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Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

submitted 19 hours ago • 29 comments

Arm yourself very easily with some numbers here for your next family argument:

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 1 day ago • 1010 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

🧵 NEWS: Coca-cola says rolling back DEI poses risk to business. Coke is clinging to its DEI initiatives, despite threats: Trump executive order, US Attorney General Pam Bondi, state attorneys general, EEOC chief, Stephen Miller, anti-DEI shareholder activists www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

The government cannot stop you from informing others about their legal rights. Know your rights when educating your community.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Scream this from the rooftops. Powerful men being certain that "if you're smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

From my recent experience, the police took me to the local city jail (credit to HBPD, they were polite and professional the entire time), where they searched me and put me in a cell. Then I had to wait while they figured out what I was getting charged with (disrupting an assembly)

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

Just got out of jail. Only forty four left to go to catch John Lewis’s record. Remember - peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t comply in advance.

submitted 5 days ago • 203 comments

CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

submitted 4 days ago • 364 comments

Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin and the people in charge of the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, have amongst which mayor Chuck Espy, the commissioners, and the Clerk, Laketha Covington, are fascist thugs who hate the First Amendment. Anyway, here’s the opinion piece they want to suppress.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Just now picking up my daughter’s Claudia’s Corgi, Gracie, from her spaying procedure from Friendship Animal Hospital in northwest DC. It turns out they are doing something amazing for people victimized by the insane government purges 👉

submitted 4 days ago • 630 comments

Me: I think I’d like our next rescue dog to be small, like under 20 lbs. Definitely under 50. Also me:

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

still working on this week's newsletter about the NEA and the ongoing moral crisis in arts fundraising, but we're kicking it off with a story about my mother you guys will love because TRY TO IMAGINE a school attempting this gambit in a post-MeToo world and thinking no one would be mad at them

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

Times are bleak, it’s true. But people are still out here doing incredible work now, when it matters most. Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location. 🌱🌎🧪🌿

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

In order to be a hero, you have to do things for other people that meet their needs. If you want power over the choices of others or you want to be deferred to and praised, that’s not being a hero. That’s being a bully.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 9 days ago • 261 comments

I’d expect we’ll see a lot more of this.

submitted 9 days ago • 83 comments

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1910 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 9 days ago • 559 comments

Making sure folks realize that Alex Spiro is both Musk’s attorney and Eric Adams’ attorney.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

🚨Spread the word: Any separated federal personnel may need to submit an informal grievance. Details here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

we just published a list of more than 30 people working for (or closely with) DOGE. message me on signal @rachellerman.55 with tips on the office www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Eric I’m sorry but you have to go to jail

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 10 days ago • 1782 comments

Law enforcement exercising their official duties in public do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. This includes ICE agents. As long as you are not interfering with their duties, you generally have a right to record them on duty.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

submitted 10 days ago • 235 comments

we are witnessing - and i emphasize witness because that’s all congress is doing - the greatest political purge of public servants in generations. it should be the leading media story, since it’s likely to badly damage/destroy everything from public health, labor, security, diplomacy etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 10 days ago • 129 comments

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

submitted 10 days ago • 185 comments

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

submitted 12 days ago • 116 comments