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Ain't good. Compared to Senate Dems, House Dems have less leverage. One exception is the budget fight. But here's the Dem House Leader TODAY declining to use that leverage. If you have a Dem rep, ask them to use their leverage. And tell them to tell Jeffries to lead. Stay tuned - more to come.

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The richest man in the world declares that the national government no longer has a Department of Education as elected officials are blocked from finding out what is going on. Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian

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Trump claims he’s on the side of the working class. Really?

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"When scientists develop arguments, they don’t say, 'Because I said so.' They say, 'The evidence shows ... ' Authoritarians don’t do that. They come up with lots of different strategies to prevent you from asking questions. They don’t give responses that answer them."

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BREAKING: We submitted FOIA requests to more than 40 federal agencies demanding answers about the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's unrestricted access to Americans' data. We're also calling on Congress to conduct immediate oversight of DOGE's invasion of privacy.

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The end goal is to make racist a protected class

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In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 16 days ago • 738 comments

Although the federal courts have blocked Trump's efforts to destroy birthright citizenship for millions of Americans, his campaign to harass & vilify immigrants continues. Immigrant families should know their rights. I've convened a webinar to inform you & your loved ones on what you need to know.

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As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this: Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.

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Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

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NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 16 days ago • 336 comments

elon musk has done so much evil but his worst offense yet is he has made it impossible to have fun online

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it is actually so fucking utterly embarrassing that democrats allowed a small team of elon goons to illegally block them out of a federal building. libs are a fucking scourge dude

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Nothing to worry about: the world’s richest man, and donor to Donald Trump, is bragging about killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The party of the little guy against the elites! Yeah!

submitted 16 days ago • 85 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. This action violates the Constitution.

submitted 16 days ago • 119 comments

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban. Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

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Totally normal

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"Press opportunities are a farce. If you try to get an autocrat to give you good answers and hold them accountable for their policies or actions, they’re going to use all the strategies they have at their disposal to not do that. Reporters are left with, 'This is what he said, but this is not true'"

submitted 16 days ago • 238 comments

Does this platform allow a person to post that they hope Elon Musk dies?

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Reminder: this is completely lawless

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NEW: It's not just coders. DOGE is filled with lawyers, elite attorneys with conservative credentials. We have new names: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

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The US is now suspending support to South Africa and allowing resettlement and "refugee" status only for white south Africans ("Afrikaner"). This is so blatantly racist. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.

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I don’t think arts institutions, art schools, universities, journalism schools, the NYT etc are fully reckoning with the scope of what’s happening here

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like what is anyone supposed to do with this when you open any app and see this shit immediately

submitted 16 days ago • 216 comments

In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"

submitted 16 days ago • 444 comments

We're going to do The Gilded Age again except this time with AI and facial recognition software that automatically orders a drone strike on your location if you say the word Union to a coworker

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CONNOLLY: The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community NANCY MACE: Tranny tranny tranny, I don't really care, you want penises in women's bathrooms

submitted 18 days ago • 1342 comments

So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?

submitted 18 days ago • 213 comments

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

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Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

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I bring a “wearing a mask is one of the fastest, easiest, most immediate ways you can fight fascism” vibe to conversations that folks who don’t mask and know it’s wrong reeeeally dislike. The immediate cessation of responses is always so telling. 🙃

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chappell talking about trans rights at the #grammys 🫂🏳️‍⚧️

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If you are a federal worker or have insight into DOGE, please reach out. We can speak anonymously. You can contact me securely on Signal at makenakelly.32

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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i mean. trudeau is right. donald trump represents a betrayal of everything america promised to be. canada has been our ally for a hundred years, through the fires of two world wars, the cold war, all the great struggles of the twentieth century--and this is how we repay that? it's disgusting

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If plans to annex Canada actually become military reality all US military officers who take their oaths seriously should use the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of nature that often passes us by, like wonderful flowers such as the Carnation.

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Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 21 days ago • 1178 comments

im just saying it would be alright if certain things happened to certain people

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