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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 6 days ago • 400 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 4 days ago • 1638 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 4 days ago • 1731 comments

It should be a major scandal that the Social Security Administration made it harder for parents to register their babies in Maine to punish the President's enemies www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

If it isn't obvious, you aren't safe in this Trump Administration. Dictators come after anyone and everyone deemed a threat, including their former allies and loyalists. Your white skin, American accent, Christian background, Rust Belt zip code, and/or GOP voting record won't save you.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 640 comments

Yup.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

submitted 9 days ago • 501 comments

Make this viral.

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Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term because it doesn't go far enough. "The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. Albert Einstein

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

submitted 13 days ago • 763 comments

First Amendment betrayals in U.S. history

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

When you forget to have OLC withdraw this opinion before posting on social media about the inability to sign Presidential documents by autopen.

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submitted 14 days ago • 336 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 16 days ago • 6023 comments

celebrate #InternationalWomensDay by fighting like a girl

submitted 22 days ago • 502 comments

More of this please.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Of course! What could possibly happen…

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

‘Like a horror movie’: ICE is detaining German tourist indefinitely www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 26 yo German Jessica Brösche—a tourist who had a visa waiver & a return ticket to 🇩🇪 in her passport—has been in a detention center for a month+ after being denied entry from 🇲🇽 Adios 🇺🇸 tourism!

submitted 26 days ago • 37 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 28 days ago • 2028 comments

There are more cases of measles in the US than there are NCAA trans athletes But Trump • Elon • RFK don't want you to realize that! h/t @briantylercohen.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 29 days ago • 3326 comments

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

submitted 29 days ago • 211 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 29 days ago • 766 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 30 days ago • 3157 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 30 days ago • 2239 comments

The question I am really struggling with right now is: What is "law & order" and the entire American constitutional order for if it isn't a Go Directly to Jail card for guys like Donald Trump and Elon Musk for doing exactly what they're doing right now?

submitted 32 days ago • 75 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 32 days ago • 1230 comments

Nope. Nope, no, nope…

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A Republican congressman assaulted the woman he was having an affair with. DC police was ready to arrest him, but they can’t because the U.S. attorney who today proclaimed itself “President Trump’s lawyer” won’t sign a warrant against a Republican.

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments

Wrong move. I’ll follow you, @joyannreid.bsky.social wherever you may roam.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

👀 NEW: the current under secretary of State for Management, Ambassador Tibor Nagy, has sent an email regarding OPM's request for five accomplishments: "No employee is obligated to report their activities outside of their department chain of command."

submitted 35 days ago • 352 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 36 days ago • 162 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 36 days ago • 444 comments

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

submitted 38 days ago • 1400 comments

From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

submitted 42 days ago • 284 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 43 days ago • 3162 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 43 days ago • 1427 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 44 days ago • 827 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 43 days ago • 378 comments

I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery

submitted 46 days ago • 991 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 45 days ago • 252 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 46 days ago • 381 comments