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NIH layoffs. FAA layoffs. FDA layoffs. USAID dismantled. America isn’t just losing workers—it’s losing safety, science & stability. Jen Rubin argues the sooner Americans grasp the damage, the sooner Republicans feel the heat. Ignore it, and they’ll face a voter backlash.

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The IRS is expected to fire upwards of 6,000 employees as early as today. This will mean fewer audits for rich tax dodgers. According to U.S. Treasury estimates, the top 1% underpay their taxes by $163 billion every year.

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youtube.com/watch?v=3692... So many in the US do not appreciate the complexity of food production and distribution. Not to mention aid programs, subsidies, etc. when leadership doesn’t understand…

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The 2024 election exposed a hard truth: Working-class voters—once the party’s base—moved to Trump. Why? Economic pain, immigration failures, & a sense Dems are “too liberal.” William Galston and Elaine Kamarck suggest that waiting for the GOP to implode is a hope, not a strategy.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Ties to Russia!! Ties to China!! and having an inside concerning government contracts, as his contract is part of the contracts, which is a direct conflict of interest. #BuildTheResistance #Resist

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The 19 richest Americans, led by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, have almost as much wealth as the poorer half of the country. The bottom 50% of household own just 2.4% of U.S. wealth. While the richest 19 individuals alone have 2.1%.

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The evidence—from reports on the ground, available data, and precedent—points to a different direction: Immigration raids’ numbers boosted by the arrest of immigrants who haven’t committed crimes.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 418 comments

This might sound like a good thing but they may have already have the info they wanted. This isn’t a sigh of relief. Don’t stop being loud. Don’t back down. #50501movement #50501protest #protest #rejectfascism #defendequality #buildtheresistence #USprotests #democracy #feb5 #r/50501 #protests

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

From Russia, with love. Or...for Russia, with love?

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Democratic senators call on RFK Jr. to avoid a potential conflict of interest that could earn his son millions. Will he?

submitted 16 days ago • 60 comments

List: Examples of Trump’s Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits .. FFS. He is breaking the law. just say it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 17 days ago • 87 comments

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

submitted 17 days ago • 1066 comments

NEW: More than 300 career employees at the EPA have left. Those who remain face a painful decision: resign or work for an administration that plans to radically reshape the EPA while reversing environmental protections. By @fastlerner.bsky.social & @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 57 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

It’s class warfare, top-down. Feel free to call it fascism. With this war raging, where are the Democrats?

submitted 18 days ago • 143 comments

Should we be talking about this as much as the right did starting 4 years ago? www.newsweek.com/2024-electio...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.

submitted 19 days ago • 1033 comments

What Trump and Musk are doing to USAID is just the beginning. The Department of Education is next. We will take every action in our power to fight back and stand in their way.

submitted 18 days ago • 53 comments

A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“

submitted 18 days ago • 129 comments

"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agency’s safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

The Real Secret Behind Trump’s Insane Tariff Obsession newrepublic.com/article/1910... via @newrepublic.com

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Trump's trade war is now here and promises to get ugly fast. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds. “I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said. Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc

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"One particular corner of the internet was ecstatic about Vance’s words: the TheoBros, a group of mostly millennial, ultra-conservative men. Among the tenets of their tributary of Reformed Protestant Christianity is the idea that the United States should be subject to biblical law."

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Donald Trump has a long history of boosting false and disproven claims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, a national pandemic, police brutality, and natural disasters. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social takes a look back at the president's tortured record of making tragedies much worse:

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Reminder: FAA head Michael Whitaker resigned last month despite having years left on his term. His decision came as a tremendous potential gift to Elon Musk, who has claimed that the agency treats his companies unfairly.

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Trump's baseless claims about the tragic plane collision in Washington, DC are not surprising—they are a pattern. In the past, he also boosted false and disproven claims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, a national pandemic, police brutality, and natural disasters. Here is the timeline:

submitted 23 days ago • 87 comments

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

submitted 23 days ago • 2926 comments

Last year, we talked to air traffic controllers and found out they’re working 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime. Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce and push to privatize air traffic control could make matters even worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN6...

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A former ICE chief of staff ons how Trump’s enforcement push is backfiring

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"This is not how you run a government. It’s not even how you would expect Donald Trump and his cronies to run their businesses." Ilan Goldenberg explains that Trump’s EO pausing all new foreign aid obligations for 90 days is already harming U.S. nat'l security, global stability & countless lives.

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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

submitted 25 days ago • 608 comments

Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.

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The success of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first confirmation hearing today "kind of depends on which Bobby Kennedy shows up," as one Trump administration source working on his nomination put it.

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This is Trump's pick for HHS secretary. Confirmation hearings start tomorrow. @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“It’s not just unconstitutional, it’s anti-constitutional. It’s striking at the very foundation of…our governing system.”

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Back in August, when @propublica.org and @documented.net obtained these training videos, this is what Leavitt had to say about Trump and Project 2025: “As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”

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SCOOP from @davidcorn.bsky.social : RFK Jr. secretly recorded his second wife during their bitter divorce fight and in one conversation acknowledged he was "polygamous." One recording might have violated state law. It's a messy saga that ended with her suicide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 77 comments

The media has failed the public on a crucial matter: the derangement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writes @davidcorn.bsky.social. News reports often describe him as a vaccine skeptic when he is far more dangerous than that.

submitted 24 days ago • 245 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 1248 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

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Republicans' claim of a "merit-based" system rings hollow as they attack diversity initiatives while embracing legacy admissions and MAGA loyalists. Jen Rubin explains that when "meritocracy" becomes a euphemism for White, unqualified political loyalists, the term loses all meaning.

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“Pairing cruelty and loyalty is at the core of autocracy.” Trump's Week 1 flood of executive orders shows how these twin pillars—cruelty to enemies and loyalty from followers—lay the groundwork for dismantling democracy. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explains.

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