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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1596 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1149 comments

He nails it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1346 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 10 hours ago • 335 comments

Amen to that.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1547 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 23 hours ago • 566 comments

saying it again: if there are "conditions" on aid to california, no democrat should vote for any disaster aid of any kind to any state. all states get aid or no states get aid. that's it

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

conditioning disaster aid that californians have paid into simply to force policies on californians who don’t want them is as straightforward an abrogation of the spirit of the union as one can imagine and red states had better be prepared to accept retributions in kind

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1013 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 2 days ago • 690 comments

Obvious extortion of another liberal democracy who are literally fighting & dying for their very nation's survival daily is not a "deal" to "love." Add this basic moral truth to the fact that Trump has no intention to demand Putin, a revanchist mass murderer, leave the Ukrainian land he has stolen.

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Most reactions to your previous profession of "love" for Trump’s (what... 2nd? 3rd?) attempt to extort Zelensky & Ukrainians were not simply "mad" posts but rather natural reactions to a profoundly bad idea. Yale prof @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains if you can't hear it from Bluesky users:

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

youtu.be/d1GtNEbKMN0?...

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Call to Action: civil and human rights protest. Savannah, Georgia on February 22 at 4PM. “WE BEAT 'EM BEFORE. WE’ll BEAT ‘EM AGAIN” #3E #USProtest #ProtestGA #ProtestSavannah #Feb22

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 543 comments

#BlackHistoryMonth: #ICYMI: The Father of Environmental Justice reflects on the movement he helped to start. Four decades into his activism looks back on his legacy and the work ahead. Scientific American - www.scientificamerican.com/video/the-fa... @BullardCenter #HBCU

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If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 591 comments

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

submitted 1 day ago • 495 comments

Remember six years ago when everyone said it was so out of line to call what he was doing “concentration camps”? I do. Yeah. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

There is a wave of anger building across the entire country. People are already becoming fed up with Trump and Musk. These algorithms can try to hide it all they want, but they won’t be able to avoid reality for long.

submitted 1 day ago • 351 comments

Call to Action: Elon Musk protest. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. February 22 at 1:30PM. #3E #USProtest #TeslaTakeover #ProtestFL #Feb22

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Eliza Orlins explains today's ruling in the Eric Adams case . This is FABULOUS: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 729 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2808 comments

Unironically, these letters are a good example of how we’re ruled by evil men now. It would have cost them nothing to be at least slightly sympathetic. “Hey man, we know this is rough, but we have to tighten our belts and…” They instead deliberately made them as cruel as possible.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 767 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 2 days ago • 513 comments

Connolly: "The fallacy of Musk's argument is they never look at revenue. They only look at expenditures. If you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. Raise income threshold subject to withholding tax & you can extend social security by 40 to 50yrs. He doesn't want to talk about that"

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

Breaking: Hochul won't remove Adams So, we'll need to remove them both in the primaries www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Protests happen when they happen, if you can only show up on certain days show up on those days, if no protest is available on your dates then organize one, open your own spaces. Protests need to be daily, but not everyone is expected to show up daily. Do what you can when you can. Just show up.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1494 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 2 days ago • 4218 comments