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If you're represented by a Republican and you care about the post office, how about flyering outside your local post office. Tell folks about the administration's plan to dismantle USPS and tell them to contact their GOP reps. Include local telephone numbers on the fliers. bsky.app/profile/sylv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

Karen has this exactly right. This is a long-run game.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Imagine being an Article III judge and you get this email on a Saturday night lol

submitted 12 hours ago • 255 comments

Among the many economically reckless, corruption-driven priorities of the Trump Administration boosting crypto is at or very near the top.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is Arielle Pines. A military spouse who worked in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs for 15 years. She received exceptional performance reviews. She was fired last week as part of Trump’s cuts. She was a “probationer” as she’d transferred to a new office. One story amidst 1000s of lives upended.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

With Canada's sovereignty under attack, we're at a further disadvantage because much of our media is under U.S. and/or billionaire ownership. It's time to stand up for the CBC and stop Pierre Poilievre's plan to shut it down if he's elected. Join the fight: forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc

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Banning abortions is a way to kill and injure people who wish to terminate their pregnancies. Period. That is the purpose of this kind of legislation, and it works.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I’m gonna log off but like as a journalist you need to push back on this framing, even in a promo post, you can not say this without indicating that it’s a falsehood meant to justify a power grab.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

would the senator like a list of other recent events that aren’t typical

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It's true, Democrats never asked for restrictions on presidential powers that involved presidents just following the laws & Constitution, because no president has ever violated the laws or Constitution on such an epic scale, nor has Congress ever before stood by & done nothing on such an epic scale.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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“The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen more substantially, to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% right after he took office.” America’s sea cucumbers are very slowly starting to notice something is terribly wrong. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Essential U.S. aid that buys H.I.V. drugs, tuberculosis testing and emergency food for starving children: still frozen, despite what the Trump administration says. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

No lies detected.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

it doesn't really matter how unpopular he is, he's king now, and he has a cabinet full of ruthless monsters willing to do his bidding no matter how many people it immiserates, and there is literally nothing short of a coup now that can stop him

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

For now this is performative buffoonery.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

Don't you feel defended

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

In case you think Josh is joking, this is how they describe the leader of the German neo-Nazi party, AfD, this morning: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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This is a concentration camp. If that term makes you uncomfortable, it should. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I had to confirm these for myself. Here are Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff and the official White House account running with Trump's earlier post referring to himself as king. Famously, the United States of America fought a war over not wanting to be ruled by a king.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

You read that right—Trump just signed an Executive Order to bring independent government agencies under HIS control...effectively gutting their independence. Make sure EVERYONE sees this.

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"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you can do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

U.S. media: Interviewing retired Democrats about whether taking over Canada would help them electorally Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Contact one of the 3 credit bureaus. Lock down your credit. They will share your wishes with the other 2 bureaus. #Equifax #Transunion #Experian

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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

Public comment genuinely matters. Courts will overturn rules based on an administration not responding to substantive comments.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1053 comments

Worse than Munich 1938. When Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Germany had the strongest military on the continent and hadn’t launched a big attack. Now, US has the strongest military on the continent, and Russia is weakened from 3 years of war. This isn’t from fear and hope, it’s helping the aggressor.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

More than just a soccer superpower. 🇧🇷

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I get we're all numb to this but another way of looking at Trump pushing 25% auto tariffs is the world's richest auto executive trying to ban much of his competition

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Experts: every safety regulation is written in blood Elon's doge dorks: psh, I'll operate this lathe wearing whatever shirt I want

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

no sane liberal thinks that annexing Canada is going to be a "potential electoral boon" because we're not dumb enough to believe he's going to give a bunch of essentially conquered Canadian liberals the right to vote, conservatives don't EVER take steps that would lessen their electoral dominance

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“Trump may respond by inviting only sycophants and right-wing hacks to chronicle his daily decrees,” Acosta continued. “Fine. Let the American people soak that in — the image of an aspiring autocrat and his servile propagandists.” @jimacosta.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/jim-acosta-c...

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Over at EPA, new administrator Lee Zeldin is trying to "claw back" $20 billion that the agency has already dispersed. In other words, the government gave the money to private parties, and now it's going to steal the money back. It is straightforwardly illegal.

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

Connecticut was out at The CT Capitol today.

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