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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 1 day ago • 2624 comments

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

There is a reason why Elon and Russ Vought want Congress to pass Speaker Johnson's slush fund CR. We should not let Elon and Trump pick winners and losers or defund programs they either don't like or don't understand. They will hurt blue AND red states. VOTE NO.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

The brave people of Lithuania should be an inspiration at a time when reminders are necessary.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Ok, friends. Here’s your homework for the week. Congress is employed by and paid for by the American taxpayer so if federal employees have to submit “5 bullet” points of what they did the week before to “justify” their jobs, so should Congress.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

submitted 4 days ago • 141 comments

After taking unprecedented (illegal) access to federal data systems, DOGE has found basically no substantial waste, fraud, or abuse. They've lied a lot but come up quite empty in reality.

submitted 3 days ago • 218 comments

Forty years of having people relentlessly say “what if government did nothing for anyone” instead of asking if it can do something for everyone and now people think modern society happened because they’re just the best and they deserve it

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

submitted 5 days ago • 462 comments

“.. When you see important societal actors .. C.E.O.s, mayors, governors .. changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt." - Gandhi

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 6 days ago • 1324 comments

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 488 comments

unconstitutional and authoritarian

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"The leaders refused to succumb to the efforts of Mr. Marocco & the [DOGE] team, overseen by Elon Musk, to assume control of their functions, dismiss staff members and install Mr. Marocco as the acting leader." HE CANNOT BE AN ACTING LEADER. NO STATUTE PERMITS IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

It hasn’t even been two months and already we know we don’t need the long judgment and perspective of history: his second administration is extremely high up there, arguably the top, in terms of both most openly and brazenly corrupt and lawless: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

submitted 6 days ago • 510 comments

Lets check in on the guy running the FAA now

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 153 comments

seems like it's light on the golf, but otherwise 100%

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In 1943 the US government made an antifascist film called "Don't Be a Sucker" in which we see a college professor in Germany removed from his classroom by government officials who do not approve of what he's teaching about race. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

new list of democrats to primary just dropped

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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 7 days ago • 490 comments

Like huh it’s almost as if this information is inconsistent with the government’s representations in court that Amy Gleason, not Musk, is in charge of DOGE, and that agency heads, not DOGE, are responsible for the cuts

submitted 7 days ago • 125 comments

Trump’s recklessness will raise costs, so I’m taking action. My legislation will force a vote on ending Trump’s new taxes on Canadian goods—VA's largest export market. I urge my colleagues to put partisanship aside, do the right thing, and vote to bring costs down. www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 92 comments

Powerful. @algreen.house.gov: "There are times when it is better to stand alone, than not stand at all. This president is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we're all going to have to stand up."

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

I regret to inform you that finding out 4 justices are completely down to break every law and crown an all-out dictator and every ruling comes down to two extremely conservative judges bought and paid for by the wealth class is far, far from good news.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

submitted 8 days ago • 711 comments

Senator Elissa Slotkin lists the ways that people can fight back to stand up for our democracy. Love this!!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

They ought to introduce new articles of impeachment every day.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

No Democrat should attend the Joint Address.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The stock market is crashing Inflation is soaring We started a trade war with Canada and Mexico Insulted our NATO partners and threatened worldwide democracy Fired thousands of federal workers Made the world far sicker And sided with Russia over Ukraine Can’t wait for the gaslighting tonight

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

NEW: Elon Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, spending millions to install bought-and-paid-for MAGA extremist Brad Schimel. Today, @WisDems launches a campaign to punch back: The People v. Musk.🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 124 comments

Today, I continued our fight to turn illegal attacks against federal workers around with NOAA at their headquarters. Speaking up and pushing back lets the administration know that we’re all here.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

No Democrat should attend.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Trump has just paused all aid to Ukraine. Russia is getting everything it hoped for and more. Disgusting.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

Trump crash

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Crash the economy and buy scraps for cheap

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the goal is to make it so unpleasant to work for government that nobody will do it unless they have no other choice. These requirements will keep getting dumber and more arbitrary because that's their purpose.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

They are methodically dismantling the U.S. government while ending America's oldest alliances. This is a coordinated attack on the United States. And STILL Democrats will insist on showing up to Trump's rally tomorrow night like this is all normal.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments