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Counterintuitive, but: this will crush the US wine industry. Booze gets to market on distributors' trucks. These fleets need volume to run efficiently. Subtract EU wine from the equation & it no longer pencils out. Any gains from less competition would likely be paid back out in margin loss.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

I truly hope that one silver lining we take from this coup is that voters begin to understand that when you vote for president, you’re not just selecting one person. You’re selecting all the judges they’ll appoint, and the entire cabinet.

submitted 4 days ago • 755 comments

GOOD: Mallory McMorrow will launch a bid for the open Senate seat in Michigan.

submitted 4 days ago • 311 comments

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

submitted 5 days ago • 500 comments

“The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff.”

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

I cannot stress enough that Social Security keeps elderly Americans from becoming impoverished, AND it keeps younger Americans from going bankrupt caring for their elderly family members. Without Social Security, society would collapse.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Pete Doocy coming up with a better one-line talking point for Democrats than 90% of Democrats. You don’t have to always speak in run-on paragraphs to try and fail to make your point. Voters remember lines like this, they don’t remember verbal policy essays.

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

submitted 7 days ago • 511 comments

If you haven't read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that's okay. It's good and short and makes a lot of excellent points about the creeping spread of fascism, but you've seen these same points retread over and over again since he wrote it... ...in 1935.

submitted 7 days ago • 95 comments

I’m grateful for @UFCW951’s trust & support in my campaign to represent them as Michigan’s next governor to make MI the best place to be a kid, raise a kid, & call home. I’m committed to making sure every Michigander is safe in the workplace- our economy should work for the people who power it.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Weingarten: It’s really only the Congress that can abolish the Department of Education. So, what the president can do is make government basically ineffective—not work—by a thousand cuts. And that’s what they’re doing.

submitted 9 days ago • 350 comments

Bernie is on FIRE!🔥

submitted 9 days ago • 890 comments

Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations. Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include: Boston Miami Houston Omaha Wichita Kansas City Marquette, MI Sioux Falls, SD Rapid City, SD Cheyenne, WY www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's." -- Abraham Lincoln

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

I enthusiastically endorse Diane Seltzer for DC Bar President. The election is coming up soon. If you are a DC Bar member please make sure to vote for her!

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

The US government is supporting money laundering and fraud. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/06/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

This complaint, filed yesterday by 20 states against the Trump administration over mass terminations of federal workers, is quite a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

1/ Federal Judge in Rhode Island says no to Trump imposing spending freezes, affirming Congress still has the power of the purse (whether it’s doing anything about executive overreach or not) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 11 days ago • 489 comments

Don’t sleep on this measles thing

submitted 15 days ago • 174 comments

SAVE THIS PDF 🚨 While it's still available, save a PDF of the CDC's adult vaccine schedule: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... It also has ALL the specifications and different types of contingencies (pregnancy, immunocompromised, etc.)!

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Trump's Social Security Administration commissioner just called for a 50% staff reduction. This would gut SSA field offices and make it harder for millions of seniors to access benefits. Make no mistake: this is an attack on Social Security itself.

submitted 18 days ago • 257 comments

Together we can build a Michigan where my son – and all of our children and grandchildren – can grow up in safe neighborhoods, find good jobs they love, and build lives they’re proud of. This campaign is about making Michigan the best place to be a kid, raise a kid, and call home. Join us.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Healthcare is a human right, and this is unacceptable. $2,000,000,000,000. Two TRILLION Dollars. That's an incredible amount of lost healthcare. Call your representatives today. Email your representatives today. Speak out. www.house.gov/representati...

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The fourth book in the NYT-bestselling Proof Series has been made free to the public (click below to read). A main character is Kash Patel. The focus is on the last time Trump tried to use the Pentagon to amplify an intended overthrow of American democracy. It’s information all Americans need now.

submitted 22 days ago • 35 comments

Michiganders were fired up, ready to fight, and take back our trifecta in 2026 at this weekend's Michigan Democratic Party convention. I’m ready to take on anyone to fight for Michigan's future. Together, we’ll build a Michigan that is the best place to be a kid, raise a kid, and call home.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 22 days ago • 262 comments

There is nothing cooler than preventing a democracy from turning into a dictatorship

submitted 22 days ago • 110 comments

@marcelias.bsky.social interviews @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social this is a tremendous interview. Very thought-provoking and insightful. Keep up the fight! Focus on knocking Republicans out of the House and Senate in 2026. @briantylercohen.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/GyleOTPeEHs?...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 22 days ago • 230 comments

I think the implications here are painfully and terrifyingly obvious.

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this today but the way you fold a fitted sheet is perfect and you should never worry about that shit again.

submitted 22 days ago • 57 comments

#Emails2DOGE TO [email protected] 1. Woke up 2. Fell out of bed 3. Dragged a comb across my head 4. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup 5. Read the news today…. Oh boy

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 24 days ago • 980 comments

"By now it’s clear there’s no reason for optimism that H5N1 will fade away as a minor nuisance. To the contrary, the situation has only been trending worse." Lucy Shapiro of @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the "slow-boil crisis" of bird flu.

submitted 25 days ago • 50 comments

FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

submitted 24 days ago • 606 comments

Read this measured but heartbreaking account of the disastrous Musk/Trump destruction of USAID and what its devastation portends for the world and our nation’s indispensable role in relieving global suffering www.thebulwark.com/p/the-human-...

submitted 24 days ago • 66 comments

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 24 days ago • 334 comments

What did they expect? If you let the machine do the thinking for you - your brain atrophies www.itpro.com/technology/a...

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

A little substance about what the FBI does & historical context to help you articulate just how dangerous the confirmation of Kash Patel is. joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 24 days ago • 146 comments

These U.S.-Russia talks about Ukraine smell like the 1938 Munich Pact. The UK and France "agreed to Hitler’s demands for Czechoslovakia to cede a portion of its territory known as the Sudetenland to Germany; in return, Hitler assured the Western Allies that he had no further territorial ambitions."

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

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Ah yes, focusing on the issues that impact regular Americans.

submitted 28 days ago • 890 comments