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Medicare Telehealth services end April 1, which will make accessing health care harder for millions of seniors, children, rural Americans, and people who can’t afford transportation. Telehealth is helping Americans get the care they need—why are Republicans taking that away?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

this man is on fucking drugs, he is on a lot of them, and every member of the white house press corps and every republican member of congress is deliberately overlooking it

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Reminder that a month ago Politico did a puffy soft focus interview with Steve Bannon, who today literally threw up a Nazi salute at CPAC. Inexcusably terrible editorial judgment at the time and looks even worse now.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

It’s scary to have threats of violence directed toward you. It is fucking reprehensible to use your power to deflect those threats and in so doing amplify them ten thousandfold against the population you claim to represent.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

Yesterday, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. Today, he endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. Republicans will say anything in their plot to take money from you and give it to their billionaire donors. It's all lies and broken promises. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

That sound you hear is twelve different lawyers updating their pleadings.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Trump calls himself “THE KING”

submitted 3 days ago • 1604 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

submitted 4 days ago • 659 comments

URGENT: The folks at Americans for Financial Reform are looking for stories from people who’ve been helped by CFPB. Please read this call to action and share far and wide! 🚨 Let’s save CFPB 🚨 Pass it on.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

The Vice President of our country has been publicly and forcibly rebuked by both the Chancellor of Germany and The Pope in the same week.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Vance really has mastered the Trumpian combination of ignorance and arrogance.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

Following OPB's reporting on cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon's senators are calling on the Trump White House to halt its actions.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

A grim scene this afternoon as Emil Bove faced down lawyers from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section. One said it was “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

hey does anyone want to see the the trump administration extort the mayor of americas largest city on live tv?

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

The president is literally wielding the threat of imprisonment over the mayor of America's largest city to keep him in line. What happens if it's a governor or a Democratic leader in Congress next?

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

“I saw this woman, and she was protecting me from predatory bank charges and hidden fees on my credit card bill and it was HORRIBLE!”

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 897 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 10 days ago • 767 comments

For those keeping score at home…

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

At least $12 trillion from global oligarchs is hidden offshore in secret tax havens worldwide. And it is headquartered right here in the USA. Instead of cutting lifesaving programs like the VA, Medicaid, and food stamps, we should be cracking down on tax havens for the ultra-rich.

submitted 13 days ago • 298 comments

(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman". Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

submitted 15 days ago • 352 comments

lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE

submitted 14 days ago • 83 comments

They are who we think they are

submitted 14 days ago • 607 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 15 days ago • 106 comments

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

submitted 17 days ago • 587 comments

“The last several days we’ve witnessed an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn’t bend the knee and follow their orders.” - Sen. @wyden.senate.gov

submitted 18 days ago • 122 comments

In retrospect, tech venture capitalists funding and briefly getting San Francisco hooked on a product called Soylent should’ve been a sign. IFYKYK: Soylent Green is people

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@wyden.senate.gov is everywhere right now & fighting all fronts. Still being somewhat new to OR, he has exceeded my expectations by a LOT. I hope the Dems who are just talking & waiting will instead follow his lead & the lead of others who are wielding the power they DO have, like @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments