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“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…” What kind of shady s**t is going on here?? www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 7 hours ago • 118 comments

Watching the news conference with the wife of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, and I’m struck by the fact that this scene looks like a plea for a kidnap victim or a missing person, except the kidnapper who is holding her loved one hostage is the U.S. government.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 16 hours ago • 438 comments

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

submitted 12 hours ago • 518 comments

When I prepared tax returns my clients were teachers & other hard-working middle class people.When trump’s 1st term tax cuts went into effect, my clients found their tax bills had gotten higher so that the wealthy could pay less. Now he’s working towards a Billionaire Tax Bailout

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

NEW: A whistleblower report submitted to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel reveals that DOGE and Elon Musk appear to have mishandled and manipulated sensitive data from the National Labor Relations Board — and worked to cover its tracks. The NLRB is a small independent agency that…

submitted 21 hours ago • 43 comments

These are not detainments—they are kidnappings. These are not deportations—they are human trafficking. These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps. Language matters. This is fascism.

submitted 22 hours ago • 155 comments

I am horrified by these images from the CECOT prison. My heart aches for Andry Hernandez Romero, Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia, & others who are trapped in the Trump & Bukele’s brutal concentration camp in El Salvador. #MOMSky

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

🚨🚨 In another unfathomable and disgusting betrayal of #Ukraine, #US blocks joint G7 statement denouncing the horrible Russian Sumy strike. /1 kyivindependent.com/us-blocks-g7...

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 1 day ago • 667 comments

Stop calling yourself a Christian if you support this open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

He’s coming after #PNW forests www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

submitted 1 day ago • 1325 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 93 comments

SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

What remains when courts no longer carry weight, when moral appeals drown in the applause of power, when a man vanishes in the name of political expediency? Then the rule of law dies, not with a bang, but with a handshake. Say his name…Kilmar Abrego Garcia

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 1004 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 1 day ago • 892 comments

“You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough... Home-growns are next. The home-growns.” meidasnews.com/news/donald-...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Another court order that Trump is now openly defying. Republicans in Congress assured us repeatedly that Trump would never defy a court order. It is obvious that he simply doesn’t care though after the Supreme Court gave him immunity.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 2382 comments

RELEASE HER!

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Nothing to see here but Florida's royal family laundering public funds into the royal family's campaign slush fund. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

“In their most serious form, these conversations [in the Trump administration] have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 2 days ago • 601 comments

The home of PA Governor Shapiro was deliberately set on fire, an act timed with Passover. Thankfully, he and his family are safe. But this is a chilling reminder of how far hatred and extremism have seeped into the fabric of our nation. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive. www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

submitted 3 days ago • 132 comments

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 308 comments

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov Disgraceful: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez among 4 Democrats who voted for the SAVE Act www.kgw.com/article/news...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@reddogmn.bsky.social You have several hundred followers but no posts. This would be a great way to tell us what’s happening in our community

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"Expected beliefs"??? "Rubio said that while Khalil's “past, current or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful," the provision allows the secretary of state alone to “personally determine” whether he should remain in the country." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 4 days ago • 875 comments

The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

submitted 4 days ago • 290 comments