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Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

As the GOP pushes their Tax Scam they plan to kill health care coverage for children and the poorest Americans. All so their billionaire donors can profit. Don't Cut My Medicaid.

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

submitted 2 days ago • 291 comments

IL Gov. Pritzker is one of the great leaders of our time. You can watch his full IL budget address here. If you forward to the 26 minute mark, you can watch as he shifts to a dire warning about the direction our country is taking, but also words of hope. We should all take heed.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

ICYMI Washington Square Park 2/17/25 I had to check if this was real. It’s real. (Via [email protected])

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Sen. Van Hollen has scathing criticism on Trump's Ukraine aid conditions, "Can you imagine FDR saying to Churchill, 'we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.'"

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

If I were the richest man in the world, this would not be the play

submitted 5 days ago • 314 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 404 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 7 days ago • 536 comments

THIS IS SERIOUS: Republicans want to gut healthcare from millions of kids, seniors, and disabled people—all to fund $4.5T in tax cuts for billionaires. Not just numbers on a spreadsheet—kids losing inhalers, babies missing checkups, parents choosing between food and medicine. Hands Off My Medicaid

submitted 8 days ago • 278 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 11 days ago • 576 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE lied about FEMA giving NYC $59 million to put immigrants in “luxury hotels” As a result, multiple FEMA employees-labeled as “deep state activists”-lost their jobs Now Musk’s team appears to have taken $80 million-straight from the City’s bank accounts How is that not illegal

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

SAVE Act says gov-issued driver’s licenses & military or tribal IDs won't do. 84% of married women change surnames & 69 million American women lack birth certificates matching their legal names. Marriage certificates & name change docs aren't mentioned. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 11 days ago • 917 comments

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.

submitted 11 days ago • 458 comments

So, do we have to endure Medicare Advantage calls year round now?

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“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 428 comments

Hey, MAGA... Welcome Back to Reality!!!

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Little Elon is upset folks are calling Teslas "swasticars." Better not share this or you'll make him "Führious!"

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 16 days ago • 941 comments

Why in the world is he getting away with all the crap that he is. He was never voted in for anything!!!! Just go away!

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

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This is a five alarm fire!

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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 963 comments

This is the formula THRUMPY has been following, historians have tried to warn us. - NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 370 comments

Drain the swamp’ apparently means handing power to a billionaire man-child. This is how democracy dies. It’s clear that we are in serious danger!!! 🚨Two top security officials put on administrative leave after refusing to give Musk access to internal systems.

submitted 20 days ago • 159 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6202 comments

This literally breaks my heart. It’s just so cruel.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

FYI: Just last week, Trump FIRED the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. That explains why he’s forcefully deflecting the DC crash, and the new Philadelphia crash to “DEI”.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below. There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.

submitted 26 days ago • 212 comments

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 2012 comments

Trump has directed the Department of #Labor to stop investigating workplace #discrimination #RESIST

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submitted 28 days ago • 39 comments

You know what to do Repost and make it viral #Resist

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