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BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden shared Whistleblower letter received by the Senator & EVERY member of the Senate Finance Committee. Frank Bisignano DENIED Senator Wyden's allegations. Bisignano said he was NOT in contact w/Doge or the Social Security Administration. WHAT DO YOU THINK? NOT FIT TO SERVE!

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1061 comments

There are multiple events every single week that at any other time in history would be career-ending scandals that you have to learn about in school, but instead they’re just replaced an hour or two later by the next five-alarm fire

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

“Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage. Some of them had received unsafe doses of supplements for several weeks in an attempt to prevent a measles infection”

submitted 13 hours ago • 27 comments

LC3, the organization that brought my sisters Pippa, Callie and Penny to our home, is raising funds today during our community's biggest fundraiser, Give Choose. Momma also volunteers for them. You can donate here: www.givechoose.org/nonprofits/S... Picture of Callie for attention.

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Congress is marking up a bill that would allow unlicensed and untrained people from other states to carry loaded weapons in public — regardless of a state’s pre-existing regulations.

submitted 20 hours ago • 64 comments

Here are screenshots of Haley's post. Donation links: www.paypal.com/donate/?host... and donorbox.org/friends-of-b... Venmo: friendsofbear

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 1 day ago • 986 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 1 day ago • 859 comments

🔥BREAKING NEWS: Two sources have told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs payroll system (VATAS) has been down since Friday. It is operating in 'Emergency Mode' only and will have to resort to straight time cards to get people their base pay on Friday.

submitted 1 day ago • 374 comments

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs IS the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 267 comments

Maine... FUCK YOU #revolution2205

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Love how Elon get's busted and they spend all day trying to spin it... #revolution2025 This ensures it was true

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

right wingers are like "you must never forget what The Left wants to do to you." and the thing they want to do to you is give you healthcare and make sure there isn't sewage in your drinking water

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

we are living under fascism right now

submitted 4 days ago • 2341 comments

THIS IS INSANE: A thread 🧵👇 Yesterday, the acting commissioner of the Social Secrity Administration, Lelnd Dudek, notified Rep. George Latmier that he rejected his and Rep. Lawler's bipartisan effort to keep the only Social Security hearing office in the Hudson Valley open.

submitted 5 days ago • 156 comments

New CBO report to a GOP member who has expressed skepticism of Trump's tax cuts says permanently extending the Trump tax cuts would push debt/GDP up 47 percentage points and would harm economic growth, not help it. Even w/ the business provisions, CBO says the Trump tax cuts would harm growth.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [crickets "Thoughts and prayers" crickets] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

submitted 5 days ago • 1108 comments

This isn’t legal, Elon. Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

submitted 4 days ago • 503 comments

DOGE laid off 10,000 postal workers today. Farewell to the US Postal Service – more than 10,000 employees will be laid off following the agreement signed with DOGE unionrayo.com/en/usps-job-...

submitted 5 days ago • 983 comments

What word would you use to describe a government that claims the power to and in fact does send you to a forced labor camp, against a judicial order, without trial?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 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 5 days ago • 459 comments

1. Greg Abbott will direct the state of Texas to consider whether teachers who affirm transgender kids are actually engaging in "child abuse." He's already attempted to go after parents of trans kids with charges of child abuse before. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 916 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 5 days ago • 1677 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 5 days ago • 1261 comments

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

submitted 6 days ago • 2675 comments

JJ is a master of shapes. We call this one “The Hutt.” Incredibly, Jorts Junior is still waiting for an application. He is cute and sweet, if a little quirky. He would love a home with another young cat who needs a wrestling buddy. Located in Elkton, MD. crits4cats.petfinder.com

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

GEO Group, the private prison company and ICE contractor locking up migrants, is ignoring minimum wage law and resisting calls to pay detainees more than $1 for an entire day's work behind bars. www.propublica.org/article/geo-...

submitted 6 days ago • 157 comments

NEW: GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept. @mckenziefunk.com

submitted 6 days ago • 488 comments

"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..." apnews.com/article/fda-...

submitted 7 days ago • 1094 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 346 comments

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 7 days ago • 1113 comments

Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more. Taking back our power starts now.

submitted 7 days ago • 1101 comments

Who needs those underpaid EPA toxicologists when you can have arsenic poisoning from your drinking water for free instead

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

We don't know how many of these cases there are, but keep sharing them. ICE is going after minors. Jose Herrera is 17 and is currently being held by the federal government. Archive 🔗 in thread.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

submitted 8 days ago • 484 comments

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 8 days ago • 1312 comments

!!! NEW: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that he should CANCEL the 5 p.m. hearing "because there has been no violation of the Court's orders, and because the government is not prepared to disclose any further national security or operational security details." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

submitted 8 days ago • 764 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 8 days ago • 1049 comments

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

submitted 8 days ago • 330 comments

Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

submitted 9 days ago • 529 comments