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Conditioning housing and homelessness funding based on the administration’s unrelated and regressive policy positions is cruel and unwise. We must not stand for it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 69 comments

This isn’t the first time Republicans have tried to curb the ADA to make it “easier” for businesses to save and make more money. The ADA was signed into law in 1990 and is the key civil rights law that protects Americans with disabilities from discrimination. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

Now that Trump has proven to be a ruthless autocrat, too many have grown timid and silent. That is simply not who I am. It is not what I believe, and it is not what I will do. Instead, I will worry. I will hope. And I will fight. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-wo...

submitted 9 hours ago • 180 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 17 hours ago • 2922 comments

This is what privatization does Privatization is the goal Of Felon 47 & doge They break everything so they can privatize They want us to go bankrupt to buy our farms & homes for pennies on the $

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

Education is our kids future. Education is our country’s future. Mr. President, we will see you in court. www.aft.org/press-releas...

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell

submitted 8 hours ago • 98 comments

They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Curious what ADL has to say...

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Another very deadly mistake by RFK Jr. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

Oh, and btw. Did yall even know that Jackie Robinson's wife is still alive? Yes, Rachel Robinson will be turning 103 in July. And imagine she has to re-live this kind of humiliation again like it's 1947 swear I hate it here 🤬

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?

submitted 23 hours ago • 50 comments

So, we're now deporting people because Trump doesn't like the political opinions of their spouses. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

Facts matter

submitted 17 hours ago • 314 comments

Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 200 former congressional staffers and others were made public Tuesday in unredacted files related to the assassination of JFK. Many of these people are still alive and therefore now vulnerable to privacy theft and doxing

submitted 9 hours ago • 240 comments

our country is disappearing more and more people

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump stenography in the streets. Reality in the sheets.

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

GOP representative: “I support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.” Town hall crowd: “BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Let’s keep making Republicans own their complicity in President Musk’s hostile takeover. Take action near you during this congressional recess: indivisible.org/muskorus

submitted 22 hours ago • 264 comments

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

MAGA supports deporting individuals and spouses, without due process, whom they say might support terrorists. OK. So, what about all the people who praise and support Netanyahu, a war criminal, who is overseeing a genocide in Gaza? Or, people who support the Jan 6 insurrectionists?

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

submitted 9 hours ago • 640 comments

Remember when the Washington Post refused to endorse Kamala Harris

submitted 8 hours ago • 158 comments

PoS! “Elon Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to Republican members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges.” Don’t know how anyone who cares about our democracy and county can support this man in ANY way! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 9 hours ago • 32 comments

From many different angles Washington DC is emerging as a free fire zone for right wing violence precisely because it's not a state

submitted 10 hours ago • 31 comments

Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s accounting for years, but they have never gained much traction – until now. Today, the Financial Times has released a new report pointing to a $1.4 billion gap in assets.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

remember what i said before about physical control of buildings often being a decisive factor in the outcome of a coup? the law didn't matter here because the cost of enforcing it once the criminals seized the building was too high, so the judge just says its okay for the criminals to keep it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 49 comments

A power which, as it happens, presidents don’t have. But never mind. He no longer views himself as a president. (Note to SCOTUS: You did this. Giving a megalomaniacal sociopath immunity inevitably led to this.)

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Reuters: TRUMP TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER DIRECTING CLOSURE OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION- WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET

submitted 12 hours ago • 252 comments

Business surveys are showing the negative effects of Trump's lurching tariff policy and resulting uncertainty. From February to March, the percentage of businesses surveyed by Philly Fed that expected to increase cap ex fell from about 40% to 20%. Literally the largest decline in series history.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

RFK Jr. should "should shut up or step down," writes Donald G. McNeil, Jr. in this blistering op ed. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

submitted 8 days ago • 120 comments

US Institute for Peace is suing. In addition to all the other ultra vires claims, it includes a trespassing complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 hours ago • 41 comments

Trump’s White House is executing Project 2025 at lightning speed. The shutdown of VOA, the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, and the crackdown on press freedom—it’s all part of the plan. www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/silenced-t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 35 comments

The rule changes to Social Security will force people to go to an office if they can’t verify their identity online (since he’s doing away with Phone services that the elderly & disabled rely on) the White House website posts propaganda and LIES. Cutting ACCESS to benefits is the same thing. #LIARS

submitted 22 hours ago • 68 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Today I'm filled with admiration for my university's president, Chris Eisgruber. He's standing up for Columbia and for universities as a home for freedom of ideas, debate, and thought - free of government attack. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

What the fuck are these idiots afraid of? America is at its best when it acknowledges its historical flaws, its present day problems and works to fix them. We’ve done this before. The nation - and the children of the country - must know our complete history if we are to build a better future.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Democratic lawmakers will call on the Trump administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

I'm told the building has already been listed for sale and this news will go public tomorrow

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

MAGA rubes who are all about freedom and arming themselves against tyranny are celebrating a President being able to kidnap, detain, and deport individuals without due process. A cult is a helluva drug.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 1 day ago • 2603 comments

Reads like the accounts from El Salvador I’ve been translating for years. Extremely disturbing and terrifying. Welcome to the transnational State of Exception. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Nothing to see here... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Giving up command of the strongest military coalition on the planet to save 0.03% of the defense department's annual budget. Genius. 🙄 nbcnews.to/3DMBQpM

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

submitted 1 day ago • 597 comments

Wisconsin! VOTE April 1! your state Supreme Court Election is the first way to punch back. Musk is spending millions of dollars on this race for a reason. Check out @benwikler.bsky.social talking with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about how important this is www.youtube.com/live/AyXba-v...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

here's video of AG Pam Bondi claiming on Fox last night that the Trump administration "absolutely" will keep doing deportation flights even in the face of court orders telling them to stop

submitted 1 day ago • 781 comments