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Thinking you should decide who to promote based on an answer to an email explains a lot about the problems with his business model & products

submitted 3 hours ago • 285 comments

Please share this fact sheet about Ukraine with anyone who needs it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 56 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 1 hour ago • 137 comments

He said the quiet part out loud. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 58 minutes ago • 101 comments

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 17 hours ago • 646 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 23 hours ago • 119 comments

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submitted 17 hours ago • 1834 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 13 hours ago • 612 comments

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1230 comments

If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

submitted 22 hours ago • 88 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1527 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1185 comments

I heard someone compare Trump’s mass firings to him being a bull in a china shop. I disagree. Trump is a like a bull in a VA hospital. Trump is like a bull in an assisted living facility. Trump is like a bull in an Alzheimer’s research center. Trump is like a bull in a NICU.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1866 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

Another shakedown: U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1329 comments

The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

submitted 4 days ago • 743 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 4 days ago • 4566 comments

As the nation’s revenue collector, the IRS was tasked during the Biden administration with targeting high-wealth tax evaders for an additional stream of income to the U.S., which is $36 trillion in debt. By the end of 2024, the IRS collected over $1.3 billion in back taxes from rich tax dodgers.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2183 comments

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

submitted 4 days ago • 2110 comments

This is a boy who was ecstatic to be out walking, but not thrilled about that coat, and not thrilled about the paparazzi. #OurBeagleBernie #WontLookWednesday

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1218 comments

House Republicans propose to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy by gutting Medicaid. My granddaughter will die without ongoing medical care. And it’s no comfort to me that many MAGA will die, too. Republicans have prioritized wealth over human lives. They’re despicable.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: Sen. Ron Wyden sounds the alarm that Trump approves of the House budget resolution -- the only way they can meet their $880 billion in cuts is by cutting hundreds of billions from Medicaid, a disaster for millions. Make sure everyone sees this.

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 4 days ago • 520 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 4 days ago • 2367 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 4 days ago • 1111 comments

This should concern you more than any executive order so far. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/fe...

submitted 4 days ago • 358 comments

And this from the party claiming to champion free speech.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 5 days ago • 454 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 897 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 6 days ago • 819 comments

Bernie’s had it with this cold spell! #OurBeagleBernie

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Bernie peers around the chair to see if he’s missing anything… #OurBeagleBernie

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2403 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 6 days ago • 1251 comments

Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

submitted 6 days ago • 1212 comments

Listen up, you star-spangled dipshits… because while you were telling me to “cry harder” for the bazillionth time today cuz I have the nerve to care about kids with cancer… THEY “ACCIDENTALLY” FIRED THE PEOPLE WHO OVERSEE OUR NUCLEAR STOCKPILE. Wake the fuck up dumbfucks.

submitted 6 days ago • 439 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 1444 comments