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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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A day after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine "started" the war that Russia launched against it, Zelensky says the U.S. president is “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 4 days ago • 1013 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5977 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."

submitted 8 days ago • 182 comments

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 8 days ago • 865 comments

If the White House press corps doesn't walk out in solidarity for the AP they're not gonna do it for anyone.

submitted 8 days ago • 120 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 9 days ago • 3234 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments

I love this

submitted 9 days ago • 3291 comments

House GOP wants $4 TRILLION dollar debt ceiling increase. You marks really thought the world’s richest man and the guy with the golden toilet seats were really going to “fight the elites” for you? Nah, they just want their tax breaks.

submitted 10 days ago • 782 comments

And there it is. Republicans have proposed a $4 trillion debt limit increase. Four trillion dollars.

submitted 10 days ago • 733 comments

Many political observers have memory-holed what an actual modern day presidential honeymoon looks like. Trump's numbers well below where Biden was at this time in his presidency. Via @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social

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1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.

submitted 11 days ago • 298 comments

Dear media, No, Trump isn’t “signaling” that he “might” ignore the courts. He. Is. Ignoring. The. Fucking. Courts. The end. Do your damn job.

submitted 11 days ago • 641 comments

Elon Musk has no business being anywhere near our personal data. It's that simple. Pass it on. Also, @jessicatarlov.bsky.social is in the trenches fighting MAGA on Fox News everyday, if you don't follower her, you should!

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

Breaking: A federal district court judge in Boston just temporarily blocked the Trump admin from reducing health research grants. Judge Angel Kelley has issued a temporary restraining order. 22 states had sued to block the reductions.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 14 days ago • 75 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 739 comments

“On Wednesday, Musk shared a faked video claiming USAID had sponsored celebrity visits to Ukraine. Darren Linvill of Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub told NBC News the video was manufactured Russian propaganda.” @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social on the origins of right’s USAID attacks

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

If you suspect corruption in a multibillion dollar, multinational aid program servicing millions of the world’s poorest, you investigate it meticulously and thoroughly with an independent task force. You don’t just close it all down the same day… Unless of course you are a racist sociopathic despot.

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 2064 comments

🚨BREAKING: Three unions, represented by Forward Democracy, file federal lawsuit to BLOCK the co-called “Fork Directive” Feb. 6 deadline. For breaking democracy news follow @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments