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submitted 4 days ago • 459 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 5 days ago • 111 comments

@as-king.bsky.social I’m not your demographic audience but I appreciate your work writing to help teenagers understand their feelings. I was an auto shop instructor at a high school for a short period. Banning books is a Nazi thing and definitely shouldn’t be ours.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.

submitted 11 days ago • 187 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 10 days ago • 3525 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 18 days ago • 2340 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 18 days ago • 3145 comments

This is the way…

submitted 18 days ago • 316 comments

If history teaches us anything, it’s that it’s never a good idea to appease a wannabe dictator. House Democrats stood strong, Senate leadership needs to do the same.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 179 comments

JUST A REMINDER ... ... of how close we are today ...

submitted 20 days ago • 256 comments

This is what it's all about. Republicans are making it easier for their rich friends and donors to cheat on their taxes while the rest of us pay.

submitted 20 days ago • 268 comments

My Democratic colleagues and I have made it clear: we are united in support of a four-week spending bill that restores Congress’s power of the purse, keeps government open, and allows for an actual bipartisan solution. I will stay in DC as long as it takes.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 20 days ago • 2706 comments

Ok the democrats have given over to Musk the power and funding to hack away at our government. 217 voted including one Democrat to pass the house continuing resolution and now the fear of voters not liking a shutdown has senate democrats like Fedderman caving in to give the republicans the win.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.

submitted 25 days ago • 694 comments

If President Trump and House Republicans want to find fraud in Medicaid or Medicare, they shouldn’t start with working people or seniors, they should start with providers who rip off the government for their gain. You know, the kind FL Senator Rick Scott’s company was fined $1.6 BILLION for.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Trump didn't say a word about health care last night. What is he hiding? I spent two hours hearing from Oregonians terrified about what Republican cuts to Medicare and Medicaid will mean for them. When you come for people's health care, you have hell to pay, and this time will be no different.

submitted 27 days ago • 273 comments

Republicans would rather let DOGE mess with your hard-earned Social Security checks than grow a spine and stand up to Elon.

submitted 26 days ago • 357 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 27 days ago • 2059 comments

Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

“This is a very dumb thing to do.“ Trudeau slams Trump’s tariffs. “At the same time they’re talking positively about … Putin, a lying murderous dictator.“ youtu.be/0CROCVYKXsQ?...

submitted 28 days ago • 109 comments

I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!

submitted 29 days ago • 311 comments

Some beauty from our southern neighbor

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Threats of violence against nations that have something to seize for the oligarchs of this country and with gold card citizenship offers to other oligarchs to come and rape our country’s economy. This is the Republican agenda?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Well it was a disgusting display by the Republicans leadership of what they did to Zelensky in the Oval Office. I don’t see peace as a motivation for this administration that defines the meaning of authoritarian. A trade war with our closest neighbors is monetary warfare not peaceful negotiation.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This was a set up. It was always the plan to publicly berate him as political theater — that’s why they invited TASS (Russian media) but not AP or Reuters. Standing with a country that’s fighting for its freedom is literally the most American thing you could do. We’ve lost that.

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

According to the NY Times (and its UN vote), America’s new friends under Trump (instead of under God) are Russia and North Korea.

submitted 34 days ago • 483 comments

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

submitted 34 days ago • 589 comments

Nothing about kids dying from measles is normal. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and the Republicans who enable them are responsible for every single one of these deaths.

submitted 34 days ago • 461 comments

Folks are asking, “what should I do in this moment?” One of the most passionate, progressive voices in Congress for 30 years, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden answers that question. Here’s our conversation, inside a replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute: youtu.be/n_nQ-Moa9fI?...

submitted 38 days ago • 211 comments

The House Republican budget bill takes healthcare away from millions of Americans, takes food away from hungry people and stops critical investment in our infrastructure; all to give tax breaks to their billionaire buddies. This bill does NOTHING to help the working people I represent. I’m a NO.

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

@jeff-merkley.bsky.social Thanks for your service

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment