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This story and the other one in the Washington Post about DOGE breaking into SSA (wapo.st/3G9JR97) made me wonder where some of the litigation against DOGE stands, and TIL something just wow (cont'd in next post)...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

submitted 1 day ago • 930 comments

So bizarre that the only truth teller in the Republican Party this week has been Rand Paul.

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

"is this market manipulation?"

submitted 7 days ago • 112 comments

Bowing to autocrats never ends well, as universities and law firms doing just that are finding out

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

WATCH: “I’m here because I will not be bullied.” A pardon attorney fired by Trump says Trump’s DOJ sent armed U.S. marshals to deliver a letter warning her not to testify before Congress about Trump’s DOJ’s abuse of power. Context: www.yahoo.com/news/us-just...

submitted 9 days ago • 189 comments

Just saw my book, “White Too Long” was purged from the US Naval Academy library. Listed along w/ 380 other books from @antheabutler.bsky.social , @michaelericdyson.bsky.social , @revjimwallis.bsky.social , Bryan Massingale, and others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 11 days ago • 255 comments

A+ protest sign at a Hands Off! protest today in Rockford, Illinois. Pretend we're Melania. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 426 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

WMLL74 This is Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) and a picture of his Senate contact. He called a fired HHS worker a clown who probably deserved to be let go. Jim seemed to be proud of his childish ignorance and insensitivity, but I guess he doesn’t want to hear about it. What Madness Looks Like 🇺🇸

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

submitted 13 days ago • 929 comments

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 14 days ago • 156 comments

After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.

submitted 14 days ago • 4433 comments

Really cool to see that PBS News Hour turned @levernews.com's award-winning audio series MASTER PLAN into school curriculum for America's high-school students. Go listen to MASTER PLAN in your podcast app - and please repost: MasterPlanPodcast.com

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Today in Tilburg, the Netherlands hundreds of activists and musicians at the Tesla Factory. Let's bring the fight to Elon. Hands of from our democracy and the Constitutional State. #TeslaTakeDown @teslatakedown.com Almost all demonstraters came by bike. Part II

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

submitted 18 days ago • 1205 comments

Any Republican who was up in arms years ago about emails should be outraged by the Defense Secretary's carelessness. Secretary Hegseth showed a colossal lack of judgement. He put American national security in danger, and he put our troops in danger.

submitted 22 days ago • 167 comments

This just keeps getting worse.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

This feels important. Why isn’t the media covering THIS part of the story.

submitted 22 days ago • 227 comments

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

submitted 22 days ago • 276 comments

George Conway nailed this! A must watch. Why major parts of the legal community aren't fighting back and whether the courts can hold Trump accountable. youtu.be/2Tb6WeJPFnw

submitted 24 days ago • 66 comments

Good to remember that today, in the midst of an Abbott and Costello National Security disaster, democratic senators literally voted to confirm more Trump nominees. bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

Hey, Politico -- I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone. Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down. Defiantly, Marc Elias

submitted 24 days ago • 839 comments

First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired. Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.

submitted 23 days ago • 945 comments

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

submitted 23 days ago • 422 comments

Hope Ngumezi still can't believe he had to bury his wife after he took her to a Texas hospital for a miscarriage when she was 11 weeks pregnant. "I blame the doctors, I blame the hospital, and I blame the state of Texas," Ngumezi said. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

As a Coloradan, I felt badly Trump's feelings were hurt by the #TrumpPortrait hung in our state capital. So I fixed it so it clear who is really running the country right now. Hope he likes it!

submitted 23 days ago • 143 comments

Hey Elon, I found some waste. I think you need to get daddy Trump to work more and play less, 24 million in a little over 2 mos. share.newsbreak.com/c7iatv5p?s=i16

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 25 days ago • 96 comments

Don't tell me everyone has tuned out...we are here and ready to go!

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Fodder for novels about our times: 1) Trump Commerce Sec H Lutnick says people won't really notice if SocSec misses a payment cycle: www.axios.com/2025/03/21/s... 2) Lutnick just bought house in DC for $25 million, all cash 3) Seller: Bret Baier of Fox www.washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...

submitted 26 days ago • 40 comments

People don’t get that you can’t really crowdsource long term care for terminally ill people or those who need assisted living. These systems were in place for a reason and they already weren’t properly funded. The levels of disaster we’re facing is beyond comprehension.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n... By Matthew Haag and Katherine Rosman

submitted 26 days ago • 76 comments

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

submitted 26 days ago • 256 comments

Hello new community! I love how fast this place is growing. FYI we released a new Indivisible guide with practical steps that folks in red, blue, & purple states can take to fight back. Don't ask for permission - take it, copy it, make it your own, & start organizing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 147 days ago • 204 comments

This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...

submitted 39 days ago • 52 comments

By the end of 2024 we had driven the speed to answer the Social Security 1-800# down from a 42.5 minute national average to 12.4 minute average. Now the Trump/Musk co-presidency wants to eliminate phone service for customers. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

Social Security being dismantled “by a drunk with a wrecking ball” — great reporting by NY Times. People need to rise up. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Musk and Trump want to wreck Social Security’s ability to function so they can rob it. Rise up and stop the steal of your Social Security. popular.info/p/exclusive-...

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Make this viral.

submitted 28 days ago • 40 comments

In case you missed it, White Americans voted against: Taco trucks on every corner $25k for first time homebuyers $50K tax break for small businesses Medicare paying for home health care Lower taxes for people earning < $400K It was never about the price of eggs, inflation, or the economy.

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments