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"The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before," writes @mashagessen.bsky.social (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Let’s make good trouble my friends.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

He has lost his mind…..then again to lose something, you must first have it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yep

submitted 5 days ago • 768 comments

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

submitted 5 days ago • 858 comments

Secretary Clinton asks the question of the day: “How much dumber will this get?” Im afraid of the answer.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

We can’t count on Republicans to stand up and demand accountability. It’s up to Democrats to defend our national security—because if these clowns stay in charge, the next breach won’t just be embarrassing, it’ll be deadly. Read my full op-ed here: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

RFK Jr. wants to gut the very agencies that protect us from pandemics, approve life-saving drugs, AND help our most vulnerable get healthcare? Y’all… this isn’t reform, it’s reckless. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/r...

submitted 6 days ago • 917 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

I guess global climate change has been resolved……NOT.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

To the federal workers who have lost their jobs or otherwise been impacted by the Trump-Musk Administration’s attacks on the civil service: I want to hear your stories. Please go to my website at kaine.senate.gov/federalworkers to write to me.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 7 days ago • 1943 comments

SHOWN: When the greatest national security threat is the people in charge of national security.

submitted 8 days ago • 142 comments

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone? Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

submitted 8 days ago • 1322 comments

Yep…..how many other times has this happened, and who else has been on the receiving end of these invites? The possibilities are scary.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

submitted 8 days ago • 502 comments

In the comments under Rachel’s post someone shared the link to the article as a “gift”. It is very much worth reading.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Rebellions are built on hope.

submitted 10 days ago • 543 comments

This is interesting, and it actually describes how I use music more often than not anymore. Somehow trying to quiet all the other “stuff” going on in the world, even if only for a little while.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Elon is upset that the public is staying informed. So many threats from him lately. We are public servants, not Elon servants.

submitted 11 days ago • 214 comments

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

submitted 11 days ago • 1378 comments

This is really the whole ball game right now, particularly among the institutions that make up civil society. (my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)

submitted 12 days ago • 456 comments

Lutnick is worth more than a billion dollars, and obviously is completely disconnected from reality.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term because it doesn't go far enough. "The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 17 days ago • 717 comments

The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. Even worse than their silence in the face of Trump’s actions against our democracy is their silent complicity as they watch their peers be targeted, humiliated and punished.

submitted 18 days ago • 257 comments

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

submitted 19 days ago • 1140 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 19 days ago • 5234 comments

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938. History doesn't change it just repeats.

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.

submitted 20 days ago • 213 comments

Six weeks…

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

This photograph is dangerous. Women are dangerous. That is the only possible explanation for why it and tens of thousands of other photos of women and minorities in the military are currently being deleted from federal government websites. Read more: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

"I am that girl. You are that girl. Together we change the world." #InternationalWomensDay Kimothy Joy wrote that she created this design "as a symbol of our collective power, solidarity, and an overall affirmation that we are all wondrous and strong beyond belief!" Prints at amgrl.co/2p9afxxv

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on Senator Schiff…..spot on,

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Trump's comment during his address that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight" has already landed in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

submitted 29 days ago • 394 comments