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Big news for anyone with federal student loans: after we rang the alarm, a judge stopped Elon Musk and his team from seizing your personal data. This is why we get in the fight.

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

The hypocrisy is strong. The same people who preach about the First Amendment conveniently forget it when speech challenges their views. It’s not about free speech for them—it’s about control. I’ve been calling this shit out for a while now. And it’s getting pretty damn old.

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Three years ago today, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine, and Russian aircraft began bombing the country. Trump is lying. Russia started the war, not Ukraine. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky.

submitted 7 days ago • 292 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 11 days ago • 242 comments

The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

submitted 11 days ago • 220 comments

One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!

submitted 11 days ago • 118 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 11 days ago • 2398 comments

The Mar-a-Lago crew might not care about hurricanes in Florida. But gutting disaster recovery will hurt the same people Donald Trump promised to help.

submitted 11 days ago • 119 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

submitted 11 days ago • 409 comments

Keep in mind that the probationary federal employees who are now being fired are NOT just newly hired ones. If a long-term employee is promoted to a higher-level position, such as a supervisory or managerial role, then the employee may be subject to a probationary period for that new position.

submitted 11 days ago • 172 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 11 days ago • 1148 comments

On Tuesday, Senate Democrats will investigate the Trump-Musk attack on American consumers. I'm inviting Elon Musk. He owes the American people answers on why he’s trying to shut down the financial cop on the beat that prevents big corporations from cheating Americans.

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A lot of folks have asked me what they can do to fight back. One way is to support candidates in special elections like this one in New York.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

BREAKING: Trump has surprised Russia with how its pivoted toward Putin, the Administration suffered a big loss over birthright citizenship in court, and a NFL player gets arrested for speaking out on MAGA. Consider subscribing to support! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

submitted 11 days ago • 700 comments

At the behest of his oil and gas donors, Trump is selling out the American public. MARAD just approved the massive GulfLink offshore oil export facility over communities’ objections, which will move US energy abroad and spike costs and pollution at home. Stop the dirty deals.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Cast on another pair of Spree Socks with Cider Moon yarn from 2008 and some @missbabs.com yowza for cuff, toes, and heels! #yarn #🧶 #knitting

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been knitting and baking. I haven’t been posting much here due to stress and anxiety. Hoping everyone is finding joy where they can. #joyisanactofresistance #knitting #sourdough #baking #bread #yarn #🧶

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau uncovered $21 billion of cheating and returned it directly to Americans. That little agency is proof that we can make the government work for people. Trump and Musk want to take that away, but we won't stop fighting to protect it.

submitted 14 days ago • 106 comments

Here they are... the Top 10 Callers on 5 Calls! How's your state doing?? 🏆 #CivicActionSuperbowl *Based only on the calls made through our app/site in the last 30 days

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

@aoc.bsky.social just posted a fabulous (and scary) reminder that people who feed on Fox News spend an extraordinary amount of time calling their representatives. It’s time for those who don’t to even things up. Bonus, she was KNITTING in the video! 🧶

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 317 comments

Musk and DOGE are so dangerous and incompetent they fired more than 300 staff at the NNSA only to have to call them back when they realized they were involved with nuclear security. There is no Oops! with nuclear weapons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

Republicans in Congress want Americans struggling to afford student loan payments to shell out nearly $200 more each month to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 20 days ago • 178 comments

Why is no one talking about this?! @aaronparnas.bsky.social @underthedesknews.bsky.social

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The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 22 days ago • 221 comments

This is what I want to know!!!

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…

submitted 22 days ago • 1452 comments

Finding some peace. Spinning #nestfiber superwash #merino into a three ply on my #schacht #sidekick with my @akerworks.bsky.social bobbins. #knitting #yarn #spinning #spinningwheel

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This is just another step in Trump’s campaign against transgender people. No amount of discrimination will make trans people go away—but it will hurt them. That’s what this is.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.

submitted 26 days ago • 219 comments

#uspoli

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Casting on my fourth pair of socks for January - Another pair of DK Spree Socks using deep stash leftovers. #knitting #yarn #onmyneedles #🧶 @missbabs.com

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