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“No voting, no calls, only revolution.” If they won’t do the easy things, they definitely won’t do the hard things.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Representatives are people, same as you and me. They listen to the people who talk to them. If they only hear from their rich donors, they listen to their rich donors. If instead their phones are ringing off the hooks with your calls, they listen to you

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 16 days ago • 336 comments

⚠️ Trans people who have a valid, current U.S. passport should NOT try to renew it or attempt to change their gender marker on it at this time. warning from PFLAG: pflag.org/resource/exe...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is an attack on women's right to vote. "as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name."

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 16 days ago • 738 comments

Facing the loss of their entire federal grant funding, NCMEC just caved and agreed to remove all references to LGBTQ youth and will dead name and misgender missing trans youth going forward. Words cannot contain the level of rage I feel in this moment.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 16 days ago • 2174 comments

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

submitted 16 days ago • 177 comments

Inbox: The White House is celebrating reports that some hospitals have paused gender-affirming care for transgender youth in response to an executive order threatening their funding.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I'm really not trying to eat our own here, but Chuck Schumer has been the absolute biggest disappointment. He does not seem to grasp the severity of our situation at all, and he's emblematic of the need for unrelenting opposition voices in government.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

submitted 20 days ago • 141 comments

Elon Musk's wrecking ball now swings at USAID, vaporizing humanitarian assistance, putting countless lives at risk, threatening to topple America's economic and moral standing and emboldening autocrats around the world. Stand strong for our top humanitarian aid agency.

submitted 20 days ago • 613 comments

SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 570 comments

@abortionfront.bsky.social I work with a Maryland state delegate who would like to work with you, but I cannot find a point of contact. Would you please DM me?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 20 days ago • 2171 comments

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

submitted 20 days ago • 1099 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 20 days ago • 241 comments

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 20 days ago • 310 comments

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

submitted 22 days ago • 2579 comments

CW:Suicide Transgender VA patient completed suicide by jumping from the parking garage at the VA while wearing a trans pride flag. Let's be clear, they were murdered by this administration. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 23 days ago • 64 comments

"Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees" IS THIS A COUP? ARE WE EXPERIENCING A COUP? NO ONE ELECTED HIM.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Trump just signed an executive order banning gender affirming care for trans youth nationwide (under 19). Specifically directs the DOJ to investigate providers under criminal and federal consumer protection laws. drive.google.com/file/d/1oTIm...

submitted 26 days ago • 50 comments

To quote a friend of mine right after the election, “Do you know how fucking stupid you have to be to bankrupt six casinos?”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

China's embedded agents in the CIA click "reply all"; subsequent email storm shuts down all federal government IT infrastructure; incoming Chengdu J-20 fighters sighted over Potomac

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide. This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.

submitted 26 days ago • 70 comments

The fascist Trump administration is working to withhold life saving medical treatment from children.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

We coulda had the free lunches for kids guy

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

Department of Education has initiated investigations into Denver public schools over having gender neutral bathrooms.

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

Donald Trump's health care plan is to let people die.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Yuuuuuup

submitted 27 days ago • 62 comments

JUST IN: Six transgender service members are suing Trump/Hegseth over new ban on trans people serving in the military. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

The rapist in chief wants to ensure trans people are raped in prison.

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

One of the darkest, but less reported, aspects of Trump’s anti-trans order this week IMO is that he directed the DOJ to remove protections for trans prisoners from Prison Rape Elimination Act guidelines. Story at @theappeal.org today from @byadamrhodes.bsky.social: theappeal.org/trump-execut...

submitted 32 days ago • 38 comments

HR 29 DOESN'T secure our border. What is DOES do is subject people who have been arrested—even if never CHARGED OR CONVICTED—to mandatory immigration detention. That means someone FALSELY ACCUSED of even taking a candy bar would be detained. Even kids. Therefore I VOTE NO.

submitted 32 days ago • 103 comments

I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'

submitted 32 days ago • 36 comments

These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined. Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.

submitted 32 days ago • 401 comments

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

submitted 31 days ago • 76 comments

Here's a new euphemism: "Straight-arm gesture." apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

What a joke. Tiktok is state media now. Don't think they won't do whatever Trump says in terms of content moderation and the algorithm.

submitted 35 days ago • 158 comments

If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.

submitted 34 days ago • 771 comments

This is so pathetically transparent that this is political theater. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/t...

submitted 35 days ago • 33 comments

"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

submitted 34 days ago • 743 comments

When the dog is sleeping in the bed, I always wish he would point his face at me instead of his butt. But then I remember reading that they do that because they have to face outward to protect you. And then I tell him loudly in his ear, “THERE AREN’T ANY LIONS.” Then we just go to sleep.

submitted 34 days ago • 291 comments

Vivek's involvement with DOGE lasted negative Scaramuccis

submitted 35 days ago • 2225 comments

The latest innovation in tech allows for the direct bribery of the president using securities fraud. Just breathtaking how brazen this is.

submitted 35 days ago • 51 comments

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

submitted 34 days ago • 140 comments