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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

submitted 17 hours ago • 111 comments

“ I don’t trust the United States at all. I don’t trust how they act, I don’t trust US policies. These people are out of their minds to be provoking us towards nuclear war.” - Jeffrey Sachs American economist, and professor at Columbia University

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

submitted 8 days ago • 301 comments

🇺🇸 U.S. Aid to 🇮🇱 Israel Surpasses Ukraine, Exceeding $191 Billion 💰

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE's secret plan Legal experts said that unwinding a civil-rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees' rights removes a crucial check on institutional power www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 240 comments

As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

submitted 11 days ago • 87 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 1181 comments

Bit rich from a nation of colonisers. English wealth and power was built on invasion, slavery and subjugation. Just ask Ireland, India, South Africa, Kenya, Australia, NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, West Indies….etc. etc.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If our democracy survives, we are gonna need strong guard rails to protect it from the next treasonous thug who wants to be a dictator

submitted 13 days ago • 153 comments

So does this mean Israel and the USA pay for rebuilding Gaza, the West Bsnk and Sth Lebanon?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

submitted 15 days ago • 116 comments

10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions. Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks. Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.

submitted 18 days ago • 197 comments

Yesterday it was revealed that the Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles. After the story broke, the State Department's procurement document removed mention of Tesla. "Transparency."

submitted 24 days ago • 187 comments

The Senate has officially confirmed RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. As @davidcorn.bsky.social wrote last month, this is the appointment that "could be the most dangerous act of Trump’s presidency."

submitted 24 days ago • 136 comments

What about Palestine?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as US Health Secretary after a close Senate vote Heaven help America

submitted 24 days ago • 142 comments

If Trump simply ignores high court rulings, is that the end of law? My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/trump-lawless-president

submitted 24 days ago • 198 comments

🇵🇸 Palestinians from around the world have the right to return to their homeland, which was destroyed by the Israeli occupation, via Egypt 🇪🇬, Jordan 🇯🇴, Lebanon 🇱🇧, and Syria 🇸🇾

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has NO right to take Gaza & displace its 2 M+ people so that a greedy brutal lawless idiot can build Trump hotels. Gazans have been thru hell. They love their land & their community. Gaza is a sovereign territory belonging to its people. This wd be ethnic cleansing.

submitted 26 days ago • 82 comments

Jail the thieving gangster.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The great Paul Krugman explains why, after 25 yrs he left NY Times. “in 2024 the editing of my regular columns went from light touch to extremely intrusive.” with an “sometimes doing substantial rewrites” “toning down, introducing unnecessary qualifiers” contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 37 days ago • 30 comments

DCA staffing on Wednesday was reportedly not normal — with one air traffic controller handling the job of two people. These shortages will only be worsened by federal budget cuts and Trump's hiring freeze. We should be investing in public workers, not attacking them.

submitted 37 days ago • 58 comments

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 37 days ago • 129 comments

Press Releases Ranking Member Raskin’s Statement on Trump’s Lawless and Dangerous Purge of FBI Agents and DOJ Prosecutors democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

Trump's first two weeks back in office has been filled with chaos and dysfunction. But none of it is random. It's part of a plot to spread cynicism and get you to check out. Oligarchs don't want you to keep paying attention. That's how they win. Don't tune out. Don't let them win.

submitted 37 days ago • 197 comments

War criminals 😡

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If 🇮🇱 Israel has hidden crimes against humanity in Gaza through propaganda, does this also raise the question of re-investigating the Holocaust?

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

As I keep saying, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet, we need to do it with urgency & we need to send Elon Musk packing The number of BlueSky users tonight stands at 29,477,992. WE CAN DO THIS!

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

A convicted felon who assaulted women, did all he could to overthrow our 2020 elections, lied that he had won, stole our counties nuclear secrets, lied about that & showed them to foreign billionaires. Nothing to celebrate. Its sickening.

submitted 50 days ago • 92 comments

Amazon, Meta, GM, Google, and Microsoft have donated millions to Trump's inauguration. America's largest corporations and wealthiest executives are showering Trump's inaugural with cash for one simple reason: to ensure they receive another round of trickle-down tax cuts.

submitted 51 days ago • 190 comments

You could write this in a movie but people would say it was too dark and unrealistic

submitted 51 days ago • 296 comments

Shameful.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.

submitted 54 days ago • 136 comments

28 new clients have signed with Susie Wiles' former lobbying firm Ballard since her hiring as Trump's chief of staff. During the campaign, Trump claimed he was "not a big person for lobbyists" and that he would limit their influence. Clearly, the lobbyists see it differently.

submitted 54 days ago • 66 comments

Anarchist Emma Goldman by Brazilian illustrator Camila Pinheiro, 2019

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Now imagine if a Democrat president-elect said something similar about a Republican state in need…

submitted 55 days ago • 49 comments

Trump EPA pick Lee Zeldin was reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars by secret clients to write op-eds spreading climate denial propaganda. Zeldin's benefactors could yield big returns if he guts environmental protections. The conflicts of interest are just so blatant.

submitted 55 days ago • 152 comments

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board has endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

submitted 55 days ago • 403 comments

I reported on what's at stake if Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans follow through on Project 2025's plan to dismantle the federal Department of Education at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

2022 Aus Fed Election Right Wing parties won 59 of 151 seats in House of Reps. Of those wins - 31 seats (>1/2) were won by <7% margin (2 party preferred) - 13 seats won by less than 2.9% 2PP. Preferences matter, put LP, LNP, NP, KAP, ONE etc & RW Independents Last Let's wipe them all out #Auspol

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

Very sad to see Jack Smith resign from the Justice Department, the rule of law is dead. Merrick Garland is a disgrace, a failure and a coward.

submitted 57 days ago • 220 comments