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School voucher systems syphon money from public schools, to private religious schools. It’s a giant grift. Take a listen because there are people in Saskatchewan calling for this to happen here, and we’ve never been closer. 👇🏻 substack.com/@jesspiper/n...

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I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains

submitted 11 hours ago • 409 comments

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

submitted 12 hours ago • 888 comments

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

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"Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is Putin..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

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“Conway opines as to why Biglaw firms aren’t collectively working together to fight what Trump is doing and protect the legal system as we know it, and he chalks a lot of it up to cowardice.”

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“...It’s not just elections that are for sale, but it’s that our entire government, and the apparatus of our government, is up for sale.” - ECU // LAV President @tiffanymuller.bsky.social Read more below ⬇️

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In a note to colleagues, WaPo’s Ruth Marcus says she resigned from the paper after CEO Will Lewis killed a column she wrote expressing concern about the direction of the paper’s opinion section

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Increasingly disturbed by the corporations of free nations expunging archives of news and history from the internet Authoritarians couldn’t erase the rolls of memory and accountability better

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The District of Columbia, Maryland and 18 other states have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the reinstatement of tens of thousands of federal employees fired since mid-February.

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My latest on Trump’s presidential checkmate when it comes to accountability and where that leaves us if he refuses to obey the courts open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 2552 comments

Tadaa.

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Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing. Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent. You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.” So, I ask you -- What are you doing?

submitted 4 days ago • 565 comments

Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls

submitted 5 days ago • 852 comments

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 10819 comments

For those who wanted to share this video off platform. Here it is on YouTube youtu.be/OiPa9VY9PH8?...

submitted 7 days ago • 636 comments

#StandUpForScience “‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests” by Alexa Robles-Gil for Science. Read more here: www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.

submitted 6 days ago • 328 comments

Rieckhoff: And what I would tell folks is: if they treat veterans like this, if they treat retired generals like this, how do you think they're going to treat everyone else? How do you think they're going to treat you? We are just first.

submitted 7 days ago • 174 comments

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

submitted 8 days ago • 1876 comments

Last night, when @algreen.house.gov stood and yelled at Trump, "You have no mandate to cut Medicaid," that was quite the understatement. Trump has no mandate, period. He's just the most brazen about claiming one.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Attn: DC #lawsky: FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 8 days ago • 3345 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

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"Our support for Ukraine is not about gratitude—it is about ensuring that authoritarian regimes cannot dictate the future of international security. This has never been just Ukraine’s fight."

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NEW: Jeff Bezos' attack on the Washington Post's opinion section is just the latest front in Big Tech's war on journalism, as I explain in the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter. Check it out. link.motherjones.com/public/38817... You can sign up for a FREE trial subscription at davidcorn.com.

submitted 11 days ago • 57 comments

The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

submitted 11 days ago • 118 comments

New in PN: @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on a cowed mainstream press "Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee."

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

"Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history: It is singlehandedly destroying the alliance’s greatest rival at the cost of no NATO lives."

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Any claims — in Germany or other democratic countries — that national officials, tech companies and civil society groups were able to thwart digital interference attacks ahead of individual elections represent a false economy, writes Mark Scott. www.techpolicy.press/why-claiming...

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Democracies stand with Ukraine.

submitted 12 days ago • 678 comments

"Trump and Vance crossed a giant moral Rubicon today. They showed the entire world the full fetid awfulness of their vision" -- my colleague @sashaabramsky.bsky.social on Trump's disgraceful behavior at the White House yesterday www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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"The spectacle of the president and vice president of the United States tag-teaming to bully the leader of a U.S.-allied democracy fighting for its life against an autocratic aggressor has appalled observers around the world." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vanc...

submitted 11 days ago • 173 comments

There was only one person acting presidential in the Oval Office today: Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He stood up to bullies in a Kremlin-style shakedown. What will it take to awaken the conscience of the country after such a shameful display?

submitted 12 days ago • 703 comments

If your employer self insured, share this with your management. Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits. Here is how www.nasdaq.com/articles/elo...

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned. NPR spoke to one of them who says she felt the new administration was causing "harm to the American people."

submitted 13 days ago • 99 comments

To all my Bluesky friends, please join me in this effort to fight back and protect our democracy! 💙 #Resist

submitted 13 days ago • 359 comments

Dark money groups funded by Elon Musk spending over $4 million to buy Wisconsin Supreme Court race GOP-dominated courts on verge of overturning election of Democrat Allison Riggs in NC Supreme Court race There's a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“The existence of an independent judiciary is the difference between a free people and a tyranny. The judicial branch of our Republic must possess, and be perceived as possessing, a fearless, bedrock integrity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

submitted 14 days ago • 250 comments

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

submitted 14 days ago • 1127 comments

“Free markets and personal liberties” as long as the exercise of your personal liberties doesn’t conflict with what Bezos wants it to be…

submitted 14 days ago • 274 comments