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Our Midwestern values are under siege. At such a critical time for civil and labor rights in this country, Illinois is doubling down on our commitment to protecting all Illinoisans. In doing so, we're solidifying our status as a place of welcome and opportunity for all.

submitted 26 days ago • 281 comments

It’s no surprise that Scott Bessent and Donald Trump want to save face and downplay the risks as Elon Musk seizes power, but the American people know better. Trump and Bessent are asking you not to believe what’s playing out right in front of your eyes.

submitted 26 days ago • 382 comments

This whole effort was brazenly illegal. From the big picture down to innumerable individual acts. But even if course was shifted now, which is basically unimaginable, Musk likely has already essentially destroyed the organization. Under the best circs will take years or decades to rebuild.

submitted 26 days ago • 70 comments

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 26 days ago • 221 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 4323 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 28 days ago • 213 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 27 days ago • 1699 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a betrayal to Portland residents, the City grants a Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) to Zenith Energy, giving the Texas-based fossil fuel company a green light to expand its operations in PDX. Wednesday we protest. www.breachcollective.org/highlights/p... #StopZenithOil

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

People are getting up off the mat.

submitted 27 days ago • 931 comments

"This is a... harmful, dangerous, killer bluff. But they don't have the law on their side. If we are going to push back on this kind of autocratic behavior, it's not just members of Congress who have to stand up, & we will, it is all of us together" [email protected] in front of USAID just now

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

submitted 29 days ago • 194 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 29 days ago • 591 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 29 days ago • 770 comments

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

i try not to complain about joke thieves but i’ve spent years cultivating a shtick of posting dispensable bullshit that’s of use to nobody and it sucks to see people stealing it

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

I know these are challenging times — and the Trump administration is trying to confuse the American people. That’s why it’s so important we speak plainly: Donald Trump is incompetent.

submitted 30 days ago • 217 comments

This fight is far from over; the Trump admin is still illegally withholding funding across government. Republicans are still intent on confirming Russ Vought as this country’s budget director—someone who has REFUSED to say he will follow the law. Don't let up.

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

It's a revolt of the bosses I don't know what to tell you except that everyone who said this was about the populist working class is a mark for the wallet inspector

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

The US Constitution does not grant the President this unilateral authority. In Illinois, we will stand against unlawful actions that would harm millions of working families, children, and seniors.

submitted 34 days ago • 306 comments

Please join 350PDX and over 100 organizations in the Divest Oregon coalition for an advocacy day in Salem on February 4! We're supporting the Pause Act, legislation aimed at “pausing” new private investments in fossil fuels. To register, visit the Divest Oregon website and click the banner link!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I'm fine with the Senate Dems posting whatever if even a single one was hammering about the illegal impoundment going on right now.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Dear lord. Ramping, universal tariffs.

submitted 34 days ago • 30 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.

submitted 34 days ago • 220 comments

President Donald Trump held a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. Look who joined him onstage: Cliven Bundy, his eldest son Ryan Bundy and, of course, the newly-freed Oath Keepers leader, Stewart Rhodes.

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

submitted 35 days ago • 1714 comments

Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.

submitted 36 days ago • 691 comments

If you can't say with your full chest that the Greenland thing is an evil idea then you need to get out of the politics talking business.

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.

submitted 36 days ago • 453 comments

Oversight is also the committee with the most direct jurisdiction over all the other bad shit Trump has already done to the federal workforce of over 2 million Americans (DEI purge, abrupt RTO, etc.) Connolly has done, like, a press release about it.

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.

submitted 36 days ago • 3307 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 38 days ago • 4409 comments

Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.

submitted 38 days ago • 591 comments

Democrats need to start talking about what Trump’s doing as a radical assault on the foundations of the country. A revolution to shred American law, institutions, and alliances for the advancement of billionaires and neo-Nazis. An attempt to destroy normal America

submitted 39 days ago • 53 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 40 days ago • 1181 comments

"Nothing matters" is the motto of those willing to give up in the face of dictatorship and fascism. Everything matters. Each step towards freedom and resistance means something.

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

I’m the son of Jewish refugees that fled the Nazis. I know exactly what I’m looking at.

submitted 40 days ago • 257 comments