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Trump’s Education pick, Linda McMahon, is “ready” to help him dismantle the Department of Education—gutting funding, civil rights protections, and support for millions of kids. A billionaire wrestling mogul with zero experience, but plenty of bad moves. accountable.us/hearing-high...

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Elon Musk’s companies received $18B in federal funding over a decade, but Republicans are more concerned with your grandmother surviving on just $65 a day with Social Security youtube.com/shorts/eQzd9...

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A sane and decent human sees that thousands of people will die because of the cut off of aid and asks: What can I do to fix this? Donald Trump asks: How can we hide the evidence and who can we fire?

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

North Carolina baptist pastor, Ashley Crouse, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing over 10,000 images of girls between the ages of 8 & 12 being sexually abused. Crouse watched CSAM on his church computer while completing church business. www.wbtv.com/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 145 comments

Republicans want to STEAL OUR SOCIAL SECURITY while giving tax breaks to billionaires. HELL NO!

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Stop playing by the rules. The game has changed.

submitted 15 days ago • 81 comments

Fox Business host Lydia Hu seems to think NAFTA still exists. She tried to blame it on trade restrictions. During Trump's first term he negotiated the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) which replaced NAFTA - I provide receipts via AP and PBS. youtu.be/1kqE_pwditI?...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 19 Today's tracker is out! The latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news Apologize but today's tracker is a little shorter because I have to travel tomorrow but I think I caught all the main power abuses

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Waste and fraud? Has the Pentagon dropped its investigation into Musk's abuse of its own reporting rules? newrepublic.com/article/1913...

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Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 15 days ago • 223 comments

getting darker by the minute. not just some average nazi dope, but a member of the digital direwanger sect

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Democrats reportedly planning to unleash the world’s longest white paper on Trump….are raising money by releasing a line of gloves specially designed for clutching pearls.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Mark my words: Elonia's merry band of groyper incels will absolutely be taking government worker's data and using it to threaten, harass and target them whenever their pathetic, sad, whiny, white boy feelings are injured. Americans are in danger.

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"In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame — even if no one quite knew it at the time..." Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading: www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 15 days ago • 325 comments

So we can sue Fox News over this now, right? www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/m...

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“I didn’t expect a Trump win to cause me to lose my job, but that’s what happened...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 970 comments

Panicked residents of an affluent town are seeking assurances that police officers will not assist ICE in detaining their hired help.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

I don’t recall corrupt billionaire immigrant Nazi Musk ever complaining when USAID gave millions of dollars to his Starlink, but now he’s suddenly calling it corrupt and shutting it down with many thousands of jobs as collateral damage. He’s just evil, plain and simple.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

I hear people say Trump is dismantling our democracy and no one is stopping him. Not so! Lawyers are the super heroes, with lawsuits and judges standing up for the rule of law. Check out the litigation tracker in justsecurity.org.

submitted 16 days ago • 173 comments

When one person demand institutional rearrangement and dissolution on the order of his pen alone, you don't introduce ordinary legislation to prohibit things that are already unlawful.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t want to be an alarmist but this is insanely dangerous. Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire with no oversight, has gained access to the federal government’s payment system And all of our data. What is he planning to do with it?

submitted 21 days ago • 98 comments

The naivete knows know bounds. Even in the U.S. Senate Or, the challenge of getting elected in Minnesota is different than defending American democracy

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I asked Grok (the fav AI bot of the owner of that other site) what history tells us will come from Trump’s tariffs. The answer: 1) increased prices 2) reduction in GDP 3) job displacement 4) trade wars 5) supply chain displacement 6) political favoritism You own all of this, GOP. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Again, imagine if George Soros took control of all our government intel, shared it publicly with … Edward Snowden, I guess? … and they talked about how they were going to take down evangelical mega churches. The right would self combust

submitted 21 days ago • 262 comments

Four bylines on this 19-graf story, and no analysis of whether Musk’s moves are legal, or stoppable by the judiciary. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

