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I tried to fact check this bizarre answer on @maddow.msnbc.com by trying to get in contact with DOGE. There’s no phone number or email publicly available. If a Member of Congress couldn’t get in touch with DOGE how do they expect anyone else to? www.thedailybeast.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

So good. Just run this on loop @democrats.org.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

This. THIS. You guys… THIS.

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by: -The FBI -The EPA administrator -The EPA IG -Treasury www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 2 days ago • 1086 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 27 days ago • 93 comments

I hadn't called my MI Senators until I saw this, which made it especially easy to urge them to vote against. Trump's tariffs probably hurt MI more than any other state.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Deeply concerning news about our friend and former BF teammate Rebecca Burke whose backpacking trip to the US has ended with her being detained by ICE for over ten days, with no clear timeline for her release. Please read her father's statement here: www.facebook.com/paulrburke

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing. Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent. You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.” So, I ask you -- What are you doing?

submitted 5 days ago • 565 comments

New in PN: Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift "It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food."

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NEW VIDEO: The Republican Party's voter suppression war machine grinds on and once again it is targeting student voting. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CS...

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NEW: "In the seven years since CISA’s creation, it’s become a crucial agency to help secure elections from foreign and domestic cybersecurity threats." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Presumably, this government by Truth Social posts will define exactly what an “illegal protest” is, and that definition will not be so broad that it encroaches on free speech guarantees we’ve enjoyed for two centuries.

submitted 9 days ago • 522 comments

“Bird flu does not fully explain the sticker shock consumers experience… corporate consolidation is a key culprit behind egg price spikes,” said Amanda Starbuck, lead author of the FWW report The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

submitted 10 days ago • 648 comments

It would be interesting if some brave journalists would ask Marco Rubio weather he stands by his 2020 SSCI report co-authored with Mark Warner on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election rollcall.com/2020/08/18/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

Be aware of even more voter suppression! This is how our democracy is stolen from us.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 18 days ago • 5186 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 19 days ago • 309 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 19 days ago • 847 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

submitted 32 days ago • 112 comments

Trump Lost. Harris was cheated out of 3,565,000 votes by Jim Crow tricks. In this clip I give Mark Thompson — @themts.bsky.social — a breakdown of the numbers, where they came from, and the key calculations. youtu.be/3UiB3xwyfPQ

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments

"He recently referred to himself as one of the 'president’s lawyers' on social media and now runs the prosecutorial office that would likely handle cases brought against political figures in Washington. Mr. Martin has in fact already shown himself willing to amplify calls for retribution."

submitted 33 days ago • 97 comments

👇👇

submitted 34 days ago • 1261 comments

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.

submitted 34 days ago • 303 comments

Lost my CDC contract after a visit from DOGE. I feel like I’m in the dirt (or TBH eating a pint of ice cream on a couch crying). But here’s the thing: Pushing people down—especially those with heart, purpose, and love for public service—doesn’t mean they stay down. It’s literally against their DNA.

submitted 34 days ago • 147 comments

Democrats, use the debt ceiling and budget to stop the illegal looting of the federal government. Seems to be the most consequential way to stop Musk & co.

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youtu.be/3UiB3xwyfPQ?... mark Thompson show kicking a$$ again!! @gregpalast.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Schiff: Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their enablers? Because .. if they're going to raid the treasury... They don't want an FBI that's going to examine anything they're doing.

submitted 36 days ago • 151 comments

Reminder: Bondi herself was a paid agent for Qatar. and her former colleagues at Ballard were always at the crisp edge of where things tern into foreign influence peddling. Indeed, some Ballard contracts were key focus of Lev Parnas investigation.

submitted 35 days ago • 20 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 36 days ago • 1753 comments

Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 37 days ago • 939 comments

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 36 days ago • 816 comments

With all of the Trump/Musk mayhem, don't ignore the GOP's continued assault on free and fair elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 36 days ago • 176 comments

Wherever you live in North Carolina, Trump’s action matters. Hundreds of water systems in the state were found to have elevated levels of PFAS in 2024. It’s estimated that nearly half of the nation’s tap water has PFAS in it. cardinalpine.com/2025/01/28/t...

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Work that was halted, according to employees and contractors, included the U.S.’s efforts to stop the spread of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Tanzania, and a multicountry outbreak of Mpox. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

This is Trump’s plan for prisoners, and I bet that very much includes dissidents and protesters: black hole prisons in El Salvador where people won’t come back.

submitted 37 days ago • 76 comments

He signs United States out of human rights organizations and gets El Salvador to agree to take American citizens. He’s planning to send political prisoners there. American citizens. Who all has he said he’d put in prison? He’s planning human rights violations.

submitted 37 days ago • 25 comments