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In issuing the temporary restraining order, the judge said DOGE’s access to the data breached federal privacy laws and posed irreparable harm to plaintiffs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 130 comments

The Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles have reportedly overwhelmingly declined an invitation to the White House. This Patriots fan gives them insane respect. Go Birds. 🦅

submitted 17 hours ago • 425 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4369 comments

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 507 comments

Thinking you should decide who to promote based on an answer to an email explains a lot about the problems with his business model & products

submitted 1 day ago • 583 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Tired of that lingering cough? This surprising option may do the trick.

submitted 1 day 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 2 days ago • 1336 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 493 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 1 day ago • 1016 comments

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

submitted 2 days ago • 353 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2137 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

Score: Mills 1, Trump 0. She’s 100% right on the law. Trump’s “We ARE the law” was way, way over the top. No, Mr. President, you are not. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 1 day ago • 629 comments

The order to email Elon Musk five things you did last week or else you’re fired appears to be illegal. More here.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

What ?!?

submitted 1 day ago • 736 comments

Trump and Musk’s hostile takeover is closing health centers, cutting care and raising prices — looting the Treasury to fund a massive tax cut. There are real people behind the numbers — including Trump voters!Uplift their stories and stop the power grab!

submitted 18 days ago • 143 comments

More subtle outcomes of litigation. Courts have not just blocked DOGE and other actions, but also forced Gov to produce answers and commitments. Friday night's Treasury decision requires: Gov certifying what is the security clearance process for DOGE team; revealing authorizations for DOGE; more⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 2 days ago • 614 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 2 days ago • 1583 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

“The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING President Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown Jr.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 2491 comments

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 4 days ago • 575 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

The Eric Adams criminal case raises significant concerns about the independence of the Justice Department and the role of political influence in prosecutions. 💡 The key question: Was there an improper quid pro quo—and if so, will the Court do anything about it?

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 3 days ago • 1989 comments

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

submitted 4 days ago • 5046 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 1057 comments

Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 98 comments

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 4 days ago • 562 comments

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

submitted 4 days ago • 1307 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 4 days ago • 1351 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 969 comments

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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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 4 days ago • 2880 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 4 days ago • 4228 comments