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We want Democrats to play hardball and use their leverage to stop the Trump-Musk coup.

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Tell Schumer and every Dem NO on CR

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100% this!!!! 👇👇

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thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this

submitted 2 days ago • 601 comments

Corruption. In five parts. – Musk spends $290M to elect Trump and other Republicans – Trump gives Musk control of the executive branch – Musk dismantles the agencies that regulate his companies – Trump does a commercial for a struggling Musk company – Musk donates another $100M to Trump

submitted 2 days ago • 185 comments

BREAKING: Unions representing federal workers file an emergency motion to block the Trump administration from illegally destroying classified USAID records.

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Common decency isn’t a far left position.

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Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

submitted 8 days ago • 259 comments

I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

submitted 6 days ago • 712 comments

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

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This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

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Imagine if the most prominent member of the Biden administration had reposted, in agreement, someone calling a prominent GOP senator a ‘retard’. Would have been the end of the world, biggest scandal ever. The asymmetry in American politics continues to grow. Just wild to see.

submitted 6 days ago • 385 comments

Colbert nails it

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 12 days ago • 337 comments

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 11 days ago • 877 comments

Mike Myers, Canadian legend, on SNL tonight.

submitted 13 days ago • 493 comments

I say again: any Republican in congress with an ounce of integrity would switch parties immediately. They are complicit, sadistic cowards. Every single one.

submitted 15 days ago • 168 comments

Something to bookmark: Potash is essential for modern agriculture. Eighty percent of the potash used on American farms comes from mines in Saskatchewan. {gift link}

submitted 14 days ago • 506 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 426 comments

Anyone who tells you you're overreacting is underreacting.

submitted 15 days ago • 308 comments

I think Trump might’ve lost Dave.

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 16 days ago • 156 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 16 days ago • 442 comments

Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."

submitted 16 days ago • 216 comments

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

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This needs to be amplified.

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Well this is literally not legal so lololol insanity

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Former Wash Post top editor Cameron Barr severs ties to the company He writes that Bezos’ revamp marks an “unacceptable erosion of its commitment to publishing a healthy diversity of opinion and opinion” www.linkedin.com/posts/camero...

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Canada's ruling Liberals, who a few weeks ago looked certain to lose an election this year, are mounting a major comeback amid the threat of US tariffs and are tied with their rival Conservatives, according to three new polls reut.rs/41y58kW

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

Billionaire propaganda

submitted 17 days ago • 210 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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Tim Burchett votes yes. massive cuts to health care for poor folks — all to set up massive tax cuts for the rich. They never cared about the debt.

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Democratic Whip Katherine Clark to House Dems: "House Republicans are trying to jam through their Budget Resolution after assuring House Democrats that there would be no further votes this evening. "

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

submitted 18 days ago • 747 comments

“Woke just means you give a damn about other people.” -Jane Fonda

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