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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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🚨🏛️𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖🏛️🚨 SAVE OUR SERVICES – STOP MUSK While a billionaire ransacks our public services, the Federal Unionists Network is standing up and fighting back to say: • NO cuts to vital services! • NO mass layoffs! • END the funding freeze! Join FUN and allies at an action near you: bit.ly/SOSaction

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That’s how you write a headline, people.

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Spoken like a true dictator.

submitted 7 days ago • 1291 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M: youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 15 days ago • 644 comments

So proud of our Democratic members of Congress, right now! They’re being blocked from the Dept. of Education—and they’re not having it. Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!

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This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 16 days ago • 766 comments

CDC reported back in 2022 that "More Than 3,500 Americans Have Died from Long COVID-Related Illness in the First 30 Months of the Pandemic". The fact that people are dying from #LongCOVID does not get talked about enough. www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressro...

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Finally some good news

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Members of Congress have just been denied entrance to the Treasury building. The American people deserve to know what President Musk is doing with our money. We’re rallying with @moveon.org — follow along live.

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

Have CNN, MSNBC, or other tv news covered the large protest outside the Treasury in DC tonight with multiple Congressmembers?

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

submitted 18 days ago • 534 comments

i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.

submitted 18 days ago • 74 comments

Our people across #MD08 are rightly demanding answers about President Trump's systematic destruction of federal programs and the civil service. Federal workers—I'm convening a webinar on the latest developments and resources to fight back. Sign up to gain access upon its release:

submitted 19 days ago • 288 comments

If it’s illegal, then they weren’t fired. (To be clear: I do not take issue with the QT at all, I’m grateful that she shared this news. But workers affected by these illegal actions should go to court, stat.)

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Tomorrow and every day this week. OPM DC

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

More of this, please

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Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 966 comments

People are protesting across the United States. Protest in St Louis, MO

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Protest in Belton, TX against the lack of due process, violations of constitutional rights, and racial profiling committed by #FOTUS & ICE. #immigration #protest #oppose #resist #takingastand #photojournalism #beltontx #bellcountytx #texasdemocrats

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Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?

submitted 21 days ago • 116 comments

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

submitted 20 days ago • 2441 comments

It's a straight up coup except from the inside. Once they have full control of Treasury and govt data & info, which is nearly complete, Congress can go home. Appropriations won't matter. Elon will only send out the checks he wants to. Anyone not loyal will be fired Regulations will be ignored

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“Hundreds gathered in Dallas and Fort Worth on Sunday to protest President Donald Trump's new immigration policies. News of the protest spread across social media over the weekend, with posts inviting people to ‘show up & speak up for those who can't.'" www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Trump: I’m pro-worker Also Trump:

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

submitted 22 days ago • 666 comments

Words that Democrats need to stop using: Common ground Compromise Bipartisan Words that Democrats need to start using: Emergency Fascist Illegal Unconstitutional Unelected Coup

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

wtf children’s?!?!?

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Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

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Trump has ordered the construction of a concentration camp for migrants at Guantanamo Bay, out of sight of most Americans so we can’t see the things he will order to be done to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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IIHS found that pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40" are about 45% more likely to cause deaths in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30" or less and a sloping profile. Such a rule on vehicle hood height would save bicyclist lives as well.

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BREAKING: Attorneys General of CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. are suing Trump for his budget freeze. That 0 GOP AGs are joining, despite the fact that this freeze hurts their constituents the most, speaks to how MAGA is 100% a cult.

submitted 25 days ago • 178 comments

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

The cruelty indeed does seem to be the point

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There is no reason to change the name of a long established part of the map because the president says so. But then again the CEO of Google was on stage with front row inauguration seats.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

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