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There has been a shift in the Trump team's language in their anti-DEI attacks. All of a sudden they started calling it "DEIA", with the A being "accessibility". If you don't think it's a coordinated effort to remove disabled people from every facet of life, well I have news for you.

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

A daily opposition press briefing will have all of the legit media in attendance (what's left of it) and the world will watch. Failure to do this is surrender. And the world will see that, as well.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Most Americans cannot comprehend what is happening because it’s the opposite of what they’ve ever experienced in the US. They assume they’re aren’t happening because the system will protect them. The system is being dismantled. By the time they realize, it will be too late.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Dems spent years avoiding having any kind of convo about adding seats to the Supreme Court because 'what kind of precedent would that set for Republicans?' Meanwhile, the GOP take office & within weeks are openly talking about ignoring court verdicts and impeaching judges. Sigh.

submitted 14 days ago • 178 comments

BREAKING: JD Vance Lays the Groundwork to Eliminate the Separation of Powers in America. I break it all down in a special, midday Substack and provide my legal perspective on this dangerous comment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 14 days ago • 117 comments

Here's the thing: We need to be mentally prepared for the moment the Trump administration defies court orders. That's a threshold we can't come back from and it's not one we can afford to downplay.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This seems to be very poor framing. Everyone knows and agrees that the federal government is bloated - in that context stripping parts of federal government is viewed by many as good. The real danger here is removing the systems of checks and balances - a bedrock of democracy.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments

Walking around DC and all the “Fuck Trump” signs and graffiti are warming my heart.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

A fake billionaire is letting a fake genius destroy America because a bunch of fake patriots are too stupid, too entitled and too hateful to understand the difference between what is fake news and what is fact.

submitted 15 days ago • 529 comments

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

submitted 18 days ago • 1284 comments

Clearly it was unfair of me to compare the GOP to United Russia for obsequiously forfeiting parliamentary power to a rampaging wannabe dictator and his oligarchs. There were still a few voices of conscience in the Russian Duma!

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Jeffries: The constitution requires the president has the responsibility to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Spending agreements passed through the appropriations process are law. When those laws are violated, the constitution has been violated.

submitted 19 days ago • 1505 comments

I am begging every Democratic committee, PAC, and candidate to get control of your damn email program right now and stop sending tone deaf fundraising emails that have nothing to do with what's happening. Stop listening to focus groups from a month ago. Stop the 2 approved talking points.

submitted 20 days ago • 811 comments

Huge anti Trump protests in Los Angeles today. ❤

submitted 21 days ago • 310 comments

Remember: The tariffs aren’t about economics, and DOGE isn’t about fiscal responsibility. They are both about ••psychopathology**.

submitted 21 days ago • 789 comments

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 21 days ago • 3291 comments

To everyone who says Democrats have no power: Do they have less political power and fewer tools at their disposal than Black Americans in the Jim Crow south?

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids. 🎥 ktla

submitted 21 days ago • 180 comments

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

submitted 21 days ago • 235 comments

Democratic members of Congress: If you’re on Twitter, you need to be on BlueSky.

submitted 21 days ago • 415 comments

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

submitted 21 days ago • 235 comments

Someone needs to tell Trudeau that the thing that would really stick it to Trump is granting asylum to trans people

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

submitted 22 days ago • 131 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Canadian MP Chrystia Freeland: "If Donald Trump slaps 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, we must hit back—dollar for dollar—starting with 100% tariffs on all Tesla vehicles and U.S. wine, beer, and spirits. We must protect Canadian workers and businesses."

submitted 22 days ago • 162 comments

🚨🚨🚨 NEW STATEMENT FROM NOVA SCOTIA PREMIER TIM HOUSTON ON RETALIATION TO TRUMP TARIFFS: - Nova Scotia to limit business with U.S. - Double tolls for commercial vehicles from the United States, effective February 3 at Cobequid Pass - Remove all U.S. alcohol from shelves effective February 4.

submitted 22 days ago • 244 comments

Hey Dems, Imagine just how much the GOP would be freaking the fuck out if Obama or Biden had allowed Soros access to all treasury payment and taxpayer data. Because they’d be right to freak the fuck out. So, freak the fuck out. Now would be good. XOXO Timmer

submitted 22 days ago • 101 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 22 days ago • 770 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 22 days ago • 4940 comments

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

submitted 23 days ago • 1213 comments

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

submitted 23 days ago • 357 comments

i want to see members of congress do some genuine civil disobedience. i want to see them bring the senate noms process to a screeching halt. i want to see them perform as opposition so fox (& its viewers) can't ignore the destruction trump/musk are causing. action. leadership. doing their job.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

Legacy corporate media is not doing its job and no reason to believe that will change. With that, all checks and balances are falling apart.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a terrible headline, I hesitated to share because I don't know what to say other than legacy media is broken. Games and puzzles have replaced fearless journalism. Support independent media.

submitted 23 days ago • 572 comments

Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 128 comments

It’s a great time for new leaders to emerge. Almost everyone in the current Dem leadership is failing badly.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 23 days ago • 4419 comments

Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are running the country while Trump plays golf, signs stuff, shitposts on Truth Social, and sells merch.

submitted 25 days ago • 542 comments

“At -1.6 unfavorable, Trump is a juggernaut. At -18 unfavorable, Trump is weak. Pushing him to -18 is Democrats’ job. Their entire job. In fact, I’m not sure that anything else they do over the next year even matters.”

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

In the first week of the Trump 2.0, Democrats have been divided, disoriented - and largely silent. They seem to be waiting for all the answers and the right message to speak up. That's a mistake. Here are some thoughts on how they can start fighting back ASAP. www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-democr...

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

submitted 25 days ago • 1631 comments

This is it.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

civil rights are not "noise." the right to participate in public life is not "noise." lifesaving healthcare is not "noise." waves of fucking suicides will not be "noise."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Every day, Trump is turning the presidency into a dictatorship. Every day, Trump is taking a meat cleaver to decency, the rule of law, and checks & balances. And every day, Democrats are sitting in the corner sucking their thumbs. As of now, Democrats just ain’t up to this.

submitted 26 days ago • 93 comments

I have not seen one democrat yelling about how Trump is canceling your mom’s cancer treatment, the absolute easiest layup in the political sphere right now. You’re all either tragicomically bad at this or you really do just not give a shit, and I can’t decide which one it is to be quite honest.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments