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Help us legally challenge President Trump's unlawful & unconstitutional exercise of power to terminate Senior Executive Service Members such as Mary Comans, the former Chief Financial Officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We need your support! gofund.me/3d277c98

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 92 comments

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

submitted 17 hours ago • 183 comments

Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney, and Joe Biden have never held security clearances. They were constitutional officers, they are exempt from that.

submitted 16 hours ago • 90 comments

This is why Trump wants to cancel the DOE. Education is Trump's kryptonite.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Another critic of Paul Weiss’s move, Mark Zaid, a lawyer who represents whistle-blowers, including in a case that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment, said, “There are things where principle is stronger than the dollar.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/b...

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

The more of us who speak out, the more who protest, the more who even repost, the safer we all are who do and the better off our society. Remember that it only takes 3.5% of the population protesting to ensure change. Staying quiet won’t save you or any of us

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

I walked by a Tesla today and this is what was written on the window

submitted 21 hours ago • 635 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3743 comments

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

RE-UP! A great primer on dictators by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social. @Wired.com vids are made for a pop culture audience. 📣 This is a resource to share w/peeps not plugged into politics! She breaks down Qs such as diffs between dictatorship, an autocracy, & authoritarianism. youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

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Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the past month has been super slow. “Fewer tourists, fewer business people. This is not normal, believe me.” Says he’s looking for a new job because he needs to pay his bills.

submitted 20 hours ago • 503 comments

The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE. Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands. #FightOligarchy (🎥: Bastian Brauns)

submitted 21 hours ago • 444 comments

The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.

submitted 18 hours ago • 594 comments

Imagine spending a quarter of a billion dollars just to say you have “friends” You must be so awful to have to dish out that kind of dough.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: This is the crowd to see AOC in Greeley, Colorado where GOP Congressman Gabe Evans refuses to hold a town hall.

submitted 21 hours ago • 900 comments

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

submitted 20 hours ago • 569 comments

@filmandseries.bsky.social @disneyplushelp.bsky.social WE NEED YOU! Please DROP Weiss!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I would be interested in seeing a list of Paul Weiss’ corporate/commercial clients, so that I can make an informed decision about where to put MY money, in light of where they put theirs

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

Paul Weiss is the Marco Rubio of law firms.

submitted 1 day ago • 474 comments

I will fearlessly and unapologetically continue to stand up for democracy, no matter what the president says about me. Democracy Docket will do the same: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 1 day ago • 509 comments

Judge REYES on a tear, telling DOJ she won't be "gaslit" by effort to say their ban on transgender people in the military isn't actually a "ban." She notes SecDef Hegseth literally called it a ban on X. "You're saying one thing in public. You're saying a different thing in court," Reyes said.

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

submitted 17 days ago • 701 comments

“A sense of specialness and importance,” you say?! 😐 “Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance.”

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

You do not, in fact, have to wait until paragraph 5 of this story to explain that cod liver oil is not, in fact a "remedy" in any way www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

submitted 17 days ago • 127 comments

Sometimes folks treat 538 as synonymous with the forecast models, but a) the polling data they compiled was a huge undertaking that underpinned so much other work both inside and outside b) they did a phenomenal amount of nuanced, thoughtful writing about politics and public opinion

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Huge, and bad. Disney kills 538 but tries to clean it up by saying ABC would still "provide 'best-in-class polling and political data analysis' across the network...It also isn’t clear just yet what will happen with 538’s extensive trove of data." 🧐 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Joshua Stanton has been put on administrative leave & walked out of the building after being given the role just last week, an agency source tells me. Previous chief counsel Adrian Sevier had been with FEMA since 2000 and was office's longest-serving chief.

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country www.404media.co/french-unive...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(

submitted 17 days ago • 176 comments

Kristi Noem accompanied ICE on a raid this morning, styling a flak jacket to keep her safe in the extremely dangerous area of (checks notes) Arlington, Virginia

submitted 18 days ago • 1962 comments

Congress should have named it the CHIPS & SALSA Act: Strategic Advancement of Leadership in Semiconductors and Applied Sciences

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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submitted 17 days ago • 362 comments

While we are on the subject of Elon Musk…

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

This is who we need right now! You must watch this. Senator Slotkin needs to be a household name.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo.

submitted 17 days ago • 70 comments

It was actually 1400 points. Please impeach him immediately

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Wow DJ's cancer was likely caused by a chemical he was exposed to? Trump admin this week:

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 17 days ago • 2010 comments

We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 17 days ago • 80 comments