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STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

submitted 18 hours ago • 53 comments

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

Trump firing military lawyers and replacing them with his boot lickers should be sounding alarms everywhere #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 434 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1177 comments

Love this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 17 hours ago • 184 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

It’s nonsense—but deliberately. The terms are vague and meaningless so they can ban ANYTHING if they want to.

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Thomas Paine, Common Sense in 1776: “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

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This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 2 days ago • 689 comments

Musk went straight to the slurs after being called out yet again for saying that astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station by the Biden administration for “political reasons”—a lie that astronauts themselves have repeatedly debunked.

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Say goodbye to mail-in ballots and any reliable mail service. Control communications. Control the populace. Straight out of the authoritarian rule book.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

I do not say this lightly: this is the dumbest, the absolute dumbest idea, that I have seen floated in a long time. Don't commit crimes, period. But especially don't commit crimes if you're telling people that you're about to commit crimes via your TikTok. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1545 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1710 comments

Trump is firing federal workers who are not funded by taxpayers www.aol.com/trump-firing...

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Usually, it's fine to skip the House budget resolution. But not this year. Here's a guide to the budget that kicks off the Republicans' one-big-bill strategy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aliciaparlap.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

but don’t worry, the trump White House and musk want you to know nobody who performs safety critical functions was purged needlessly

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A very good read. Subscribe to PN if you don’t already.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Trump and JD Vance will be enjoying a fancy, government funded meal while the commoners struggle with inflation on their own

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 2 days ago • 682 comments

We are in the "buying votes" phase of the path to dictatorship. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

submitted 2 days ago • 827 comments

Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

Pete Hegseth is about to purge military officers—and make no mistake, this is 100% political retribution. 📌 Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth is planning to fire generals and top officers as soon as this week, per two Defense officials and three Congressional sources. Most of them tied to Lloyd Austin.

submitted 2 days ago • 740 comments

This is the most cowardly administration in history.

submitted 2 days ago • 1162 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

"Should the court grant the motion, it would be the first lawsuit against DOGE where the plaintiffs are able to obtain evidence, albeit limited, on how Elon Musk’s faux agency is operating within the federal government." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 841 comments

And this is before the big VA cuts hit.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Doing some research on the effects of chronic stress on the brain this morning for some programming we're doing on resilience in movement building, and whew, we need neuroendocrinologists talking about the impacts of what we're all living through on long & short term brain function. We can heal but

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

KLUWE: “MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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* EXCLUSIVE - US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

submitted 2 days ago • 384 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 3 days ago • 2872 comments

U.S. military action against cartels in #Mexico would not only be illegal, warns @bcfinucane.bsky.social (International Crisis Group), it would sabotage Trump’s stated #immigration priorities and could lead to retaliation against Americans. www.justsecurity.org/107850/us-mi...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If you have not read Hiding in Plain Sight by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social you owe it to yourself to do so. I highly recommend the audiobook.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Every reporter today should be asking every Congressional Republican why they're OK siding with Putin and walking away from NATO and democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

Wouldn’t doubt it

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Should people have to right to lie to you about vaccines, politics, and the government? They do now, and many of them are using it to get rich quick by radicalizing their victims.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Republican senators are traitors to the international order that has kept this country safe for the better part of eighty years. They are traitors to their own constituents. They are traitors to everything that has actually made America great.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments