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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 983 comments

Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 838 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 4 days ago • 1464 comments

What is this man talking about?

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

The world’s top 10 billionaires, with a combined wealth exceeding $2 trillion in 2024, could eradicate extreme poverty globally, estimated at $350 billion annually, nearly six times over. Wealth like this isn’t just concentrated, it’s transformative if redistributed.

submitted 57 days ago • 10 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 4 days ago • 802 comments

Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

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Wyden: "Nobody should lose sight of what happened this morning. Trump endorsed the House budget resolution. This resolution mandates that $880b in cuts come from the House Energy & Commerce Committee ... there is no plausible way to hit that target without hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 4 days ago • 175 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

Trump's appeal on ending birthright citizenship has failed. The 9th Circuit panel (including a Trump appointee) all ruled against him.

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“Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1926 comments

"“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” says a cybersecurity researcher who tracks cybercriminal groups."

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 1371 comments

Who is the administrator of DOGE? Yesterday, Taylor Popielarz of Spectrum News asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitz to answer that question. But she wouldn’t say.

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

IL Gov. Pritzker is one of the great leaders of our time. You can watch his full IL budget address here. If you forward to the 26 minute mark, you can watch as he shifts to a dire warning about the direction our country is taking, but also words of hope. We should all take heed.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

More Elon Musk grift AND conflict of interest. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

The 1st year class of Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellows is being terminated today. We don't know the fate of 2nd years nor the future of the EIS program. CDC’s 2-yr EIS fellowship recruits talent from across the world and trains MDs, PhDs, nurses, vets, and others in field epidemiology.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

“Look at that professor that reads tattered books and drives a 12 year old Subaru they think they are better than you help me pass this tax break” - billionaire with 10 yachts and a private island exclusively for committing sex crimes

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 1088 comments

This is going to be a huge fight—at least until Pam Bondi shuts down abortion pill access via the Comstock Act. *** New York rejects Louisiana request to extradite doctor who prescribed abortion pills www.theguardian.com/society/vide...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Restrictions on repro rights and citizenship are historically related. Comstock was enacted during a nativist fervor and defended as a means of bolstering White population growth. Not long after Comstock, the exec branch decided US-born children of Chinese workers weren't birthright citizens.

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