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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 12 hours ago • 221 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2092 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 371 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1560 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

submitted 2 days ago • 607 comments

firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

Working families need Washington to bring down costs—on housing, health care, child care, groceries, you name it. They don’t need Donald Trump and Elon Musk to cut funding for cancer research, fire air traffic controllers, or gut disaster recovery.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 449 comments

you could screen Idiocracy every single day in this WH and they would still experience it as a tribute concert

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Another brick in the fascist wall: WSJ reports Linda Yaccarino (CEO, X) threatening IPG w/government (Musk) retribution unless they advertise on X platform. www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 768 comments

Trump on Tuesday night: Promises not to cut Medicaid. Trump on Wednesday morning: Endorses a GOP plan to cut Medicaid. You know who’s on track to pay the price for this broken promise? Your grandma in her nursing home.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 536 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 4 days ago • 2370 comments

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

submitted 4 days ago • 1136 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 5 days ago • 1924 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 5 days ago • 1196 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 5 days ago • 1418 comments

Today marks 500 days since Oct. 7, hostages are still being held and suffering in Gaza continues, but it's been months since there were any significant protests at college campuses/Israeli diplomatic buildings/Democratic events from participants who said they would never give up.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.

submitted 6 days ago • 2927 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 724 comments

Going to be amazing reports flying around global US corps this week about what it means for sales and US brands when 80 years of American soft power is destroyed by Trump, Musk and Putin and in country consumers flee US products.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

“DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role”—in other words, that the “National Nuclear Security Agency” was an agency having something to do with national nuclear security

submitted 7 days ago • 434 comments

Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

submitted 7 days ago • 1018 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2402 comments

If a Dem president was at a car race the day after a major national disaster had 3 states underwater with fatalities, most of the posts on X tonight would be trashing that president. But whether bad or good, Dems politicians don’t seem to like to play that game. But it is effective.

submitted 7 days ago • 425 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 6 days ago • 2287 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 7 days ago • 987 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 1416 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 8 days ago • 2785 comments

No one HAS to do illegal, corrupt, wrong things, They CHOOSE to. Or not. Bravo to the SDNY and Main Justice Lawyers who are showing America what it is to defend the rule of law. What a contrast to sniveling Rs in Congress.

submitted 9 days ago • 110 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 791 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 9 days ago • 520 comments

Just a few years ago she called him “Saudi Arabia’s bitch” and now she’s his Director of National Intelligence. American politics is a strange, strange world.

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submitted 12 days ago • 886 comments

This energy.

submitted 14 days ago • 645 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 1165 comments

That loophole is becoming better known by the hour

submitted 14 days ago • 81 comments

Calling the costs of running scientific research labs “administrative overhead” might fool the lab rats and guinea pigs. It won’t fool the people dying of cancer or heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 14 days ago • 68 comments

Reality TV actor Sean Duffy’s last 3 tweets as Secretary of Transportation are: -fighting with Hillary Clinton -more fighting with Hillary Clinton -lamenting the third(!) airline crash that's occurred since he was sworn in

submitted 15 days ago • 860 comments

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

submitted 14 days ago • 1518 comments

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

submitted 15 days ago • 313 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 16 days ago • 1527 comments

Damn it. I was going to do this one, but I thought it was too dumb.

submitted 15 days ago • 244 comments

Trump's CFPB, now under the command of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, has halted the Biden admin's rule to ban medical bills from credit reports. It's been estimated that the rule would help improve the credit scores of 15 million people. Some populist, huh?

submitted 15 days ago • 174 comments

MAGA: Make Apartheid Great Again.

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments