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Ahem Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

submitted 20 days ago • 1120 comments

Finland just seems to get it right - education, housing. #TaxTheRich #ClassWar

submitted 14 days ago • 154 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 18 days ago • 8475 comments

120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

submitted 27 days ago • 258 comments

Here’s your morning slap in the face. I read this thinking it was recent… then I got to the end and wow. Trust me, you will have the same reaction.

submitted 32 days ago • 77 comments

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

submitted 34 days ago • 522 comments

“You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 39 days ago • 278 comments

#OligarchEra 🇺🇸

submitted 40 days ago • 74 comments

All the people who told me I was wasting my time reading books about fascism these last 9 years.. Well, jokes on you!

submitted 43 days ago • 39 comments

This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 48 days ago • 95 comments

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 54 days ago • 76 comments

Coons: "I'm gonna vote against what came over from the House Republicans to the Senate last night because I don't want to give my vote to support what Trump and Musk are doing."

submitted 55 days ago • 414 comments

This is one of the funniest and most original short stories I’ve ever read. Weird and wonderful. By George Saunders, of course: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... (Also… George Saunders in The Atlantic!)

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.

submitted 145 days ago • 26 comments

U.S. wildlife officials proposed on Tuesday that monarch butterflies receive protection as a threatened species.

submitted 146 days ago • 55 comments