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I'm taking note of all the progressives in the US who claim to be about fighting the oligarchy who are silent on Ukraine. Ukrainian investigative journalists and civil society risk their lives to expose their oligarchs and their links to our own here at home. The fight against kleptocracy is global.

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This will go down as the real end.

submitted 1 day ago • 1026 comments

Well this isn’t ominous

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 683 comments

late night news: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance. It’s happening. They are solidifying the coup we are running out of time to stop them.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war

submitted 3 days ago • 783 comments

They. Do. Not. Care. That. They. Do. Not. Know. What. They. Are. Doing.

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Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

submitted 4 days ago • 554 comments

😬

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Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

PLEASE SHARE!!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are trying to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

submitted 5 days ago • 528 comments

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible" The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today. snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 7 days ago • 402 comments

They’re gearing up for the full on fascism reveal

submitted 8 days ago • 48 comments

Th airbnb co-founder & one of Elon's best friends, billionaire Joe Gebbia, is joining the Trump/Elon team to decimate the federal government: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 51 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 8 days ago • 327 comments

Reminder to call your Congresspeople and your Senators EVERY DAY and tell them we demand more visibility from them and more action in stopping this illegal doge nonsense. Also download Goods Unite Us and only buy from majority Dem donating companies. Hit them where it hurts, in the wallet

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BREAKING: A judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily allow the disbursement of foreign aid.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

100% this!

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Dear Governor Kathy Hochul: It's time. You have the power to remove Eric Adams from office as NYC mayor. Take a stand -- and stand up for cleaning up corruption in New York. REMOVE ADAMS NOW. Sincerely, A New Yorker

submitted 8 days ago • 681 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 196 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 417 comments

Please people, stop showing pictures and videos of TFG 🍊 I trust the acts I follow to report the truth. I don’t need to see that face (note the melons face). Ty

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Great. Now please go out today to a local grocery store and do a press conference there. Be visible because for all I know an aide probably wrote that post.. we need to see you leading the charge Chuck!!

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Agreed but can we call it by it’s full name: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau- helps people to understand that they are losing protection by this being cut

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Nailed it 🏆

submitted 10 days ago • 583 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 10 days ago • 991 comments

Yes! This is at the heart of what is going on in America. Since the Trickle Down Economics of Reagan, 50 Trillion has moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1% No wonder all Americans are angry and divided. They are all being underpaid and overworked while the oligarchs take our money 💰

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Yes!! Flood the zone!! #FloodTheZone

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Got voicemail for once Senator but got through to my other Sen and my Rep. hope that doesn’t mean calls are easing up. Keep calling your Congress. It’s clear that we have to overwhelm them for them to know what we want. #5calls #callYourReps #callEVERYday

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A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

submitted 11 days ago • 1908 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 1853 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 11 days ago • 1916 comments

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

submitted 11 days ago • 856 comments

Call your Representatives and Senators now and tell them to stop working with Tepublicans until they address these criminal Musk and Trump actions. #DropWhatYourDoing #5calls

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Hey, NYC! Register as a Democrat online by February 13 to be able to vote AGAINST ADAMS in the June primary! gregpak.net/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Exactly. Authoritarianism.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments