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What an outright reffing LIE:

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 103 days ago • 1290 comments

Leadership. Lift him up.

submitted 111 days ago • 34 comments

Hero

submitted 111 days ago • 1257 comments

Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?

submitted 112 days ago • 316 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 115 days ago • 628 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 115 days ago • 2474 comments

Despicable www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-...

submitted 118 days ago • 10 comments

The small city of Reading in central Pennsylvania is around 70 percent Latino. In 2024, it shifted toward Trump by a staggering net 16 points. I spent some time trying to figure out why that happened. The result is this piece. I hope you'll check it out: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

submitted 123 days ago • 182 comments

Nearly 200 congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Maxine Waters, are calling on Treasury Sec'y Bessent and OMB director Vought to boot members of the Elon Musk's DOGE from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and restore its systems and operations. tinyurl.com/v8z6kp7w

submitted 124 days ago • 56 comments

Donald Trump isn't interested in a smaller government, he wants a weaponized government. He doesn't want fewer federal employees, he just wants them loyal to him.

submitted 124 days ago • 240 comments

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 127 days ago • 50 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 131 days ago • 2558 comments

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

submitted 132 days ago • 287 comments

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

submitted 133 days ago • 18 comments

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 132 days ago • 334 comments

Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head. So, I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...

submitted 136 days ago • 711 comments

One big fucking game to make the uneducated believe Donald Trump saved the house after setting it on fire.

submitted 148 days ago • 181 comments

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read. REPOST gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

submitted 156 days ago • 385 comments

Character Character Character No stutter there

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

My thoughts on pardons for the January 6th rioters. Hell no!

submitted 161 days ago • 380 comments

My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 177 days ago • 253 comments

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

submitted 178 days ago • 61 comments

Let me put it this way: If you’re for a ban on abortion but against funding childhood cancer research, you are many things, but “pro-life” is not one of them.

submitted 178 days ago • 42 comments

I read yesterday somewhere that the CEO shooter has been charged with terrorism (which I’m fine with) — but none of the Jan 6th rioters were charged with terrorism. How can this be?

submitted 178 days ago • 96 comments