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They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.

submitted 4 hours ago • 340 comments

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

submitted 10 hours ago • 663 comments

I beg you to share this story because it's a travesty! Vivi, less than 3 months away from graduating, lost her commission to the military under President Trump's bigoted purge of our armed forces. Vivi was in my best friend's son's ROTC detachment & is his friend. www.laloyolan.com/news/she-wan...

submitted 13 hours ago • 77 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 11 hours ago • 130 comments

The richest man in the world is picking your pocketbook. Are you OK with this?

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

The military is renaming an Army base in Georgia from Fort Moore to Fort Benning, reverting the base back to its original name, but Pete Hegseth says it’s after an enlisted World War I soldier and Distinguished Service Cross recipient, instead of the Confederate general it was previously named for.

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

submitted 5 days ago • 1361 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

We love a good "put up or shut up"

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2548 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 7 days ago • 3510 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 8 days ago • 3190 comments

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue Dem leaders 🙏 talk to the press & the American people in one voice, once and for all. America shouldn't suck up to Russia & bully Uklane. Dem lawmakers met with President Zelensky to show support: now, push the narrative.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Zelensky is watching his neighbors get blown to smithereens by Russian bombs. He is watching his countrymen die in muddy trenches to hold an invading dictator at bay. He himself could die, alongside his family. The expectation that he flatter Trump’s delusions, like our elites all do, is obscene.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance FUCK TRUMP FUCK VANCE FUCK RUBIO The State Department this week terminated a USAID initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid from attacks by the Russian military www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

submitted 8 days ago • 494 comments

Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

submitted 8 days ago • 1094 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 8 days ago • 856 comments

Rubio is a worm.

submitted 8 days ago • 172 comments

This is on #Trump #Musk #Vought #Rubio.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1019 comments

Same.

submitted 9 days ago • 287 comments

Re-writing history is a tool of political fraudsters everywhere. Trump is its keenest proponent. The birth of the European Community, later the EU, was actually actively supported by the US. The joint, transatlantic goal was to secure peace on the Continent. It was a specific vision of FDR.

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

submitted 10 days ago • 1358 comments

NEW: Indiana already has stringent voter ID rules... & the GOP is advancing a bill right now to strip university IDs from the list of options you can use. This would make it much harder for students to vote. At polling site at IU Bloomington, 2/3rds of voters in November used their student IDs.

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments

Charleston Water System monitoring for PFAs despite halt on new regulations #chsnews

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Is @joshweil.bsky.social connecting with seniors in his district? Hell YES! Folks at The Villages know that he’s the candidate who will fight to protect Social Security, Medicare, & Veterans’ Benefits. He knows that seniors built this country. #WeNeedJosh www.mobilize.us/joshweilforc...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Hero

submitted 11 days ago • 1286 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 11 days ago • 9631 comments

We had a couple people who were supposed to miss, but they showed up. Today was the easy hurdle for MAGA Mike, and he struggled with that. Now they got to line-item the details - that’s when the real screaming and infighting begins.

submitted 11 days ago • 187 comments

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

submitted 11 days ago • 709 comments

One thing I'd add to that segment: we tracked GOP town halls all over the country last week. We counted only 8! So 95% of GOP members are hiding from their constituents. If we're going to pressure them publicly, local groups are going to have to get creative. Stay tuned for more on that front soon!

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

AWESOME!

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We get questioned a lot—we understand. Every day seems crazier than the last, and our legitimacy is often challenged. But everything we’ve shared is backed by evidence.

submitted 11 days ago • 158 comments

This seems bad

submitted 12 days ago • 2109 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

Curtis Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited … are smashed, they shld be replaced by a global spiderweb of…independent mini-countries, each governed by its own…corporation w/o regard to the residents’ opinions.” This reminds me of DOGE, “Network States,” & “Freedom Cities.” You? 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

BREAKING: A mass resignation rebellion has erupted at DOGE. Over 20 employees, including engineers, data scientists, and product managers, have asserted they refuse to use their expert technical skills to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold…

submitted 11 days ago • 433 comments

As Attorney General Brad Schimel tried overturn the Affordable Care Act—putting lives at risk. Wisconsin—he doesn’t care if you can pay your bills or afford care. He only cares about pushing the MAGA agenda. ✅Vote for Judge Susan Crawford by April 1st to protect our healthcare.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I’m an American patriot who stands with the brave people of Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I despise Trump and Putin!!

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments