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BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining. That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.

submitted 3 hours ago • 63 comments

It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

submitted 3 days ago • 208 comments

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

submitted 3 days ago • 588 comments

Every House Republican wants to cut taxes for billionaires while taking nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. Every American should know this.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

If I had to reregister to vote, post SAVE Act, I'd need: a $25 copy of my birth certificate, a $5 copy of my name change, a $3 copy of my marriage license, and an $89 drivers license. OR a $165 passport. Not only is it a poll tax, it's also a pink tax.

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

🗓️🚨 MONDAY, APRIL 14 If you care about workers and you want to do something to help, please join us at the Labor Department in D.C. at 12. We humbly beg for your support in the wake of Fork 2.0 and the likelihood of massive RIFs. There is still time to save critical services but we have to act NOW.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 6 days ago • 437 comments

Really saying the human trafficking part out loud here.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 8 days ago • 1526 comments

This is the obvious next step. Sonia Sotomayor knows it -- she mentioned it in her dissent yesterday. Don't be naive, they're coming for us.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today! He makes money on you!

submitted 9 days ago • 385 comments

Before the mass firings, many agencies had severe staffing shortages, so a hiring freeze will make it harder for agencies to meet their missions and deliver the government services that taxpayers expect.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Our community works hard to support its local businesses, but tariffs will benefit mega stores at the expense of smaller groceries and shops. Tell Fitzpatrick we don’t want to become a town of empty store fronts: DC 202 225 4276 PA 215 579 8102 www.inquirer.com/food/tariffs...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Mining is a dangerous job. It's about to get even worse.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

By the way whenever we come out of a deep recession like 2008, the rich get richer

submitted 12 days ago • 1228 comments

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

submitted 15 days ago • 1185 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 21 days ago • 795 comments

President Trump issued yet another order today targeting law firms and lawyers he views as political enemies, continuing his efforts to take down the pillars of a free society.

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

What’s happening to Social Security is the biggest story of the day: ☎️ Phone lines are overwhelmed & understaffed. 🖥️ Website has crashed four times in 10 days this month. ➡️ Staff are resigning, getting fired, or being pushed out in waves. Donald Trump & Elon Musk are destroying Social Security.

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 24 days ago • 855 comments

Enslaved women endured unspeakable horrors on slave ships, yet their unbreakable spirit ignited resistance & safeguarded their children. Their enduring strength empowers today’s fight for women’s rights & equality. 148 days until Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

New from me at Cato: a new Trump White House memorandum exposes lawyers who oppose the federal government in court to crippling sanctions to be decided on by the feds themselves, not by courts. And few law firms have protested. The hour grows late for a basic element of constitutional liberty. /1

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

I don't see enough people or reporters talking about the mass terminations of nih lgbtq+ grants that happened yesterday. How can we get the word out so communities understand the huge loss to science, safety, and economy this is?? #academicsky

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

SOCIAL SECURITY IS IN DANGER Lutnik is one of Trump’s billionaire oligarch cabinet members. His mother-in-law doesn’t need her monthly SS check but most Americans do. He’s deliberately raising the possibility of NOT sending out checks… and if you dare to complain, you’re obviously a fraudster.

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

Here’s something fun I learned this week If you find yourself in an ER in an abortion ban state and upon intake they discover you’re pregnant, from there on out your care will be different than any non-pregnant person’s. The fetus becomes primary.

submitted 26 days ago • 212 comments

Fascist Dictator. There are no two ways about it. Even our pretend US democracy is gone. As are checks and balances. As is the Republic. Are you wondering what you would be doing in 1933? Check what you are doing now.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

“Tesla earned $2.3bn [£1.9bn] in the United States in 2024. You’d think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.” www.independent.co.uk/voices/tesla...

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Books

submitted 26 days ago • 544 comments

SCOOP: The Trump team is taking a hatchet to the State Department's annual — and world-renowned — human rights report. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

submitted 30 days ago • 153 comments

It's funny how all these corporations are getting rid of DEI but are filling the airwaves with commercials using Black music... Again, they want to use the culture without acknowledging the struggle that birthed that culture!

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 30 days ago • 613 comments

This is your reminder that the current purge of federal agencies coincides with years of indoctrination by Christian school / homeschool social studies textbooks like Abeka.

submitted 30 days ago • 102 comments

This past Saturday at Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump and Elon Musk held a "candlelight" dinner. Guests spent $1 million per seat. The event did not appear on President Donald Trump’s official schedule. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

submitted 31 days ago • 414 comments

I think a lot about how Crazy Rich Asians made a ton of money, huge hit, beloved movie. Sequel, guaranteed hit. And then the Asian woman cowriting the script asked to be paid the same amount as the white man they paired her with, and the studio completely abandoned the sequel rather than do that

submitted 31 days ago • 41 comments

Want to get really, really angry about for-profit prisons this morning?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

submitted 31 days ago • 2783 comments

The DOJ just dropped its lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks in a majority-Black community. This is a devastating blow to environmental justice and public health. Communities in "Cancer Alley" deserve protection, not politics.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

They keep fucking up...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I think is time everyone watches a movie called "Wag The Dog". Great actors... Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman. "Wag the dog is a political term for the act of creating a diversion from a damaging issue usually through military force"

submitted 32 days ago • 174 comments