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The sleeping giant - demcracy - is awakening

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

“Patel is among the last people who could or should lead the Bureau. His outrageous and repeated suggestions that the F.B.I. may have been responsible for the January 6th assault on the Capitol and planned it a year in advance are themselves disqualifying.” www.justsecurity.org/107507/senat...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

If every single democratic senator doesn't vote against RFK Jr., I don't know what. VOTE NO. ALL OF YOU.

submitted 25 days ago • 847 comments

NEW: The AFGE has advised it's members AGAINST resigning per the [email protected] email until they receive further information and clarification. They also include answers to FAQ in their latest communication:

submitted 25 days ago • 68 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 37 comments

Please read our op-ed: #Trump Is Dismantling the System That Guards Against Government Malfeasance in order to undermine the success of whistleblowers Please consider donating to @wbaidlaw.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat cnb.cx/3POyGEd

submitted 30 days ago • 483 comments

Shop at COSTCO, folks. The only company that didn't cave and furthermore doubled down on DEI efforts and said it has helped their revenue, their products, their employees, and their customers.

submitted 30 days ago • 309 comments

AP: Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pentagon nominee, tells senator he paid $50,000 to woman who accused him of 2017 sex assault.

submitted 31 days ago • 149 comments

In today's @theatlantic.com Daily, coming shortly, I take a detour through a bestselling 1965 thriller that was way too on the nose about predicting Trump's weirder policies. Sign up here to read for free: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 31 days ago • 89 comments

Pamela Hemphill, who served 60 days in prison for her role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said she did not want a pardon. “Absolutely not,” Hemphill said. “It’s an insult to the Capitol Police.” nyti.ms/4hmt67M

submitted 31 days ago • 183 comments

The fact that this isn’t among the ten worst nominations, or probably among the five worst things that will happen today, is a sign of how terrible things are, because by normal standards this is a scandalously bad appointment. thehill.com/homenews/med...

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

If only the Tsar knew

submitted 31 days ago • 44 comments

Many knowledgeable Americans have assured me that you needed a Fairness Doctrine to do this kind of thing

submitted 31 days ago • 59 comments

This is bad www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 266 comments

“We will execute drug dealers” and “I have just pardoned the man who made the largest illegal drugs market in world history” seem to be slightly contradictory.

submitted 32 days ago • 106 comments

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

submitted 31 days ago • 87 comments

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

submitted 31 days ago • 178 comments

Trump tells Sean Hannity "I don't care" about the economy and that Joe Biden's pardons are more important

submitted 31 days ago • 697 comments

you don't say. already RAISING Rx drug costs. Next up: Higher food prices! hbr.org/2025/01/trum...

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

This is as I suspected. Just no way Vance & Bondi would be freelancing in their public proclamations that you can't pardon violent offenders. So that was the provisional plan until Trump switched gears "F--k it: Release 'em all": Why Trump embraced broad Jan. 6 pardons www.axios.com/2025/01/22/t...

submitted 31 days ago • 132 comments

“There were 138 officers (73 Capitol Police and 65 Metropolitan Police) injured, of whom 15 were hospitalized, some with severe injuries”. How is it possible that everyone in Trumps camp would agree to pardon the people that committed these crimes? It’s so offensive.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Many Americans practice no religion. Whether our collective conscious is religious or secular, however, we must not forget that Trump’s orders on immigration and potentially other matters (e.g. cutting Medicaid that serves the poor) deserve full-throated condemnation.

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

So let me get this straight, Rev Lorenzo Sewell gave an over the top prayer at the inauguration, and then literally launched a crypto coin after? This is just the biggest grift in human history. Ever. OMG

submitted 31 days ago • 1024 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 2170 comments

This is horrible.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I grew up in LA. If you want to help people who lost their homes or have been evacuated, please donate to the Salvation Army. They are providing shelter & food to those in need. My family is safe, but so many others aren't. socal.salvationarmy.org/southern-cal...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

President Zelensky: 150 Ukrainian firefighters are ready to travel to California to help combat the wildfires.🇺🇸🇺🇦

submitted 41 days ago • 1603 comments

"We may, for example, be ordered to relocate to another state or else quit." Can confirm.

submitted 41 days ago • 61 comments

California Republicans Flee to Mar-a-Lago as LA Burns Instead of providing leadership, they decided to kiss Trump’s ring

submitted 42 days ago • 402 comments

This is the kind of leadership failure we should notice. Forget Trump here. These California Republicans thought it was more important to go to Florida than help in whatever way they could where the crisis is happening.

submitted 42 days ago • 201 comments

There is so much in here I didn’t know. I’m still in shock. Thanks to the reporter for doing the work www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 41 days ago • 239 comments

Military exercises in Iran this month only highlight the limits of its arsenal: the army showcased offensive weapons it has already used, to little effect, and defensive systems "of lower quality" than the ones Israel destroyed with airstrikes in October. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

"All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes; all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard." - cc @thenightgallery.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 220 comments

The answer to “why isn’t that person in prison” is: A. SCOTUS B. Bill Barr C. The two-tiered justice system D. Aileen Cannon E. Any combination of these

submitted 58 days ago • 1152 comments

Four in five people who will use Obamacare in 2025 are from states that voted for Donald Trump. Oh. So the people who whine about the Affordable Care Act are the ones who are going to be using it? SMH. 🙄

submitted 58 days ago • 201 comments

Good lord, people on the Other Place are doing their usual Festivus whining about why they should be able to bring three overstuffed pillowcases as carry on baggage because of my comments on this article by @ibogost.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 58 days ago • 74 comments

A reminder that I warned you all about JD Vance years ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 58 days ago • 75 comments

Laura Loomer points out that Elon Musk has hired non-American citizens for "entry level" roles at Tesla using the database that lists the salaries of H1B visa holders. 🍿

submitted 59 days ago • 171 comments

It took only three weeks to apprehend the killer of a CEO, while more than three years have passed since the Epstein list became known, and no arrests have been made.

submitted 59 days ago • 180 comments

Let's just get the myths out of the way. 1. Lost luggage is rare. (Less than 1 percent.) 2. Carousel waits are shorter than the scrum to get off the plane. 3. Even when airlines don't charge (like Southwest) people are asshats about carry-ons American travelers are spoiled children.

submitted 58 days ago • 177 comments

In a rare move, Republican senators are calling for Pete Hegseth's FBI report: The Senate Armed Services Committee usually limits who can view these types of background checks. Lawmakers want to see this one. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 65 days ago • 52 comments

The shutdown chaos is the full responsibility of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. If a multibillionaire says jump, the GOP says "how high?"—and working people suffer. As Democrats, let's remind the country that we're the ones fighting for a government that actually works for working people.

submitted 65 days ago • 72 comments

Warren: I find it just laughable that the Republicans are saying. well, actually, the Republicans couldn't come together and cut a deal, but the Democrats should have gotten out there and saved their sorry butts. That’s just nuts

submitted 65 days ago • 101 comments

Curious what’s happening in dc? Click on the link: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 65 days ago • 315 comments

Elon Musk says Democrats should take the blame for the new Republican bill failing, but Republicans control the House. 38 Republicans voted against the new bill. Republicans tanked their own bill.