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Important to remind any seniors in your life that the Trump Administration is actively breaking Social Security, and the next time they have a problem, there won't be anyone available to help.

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By far the most important part of this story

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

This seems so intuitive that I am genuinely puzzled by the intransigence of many media members who cling to the other platforms. If you have influence and want to promote a world that encourages truth and transparency, this should be the platform of choice.

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 1 day ago • 782 comments

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

This, to be clear, sucks.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 3 days ago • 759 comments

this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

submitted 4 days ago • 459 comments

Quite possibly the most infuriating news in a week of atrocities.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Elon, meanwhile, singlehandedly killing millions via USAID cuts, to advance his agenda of "epically trolling the libs."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

How were 99% of House Democrats able to hold the line (including some very red district Dems) and vote against the CR, while 20% of Senate Democrats (including Senators from very blue states) defected? My theory: Moderate House Dems were promised their "No" votes would not lead to govt shutdown.

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This might be the most terrifying thing I've read in a long time. Existential AI risk is real, and the administration wants to eliminate any safeguards.

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This is the thing I keep coming back to: If the government employees are asking Democrats to stand up and oppose the administration AT THE RISK OF THEIR OWN JOBS, how are there 9 Democratic Senators (+1 IND) that vote to capitulate? I can't reconcile that without resorting to conspiracy theories.

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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

submitted 10 days ago • 119 comments

arguments over who would get blamed for a shutdown are insane. the median voter has no idea this is happening. the median voter knows one fact about politics and it’s that Donald Trump is the President

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

They're already shutting down large parts of the government and, as an added bonus, inflicting permanent damage on other parts of it. Shutting it all down would be a better route, honestly. All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

submitted 10 days ago • 375 comments

This is the biggest reason I'm so frustrated with, and disappointed in, Senator @schatz.bsky.social: I genuinely believed in him. He was in the pantheon of politicians I thought I could trust to fight. Seeing him undermine his House and Senate colleagues to gift the GOP a win? So disheartening.

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@schatz.bsky.social What is the point of being Minority Whip if you yourself vote to undermine the majority of your own caucus, including almost every Democrat in the House?

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Schatz one month ago, to Isaac Chotiner, on how he'd stand up to Republicans: "... for the next couple of weeks they don’t need us at all, and then for the rest of the year they’re going to need us for several things, such as the budget and the debt ceiling." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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@schatz.bsky.social Just a month ago, you said the Democrats had leverage. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... You elected to give it away for free. As a legislator and negotiator, what possible justification merits full capitulation?

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@cortezmasto.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @peters.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov

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@schatz.bsky.social What an absolute embarrassment of a vote. I genuinely thought you had a future in Democratic party leadership, as a principled person who understood the stakes and gravity of the moment. I was deeply mistaken.

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My experience of U.S. politics is that there are always just enough Democratic votes to defend the status quo and business interests, but never quite enough to fix anything they've promised to fix.

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If the Federal workers are advocating for a "No" vote, knowing it could lead to a government shutdown and the loss of their own jobs then how weak are the Democratic senators considering a vote in favor of cloture?

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