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Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

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A Delta passenger plane and an Air Force jet flew narrowly close to one another outside Washington, D.C., on Friday, prompting a collision warning and "corrective instructions" from air traffic controllers.

submitted 5 hours ago • 45 comments

This is definitely a “both and” situation. Not only did the administration set up a clear dragnet, but the line officers clearly got the message not to look particularly closely, and many of them genuinely are bad at the job of identifying gang members.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 10 hours ago • 666 comments

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/uXU1g37J

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

Last Friday, CBO put out a report saying that extending the Trump tax cuts would harm the economy and push down wages while at the same time driving up borrowing costs for consumers, such as interest rates for car loans, student loans, and mortgages. www.americanprogress.org/article/exte...

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Grassley: "We want to cover up-- or, overcome some of that problem."

submitted 2 days ago • 1154 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 2 days ago • 1337 comments

"Colleagues have also been advised not to apply for mRNA vaccine grants." ‼️ mRNA vaccines look like they will be cancer cures. The Trump admin is politicizing many aspects of science, instead of letting scientists do their best work to help the public. It's very bad. @skirchy.bsky.social:

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"The Republican budget proposal is the Great Betrayal of working families, which will yield predictable results: families will lose, and billionaires will win." -Ranking Member Senator Jeff Merkley

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Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

submitted 2 days ago • 447 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 3 days ago • 706 comments

Mike Johnson is now floating eliminating federal courts: "We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things."

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

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 4 days ago • 70 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 4 days ago • 1233 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 3 days ago • 36 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”

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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 4 days ago • 18 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 4 days ago • 77 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 114 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 5 days ago • 993 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 5 days 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 5 days ago • 372 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 5 days 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 5 days ago • 268 comments

Maine... FUCK YOU #revolution2205

submitted 8 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 8 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 8 days ago • 98 comments

we are living under fascism right now

submitted 8 days ago • 2344 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 8 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.

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This is Dorothy. She was pregnant with a single puppy and needed an emergency C-section. Tragically, her puppy didn't survive. The same day, five puppies were surrendered to her rescue, and she stepped up for them. Help us cover this loving mama's emergency care below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/dorothy-3/

submitted 8 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 9 days ago • 1105 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 8 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 9 days ago • 979 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 8 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 9 days ago • 458 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 8 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 9 days ago • 915 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 9 days ago • 1678 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 8 days ago • 1260 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 10 days ago • 2668 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

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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 10 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

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