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This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 14 days ago • 1148 comments

ICE is rounding up U.S. citizens? Including a U.S. military veteran in New Jersey? It's almost like we said something like this was going to happen.

submitted 40 days ago • 516 comments

STFU about California! Red states get the most FEMA funding. 📌 Florida, Louisiana, and Texas receive the most FEMA dollars: from 2015 to August 2024—Florida received $2.5 billion, Louisiana $2.4 billion, and Texas $2.3 billion. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 40 days ago • 197 comments

Pushback made a difference here. In the face of loud "concerns from lawmakers and veterans advocates over the impact of the hiring freeze" the new admin scaled back its initial assault on the V.A.... cc @rieckhoff.bsky.social www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

submitted 40 days ago • 130 comments

NEW: In an unexpected move last night, the North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin’s petition challenging over 60,000 ballots cast in his November 2024 race for a seat on the bench, which he lost to incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by over 700 votes.

submitted 41 days ago • 709 comments

I’m hearing from constituents whose jobs are at risk because they do agency outreach to minority communities. Consider what this means for public health, national security, agriculture and justice. The war on DEI has become a war on public service and government for all.

submitted 41 days ago • 1187 comments

Listening to the mother of former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone describing on @joy.msnbc.com how she has been harassed and menaced is making my chest so tight. If your police union hasn’t condemned this conduct if, as a Member of Congress, you’ve condoned these pardons, you are a disgrace.

submitted 41 days ago • 346 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 41 days ago • 1263 comments

The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

submitted 40 days ago • 306 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

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The Department of Justice building last night in Washington, DC

submitted 47 days ago • 256 comments

To paraphrase Musk, Maga is about to "F Itself in the Face" by going after undocumented immigrants. The undocumented differ from Trump in 3 ways: 1) They pay taxes 2) They help the economy 3) Foreign-born individuals commit fewer crimes than native-born folks like Trump, who's a criminal 1/

submitted 47 days ago • 68 comments

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us." -- Carl Sagan, who died #OTD 1996

submitted 76 days ago • 13 comments

President Musk tries his hand at governing-- and it goes about as poorly as you might think:

submitted 75 days ago • 295 comments

CFPB is a godsend to ordinary consumers. Watch the Musk Administration try to get rid of it

submitted 85 days ago • 33 comments

“It’s going to be very hard to simply memory-hole the biggest investigation in Justice Department history, one that created an indelible historic record of the assault.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 82 days ago • 37 comments

Those who think President Biden can make the ERA the 28th Amendment overestimate executive power. I’m among those who think Virginia’s ratification sufficed to make the ERA part of the Constitution. The President could and should say he agrees if he does. He can’t do more. x.com/tribelaw/sta...

submitted 80 days ago • 35 comments

Some of the same people who want to ban library books and drag shows seem perfectly fine with sexual predators serving in the cabinet. Make that make sense.

submitted 106 days ago • 124 comments

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

submitted 105 days ago • 1196 comments

Remember: fascism thrives on apathy. The autocrats want you to tune out. They want to overwhelm you. They want you to give up. Don’t give them want they want. Stay in this fight. Remain vigilant. And let’s keep building.

submitted 109 days ago • 944 comments

I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.

submitted 110 days ago • 833 comments

Rampell: What's interesting here is that besides what we know or don't know about what Matt Gaetz may have done behind closed doors and the allegations are quite disturbing. There's plenty of stuff he's done in public that I think should have disqualified him from this job

submitted 110 days ago • 66 comments

Trying to imagine what Republicans would be saying if a Democratic president's nominee for ATTORNEY GENERAL, the top law enforcement official in the US, was trying to suppress a report that may prove his sexual misconduct with a minor. Would a single minute go by where they wouldn't yell about it?

submitted 110 days ago • 603 comments

“The world is arguably in the greatest danger of major war since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And this is the moment the superpower elects a reality-TV star who then picks a cable-TV host to keep all of us safe. God wills it, that tattoo says. God help us, I say. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

You don't have to do this if you think your nominees can pass a background clearance. You only do it if you know they can't. www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

submitted 110 days ago • 307 comments

Spanberger: If she’s willing to work against U.S. interests by legitimizing Kremlin propaganda, what kind of untold damage could she do as the Director of National Intelligence? Is she going to put Russian propaganda in the president’s daily brief?

submitted 110 days ago • 353 comments

The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.

submitted 110 days ago • 854 comments

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews former CIA Officer and current Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger on the threats of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, specifically Tulsi Gabbard, to be the Director of National Intelligence.

submitted 110 days ago • 63 comments

NEW: Supreme Court REJECTS Mark Meadows' petition to review lower court decision denying his motion to move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court. Case will proceed in Fulton County. Reminder: President cannot not pardon in this case. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

submitted 113 days ago • 230 comments

Yes. The SecDef nominee has a white supremacist tattoo prominently and proudly on his arm.

submitted 112 days ago • 136 comments