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The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Hey Wisconsin, polls are open until 8 p.m. Let’s stop Elon Musk from buying another election: iwillvote.com

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NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

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RFK Jr will kill your friends and family. He doesn’t care if your kids get poisoned and/or die.

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Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP—Trump’s latest law firm target—strikes a deal with the White House, according to a post on Trump’s Truth Social.

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Wisconsin folks: please, I am begging y’all to go vote today. Don’t assume this race is won. Every vote is gonna matter. We need EVERYONE to go cast a ballot for Susan Crawford. Polls close at 8pm. Go here to find out where you’re supposed to vote: myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Find-M...

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Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media ... Fidel Castro would be so proud. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

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Crockett: "The idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullshit. We need to stop playing."

submitted 9 days ago • 820 comments

What Trump did to Social Security absolutely equals benefit cuts He put Musk in charge Cut staff by 12% And is closing offices Now-the system is crashing Recipients can’t access their accounts And can’t even speak to anyone by phone-or in person It’s unconscionable to treat seniors like this

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I finally read the entire Goldberg piece. Holy fucking shit this is a major, major, MAJOR scandal. Not only was it a dangerous breach of national security -- they're using a consumer app that destroys the texts, thus destroying presidential records! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.

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Rep. Glenn Ivey suggested Chuck Schumer step down as top Democrat in the Senate over his handling of government funding He is the first Democratic member of Congress to come out and say so publicly

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The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.

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BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

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Trump is the third US president to pardon insurrectionists. Pardons by the previous two - Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. Grant in 1873 - were followed by years of violent racism and the rise of the KKK. Joseph Patrick Kelly @cofcharleston.bsky.social; David Cason @uofnorthdakota.bsky.social

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⚡️'Slovakia is Europe' — thousands of protestors take to the streets against Fico's pro-Kremlin agenda. Thousands of demonstrators gathered on March 7 in more than 40 cities across Slovakia, in protest of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s agenda, Slovak media Aktuality reported.

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Sale of state assets was what created the first generation of Russian oligarchs. They're running plays from a known playbook

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NEW: In a flurry of posts on social media, Elon Musk took to his platform to threaten impeachment of judges ruling against his efforts to disembowel the government. Here’s what you need to know about the growing threats against the judiciary.

submitted 31 days ago • 138 comments

The Democratic Party has abdicated their role. It’s up to the population

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Call your Reps & Senators on Tuesday. Tell them your views on the President acting lawlessly to thwart appropriations passed by Congress. Call them: 202-224-3121

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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Full list of attendees at London Summit: NATO SecGen Denmark PM Sweden PM Germany Chancellor Norway PM Czech PM Turkey FM Spain PM Denmark PM EU Com & Coun President Canada PM Italy PM Poland PM Romania Interim President Finland President France President UK PM Ukraine President Zelenskyy #NotUS

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Our schools are not your churches. No taxpayer vouchers for private religious schools.

submitted 35 days ago • 189 comments

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

submitted 35 days ago • 939 comments

History shows that stripping the rights of one disfavored group is always just pretext for a larger aim of stripping the rights of others.

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Trump's Social Security Administration commissioner just called for a 50% staff reduction. This would gut SSA field offices and make it harder for millions of seniors to access benefits. Make no mistake: this is an attack on Social Security itself.

submitted 36 days ago • 254 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 36 days ago • 1588 comments

Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

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⚡️Trump says Russian oligarchs could be eligible for $5 million US 'gold card.' "I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," Trump told reporters on Feb. 25.

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Everyone seems to be forgetting that Bongino got his big break as a video host for the NRA. They are putting an NRA spokesman as the Deputy FBI Director.

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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

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“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

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Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 42 days ago • 971 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 42 days ago • 444 comments

Shorter: I voted for him because I wanted him to hurt other people. Just not me or my people. The others. The others, only.

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