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The cruelty is the point.

submitted 13 days ago • 3038 comments

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law: - Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP - Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.

submitted 16 days ago • 101 comments

Members of an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts were targeted, terrorized, and seized by ICE agents this week. The father was taken into custody by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the family’s home Thursday to execute an arrest of the mother — without a warrant. Worcester…

submitted 28 days ago • 736 comments

TODAY is the deadline to Update / Register to Vote in the May 20th Municipal Primary Election. At stake are 3 PA Supreme Court seats (and other court seats) held by Democrats that Must be retained to ensure Fundamental Rights (like the Right to Choose) remain safe in PA.🧵

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

On 2/19/1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 forcing the removal of over 100,000 Japanese Americans to “relocation camps,” with less than 2 days to get affairs in order. They lost their homes, businesses, farms and communities. Never forget, stop allowing it again #AAPI

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

Two headlines from the same day, one real and one a satire. #TheOnion

submitted 32 days ago • 55 comments

@catgyoung.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio." Neil Young Remembering: Allison Krause, 19 Jeffrey Miller, 20 Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20 William Schroeder, 19 4 May 1970

submitted 32 days ago • 592 comments

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

submitted 32 days ago • 509 comments

This!! 🎯 @betoorourke.bsky.social nails it. Hell, Texas has 40 electoral votes yet we’re consistently ignored. The Democratic Party MUST engage with every state and every constituent! 👏🏽 That begins with a new Dem leader willing to take action and fight for ALL of us! STEP DOWN CHUCK

submitted 33 days ago • 54 comments

I’ve been here. I’ve been at events JUST like this across the states. I can’t believe this is where we are…actually, I can. Less than 14 hours ago a queer bar in Pittsburgh was invaded by no less than 20 cops. Fuck this shit. qburgh.com/p-town-raide...?

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

TRUMP’S AMERICA Trump is remaking America for himself. He’s renaming, redecorating, reducing, eliminating, banning, deporting and jailing, anyone who opposes him. He wants us to fear him and obey him. #RESIST #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited 👇🏼 www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 35 days ago • 63 comments

The issue is not whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a model person. It's whether any legal resident can be kidnapped by the government and sent to a foreign torture prison with no due process. Because if it can happen to him, it can happen to you.

submitted 35 days ago • 35 comments

Jamie Raskin with the "We shall fight on the beaches..." energy that smart Dems are taking into the second 100 days. Whole (short!) statement is here, and worth reading: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 36 days ago • 123 comments

My family found a home here after fleeing the pogroms in Ukraine. This country accepted us as refugees when we had nothing except the shirts on our backs. We've seen what can happen when we don't speak up about the dangers — it's time to raise the alarm now.

submitted 37 days ago • 153 comments

Raskin: The lowest 100 day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda. He controlled the House, the Senate— he’s got everything going for him and his numbers are in the gutter

submitted 36 days ago • 566 comments

Don’t forget tomorrow is the nationwide May Day protest. 50501 has been doing an incredible job organizing, and a lot of our coalition members will be joining events across the country.

submitted 36 days ago • 51 comments

Actually, you do have the power to bring Kilmar back Mr. President. Follow the Supreme Court’s order and get him home to his family in the U.S. now. 📽️: ABC News

submitted 36 days ago • 121 comments

Feels weird saying this but probably time to prepare for a recession in the coming months/years and lots of ppl (including the president) will be telling the public that it's fake

submitted 37 days ago • 68 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 276 comments

Change how we identify ICE agents to #TrumpsBrownShirts or #TrumpsGestapo and then we will be speaking the truth.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

submitted 37 days ago • 1751 comments

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submitted 37 days ago • 704 comments

Who did this? 😂

submitted 40 days ago • 1715 comments

Sure, the Dow fell over 3,000 points in the last 2 days...nothing to see here...but hey, if anyone is interested, do we have a deal for you! Will the convicted felon try & sell Tariff exemptions? Why else do you think he did this?

submitted 62 days ago • 267 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 64 days ago • 1032 comments

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."

submitted 64 days ago • 80 comments

The incompetence of this Administration never ceases to amaze. Waltz and other NSC members used Gmail to conduct official government business, with Waltz’s staff even sharing information about sensitive military positions and advanced weapon systems tied to an ongoing conflict.

submitted 64 days ago • 294 comments

My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽

submitted 64 days ago • 398 comments

💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility

submitted 66 days ago • 155 comments

#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory Today in history, 1911: 146 garment workers, mostly young women, perish in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The tragedy led to laws improving factory safety standards and spurred the growth of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. /1

submitted 72 days ago • 40 comments

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If Pete Hegseth was a Black man, Trump and his entire cabinet would be blaming his breathtaking incompetence on being a “DEI hire.” Hearings will be forthcoming, right?

submitted 73 days ago • 274 comments

“I'm speechless. I always wondered how the Nazis were able to take over Germany and the Germans. I could not imagine it happening here. And yet...I could not imagine Columbia capitulating to authoritarian extortion. Or Paul Weiss. Or the ABC. And here we are.Terrifying. Appalling. Shameful. Lunacy.”

submitted 75 days ago • 18 comments

Disgraceful response. They never take responsibility. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk. He is completely unfit to lead.

submitted 73 days ago • 2365 comments

“It’s ridiculous and it’s also self-defeating. Because ignoring crowds like this, that’s ignoring the early warning system that you’ve got a really big political problem.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social on President Musk’s conspiracy theories about “paid protesters” and the backlash to the MAGA agenda

submitted 73 days ago • 42 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments

👊 On April 5, we're coming together across the country to demand: HANDS OFF OUR COMMUNITIES! HANDS OFF OUR FREEDOMS! HANDS OFF OUR DEMOCRACY! We won't be silenced! social.demcast.com/s/u7E7dudq

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Come out and let your voice be heard! Rally for Mahmoud Khalil and free speech at city hall Philadelphia happening now. We will NOT be silenced! We will not be afraid! #freemahmoud #philadelphia

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments