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Leader Hakeem Jeffries is on a book tour, visiting Chicago on Thurs eve 2/20. We'll rally outside the event to tell Congressman Jeffries, we need you, now, to stand firm & fight back against the Trump-Musk power grab, and inhumanity, using every tool at your disposal!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Even setting aside the framing of this as "savings" (it's not! It's illegally canceling contracts for services we want!), this post suggests $16 billion is accurate. But per the article this does not include the $8 BILLION TYPO!! Or other bad math/shady accounting Total journalistic malpractice.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ken I’m gonna be so fucking real with you, NO ONE IS GONNA READ YOUR MEMO. Find your youngest staff person, have them explain TikTok to you in a normal person-who-isn’t-Zuckerberg way, and start filming yourself doing rageful stunts in front of Ft Knox

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This Executive Order is not a direct attack on Marbury v. Madison and SCOTUS; it IS a direct attack on the 19 independent federal regulatory agencies, including financial regulators: SEC, FDIC, CFTC, CFPB, NCUA, FHFA, OCC and much of the Fed. It's the next step in Musk making X everyone's bank.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

My "this deal is not a quid pro quo" letter is raising a lot of questions already answered by my letter

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Federal Judge Lauren King issues a temporary restraining order to block Trump Executive Order restricting health care for transgender youth. Washington gets a court victory, again. @komonews

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I have absolutely no time for politicians who don’t respect organizing. This is, quite literally, what democracy looks like. You don’t have to agree with everything the people are demanding, but if you’re going to disparage the people doing whatever they can to fight fascism, you should resign.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

From now on, you know first stop out of all NYC airports is always Isanbul

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If you wish to vote in New York City's mayoral Dem primary in JUNE (=the election that'll pretty much decide the next mayor), you must be registered as a Democrat BY FRIDAY. An insanely early deadline bound to leave people vote out. At least make sure you're not one of them if you're interested!

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

I thought I had a pretty good imagination, but no matter how hard I try, I cannot "imagine Duolingo for pregnancy health, but baked by major football clubs." That's it. That's my limit

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely jaw-dropping @nytimes.com

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

this account will always promote people learning that chumbawumba goes fucking hard

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

Senator Schatz puts a hold on all State Dept. nominees until USAID is restored. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 122 comments

Welcome to the team, NHLPA and PHPA! The AFL-CIO is now 63 unions and 15 million members strong - growing our collective power to win fairness, better wages, and respect on and off the ice. When workers stand together, we all win.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 20 days ago • 165 comments

Just what the fuck. This is genuinely insane

submitted 21 days ago • 50 comments

Just want to say something here that I recently said at a conference: Civil rights lawyers know this is a challenging time for law students, early-career lawyers, and fed govt lawyers. We're happy to chat. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 23 days ago • 4419 comments

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 23 days ago • 510 comments

A young civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins passed away in the tragic DC plane crash last night. She wrote some amazing articles about the law and justice that I will share in the subsequent thread. May her memory be a blessing ❤️

submitted 24 days ago • 202 comments

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 24 days ago • 304 comments

Incredible www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Like, is there ANY DOWNSIDE to, say, a Tim Walz media blitz where the democrats stop acting like everything is grave and ponderous and Walz just calls the the Trump administration pieces of shit, and Fallon is like WHOA can he say that!

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

Medicare and Medicaid aren’t the same thing - I’d think someone who wants to run our country’s health system should know that.

submitted 25 days ago • 120 comments

Journalistic malpractice here Just really embarrassing. These are adults in positions of incredible power.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

damn where have i seen this before... www.axios.com/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Bonus Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather “The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.”

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

submitted 26 days ago • 178 comments

I do think “they are killing Americans” is better political messaging than “I am a DOGE Democrat”

submitted 26 days ago • 25 comments

Flood the zone. Electeds, activists, & leaders, don’t assume people know what’s going on. Tell them everywhere that: Trump & Republicans stopped Medicaid. Trump & Republicans stopped housing assistance. Trump & Republicans stopped schooling for children.