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DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers. Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla. The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

Call your governor -- tell them to use state police to stop ICE from detaining people without a warrant. No warrant = kidnapping. This is a fundamental 4th amendment issue.

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

“I’ll say it again: On the day I left office, America had the strongest economy in the world. That’s a fact. It’s not just my view. It’s the consensus view among economists and financial publications around the world,” Biden said. “And now, what’s happening?” www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This is called extortion and you would go to prison for it, but he gets neutral headlines. Pathetic.

submitted 2 days ago • 156 comments

👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 661 comments

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 3 days ago • 1667 comments

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

submitted 3 days ago • 540 comments

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

submitted 2 days ago • 961 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 1203 comments

They didn’t just send Abrego Garcia “back to El Salvador”, they sent him to a fucking torture prison. They didn’t send him “back to where he was from.” They sent him to his death. They cannot prove he was a “terrorist”. They took him by “mistake.” And they do not fucking care.

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1644 comments

Who is going to do something? This is Kim Jong-Un shit.

submitted 3 days ago • 928 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 3 days ago • 911 comments

Dictatorships grab people off the street and jail them. Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities. Dictatorships destroy data. Dictatorships reject independent courts. Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich. Dictatorships persecute dissidents. See what’s happening, fellow Americans.

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

We Don't Have Time for Cynicism or Despair open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

This part

submitted 5 days ago • 648 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 228 comments

Nobody is saying this. They have to conjure up imaginary libs to argue with since they can’t win a debate with real ones on this issue.

submitted 7 days ago • 1849 comments

If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

submitted 6 days ago • 419 comments

Roses are red Daisies are plain

submitted 6 days ago • 433 comments

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

submitted 7 days ago • 1100 comments

🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

submitted 7 days ago • 1221 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 7 days ago • 2007 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

submitted 7 days ago • 1232 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 8 days ago • 1936 comments

Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 804 comments

Huh, weird. Probably just a coincidence

submitted 8 days ago • 302 comments

Tank the market with tariffs so rich people can buy low then “pause” the tariffs and all those people make vast sums of money?

submitted 8 days ago • 897 comments

Props to Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna for going on Fox News to say that Donald Trump didn’t need to put the country through all of this nonsense. More Democrats need to be doing the same!

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

submitted 8 days ago • 423 comments

I’m all for reducing spending, but to do that during a recession is economic suicide. Anyone who knows anything knows that

submitted 9 days ago • 726 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 8 days ago • 1525 comments

😕🇺🇸

submitted 9 days ago • 482 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 8 days ago • 2272 comments

Trying to suppress women’s votes.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

CBO finds that DOGE failed to achieve measurable savings in March. At first glance, spending fell $38B (7%) compared to last year. But March began on a Saturday so payments that normally go out in March went out in Feb After adjusting, spending rose $45B (8%) compared to March 24.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

“If you want to become an autocrat, you’ve got to control the judiciary. That’s exactly what Erdoğan did. Very deliberate, very methodical.” Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism—and its domestic parallels.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Trump is planning an expensive military parade to celebrate his birthday at a cost to taxpayers of up to $92 million THIS after his tariffs WIPED OUT 30% of your stock market portfolio. Trump STILL hasn't reduced the cost of groceries, gas at the pump, or cars www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

Everyone! Do this: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The entire press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

Today, the House Ag Committee held a hearing on the Trump Administration’s plans to cut $230 billion from SNAP. My Republican colleagues accused us of fear-mongering. Here’s the reality: To pass their insane budget, SNAP benefits would have to be cut. The American people deserve the truth.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

submitted 9 days ago • 279 comments

The White House’s decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to Donald Trump’s events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tuesday.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

His mind is mush. I’m telling you. He gives everything away because he’s so damn proud of getting away with the extortion & grift, he HAS to brag about it. Years ago, he could’ve controlled it…but dementia + immunity will see him bragging about how he took America for all we ever had. 🤬

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

As Governor, I’m working every day to make the lives of Illinoisans easier and our future brighter. My administration is not afraid to strengthen international relationships and find new partners that will invest and help move our state forward. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/i...

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

submitted 10 days ago • 549 comments

i mean, there's no getting past the inherent stupidity of this whole degenerate Fox world. But taking it on its own terms, as manhood and masculinity goes, being protected from competition is, at least as a general matter, a weird way of becoming more manly.

submitted 10 days ago • 105 comments

Seems not great that reporters are asking the president if he’s tanking the market on purpose because he posted that he’s tanking the market on purpose

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments