is a must-watch exposé on vaccine denial and RFK Jr.’s deadly role in the Samoan measles outbreak. Now streaming FREE on PBS.org and the PBS App. This documentary includes damning evidence and footage of RFK Jr. Call your senators—urge them to watch and take action!

submitted 58 days ago • 58 comments

I guess viruses don't care how ill-prepared a nation happens to be or how unqualified RFK Jr. is when it comes to any medical condition other than jock itch. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 58 days ago • 313 comments

Trump's first round of tax cuts for the rich added nearly $2 trillion to the debt. Extending them would add another $5 trillion. If we "can't afford" universal health care or paid family leave or basic social safety nets, Trump's handouts to the rich are why.

submitted 58 days ago • 84 comments

We are preparing to launch the 1st-ever Women's Census, a survey of 1 million women & gender expansive people to understand the breadth of issues we care about & the values that bind us. A Women's Census like this has never been done. Will you pitch in? https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/eoy2024/

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Do you think they got the message?

submitted 72 days ago • 2960 comments

He told you what you wanted to hear. He knew he wasn’t going to follow through with actually helping people.

submitted 72 days ago • 71 comments

“A crypto venture recently unveiled by Donald Trump and his new Middle East envoy, billionaire Steve Witkoff, has partnered w/a crypto platform that authorities and financial experts say has been used by criminals and Iran-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah” www.reuters.com/technology/t...

submitted 72 days ago • 160 comments