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Put this Congressional Switchboard # on fast dial: 202-224-3121 Call your Senators today!

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This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.

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Trump and the GOP are undermining our schools. Instead of using taxpayer dollars to fund vital public school programs, they are diverting as many public resources as possible to private schools. Hands Off Public Schools #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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It’s great that Trump entrusted so much power in a mentally unstable drug addict, nothing could have possibly gone wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Musk is a monstrous bringer of death...300k is almost half the number of people who died in the Civil War. Also, his stupid rockets keep exploding.

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NEW: Census Bureau lost over 1,000 employees through early retirement and voluntary separation offers in recent months and plans to cut some statistical work, acting Director Ron Jarmin says. "It feels a little bit like Thanos snapped his finger and a lot of your friends and colleagues went away..."

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Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

"Frustrated and seeking answers, members of the Afghan community have protested at the Houston Police Department in hopes that the police will give the case the attention it deserves." — @aggiewill00.bsky.social

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Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

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These SpaceX failures are being financed by taxpayer dollars. So far, over $7,000,000,000. So this is actual government waste, unlike the alleged waste at Social Security that DOGE was unable to find.

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Canada welcomes the U.S. Court of International Trade’s decision on the United States’ tariffs. It confirmed what we’ve always held: that the American tariffs against Canadian goods are unlawful and unjustified.

submitted 4 days ago • 571 comments

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 9 days ago • 198 comments

When do we start winning?

submitted 5 days ago • 757 comments

Beyond parody.

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And it’s coming from inside the house

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

“This man’s brain is filled with spiders. He seems to, at best, have one toe planted in reality. So where, I ask, is the fury? Where are the hours upon hours of Fox News coverage? Where is the extensive New York Times coverage?” — @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Global condemnation grows as the WHO warns Gaza’s hospitals are out of medicine, while the number of Palestinians killed and injured rises amid Israel’s attacks and blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/gny769

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it's so bizarre to see basically every major institution in America, frequently including the one directly positioned opposite of him in politics, insist that he is simply too powerful of a political force to challenge head on

submitted 9 days ago • 99 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

submitted 9 days ago • 172 comments

When faced with obvious and blatant corruption, the leaders of the Republican Party in Congress simply choose to look the other way and ignore it. The only way to end this and restore some oversight is to vote out House Republicans. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 9 days ago • 318 comments

This smarmy ass is killing his own constituents. And calling them lazy while he takes away their food and healthcare.

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“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…” — The Constitution

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

I gotta say, U.S. titans of industry are looking more powerless every day. They’re really letting this guy come out and freestyle our economy at whim?

submitted 8 days ago • 150 comments

Exactly this! We can have joy amidst the resistance - 💙💙

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

submitted 9 days ago • 502 comments

"The Trump administration’s illegal sabotage of the nation’s government, while hugely destructive, could also prove largely transitory." Appreciate this look forward from @davidrlurie.bsky.social | h/t @atrupar.com But we are going 2 need to fight & resist for next 1,338 days (who is counting).

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

Feel like there could be some illuminating interdisciplinary work bringing together international trade economists with studies of borderline personality disorder/attention seeking traits to come up with new predictive theories about global trade.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

The point is a simple one. When the foundations of civic democratic America are being systematically gutted by the most reactionary administration at least in modern American history we shld be even less patient than usual with clout chasing lefty pablum making a perverse common cause with reaction.

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By blocking Harvard’s access to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), DHS is doing immense harm to all levels of education and training — including postgraduate scientists and physicians who are pivotal players in academic research and clinical care

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Buttigieg understands how to do this. If people don't care about their neighbors, you can't change their hearts (at least not in the short term.) But you can make them understand how this affects entire communities. MEDICAID DOLLARS DON'T GO TO PEOPLE. THEY GO TO HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, NURSING HOMES.

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We broke the news today that the 747 plane donated by Qatar to become a new Air Force One is now in the possession of the United States. We now have updated our story with react from members of Congress and Trump's comments on the gift. Dems moving to try to block the gift. nyti.ms/439TqxR

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

“While they had green-lit other controversial Trump nominees, they found something uniquely intolerable in Martin. And the president backed down.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

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"In a 24 hour period of time, the president is stealing health care from 15 million Americans, making the poorest 10% of Americans even poorer, while he dines lavishly with foreign oligarchs." - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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A Friendly Reminder.

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Hayes: Every provision in this program is cruel and they know it. That's why none of them spoke on it in committee. That's why they have no response. That's why they don't hold town halls. That's why they don't answer questions. All they do is tweet, repeat, and hide in the back until they vote yes

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I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

submitted 11 days ago • 503 comments

The GOP Tax Scheme represents the largest wealth transfer from the poor to the rich in American history.

submitted 12 days ago • 320 comments