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submitted 95 days ago • 44 comments

You have $100 in your checking account. One day, you check your balance and it's $60. You haven't made any withdrawals. You call the bank. They say $40 was taken as part of their "waste, fraud and abuse" program. Would you be ok with it? Coz it's happening to your social security and Medicaid.

submitted 99 days ago • 203 comments

DEI and good wages. What’s not to love?

submitted 98 days ago • 618 comments

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

submitted 98 days ago • 1080 comments

“We are horrified by the illegal abduction and now indefinite detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a U.S. legal permanent resident—by Department of Homeland Security agents. We unequivocally demand his immediate release from DHS custody.” — 14 House Dems in letter to DHS EVERY House member should say this!

submitted 98 days ago • 100 comments

Let the kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer. This is the GOP way. E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

submitted 99 days ago • 106 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 101 days ago • 447 comments

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

submitted 100 days ago • 130 comments

submitted 101 days ago • 356 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 101 days ago • 453 comments

Every lawyer should be required to read this. commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...

submitted 101 days ago • 305 comments

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

submitted 101 days ago • 119 comments

What he's saying blows way past this argument: "I'm taking their legal guns to stop death." The lawless aggressor remains well-armed. It's like saying, I'm taking all bullet-proof vests and bullet proof glass because that will save lives. It's interesting that conservatives are tolerating this.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Share if you agree. 🇨🇦 🇲🇽

submitted 101 days ago • 1953 comments

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

submitted 103 days ago • 390 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 102 days ago • 1272 comments

Son: Are we better off now? Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time. Son: What's that? Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.

submitted 104 days ago • 339 comments

BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 104 days ago • 733 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 104 days ago • 485 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 105 days ago • 3627 comments

Since Congress’s allotted funds have already been improperly unallocated, U.S. citizens are questioning whether they are legally required to continue paying federal taxes.

submitted 106 days ago • 1161 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.