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guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

submitted 33 days ago • 791 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 32 days ago • 3123 comments

That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for. “You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met”

submitted 32 days ago • 1429 comments

"No one has told me why I was fired. But the notice was delivered hours after I declined to recommend reinstating the gun rights of a famous friend of the president, the actor Mel Gibson, who has a history of violence against women." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

HASSAN: If directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the last or follow the president's directive? DR OZ: The president would never do that HASSAN: That's absurd. And a disappointing answer.

submitted 32 days ago • 174 comments

Sue Dinsdale and Brian Keyser: While those who are dropped from Medicaid would be directly harmed, all Iowans would bear the burden of lost revenues to the state and the associated job losses, provider shortages, and closed businesses. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/03/13/c...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

For those not paying attention

submitted 138 days ago • 323 comments

I read that Stacey Patton post. They believe their fairytales. She laid out the awfulness they try to whitewash like every thing else. @karenhunter.bsky.social @urbanviewradio.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is how you deal with racists. Guns to a gun fight

submitted 41 days ago • 21 comments

I love Stacey Patton. Unfortunately I don't believe she's on Bluesky yet. I follow her on FB.

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

huh, the Russia-backed coup plot involved ending NATO membership, whaddya know...

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.

submitted 40 days ago • 1704 comments

I smell some good trouble

submitted 40 days ago • 638 comments

Check out my conversation w/ @malcolmnance.bsky.social. We talked about Ukraine, Russia, Trump’s betrayal of America, Republican spinelessness and the need for a more vigorous response from Democrats to defy this dangerous attack on democracy & America itself. www.americaamerica.news/p/ukraine-ru...

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

Make America Scared Again

submitted 40 days ago • 48 comments

Some of you know I've spent time as a video game journalist. In that context I've come across Karl Jobst before. He's someone whose work I respect. His lengthy exposé on Musk being a video game cheater is excellent. It also tells you exactly who Musk is. youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...

submitted 41 days ago • 61 comments

It appears as if the average American is not fully grasping how dangerous this is.

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Democrats even thinking about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.

submitted 41 days ago • 376 comments

No one better than @weissmann11.bsky.social to parse a S Ct case and explain Alito dissent: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 41 days ago • 63 comments

Graffiti beneath Calgary’ Centre Street bridge. #yyc

submitted 41 days ago • 164 comments

NEW: former Putin adviser Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelenskyy's White House meeting on February 28t Zelenskyy's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision

submitted 41 days ago • 98 comments

Lede o' the Day "For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 41 days ago • 24 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."

submitted 41 days ago • 1741 comments

U.S. Congress. Impeach these monsters.

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

“Israel’s War Decimated Gaza’s Farmlands and Killed Most of its Livestock” In her guest piece for @dropsitenews.com, Rasha Abou Jalal examines how 16 months of Israeli bombings have transformed Gaza’s once-thriving agricultural landscape. 🧵⬇️

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

submitted 42 days ago • 1841 comments

The Atlantic asked every GOP member of Congress two straightforward questions: Did Russia invade Ukraine? And is Putin a dictator? A few said yes; one responded with an interaction with a chatbot; most didn’t respond at all. theatln.tc/C9Sz9dk4

submitted 46 days ago • 87 comments

If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

submitted 46 days ago • 3318 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 46 days ago • 845 comments

"I’m not sure which is worse: the fact that Republicans are moving to gut the last lifeline for 72 million Americans who rely on Medicaid and 43 million Americans who rely on Food Stamps or the fact that they’re lying about doing it." Read more: plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republican...

submitted 46 days ago • 245 comments

Shockingly terrible news, as usual. 😳 www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

Nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink are going to be part of the conversation in any thinkable post Trump/Musk era. Democracies that become structurally dependent on infrastructures provided by unpredictable private actors are going to be weak democracies at best.

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Veterans Crisis Line workers have been fired. Suicide prevention training is being canceled. The system meant to save lives is being gutted—because Trump and Musk care more about their war on government than they do about Veterans. DOGE screws Veterans!

submitted 47 days ago • 33 comments

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has paused multiple vaccine projects – including one to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form.

submitted 47 days ago • 84 comments

So the IRS form 990 form lookup portal is down and apparently has been for days. These are disclosures tax exempt orgs have to make. And im told nothing has been uploaded for like a month. www.irs.gov/charities-no...

submitted 47 days ago • 25 comments

Elon Musk grew up in a place where tyranny of the minority was considered "democratic" rule. It enriched his family and set him on a path to ruin the world. He has no intentions of letting democracy survive in America.

submitted 47 days ago • 121 comments

Tomorrow was supposed to be the last day of work for government employees who opted into DOGE's "Fork in the Road" deferred resignation offer. Today, some of them received this email saying, NOPE.

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

Dark money groups funded by Elon Musk spending over $4 million to buy Wisconsin Supreme Court race GOP-dominated courts on verge of overturning election of Democrat Allison Riggs in NC Supreme Court race There's a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

Gee I wonder why there’s a shortage of air traffic controllers

submitted 47 days ago • 519 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 47 days ago • 3367 comments

Low-income Americans "do not get any or enough legal help for 92 percent" of issues. One reason? Lawyers keep a monopoly on legal advice. Nurses can help with medical procedures. There's a big push to make the same possible with legal services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: So today in DOGE order just went out that all civilian DOD credit cards are immediately frozen/can't be used. This applies to people who are in the midst of DOD official travel. So maybe you're in Albania and your credit card just stopped working. Or maybe you're on travel from ...

submitted 48 days ago • 270 comments

Impeach.

submitted 47 days ago • 335 comments

“Mr. Cuomo is asking this Committee to disregard the conclusions of this state and the nation’s top law enforcement bodies and, in the process thereby completely undermine the rule of law – all to evade accountability under the Rules of Professional Conduct,” wrote @ericaforny.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 49 days ago • 807 comments

Trump just directed the U.S. Attorney General to suspend any security clearances "held by Peter Koski and all members, partners, and employees of Covington & Burling LLP who assisted former Special Counsel Jack Smith during his time as Special Counsel...."

submitted 49 days ago • 35 comments