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A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

submitted 13 hours ago • 697 comments

Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?

submitted 20 hours ago • 764 comments

This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2

submitted 18 hours ago • 380 comments

They’re lying about Medicaid cuts. They’re lying about the deficit increase. They’re lying about what they accomplished in Iran. They lie about everything. It is just a nonstop torrent of lies intended to flood the zone with propaganda.

submitted 12 hours ago • 371 comments

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

submitted 20 hours ago • 958 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

We’ll never know what could have been, but we do know they chose to believe him and not her, and now they are making up excuses for their votes that put us all in harm’s way. Don’t think this is a one-off.

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. The Supreme Court will issue orders tomorrow that could affect this number. Stay tuned.

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

submitted 2 days ago • 1388 comments

WATCH: “This is fcking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the fck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

submitted 2 days ago • 2093 comments

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The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

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Even with everything else going on, I am still fixated on this obscenely terrible and dangerous headline from the Washington Post. Do they really believe that Democrats are looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed and arrested or are they sucking up to their billionaire owner?

submitted 2 days ago • 267 comments

substack.com/@letsgetinto...

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Schiff: "It's not an operation that should've ever been authorized by the president in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb."

submitted 2 days ago • 686 comments

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

submitted 2 days ago • 1624 comments

Take note.

submitted 3 days ago • 918 comments

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The anti-trans SCOTUS decision coinciding with the ditching of LGBTQ suicide hotline services brings the GOP hate fest more fully into the open. The consequences will be immediate and severe.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' More of this, please"

submitted 6 days ago • 901 comments

This Juneteenth, “None of Us are Free” open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying

submitted 8 days ago • 738 comments

The SAVE ACT suppresses the votes of married women. The GOP veils this horrific bill saying it prevents non-citizens from voting. That’s a lie. Non-citizens are already barred from voting. This bill is intended to strip away a married woman’s rights. #Pinks #OneV1 ⬇️ www.forbes.com/sites/hollyc...

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

#NoKings #NoICE #NoMAGA #NoNazis #NoFascism #BestSigns 👏👏 Seattle 💙💚

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Thou shalt expel Mike Lee from the Senate and banish him from society, for he mocked and celebrated the murder of a political opponent.

submitted 8 days ago • 362 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 8 days ago • 747 comments

Loaf

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.

submitted 8 days ago • 140 comments

Hey, Mike. As someone whose wife barely survived an assassination attempt, let me tell you: Your joke isn't funny and you have an entire state to apologize to.

submitted 7 days ago • 438 comments

🇺🇸🫡 "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution. We are willing to die to protect it!" - GEN. MARK A. MILLEY🇺🇸 #SheShed

submitted 7 days ago • 277 comments

Tina Smith on Mike Lee: "I went to him and I said, 'Your message on social media showed the image of the man who killed my friend ... and your message is, this is what happens? You need to take responsibility and accountability ...' And I wanted him to hear that from me directly."

submitted 8 days ago • 483 comments

Border Agents or Thought Police? When Did Words become a Crime? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A proper headline. Take note, @washingtonpost.com

submitted 9 days ago • 308 comments

Birds of a feather always flock together

submitted 9 days ago • 1222 comments

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

submitted 9 days ago • 613 comments

🫡 Huntington Beach

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

Facts matter.

submitted 9 days ago • 674 comments

Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

submitted 9 days ago • 773 comments

We got him. Providing an update on the manhunt momentarily. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT-...

submitted 9 days ago • 781 comments

This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.

submitted 9 days ago • 80 comments

John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

submitted 9 days ago • 170 comments

10,000 or so people showed up to watch tanks roll down Constitution Ave. NW in DC on Saturday. MILLIONS turned out to say "NO KINGS." Do not ever believe we are outnumbered. Insist on democracy, insist on the law. It is our birthright as Americans to demand these things. WE HAVE NO KING.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Gerard Van de Werken is a volunteer with Austin Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit housing organization. For our series, Here to Help, he discusses his decades-long history with the organization. https://n.pr/3SVryaK

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This will be a critical week for democracy in court. I founded Democracy Docket for times like this. It doesn't pull punches or engage in false equivalency. It's fiercely independent and always pro-democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

When he put his hand on his shoulder 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 434 comments

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Charleston deploys horses, riot vans, bicycles, and a small army of police against a handful of peaceful protesters in a neighborhood — because cardboard signs pose a “greater threat” than fascism.

submitted 9 days ago • 194 comments

Damn, y'all. Russia just dunked on Scump's parade. I'm an Army veteran; but this makes us look weak as fuck. I mean, look at our troops. Their body language is very telling. They didn't want to be there. sound up #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

submitted 9 days ago • 531 comments

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments