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Good to know!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Rs voting to confirm Gabbard are ending intelligence information sharing with the rest of the world. if calamity happens, it is on their heads. Pitiful.

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

submitted 11 days ago • 216 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 885 comments

This is good! But will it happen though? And then what?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!

submitted 12 days ago • 321 comments

Libraries are essential. Support your local library, speak up for your local library, love your local library 💙📚 We can never express enough support for libraries!

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 1394 comments

The Democrats are doing more than you think they are. Setting up the whistleblower portal is absolutely amazing & outstanding work. Monday’s press conference in front of the Social Security administration was inspiring.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 18 days ago • 1325 comments

More deeply disturbing developments.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The bill is aimed at protecting "Greenland's political integrity" and will take effect immediately, according to a translation of a parliamentary document in Danish outlining the measure.

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

This isn’t a political contest. This is a power struggle Arrest Musk! Law: 18 U.S.C. § 111. This statute makes it a federal crime to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with federal officers or employees during the performance of their official duties

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

She MUST NOT BE CONFIRMED! Call/Email your Senators! If you already did, great-- NOW DO IT AGAIN!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is your daily reminder that both Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell can go fuck themselves forever and ever.

submitted 17 days ago • 1147 comments

We literally put this number ON OUR HOLIDAY CARD in December! Hopefully some people who weren't using it started to....

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 507 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 299 comments

A federal judge in Maryland has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/judge...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

We told them, but we were being hyperbolic, right?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 17 days ago • 444 comments

FYI: Part of the "woke" "DEI" training in the military is where they tell guys not to rape women. Republicans want that to stop. These are the same people who said my rape was my fault because rape is an "occupational hazard."

submitted 39 days ago • 229 comments

People making a big deal out of Michelle Obama not attending Donald Trump's inauguration seemed not to mind when an outgoing president, Donald Trump, refused to attend the inauguration of the incoming president, Joe Biden, thereby undermining the ceremonial transfer of power between presidents.

submitted 39 days ago • 327 comments

In addition to his many personal shortcomings, Pete Hegseth couldn’t even hold down a job leading a small nonprofit, he has absolutely no business managing an organization with nearly 3 million employees and a budget in the hundreds of billions.

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

Simple as that!

submitted 39 days ago • 38 comments