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And watch the incompetently engineered, flaming SpaceX rocket debris fill the sky like the most expensive fireworks in history.

submitted 14 hours ago • 878 comments

having been in many rooms where protests are initially orchestrated, i can say sights like this are a highly desired outcome. protests are inherently theatrical & part of that is triggering state actors to unwittingly adopt the role they were born to play.

submitted 13 hours ago • 107 comments

Someone needs to explain to our Sec of Commerce how capitalism works. America has a GLOBAL TRADE SURPLUS on services. Services have the highest margins and profits of our exports. That is where capital and expertise focused. It is why we dominate in tech globally.

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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley says the cuts DOGE proposed to Social Security will destroy the program Which will leave millions of Americans destitute-or dead “Everything they’re doing is driving this agency to system collapse..It will lead to..the interruption of benefits”

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

Trump Tells Americans 'Shut Up About Egg Prices' as He Golfs on Saturday www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-tell...

submitted 12 hours ago • 242 comments

I just called the office of my rep. Jim Himes to express my anger that he voted to censure Al Green. Really cannot believe he did that. I told his staffer to let him know many of us feel he should have followed Congressman Green right out that door in solidarity. People, make your calls. Now.

submitted 3 days ago • 243 comments

This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills. Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds. Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️

submitted 18 hours ago • 150 comments

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 142 comments

I just can't get past the awful optics of the richest fucking man on earth doing this.

submitted 9 hours ago • 51 comments

The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope

submitted 16 hours ago • 188 comments

In 2024, internet shutdowns hit a record high in Africa—proof that access to information is the people’s weapon, now being turned against them. When the internet goes dark, the fight doesn’t stop. Knowledge and resistance find their way.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump will keep taking their money, keep using them, keep exploiting their fears, and they will love him for it. Because for them, it was never about making America great again. It was about making sure someone else suffered more than they did. And that’s why they’ll never wake up.

submitted 6 hours ago • 32 comments

Read Free: The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to dangerous pathogens. - sound familiar? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

This is classic right wing gaslighting. They do horrendous things and then complain about people being “uncivil” to them for it. And it works, for their base. They think the left are “intolerant” and “extreme” because the dead babies are far away and the American babies are on TV.

submitted 7 hours ago • 228 comments

Help Spring Branch in Houston flip a seat on their right wing school board!! secure.anedot.com/davidforsbis...

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Texas cities are running low on the MMR vaccine as measles outbreaks expand and drive demand. The measles epidemic in Texas is growing rapidly, and demand for the MMR vaccine has become overwhelming. Pharmacies are struggling to maintain supplies. Some pharmacy locations report the supply of the..

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

Are we great yet? Cause this is getting exhausting...

submitted 21 hours ago • 96 comments

Republicans say they love Veterans, but we know the truth.

submitted 21 hours ago • 88 comments

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submitted 22 hours ago • 1396 comments

Too late for a career change? From Grave Conversations with David Dastmalchian. Yes, we’re both in coffins.

submitted 21 hours ago • 60 comments

Join us for our Texas Town hall! All are invited. Please share far and wide!

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

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Oh snap!!!! The Green Bay, Wisconsin school board voted that it will not remove DEI policies from their district and will disregard Donald Trump's bogus executive order. The comments from board members are amazing:

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Hey John Cornyn! Where are you? Why won’t you face your constituents? Are you afraid we might tell you the truth? #TexansForAccountability

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Join us to write postcards in Spring Branch (and have some amazing Mexican food) mobilize.us/s/CCnD6L

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Always be rude to fascists in every way you possibly can. Be passive-aggressive. Be confrontational. Tell them their mommies didn't love them and that it's their fault. Make them cry. They're fascists!

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In the atrium of the ship. I'm really proud to be part of this cruise.

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

It’s really not all that wild - they’ve been pushing this unitary executive theory bullshit since the beginning of the campaign. You know, when they were pretending Project 2025 wasn’t real?

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Hey, @aoc.bsky.social , Randy Weber isn’t having a Town Hall. I would love to invite you to TX 14th! (Hell, Brian Babin is only holding “mobile office hours”. Cowards!) This area of TX needs your energy! PS. I am a great host and tour guide, too! I got you!

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Far West Texas County with 18% of kindergarten population UNVACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES, MUMPS & RUBELLA has 159 cases and 22 Texans are hospitalized. THE Anti-Vaccination lobby owns this outbreak of preventable disease 🦠 ! #RFKJrFailedAmerica #TrumpFailedAmerica #GregAbbottFailedTexasAgain

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sponsors: Bernie, Hawley, AOC, Luna. And it was a Trump campaign promise. How can it fail?

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death. People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable. EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

If there’s one takeaway from last night’s speech it’s that Donald Trump is simply far too extreme for America. We can hold him accountable at the polls. We can hold the line and vote Republicans out this year and next.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

RIP. And to the precinct chairs of CD18, how about next time, don't nominate someone who is well known to already be very ill.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The #TXLege has lost their minds if they think this is okay. I teach high school history, and I am required when teaching World history to teach about 6 major religions and the history that is intertwined with them. I do this gladly because it is HISTORY, but requiring that the 10 commandments be

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats should make ads out of this. Easy. "This is what Republicans think of you, Veterans." Also pair it up with Trump's comments about veterans who were injured or POWs.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

OK, we're finally at the Ten Commandments and prayer in schools bills and I'm back from the vet just in time: www.senate.texas.gov/videoplayer.... #txlege

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Karoline Leavitt says Corey Comperatore, who is dead, will be at Trump's speech tonight

submitted 4 days ago • 872 comments

Trump’s Tax on Working Families will have a devastating impact on Illinois’ manufacturing and agriculture sectors and will hurt hardworking Illinoisans at the grocery store checkout, on their utility bills, and at the gas pump.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Throwing sand in the gears of terrible machinery is also resisting.

submitted 46 days ago • 43 comments