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I think the energy that can be harnessed right now if someone in a leadership position wants to step up and be a leader is extraordinary.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 827 comments

If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

submitted 17 hours ago • 149 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 844 comments

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

submitted 1 day ago • 530 comments

The bottom, @fpwellman.bsky.social, the absolute, dangerously disgusting bottom, promising nothing but cruelty, injustice and ugly retribution.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Normalize calling Republicans Nazis.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Why is any U.S. media outlet pretending there have been sufficient savings associated with this Musk debacle—or even any confirmed _net_ savings at all—such that every American can be given $5,000? This is clearly a desperate attempt by Musk and Trump to simply _pay_ people to stop criticizing them.

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

Kathy Hochul sold us out. As far as I’m concerned she should just go ahead and change parties.

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🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 957 comments

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

submitted 1 day ago • 571 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 1 day ago • 511 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 1403 comments

“Democrats seem to be waiting for Trump, Musk, and MAGA to naturally become unpopular, instead of working overtime to make them unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a unified, aggressive, and creative opposition in this country.” Read more from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social. 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1922 comments

Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

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Wow. Let me know if you agree that Trump and DOGE make us LESS SAFE. 💙

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

Support workers!

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 3 days ago • 1363 comments

NEW: A blockbuster ruling in Wisconsin hands vote suppressors a big loss. A victory for voting rights! Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXur...

submitted 3 days ago • 376 comments

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 3 days ago • 1881 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 4 days ago • 494 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 4 days ago • 2290 comments

As if it’s up to America to decide the fate of democratic Ukraine by conducting negotiations with Russia without Ukraine. Yet another betrayal of democracy by this pro-Putin Trump regime.

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

submitted 4 days ago • 960 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2926 comments

They won’t ever learn will they

submitted 6 days ago • 676 comments

And on FOX NEWS, no less.

submitted 6 days ago • 1248 comments

Corporate journalism is fundamentally broken. Support your fave independent outlet today. Support trans writers, Black creators, disabled advocates. Support people who are just coming up. Wanna fight fascism? Give $3/mo to three organizations—and tell everyone you know how AMAZING these orgs are.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

you should read david’s thread for a thorough dismantling of this article. i will only add that it is very disappointing, although not altogether surprising, to see some progressives treat trump’s war on DEI as a legitimate policy difference and not as an explicit effort to resegregate the workforce

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

🚨BREAKING: In response to emergency litigation by @democracyforward.org, Trump backs down and agrees to keep hands off CFPB funding until case can be heard. Visit Democracy Docket for breaking news involving democracy and the courts. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 8 days ago • 153 comments

Simply: Mayor Eric Adams and his hot and cold running spigots of corruption need to resign and any Democrat supporting him or working with him or protecting him needs to be expelled from the party www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to programs that millions of people rely on. 4) Repeat. Don't let them get away with it.

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👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 8 days ago • 593 comments