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Driving an EV is almost 4x cheaper per mile than a gasoline engine vehicle. It costs around $1 in electricity to go 24 miles in an EV It costs about $3.65 to go the same 24 miles using a gasoline engine. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 101 comments

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

submitted 10 days ago • 252 comments

Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments? Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!

submitted 10 days ago • 1200 comments

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

submitted 10 days ago • 642 comments

Find a protest near you The single most important act of defiance today is visible protest. Show your neighbors and the world we're not going to sit around and just watch our democracy be dismantled. Do something. Join the resistance Stand up and march www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 11 days ago • 265 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 12 days ago • 2109 comments

Patients "Abandoned": Trump Order to Halt Global Medical Trials "Profoundly Unethical," Says Dr. Faden

submitted 11 days ago • 13 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 11 days ago • 2289 comments

A corrupt billionaire trying to kill the agency that protects Americans against exploitation by corrupt billionaires? Screw that! DC: Tomorrow at 4:15pm, we're rallying outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. #SaveTheCFPB www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Elon is using his billions to smear USAID and its life-saving work. We need to use our networks to get the truth out. Please share: youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 19 days ago • 52 comments

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours. More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

submitted 19 days ago • 420 comments

Pete Buttigieg: “Even the greatest country, if it loses the rule of law, will not have much left.” REPOST if you stand with Pete Buttigieg!

submitted 19 days ago • 129 comments

Thousands protest against Trump’s war on immigrants after Ice raids: ‘Fight for our neighbors’

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

We cannot fix everything by fighting back, but we won't fix anything unless we try. Find the organizing that's happening near you to defy Trump's dangerous agenda: indivisibleproject.f...

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:

submitted 20 days ago • 108 comments

Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who issued a ruling early Saturday morning, directing the Treasury Department to restrict access to its payment systems to ‘civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties.’

submitted 19 days ago • 322 comments

We've seen this movie & the Orwellian branding before Reagan dismantled social programs in the middle of a grinding recession, as did W (to piss $ away on Iraq & tax cuts for the rich), as did Trump (tax cuts for the rich) In plain English, DOGE = Department Of Gutting Essential (Services)

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Another master class in self-owns, courtesy of the GOP.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Here’s a promise I can keep. If the convicted felon dismantles Medicare, a fire will burn in America like never seen before. Every single older Trump supporter I know in TX, lives off their SS and Medicare. Try it, GOP. Y’all will never find a peaceful moment again! #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

As Americans face the horrific prospect of notorious anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. being confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, a measles outbreak is spreading in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates have fallen far below the recommended level. Further, Samoa’s…

submitted 20 days ago • 106 comments

This seems important

submitted 20 days ago • 546 comments

SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

submitted 21 days ago • 174 comments

Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate. "MMR coverage is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine." www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 163 comments

Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.

submitted 22 days ago • 392 comments

The words loathe, loathing and loathed are stronger than the word hate. They mean to dislike greatly and often with disgust and intolerance: DETEST. I use them when referring to anything Trump. The word hate is used too often for things we just dislike.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Accurate.

submitted 23 days ago • 350 comments

No need to look to European despots throughout history, Eliot Cohen argues: The best analogies to understand Donald Trump can be found right in the United States.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 47 comments

Trump issued a memorandum invalidating government labor contracts finalized in the 30 days before his presidential inauguration. This action is not legal and will not hold up in court.

submitted 27 days ago • 88 comments

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

submitted 26 days ago • 172 comments

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

submitted 26 days ago • 168 comments

“To balance China while keeping the peace, the U.S. will need more and better friends than ever before,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. "Trump is doing his utmost instead to alienate and offend those friends”:

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

I don’t love lawsuits at all, but in this case the admin needs buried in them

submitted 27 days ago • 936 comments

Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh

submitted 26 days ago • 968 comments

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

submitted 27 days ago • 337 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 442 comments

Bad actors are now working hard to turn BlueSky into another Twitter/X cesspool. Don't let them!

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 31 days ago • 148 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.

submitted 31 days ago • 4394 comments

As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.

submitted 31 days ago • 1035 comments

Emergency Video: Where are the Dems and what is the message?! Oppose this agenda now! Come back from vacation! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 30 days ago • 1676 comments

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

submitted 32 days ago • 430 comments