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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 21 hours ago • 413 comments

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

submitted 2 days ago • 1395 comments

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

submitted 3 days ago • 428 comments

Truly apropos of nothing, one of the most inexplicable parts of Trump Era media coverage has been the total lack of interest in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. They were very close friends! Ghislane recruited girls AT MAR-A-LAGO. There's video of them giggling as they watch young girls dance!

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

submitted 6 days ago • 3971 comments

When a media company or law firm surrenders to Trump, they are hurting America. In most cases, they are doing it out of pure greed - both sides are highly transactional & care only about themselves. But their viewers/readers/clients should be clear-eyed about who they really are.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

The corruption is astonishing. The opportunities for graft are endless. @warren.senate.gov and I are demanding answers.

submitted 6 days ago • 857 comments

The Trump administration backed down and reversed their terminations of thousands of visas for foreign students studying in the US. This is why we speak out. This is why we keep fighting. The resistance continues.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

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Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

submitted 8 days ago • 440 comments

National security clearances? Overrated. Now you too can stay in the loop—thanks to Pete Hegseth’s Friends & Family Plan! youtube.com/shorts/-CKXq...

submitted 11 days ago • 604 comments

what have you done jd

submitted 11 days ago • 495 comments

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 11 days ago • 1023 comments

Criminal convictions, ABREGO GARCIA: 0 Criminal convictions, DONALD TRUMP: 34

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 14 days ago • 910 comments

#FreeAndry 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 15 days ago • 57 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.

submitted 15 days ago • 101 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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#ProudBlue 🚨North Carolina Voters🚨 Please read this urgent message pertaining to the November 2024 election. Please repost!!

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Masses of protesters converged in cities and towns all across America. Millions upon millions of people poured into the streets, demanding that Trump and Musk keep their HANDS OFF our healthcare, our schools, our money, our democracy — and more. THIS is the Opposition. This is an…

submitted 26 days ago • 71 comments

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

submitted 27 days ago • 1443 comments

How to tell if your President is a piece of shit, Chapter 851.

submitted 27 days ago • 277 comments

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

The incredibly important takeaway: Elon Musk's money and influence will not buy him an American election when good people make it a priority to come out to vote!

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

A couple of years ago, I noticed that Dems were losing ground with Latino voters. I launched a Spanish-language YouTube channel to reach those people. That channel is now on its way to 300,000 subscribers and has nearly 50 million views. We have be aggressive and go into spaces we're not already in.

submitted 33 days ago • 825 comments

Are we great again yet?

submitted 34 days ago • 785 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 34 days ago • 85 comments

We’re in the “first they came for the students” phase of the Trump autocracy. What happens next, how far and how bad it gets, is up to what you, yes you, you the American reading this right now, do today, tomorrow and the day after. It won’t just go away, trust us

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Never miss a golden promo oppy.

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

So help me God I will make it my life's work to make sure every Oklahoman knows how few fucks Senator Markwayne Mullin gave about my husband's and the lives of other active duty service members

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

The Trump regime and DOGE are rolling out this playbook to attack Social Security — one of the most popular and effective government programs. They're deliberately sabotaging it by firing SSA workers and cutting services. Why? Because they don't want it to work.

submitted 39 days ago • 247 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME

submitted 39 days ago • 365 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 42 days ago • 962 comments

Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

submitted 41 days ago • 609 comments

It really does help underline how normal countries just went "huh, Germany seems to have gone a bit aggro, ah well let's hope for the best"

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Pro-tip: Norway, Sweden and Denmark have education departments.

submitted 42 days ago • 84 comments

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

submitted 43 days ago • 2298 comments

White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.

submitted 43 days ago • 66 comments

A girl can dream. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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For all of the noise and the hype, the basic facts are these: Ukraine and has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire. Russia has not. And tonight, Putin keeps on bombing.

submitted 44 days ago • 25 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 45 days ago • 612 comments