After all 80 street dogs are fed and all sick dogs taken care of myself and Big Mac have a walk then lay and just listen to the jungle. Big Mac has kidney failure but he’s already had 4 great months here. We hope for many more. The best things in life are free. Just stop and enjoy them 🙏🥰

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

Dem leaders need to start holding national security press conferences explaining to Americans how Elon and Trump are dismantling agencies and seeking sensitive information on federal workers and all Americans. What Elon and co are doing will endanger everything from flying to attacks in U.S.

submitted 22 days ago • 128 comments

It's like being trapped in a nightmare where nothing makes sense, everything is upside-down, and people have gone mad. www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

This is the team I’m on. Aspiration isn’t necessary, it’s mandatory.

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Am I the only one noting that after demonizing China for years, Trump seems to be letting them off lightly, while going full tilt against Canada? Is it Musk's business interests? Have Chinese players been buying Trumpcoin?

submitted 22 days ago • 406 comments

Trumps economic plan: Everyday people who buy stuff? 25% tax hike Wealthy people who own stuff? Tax cut

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Leopards are eating GOOD in Trump’s second term.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.

submitted 24 days ago • 83 comments

If we really cared about a responsible federal budget, we wouldn’t be handing out trillions in tax breaks to the richest people in the history of the planet. Full stop.

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The Republicans and Democrats in Congress who voted for the Laken Riley Act, and endorsed its notions of detention and deportation without the rudiments of due process, facilitated today’s announcement of Trump concentration camps. They’d be wise not to go a single step further down that road.

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

"Older Americans living on Social Security with fixed incomes cannot afford the higher costs of food and housing." – @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social at the Senate Aging Committee Hearing

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The motivation here seems to be to create as much chaos as possible. Freeze spending with a memo. Then repeal the memo. Then say the spending freeze is still on anyway.

submitted 25 days ago • 131 comments

BREAKING: Now that the US has predictably moved to dismiss its appeal of Judge Cannon's decision to dismiss the FLA case, there is no reason not to release the remainder of the Jack Smith report on the classified documents case. Link to my Just Security piece. www.justsecurity.org/106947/trump...

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

A giant, radical memo from House Budget Committee Republicans was recently leaked. It’s a menu of all the tax breaks they want to give to the wealthy and corporations—and all the stuff they could cut to pay for it. Everything you need to know, a thread 🧵

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The real freeloaders are billionaires, not undocumented immigrants. (via @inequality.org)

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

We don’t have a polling feature here, so I’ll try to do it a different way. We need to tell Democrats in office what WE WANT. If you want democrats to OBSTRUCT EVERYTHING, then hit REPOST. If you want democrats to find common ground with republicans then hit LIKE. Let’s see what the people want.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

This is the future. The history of Trump is illegal order pulled back followed by slightly less illegal but still illegal order followed by still illegal but constitutionally plausible order eventually rubber stamped by his Supreme Court.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

What? They’re both over 18, and if they are in government jobs, we have a right to know their names.

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

Don't get distracted by their bluster and clownish antics. The real oligarch takeover is well underway. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 112 comments

Elon Musk, encouraged by his mother and an army of his cultish fans, is threatening tonight to sue a Washington Post journalist for pointing out on live TV that neo-Nazis welcomed his salute on Inauguration Day. Can we finally put the ‘he’s a free speech absolutist!’ BS to bed?

submitted 25 days ago • 291 comments

Whoever the next President is should sign an executive order that Trump be referred to in all official communications as "That felonious fucking traitor."

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Without robust campaign finance reform, billionaires like Charles Koch will continue to wield massive amounts of dark money to get what they want.

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Kakistocracy Watch: Russ Vought edition. Trump's nominee to direct the Office of Management and Budget is eager to help Trump carry out an authoritarian purge of any vestige of independence in the executive branch. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN owns this. Republicans want seniors and people with disabilities to: - Starve without Meals on Wheels - Freeze without heating assistance - Die without Medicaid

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