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On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 14 hours ago • 102 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

after hearing from several of you last night, i think i have a general structure for this. it's subject to change based on feedback, but if you're a current, fired, or currently-being-litigated federal worker, i want to hear from you. here are the details.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

I have questions: Where are the airlines in all this? Has any CEO from United, Delta, JetBlue, American, Virgin, etc. made public comments? A recent search turned up nothing. Surely safety is front of mind? Surely they're concerned about a loss in revenue due a loss in perceived safety?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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 18 hours ago • 1193 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 18 hours ago • 848 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 21 hours ago • 1713 comments

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 20 hours ago • 100 comments

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Just in -- House Dems on the science committee raise "deep alarm" over DOGE involvement at NASA, saying lack of transparency is "ominous and unacceptable" www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/s...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are the richest men in America, yet they constantly humiliate themselves to try to prove their masculinity. Watch the full video on YouTube: Elon and Zuck are INSECURE Men youtu.be/ol4X6oc-tz8

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

There's a certain former Republican US Senator who lost his job because his constituents demanded he host a town hall meeting to explain why he was serving Trump instead of the state that elected him and that state hasn't elected a Republican to a statewide office since

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Connolly: "The fallacy of Musk's argument is they never look at revenue. They only look at expenditures. If you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. Raise income threshold subject to withholding tax & you can extend social security by 40 to 50yrs. He doesn't want to talk about that"

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

This is it 👇 #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 1 day ago • 986 comments

NEW: Minnesota was just ranked a top state both to retire and to raise a family. By investing in the things that matter – economic opportunity, health and safety, and strong communities – we’re building the best state for all Minnesotans from childhood through retirement.

submitted 1 day ago • 814 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

remarkable that the White House cannot just say that Putin is responsible for Putin's war

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

this man is on fucking drugs, he is on a lot of them, and every member of the white house press corps and every republican member of congress is deliberately overlooking it

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Guess what? Members of Congress are in a better position to protect themselves than all of us who get death threats regularly. They're afraid of losing their positions. If you're too afraid of losing votes to defend the Constitution, then you shouldn't be in Congress.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

70 year old Senator Tommy Tuberville can’t think of the word “triangle”

submitted 1 day ago • 579 comments

Ok, so she is a Trump supporter. Eric Adams is openly owned by Trump and will carry out his agenda to the hilt in exchange for not going to prison. To support Eric Adams in any way is to be a full-throated Trump supporter and we should be clear about that

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 1 day ago • 3409 comments

If it's about saving government money why are they firing people who make money for the government? DOGE is a lie, start to finish.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Has it broken through to mainstream discourse yet that SecDef wants to reduce his budget by more than the entire budget of the Navy or Air Force (let alone Army or Marines) over the next five years? Because that seems like something that should get some attention.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

Two messaging options to consider below, which works better? Senate Dems: we stand ready to unite in bipartisanship to move America forward Governor Pritzker: beheads a Republican Sic Semper Tyrannis

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 844 comments

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Just got out of jail. Only forty four left to go to catch John Lewis’s record. Remember - peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t comply in advance.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

submitted 2 days ago • 15 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.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 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 3 days ago • 518 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 3 days ago • 540 comments

I absolutely believe this. Rape is a central ethos of the MAGA movement. The Trump administration is currently pressuring Romania to release Andrew Tate, after all. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Trump's party hates America as it is and wants to change it for the worse. They want to gut our institutions of science and technology, to whitewash our cultural and ideological diversity, to withdraw from our position of leadership and strength in the world. No patriot can support them.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

the next generation of democratic leadership needs to combine a steely-eyed puritanism with righteous hatred. new model army dems.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments