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Remember the line by Grover Norquist about shrinking government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub? Well, Elon is now filling the tub.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Are you terrified yet?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Will be there on Church Street across from Whole Foods tomorrow 2/15 2 PM. Sounds like there might be a crowd this week! Bring a sign to wave, drive by and honk, to show how you feel about cuts at CDC and the rest of this catastrophe. #elonnazi #coup #boycottTesla #ATL #CDC

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Doing this to cut taxes for billionaires has to be among the stupidest things a country has ever done.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 9 days ago • 327 comments

But the price of groceries! And her emails!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 9 days ago • 221 comments

On it!

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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 10 days ago • 334 comments

Congress will soon vote on a MAGA bill that could prevent millions of eligible American citizens from voting It includes a marriage penalty that prevents married women who changed their names from using their birth certificate or driver’s license as documents to register blavity.com/what-is-the-...

submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

Huh - thought he was going to take care of that day one apple.news/AmP6yFlULTcm...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

Soulless, amoral ghouls.

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Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

submitted 10 days ago • 4033 comments

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

submitted 11 days ago • 1023 comments

Murphy: "This isn't hyperbole to say we are staying the death of democracy in the eyes right now. The centerpiece of our democracy is we observe court rulings."

submitted 12 days ago • 219 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 12 days ago • 492 comments

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Are you paying attention? #stopthecoup

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Farmers are reporting that millions of dollars they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department is missing. The Trump administration promised that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

submitted 12 days ago • 1712 comments

If not pookie then why pookie shaped? 🥺

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This headline is for everyone who voted for Donald because of housing prices.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Let's cut to the chase here: Republicans are preparing to work with Trump to selectively cut funding — from medical research and wildfire disaster relief to Social Security and Medicare — in blue states that refuse to bend to their will. It's economic warfare, used like international sanctions.

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 530 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk was raised in apartheid South Africa. He and his family observed, endorsed, and enjoyed apartheid. Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…

submitted 14 days ago • 214 comments

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

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@repnikema.bsky.social we need bold congressional action not just vague promises to “fight”. This is nothing short of a coup. When, not if, they defy Federal judicial orders, what is your plan?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The way an executive branch that respects the rule of law objects to a district court ruling it doesn’t like is to appeal it, not to imply that the ruling just shouldn’t be followed.

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

Thank you, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social We need to shut this whole thing down now. Their next step is violating federal court orders. Then the Constitution is dead.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 14 days ago • 890 comments

Odds are good that someone in your life has received vital care at a university-affiliated hospital near you. Trump and Musk want to destroy them. Call your reps and demand they push back -- especially if they're Republicans. www.house.gov/representati...

submitted 14 days ago • 90 comments

Citing the risk of “irreparable harm,” a federal judge today blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE access to the critical Treasury payment system.

submitted 14 days ago • 153 comments

Sen. Andy Kim says he's prepared to support a government shutdown to Trump administration lawlessness

submitted 13 days ago • 625 comments