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Politics isn't about policy it's about how those policies affect people. It's all about people. I don't care about parties. Eat the rich
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jamelle is correct

submitted 7 days ago • 1331 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 7 days ago • 1614 comments

Trump is reportedly looking to shrink the FDIC and consolidate it into other govt agencies. The FDIC was created during the Depression to protect bank deposits. This would come after Trump and DOGE shuttered the CFPB, which protects us from financial fraud. See the pattern?

submitted 9 days ago • 244 comments

"they're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle tonight..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 9 days ago • 1172 comments

Of course the Democrats will be going to Houston to find and interview voters who were laid off , to ask them what their expectations of the new administration were and how they feel they are doing at the moment. And posting here and everywhere. Right ?

submitted 9 days ago • 1423 comments

So basically, disobey the law of the president orders you to..nope not facist at all

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

ICE is expanding its surveillance of critics on social media, citing an "increase in threats" as justification. The agency is seeking a contractor to monitor public discourse, raising concerns among civil liberties advocates. -Truthout

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"That is why Elon’s commission looks, sounds, and smells like a sham. Because thus far, the biggest beneficiaries aren’t working class Americans, but rather Elon Musk himself. You don’t get credit for rooting out abuse if your execution raises more questions than it answers."

submitted 11 days ago • 250 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 1853 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 11 days ago • 2374 comments

Donold says he’s standing up for persecuted Christians…unless they’re Catholic bishops pleading for mercy, then they’re ‘radical leftists.’

submitted 12 days ago • 612 comments

Damn, one promise Trump kept, we are winning all the time now (in court, against him). We have never seen some much winning!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the FBI will have to release documents related to Trump's mishandling of classified documents in a FOIA case brought by Jason Leopold. From Kyle Cheney: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 12 days ago • 451 comments

Donald Trump tried to illegally shut down funding for programs that millions of people rely on. Community health centers, Head Start programs, and charities are still having trouble accessing funds. Meanwhile, the taxpayers are paying for Trump's trip to the Super Bowl.

submitted 12 days ago • 190 comments

Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” It’s who our government is for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month. Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either. And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.

submitted 12 days ago • 343 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

PLEASE SHARE.

submitted 12 days ago • 1085 comments

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 12 days ago • 18408 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 13 days ago • 3703 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Actually, that is precisely what the legislative branch is supposed to do.

submitted 13 days ago • 1319 comments

Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

submitted 13 days ago • 1055 comments

Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair. He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.

submitted 15 days ago • 1341 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

submitted 15 days ago • 715 comments

They're waking up.

submitted 15 days ago • 726 comments

True.

submitted 15 days ago • 2036 comments

Public services help everyone whether we realize it or not. Privatizin these services is not more efficient, it's money out of the public pool and in private hands, for profit - a private interest, is used to entrench that profit model and exploit people- and is not answerable to the public

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If we want to save some more taxpayer money, the government could freeze payments to SpaceX. Last year, it spent more than 400 times as many taxpayer dollars on SpaceX services than it did on Politico Pro subscriptions. Surely we don't need to be paying for a *second* space program.

submitted 16 days ago • 54 comments

If he truly cared about stopping drug trafficking, why did he pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a secret website that facilitated roughly $200 million in drug sales?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Bird flu is now spreading from birds to pets to people, but Donald doesn't want you to know that because it might make him look bad.

submitted 15 days ago • 437 comments

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 15 days ago • 2348 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

Musk and his rats have nothing whatever to do with rooting out “waste and fraud.” Their real purpose is to usurp Congress’s authority over spending, under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution. Some thoughts...

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

Who could have possibly predicted?

submitted 15 days ago • 373 comments

Destroying the constitution to own the libs. Those wacky MAGAs are really getting us this time!!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments