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Trump Republicanism in action at your social security administration: "field offices are finding a dire situation: no more paper, no more printers, and no ability to shred documents, or pay phone bills..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 144 comments

NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income .. “By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 392 comments

Stopping cyber ops against Russia is like pausing a fire alarm because the noise is annoying.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Elon Musk and Trump are just the bleeding edge of a movement bent on destroying government through privatization. Thrilled to have this piece out today with @illsp.bsky.social!

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Exclusive: The Trump Adm. has decided to permit the sale of "forced reset trigger" devices that enable regular firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

That moment when you realize DOGE was always a scam and your fellow Republicans never actually cared about the debt, all they care about is tax cuts for the rich and transferring wealth from the bottom to the top. @RandPaul

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

submitted 5 days ago • 478 comments

What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments. It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.

submitted 6 days ago • 766 comments

New post from me: a free society should not tolerate routine masking and other attempts to conceal identity by ICE agents raiding worksites, stopping cars and arresting protesters. And it's part of a wider Trump administration strategy of pursuing impunity for rights-violating law enforcers.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 8 days ago • 1694 comments

It's true! Bondi was a registered lobbyist for foreign clients, including the government of Qatar - which is now giving Trump a jet. tinyurl.com/mr36frb8 Bondi is the first AG to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. (She also disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.)

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Remember that the ICE agents claimed they were looking for a totally different person before they smashed this guy’s car windows? And how he had asylum already? Well, looks like that might not have even been a ruse. ICE didn’t even file a notice to appear in court, they clearly had nothing on him.

submitted 10 days ago • 129 comments

wait, what??

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

Trump plans to accept a $400M jet as a gift from Qatar to serve as AF1. Unsurprisingly, AG Pam Bondi, a former registered Qatari foreign agent, signed off on the deal. “Unconstitutional” does not begin to describe this brazen corruption, let alone the national security threats.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Very concerning that folks are thinking we will have free and fair elections in order to vote this regime out of office. What I want to know is what are we doing to stop the regime from declaring war in order to postpone elections ... indefinitely?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 13 days ago • 91 comments

Oklahoma schools are now ordered by Ryan Walters to teach “2020 election discrepancies” as fact. Not inquiry—indoctrination. Trump’s lies are now a learning standard. This isn’t education. It’s authoritarian memory craft.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

"Every liberal meltdown felt like a victory. I thought, 'We’re finally winning.' But winning what, exactly? That’s how far I had fallen. Not into conservatism, but into cruelty masquerading as politics."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

you had one job...

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Feel like the President being obviously bribed in ways that violate the constitution should be a bigger deal.

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Pete Hegseth’s wife “met with potential political appointees as the Trump administration scrutinized people for positions at the Pentagon, two people familiar with the issue said. The role effectively had her conducting job interviews…” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 19 days ago • 200 comments

WOW. @tanvi.bsky.social reports ICE was going to send a TEENAGER to be imprisoned in El Salvador without a trial because an officer thought a blue and white water pistol was a real gun! He has NO criminal record, was attending school, has a pending asylum hearing, and has never gotten into trouble!

submitted 20 days ago • 120 comments

"US stocks have underperformed the rest of the world this year by the widest margin in more than three decades as Donald Trump’s erratic policymaking sparks an investor exodus from American assets..." www.ft.com/content/f3a7...

submitted 21 days ago • 105 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 21 days ago • 1341 comments

BREAKING: The MeidasTouch Network will host the first-ever Democratic Governor Virtual Town Hall tonight at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT right here on YouTube! Govs. Pritzker, Walz, Healey, and Hochul will join us LIVE to take on Trump’s disastrous first 100 days. (link in reply)

submitted 21 days ago • 154 comments

House Republicans roll out new plan to decimate Medicaid americanjournalnews.com/house-republ...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Sleepy Don! It was always a projection.

submitted 21 days ago • 424 comments

The media needs to call this what it is: This is a techno-oligarchic hostile takeover of the federal machinery of the United States of America. This is not governing. It is lawless. It is not based on principles of electoral representation. This is a criminal takeover of the federal government.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Look, all I know is that if Joe Biden had clearly fallen asleep at the state funeral for a pope, it would have dominated media coverage for days and been covered by political media as a scandal detrimental to the reputation of our country.

submitted 22 days ago • 103 comments

Trump representing America at the Pope's funeral.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap

submitted 23 days ago • 278 comments

•INSPIRING AMERICA• A man stood outside the courthouse of Judge Hannah Dugan and spoke of the horrors that befell his family in Poland and Germany at the hands of the Nazis during WWII — and how we must fight to stop and eradicate fascism in America NOW. “We know what fascism looks like…

submitted 24 days ago • 102 comments

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

submitted 24 days ago • 169 comments

You can tell who was too young to see Schindler's List

submitted 27 days ago • 94 comments

Kash Patel used an FBI jet—paid for by us—to hit UFC fights, two NHL games, and visit his girlfriend in Nashville. While thousands are laid off and housing vouchers vanish, the Trump circle is using federal aircraft like Uber Black.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

New- Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

submitted 27 days ago • 77 comments

I did not have Gustavo Dudamel/LA Philharmonic/Cynthia Erivo/Purple Rain on my Coachella 2025 Bingo card But thankful it happened

submitted 29 days ago • 390 comments

Abuses of the tax code was one of the items in the original impeachment case against Nixon. Using the tax code to selectively target enemies - and decimate civil society - is the next step in the authoritarian agenda.

submitted 30 days ago • 66 comments

WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”

submitted 31 days ago • 226 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 277 comments

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that. Oops! Day one funding freeze Oops! Ebola Oops! Nuclear security workers Oops! Bird flu Oops! PEPFAR Oops! HHS firings And on and on and on... Now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 31 days ago • 657 comments

Trump is planning 5 CONCENTRATION CAMPS for "homegrown criminals" - any citizen who speak out against him, including white Americans. We must stop this agent of evil and the @GOP from taking us back to the worst atrocities since we colonized North American and slaughtered the Indigenous People.

submitted 32 days ago • 41 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 32 days ago • 8454 comments

Alarming state of affairs. In past 3 months, Trump has: 1. Closed FBI Foreign Influence Task Force 2. Closed State Dept Global Misinformation office 3. Ordered CISA to no longer address misinfo 4. Redirected Cyber Command away from Russian disinfo 5. Fired NSA Director 6. Sacked 6 NSC officials

submitted 32 days ago • 49 comments

We are nearing the end.

submitted 32 days ago • 687 comments