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I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 132 comments

Example 7,532 that semantics matter. We suffered so much past, current, and future damage when "civil servants/public servants/government employees" got weaponized into "bureaucrats" as a pejorative rather than just people who work in a bureaucracy (also itself turned into a pejorative).

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 22 hours ago • 944 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 22 hours ago • 156 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2736 comments

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

⚡️🇩🇪🇺🇸 German Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens the U.S. with a severing of ties over Trump’s remarks on Zelensky and Ukraine. "We will increase pressure on the Americans to make them realize they have a lot to lose if they stop supporting Europe's liberal democracies," Baerbock stated.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 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 22 hours ago • 173 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

[in anarchist facebook group] hey the communists are calling us all pussies. they say we don’t have the guts to take him down. [alt-tabbing to communist facebook group] the anarchists are dunking on us bad,

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

"Our words, relationships, and work, may be marked for criminalization, regardless of whether we are operating outside the law or not. That has always been true, but it is more true now than it has been at any other point in my lifetime."

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Wisconsin farmers worried about: - USDA spending freeze (for farm equipment & upgrades) - Tariffs on Canadian potash - Deportation of farmworkers - Cuts to nutrition assistance making kids go hungry & taking away markets - Cuts to Medicaid taking health benefits away - Crumbling rural infrastructure

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Wisconsin GOP Rep Glenn Grothman faced a hostile townhall today too in Oshkosh. It’s spreading and turning into a pattern

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 21 hours ago • 133 comments

@titusnation.bsky.social Ukraine offers Trump eggs for military aid. ukragroconsult.com/en/news/ukra...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

More of this

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

thousand bucks says Steve Bannon's cum is like a cracked potato gun shooting vacuum cleaner dust bunnies.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why Nazi iconography? I ask. You might regard that as an idle and fatuous remark, but I think it's an odd business, the inability of fascism to coalesce around different symbols. They have struggled mightily to come up with new ones, new idols, for they know that NSDAP symbols are now hazardous.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.

submitted 1 day ago • 396 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them: It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them. And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

ELON: (replying to picture comparing 90s Lara Croft’s breasts to current day Lara Croft’s breasts posted by account called Western_Gaming) Woke must be stopped. GRIMES: Elon please call me back. Your sickly child Morty Mechahitler got cut in half looking at a photo of a Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

pedo-con theory

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists to protect Americans from predatory lenders, junk fees, and fraud. Shutting it down does nothing more than give sketchy companies a free pass to prey on the public. We’re not going to let that happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

submitted 1 day ago • 216 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

"I can no longer be a part of what we can all plainly see is happening to our country." Somebody should collect these incredible resignation letters and make them a book. This one is from Nate Brought, resigning as director of the NIH Executive Secretariat. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 1 day ago • 1070 comments

Mitch is one of the singular villains of American history, personally responsible for the destruction of our democracy and our government at a level above anyone save Trump himself he is a vile man on the level of John Calhoun and should be remembered as such

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

one of the major problems with liberal revolutionary states is that the willingness to kill the president under some circumstances is a load-bearing pillar of the ideology and they cannot make it legal to say that perhaps we should kill the preaident

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

submitted 1 day ago • 415 comments

Happy Black History Month

submitted 2 days ago • 533 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 599 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.