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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1177 comments

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2030 comments

Whenever I hear people punting, saying "let's turn it around in 2026", I remind them that we have no guarantee that millions of people won't be disenfranchised by then. The time to act is now by stopping this voter suppression bill!

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

On this day in 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin while he was walking home from a store. Zimmerman claimed he looked "suspicious" because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

This is highly disturbing. It's time for adults to cut technology from their children's lives. Nothing good will come of it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about billionaires that people too often forget is that they lie, literally all the time.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 35 days ago • 221 comments

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There are literally hundreds of research projects here at UIUC being destroyed by the cuts to the NSF, NIH, NIFA, USAID. It’s an incomprehensible waste of scientific progress and human capital.

submitted 35 days ago • 12 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 35 days ago • 51 comments

If Republicans really wanted to cut costs for families, then they wouldn’t slash the funds we use to educate and feed our kids, cut access to health care coverage, allow oil companies to pollute our air and water, and shovel even more money to defense contractors.

submitted 37 days ago • 153 comments

This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.

submitted 37 days ago • 1136 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 37 days ago • 159 comments

This energy. 👇🏻

submitted 37 days ago • 212 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 39 days ago • 1099 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 39 days ago • 1752 comments

Proud to have written a guest column @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket about what the last couple of weeks have felt like as a trans journalist to report on my own civil rights disappearing in real time. www.thehandbasket.co/p/guest-colu...

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments

This is Trump’s plan for prisoners, and I bet that very much includes dissidents and protesters: black hole prisons in El Salvador where people won’t come back.

submitted 40 days ago • 76 comments

"Let's not become a nation of frightened silent people." --Navalny

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

She's not wrong.

submitted 42 days ago • 84 comments

Arrest Guantanamo

submitted 41 days ago • 26 comments

"Think of the fed. govt. as a car. You might have thought the election was like getting [it] serviced. Instead, ...the mechanics...tell you they have taken the parts of your car that work & sold them & kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them."

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

the best and the brightest

submitted 45 days ago • 331 comments

January 29, 2025

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

Morning! In the name of democracy, here's a list of things to do today: 1. Call your senators & reps w/ real stories about how the admin's actions impact you & people you care about 2. Do something that makes you smile Take action. Find joy. Protect democracy. h/t: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

As someone else pointed out this is the exact same trick Elon played at his companies. It’s not a “buyout.” The money has not been authorized by Congress. They are playing games. Don’t fall for this bullshit.

submitted 46 days ago • 163 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 46 days ago • 991 comments

You probably haven’t heard a lot about the OMB, but it has immense power over federal agencies — and Trump is trying to put the architect of Project 2025 in charge.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

submitted 52 days ago • 363 comments