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yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 7 hours ago • 403 comments

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 17 hours ago • 239 comments

Below are screenshots from the article explaining what the law says. Redefine treason so that it’s far wider, looser, and more open to interpretation, and you have the administration’s way around the law prohibiting deportation of U.S. citizens.

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 9 hours ago • 339 comments

They are doing this to people here legally and will absolutely start doing this to citizens too.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 16 hours ago • 46 comments

Two dictionary definitions for your consideration

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Nearly half of CDC's developmental disabilities and birth defects center is now off the job Secy Kennedy's layoffs included entire team working on sickle cell disease www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

DONNIE'S ALWAYS READY TO KILL WORKERS In the United States, 100-160 people die annually from silicosis, and about 1000 miners die each year from black lung disease (coal workers' pneumoconiosis. Miners deserve a fair transition to safer work. Every one of us suffers from coal-related pollution.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1241 comments

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 12 hours ago • 86 comments

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 13 hours ago • 85 comments

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2567 comments

"In addition to the check delays, Mayes said her office has received complaints about other Social Security disruptions..." ktar.com/arizona-news...

submitted 15 hours ago • 361 comments

I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

This is a concentration camp, by the way. This is a death camp. We're setting up death camps in foreign countries and renditioning people there.

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote. We're calling on the Senate to reject this legislation.

submitted 19 hours ago • 363 comments

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 2333 comments

Ideas

submitted 18 hours ago • 551 comments

🚨BREAKING: U.S. House passed GOP voter suppression law. 220-208. Every Republican voted to disenfranchise millions. It now goes onto the Senate where Democrats will be able to block it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 390 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 19 hours ago • 392 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1846 comments

⚡️ 19-13 in the senate — Republicans Briggs, Haile, Gardenhire, Massey, Pody, Reeves, Walley joined Dems in opposition to @SenBoWatson’s cruel bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools. Gardenhire broke down in tears as he spoke against it. House finance sub Monday.

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

“He never said anything about the vaccine being helpful,” said the father of the second girl to die from measles in the same small town. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore.’” Tom Bartlett reports on RFK Jr.’s condolence trip to Texas:

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene invested in 17 US stocks between 3rd and 4th April, when the stock market nosedived on Trump's tariff games. Now that Trump has paused his tariffs (except on China), Greene's stocks have all risen. #Corruption www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 72 comments

why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 509 comments

Rolling Stone Reports: Inside Elon Musk’s Gleeful Destruction of the Government The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing in.

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

“The now-recalled butter was distributed to grocery stores in seven states—Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.” www.realsimple.com/butter-recal...

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

HAPPENING NOW: The cruel @SenBoWatson bill to block undocumented kids from schools is up in the senate — large turnout with spillover in the rotunda

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

Trump is going to “instinctively” select certain US companies and exempt them from tariffs. Don’t overthink it. He’s asking for bribes.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 59 comments

I’ve seen so many different versions of this, but I like this one best. This is exactly what Trump is doing, over and over and his mob of morons keeps screaming “Art of the deal!!!” every damn time.

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

Almost a dozen hatcheries in Puget Sound are in limbo because a single NOAA employee was terminated by DOGE in February. That employee was Krista Finlay and her job at NOAA was to ensure hatcheries complied with the Endangered Species Act before the fish were released into Puget Sound. Read more:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

Not sure how these people sleep at night

submitted 1 day ago • 1251 comments

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 859 comments

Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen. These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

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