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The oligarchs are actually our fault. We buy their shit, fill their coffers and they destroy everything. Spend zero at any corp or business that is not employee owned. Provide the rich no service. No lawn mowing or other niceities. Fuck the oligarchs.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

The U.S. has officially recorded its first measles death since 2015. Texas health officials have confirmed that an unvaccinated child has passed away from measles amid a massive outbreak that has impacted nine counties in West Texas. 👉 meidasnews.com/news/the-uni...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1499 comments

Claiming that billions of congressionally approved funds were fraud to justify your existence is textbook fraud. Claiming fraud while targeting agencies investigating yourself is fraud. DOGE is the fraud, and it needs prosecution when adults take over. www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-th...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 661 comments

Bezos —- Vanderbilt and Hearst combined. This new breed of robber barons make the old guard look tame by comparison. Rabid with greed, and frantic for more power.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Stay ANGRY. Get ORGANIZED. FIGHT BACK America.✨ Are you READY?! 🤚

submitted 22 hours ago • 219 comments

#ICYMI: In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas.

submitted 22 hours ago • 137 comments

Historian Heather Cox Richardson: 'We're already in a coup' www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaU...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again they screw veterans first. — Veteran-owned small firms hit first by VA's push for $2B in contract cuts. Service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs bear 89% of the claimed savings. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins claims this is just step one. washingtontechnology.com/contracts/20...

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

Let that sink in….

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Name one thing more disgusting than this: The House GOP just passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut for ultra wealthy billionaires. They want to pay for it with hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP.

submitted 22 hours ago • 259 comments

A Reminder: We are, each one of us, at the very beginning of our individual SuperHero origin stories. And things are probably about to get exponentially worse, but...we were born for this, and we do, eventually, save the world. So mote it be. 💙🧙🏻‍♀️🌀🇺🇦✊🏼✨

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

submitted 22 hours ago • 337 comments

Ever played the lottery? Chances were almost zero of winning but you did it anyway. Let's donate to these races. Even $2 Matt Gaetz's House seat is OPEN. Michael Waltz's House seat is OPEN. Elise Stefanik's House seat is OPEN. Marco Rubio's Senate seat is OPEN. JD Vance's Senate seat is OPEN.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Lee Zeldin was on Fox today talking about clawing back money lawfully appropriated to organizations by legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act simply bc Trump doesn't like it. This is an especially egregious example of how Trumpers have redefined "fraud" to just mean "spending I disagree with."

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Right now, an unelected billionaire is hacking our government to pull off the largest transfer of wealth in history from the middle class to the elites. Republicans in Congress are also on board with the grift. They are solidifying their $4.5 TRILLION tax plan to favor a privileged few and... 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

National opposition to Trump's barbaric agenda

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

You're plugged in and have heard comparisons of DOGE and Gamergate in passing. I took a deeper dive — but still a short, breezy read — explaining how it goes much deeper than a comparison. Gamergate was whiner boot camp. DOGE is the Loser Invasion. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It's unacceptable and conservatives need to say so.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

The government shuts down on March 14 unless Congress passes a new spending bill. Republicans need Democratic votes to pass anything, but they’re pushing a budget that slashes essential programs, attacks basic rights, and hands unchecked power over to Trump, Elon Musk, and their billionaire allies.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Fellow journalists: please stop describing Trump/Musk law-breaking or overturning of democratic norms as “unusual.”Pizza with sushi is “unusual.” These actions are “likely illegal” or “autocratic.”

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 515 comments

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And that's why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

submitted 3 days ago • 699 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

Rep McCormick (Roswell—safe red) can’t gaslight his constituents—but they need to wake up. He won’t do a damn thing to stop Trump. A woman asks about Trump declaring himself “king” & what he will do to stop him. His smugness is off the charts. This is the guy who said hungry kids should get jobs.

submitted 4 days ago • 511 comments

Art speaks when words fail.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Oh boy do I have the historical anecdote for this: late 1930s, the American Silver Shirts—initials, S.S., deliberately chosen, decided not to do the sieg heil, writing in their minutes that it was “too fascist”—with “too” underlined. Goldilocks fascism.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 4 days ago • 2537 comments

House Republicans are preparing a budget package that calls for $2 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That’s TRILLION. With a T.

submitted 4 days ago • 220 comments

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2204 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 4 days ago • 590 comments

Everyone, please read this thread and share. Musk is closing down Social Security offices and it is not being reported. You have to go to the DOGE website to find it. Here are all the details: www.rawstory.com/anxiety-moun...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Let's flip these legislative seats. And also parts of northern Florida and Wisconsin for the Supreme Court.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump was willing to stand up there for a few minutes to pretend to care about black history, but hugging the guy was a deal breaker.

submitted 4 days ago • 617 comments

The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 4 days ago • 436 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 4 days ago • 1307 comments

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 4 days ago • 323 comments

STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

New piece by @gilduran.com re: the Tech Bros targeting the S.F. Presidio and Trump’s recent Executive Order. Thanks for the hat tip, Gil! www.thenerdreich.com/trump-target...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments