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Do NOT open your door for any authority unless they have a warrant — from a court, signed by a judge. NO warrant, NO entry. If they arrest you, you ALWAYS have the right to remain silent, even if they don’t read you any rights. The ONLY thing to say: “I want a lawyer.”

submitted 12 days ago • 226 comments

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

submitted 12 days ago • 667 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 12 days ago • 3187 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 12 days ago • 1910 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 12 days ago • 2401 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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submitted 18 days ago • 1106 comments

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 17 days ago • 18394 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 17 days ago • 1165 comments

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize Mexico when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of Mexico today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

submitted 22 days ago • 1036 comments

The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 828 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 546 comments

Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 23 days ago • 951 comments

The DOGE kids showing up at Treasury:

submitted 23 days ago • 738 comments

Wow! So... At least with regards to CANADA the "victory" Trump has "earned" are things that CANADA had ALREADY agreed to when Biden was in office. Trump is CLEARLY folding but damn he is stupid. Yet... MAGA is, predictably, cheering the victory. Meanwhile, they forgot they wanted tariffs.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woo...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 23 days ago • 1328 comments

Paramount is openly considering what is essentially bribery

submitted 23 days ago • 221 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 26 days ago • 232 comments

“What’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming??” This was Trump’s response when asked if he had visited the site of the deadly DC plane crash. The very same ghoulish sociopath who said “it is what it is” when he was asked about 1,000 Americans dying a day from Covid.

submitted 26 days ago • 335 comments

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

submitted 26 days ago • 180 comments

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

submitted 27 days ago • 159 comments

ICYMI: Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bove, has instructed the FBI to provide, by Noon on Feb. 4th, a list of FBI employees who were involved in Jan. 6th cases. The Acting FBI Director and Acting Deputy Director sent out a memo Friday night that noted the following:

submitted 26 days ago • 597 comments

About 70% of US crude oil imports come from Mexico and Canada (mostly Canada) If Trump follows through with his threat to impose tariffs on those nations Gas prices could immediately rise by 70 cents per gallon And up to $1.00 per gallon in the Spring Not to mention what it’ll do to groceries

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 26 days ago • 134 comments

"The FBI’s acting director, Brian Driscoll, a veteran agent who Trump appointed to run the bureau until a permanent director is confirmed, refused to approve the mass firings, two people familiar with the matter said."

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

"a mass purge of field agents, the front line investigators in FBI cases, would signal an even greater escalation of what has become a startling pattern of retribution" -- buried and understated, but at least there www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Imagine dying in service of your country and your family needing to request anonymity because of the President of the United States and his supporters.

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

We're just going to leave this here…

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

This is a hair-on-fire situation (gift link) Musk allies (not official government employees, apparently) seek access to "the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide." wapo.st/4jH7XYa

submitted 27 days ago • 146 comments

Republicans want you to hit your kids instead of giving them health care

submitted 27 days ago • 2996 comments

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 26 days ago • 476 comments

Years ago, when a lot of us called him a Nazi, we were told that language was too extreme. We then said Nazis didn't start off with camps; they started smaller with personal bigotry and grew it into a massive force for evil. We're at the inflection point in that growth.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

If only there had been some way to predict the impact of Trump’s tariffs…oh, wait 😐

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

CBS is planning to settle Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against “60 Minutes” for airing an interview with Kamala Harris because Paramount doesn’t want Trump to block its multi-billion dollar merger with Skydance. The legacy media is dead. America is now a failed state run by a tinpot dictator.

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Please remember that this administration is not “the government.” They are not governing. The government is not the bad guy. Trump and the oligarchs are the bad guys. They are dismantling “the government.”

submitted 30 days ago • 344 comments

Head of USAID (an organization that helps to spread democracy around the world) stands up for the rule of law and democracy in America, gets put on leave. via @dylanmatt.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

Guess they didn't background check any of the j6 pardons. Shocking

submitted 27 days ago • 904 comments

Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

It’s abundantly clear that each of these nominees amounts to nothing more than WWE/WWF larping wannabe cosplayers for professions they loathe. Noam wearing body armor to look like a “badass” for PR, RFK regurgitating pseudoscience, or the 27 y/o press sec taking questions like a sorority prefect…

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

submitted 30 days ago • 637 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 542 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 28 days ago • 575 comments

We are deeply concerned about the current state of our country. As civil servants, we are doing everything in our power to resist, even if it costs us our jobs. We are proud to be Americans, but what is happening right now does not reflect the values we, as Americans, stand for!

submitted 28 days ago • 284 comments

This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.

submitted 28 days ago • 419 comments

“In almost every foreign conflict in which Russia had a hand, Gabbard backed Moscow and railed against the US. Her past promotion of Kremlin propaganda has provoked significant opposition on both sides of the aisle to her nomination.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 28 days ago • 128 comments