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Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 8 hours ago • 483 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 5 hours ago • 180 comments

Of course it’s a woman…

submitted 21 hours ago • 64 comments

Can we just seize the Russian assets already and give them to Ukraine? Good lord just do it

submitted 1 day ago • 602 comments

Informative and scary as hell.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1202 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 15 hours ago • 483 comments

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate: - Emergency response in natural disasters - Education and healthcare for disabled children - Clean air and water programs - Gang crime investigations - Monitoring of nursing home abuse - Nuclear reactor regulation - Cancer research

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 1 day ago • 1123 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 47 comments

How is anyone still on X?!?

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Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

submitted 2 days ago • 573 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 3301 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

This is such a good interview with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the Bulwark with @timmiller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSb...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4827 comments

Marcy makes a very nice point here. If Trump asserted that Special Counsel Jack Smith—who was in charge of just two cases against basically one person—was a principal officer who required Senate confirmation, then how could Co-President Musk—who’s remaking the entire government—be anything less?

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

submitted 4 days ago • 139 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 4 days ago • 493 comments

This gives me joy.

submitted 4 days ago • 180 comments

Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

Lord Elon is making a new acquisition: Wisconsin. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Musk et. al. are just unloved children cosplaying what they think masculinity is. It’s embarrassing.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Nice.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

This!!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Lest we forget…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Americans don't do history. That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

submitted 6 days ago • 288 comments

Ditto!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Trump declared himself above the law today. Literally announced it. Pinned it to his feed for emphasis. The White House reposted it. All to underscore it’s not some passing thought, which would be bad enough. It’s not the top story on any news site that I can find. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

Doing great 👍

submitted 7 days ago • 1850 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

Facts matter!

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 6 days ago • 942 comments

House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 6 days ago • 536 comments

This is the way.

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