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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 64 days ago • 831 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 64 days ago • 1985 comments

Marine Le Pen. It's her current surname, but also a her future residence. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

submitted 74 days ago • 173 comments

The SAVE Act would require individuals to bring documentary proof of citizenship to vote if they live in a state with same-day voter registration. Seriously, who carries their passports or birth certificates with them! #HandsOffHerVote

submitted 74 days ago • 19 comments

"The critical infrastructure provided by NOAA and NWS cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector." -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2025/03/fore...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING NEWS: At 7 PM EST this evening, Senator Cory Booker rose before Congress with nothing but conviction in his heart, daring to stop the Senate in defense of democracy. “I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate…

submitted 74 days ago • 189 comments

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

submitted 75 days ago • 322 comments

Further showing how sloppy and rushed all of this is, @josepagliery.bsky.social appears to have caught a major error in the government's notice that it claims it will provide people who are to be deported under the Alien Enemies Act; it cites a totally irrelevant law (and has typos in it).

submitted 75 days ago • 28 comments

This is a MAJOR, MAJOR story. Thank you @silindberg.bsky.social & the CBC for sharing!! 👏

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! "Democracy Dies with the Lies" is what I told the Jan 6th Commission.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

When I tell you these people want to go back to the 19th century???

submitted 80 days ago • 174 comments

We are living in very dangerous, unusual times. Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!

submitted 89 days ago • 722 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 91 days ago • 5885 comments

Chief Judge Boasberg says, this is not war, you can't deport these people. [Shew]

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

These movies are turning 30 in 2025.

submitted 90 days ago • 33 comments

every damn time

submitted 90 days ago • 197 comments

We @propublica.org added a bunch of new names and bios to the DOGE tracker: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

1. Jane Fonda slams Gavin Newsom, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister known for his policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany, rather than Winston Churchill, who led Britain through World War II with resilience and defiance.

submitted 91 days ago • 26 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 92 days ago • 5144 comments

This is nationwide. The USDA is also ending the Emergency Food Assistance Program, which comprises about 20% of what food banks in Maine distribute. As someone who depended on WIC as a kid in rural Maine, and who moved back here to help other people, Trump and Musk's cruelty is infuriating.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

People REALLY need to stop thinking in terms of elections. The window to start reversing Trump is much shorter. Agnostic in how that affects shutdown. But this should not be abt 2026.

submitted 92 days ago • 42 comments

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

submitted 92 days ago • 1285 comments

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

submitted 96 days ago • 1367 comments

Pretty sure he has a security detail and some sense of where people might be protesting. Time Magazine says hundreds are dead; the Trump-Vance plan is for far more Ukrainians to die, and Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and become a colony of Russia, aka permanent loss of rights and nationhood.

submitted 96 days ago • 42 comments

Musk is now claiming that DOGE has no legal authority to fire federal workers or cancel contracts. OK, so govt workers are firing THEMSELVES? And govt contracts are rescinding THEMSELVES? These people use words so carelessly.

submitted 103 days ago • 312 comments

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

submitted 104 days ago • 501 comments

I'd really love to have someone do a long (half hour?) interview with the 18F people about how they made govt better. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

submitted 104 days ago • 14 comments

A not really red panda 😊 🧶 #embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart

submitted 104 days ago • 184 comments

The actual premium that ppl get for choosing a govt job over other options is the stability, no govt on earth can afford to pay salaries that compete with the private sector, they've gone and shat all over their best sunday suit, good job

submitted 104 days ago • 19 comments

NPR catches DOGE making shit up about savings again (@stphnfwler.com is doing some of the best work on debunking DOGE).

submitted 104 days ago • 19 comments

Carina Nebula Jets (NIRCam Narrowband Filters). NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI)

submitted 104 days ago • 8 comments

our Mother she hungers

submitted 104 days ago • 104 comments

Yes, as everyone knows, things were so much better for America in the 1930s when one European country, perhaps anticipating Lindsey Graham's suggestion, built up its military. But Lindsey isn't going to let a little thing like history get in the way of shameless obsequiousness to Donald Trump.

submitted 104 days ago • 463 comments

Russia and China, have ramped up recruitment efforts targeting US federal employees—particularly those recently fired or at risk of termination. These efforts are unfolding aggressively on LinkedIn, where adversaries are reaching out under the guise of job opportunities, networking, and consulting.

submitted 104 days ago • 366 comments

Our German supporters made us realize we made a mistake, and we want to acknowledge it. Germany, you’re in our thoughts. While we’re relieved that AfD was defeated, we understand this is not a moment for celebration. There is still much work ahead, and we stand in solidarity with you.

submitted 110 days ago • 436 comments

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 109 days ago • 2005 comments

One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 112 days ago • 37 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 111 days ago • 109 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 112 days ago • 404 comments

Love to see it!

submitted 111 days ago • 441 comments

5 things I did last week: 1) I tried to hold GOPers accountable who enabled Trump's dictatorship 2) I showed that Pam Bondi her CoS are covering up Eric Adam's Turkish $$ 3) I covered declarations debunking Pete Marocco 4) Cooked dinner, well 5) Yoga

submitted 111 days ago • 28 comments

Hey @resistlist.bsky.social ! We're not done with Tesla yet (noon demos in San Francisco and Berkeley today).

submitted 111 days ago • 8 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 111 days ago • 2173 comments

Corporations want control over your digital books, ending the concept of ownership www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 118 days ago • 303 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 119 days ago • 1875 comments

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

submitted 118 days ago • 740 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 118 days ago • 505 comments

Such a striking combination of extremely decent people facing an extremely indecent situation....

submitted 118 days ago • 6 comments