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This memo says that a direct result of Rubio blocking USAID funding is the death of literally millions of children

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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 8 hours ago • 209 comments

Someone generously shared this template of a handout they were inspired to create for their local community with me. Here's a canva link if you'd like to adapt it for your communities: www.canva.com/design/DAGgN...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 2 days ago • 6024 comments

❗️"This man is fighting for his country. A sovereign state has been attacked. People are dying. And all they care about is why didn't Zelensky wear a suit? I hate this country. I have never felt the way I do in my life," the American veteran recorded an emotional video.

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This absolutely broke me. #SlavaUkraine🇺🇦 🧵(1/3)

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It’s done.

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A ‘whistleblower’ has claimed that the Jeffrey Epstein files are being permanently deleted.

submitted 6 days ago • 1401 comments

I’ve decided to donate to AP after unsubscribing from WaPo and NYT due to their failure to be ethical and unworthiness to represent freedom of the press.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 9 days ago • 239 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 11 days ago • 860 comments

Reposting for handsome Spot #248411 who is now listed as "pending euthanasia" in deadly Apple Valley CA. The beautiful dog now waits in a holding kennel for his life to be over. Please help us save him: repost/share and pledge if you're able...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

She's on borrowed time, is there anyone who can help Marjorie #A567188? She's marked as "in grave danger" due to the length of time she's been waiting. You can see how beautiful she is, and just 2 years old, she's desperate need of an escape plan from San Bernardino CA...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Precious Rex #248439 arrived in Apple Valley CA as an abandoned stray. At just 2 years old, he arrived unfixed and without a microchip, has anyone ever loved him or has he struggled in his short life? A sweetheart who's in need of many shares and reposts to get his face out there so we can save him.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 29 days ago • 591 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 29 days ago • 237 comments

Each State's Top Country For Exports. Canada is number 1 for 32 states, Mexico for 6 and China for 5 See the import map here: brilliantmaps.com/the-top-i...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk: Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly King (Independent) Peters Shaheen Slotkin Warner

submitted 29 days ago • 2349 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 29 days ago • 968 comments

A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

submitted 30 days ago • 84 comments

Seconding Josh, I wrote on the same thing yesterday, and would go an extra mile or ten to get these ideas in front of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov, without their pollsters around. www.offmessage.net/p/a-sustaina...

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NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 2169 comments

Kash Patels blogs, posts come back to bite him in the ass. Senator Amy Klobacher does an excellent job on questioning Patel at the hearing. youtube.com/shorts/PBdEv...

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Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

submitted 32 days ago • 1117 comments

#Maddow pointing out that Pete Hegseth has already made a massive blunder, breaking protocol on death notifications related to the service members killed in the helicopter crash. He was supposed to keep their information private for 24 hours. It took him about 12 hours to blab details about them.

submitted 31 days ago • 194 comments

We need reporters like this on the national beat

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

WATCH: “How did you say that with a straight face, Jack?” Senator Jack Johnson (R) insists he & @GovBillLee have never said vouchers were for disadvantaged kids — buuut that has basically been their entire pitch all along… and he said it just last week. We were there. Receipts. 👇🏽

submitted 31 days ago • 74 comments

Tarlov: When you talk about staffing issues, sure, the control room is a problem, but you know what else is a problem? That there is no head of the FAA. Elon Musk has been trying to push him out… And they have in the first week in office gutted this key aviation safety advisory committee. 🎥: 1/2

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

Jon Stewart and Chris Christie discuss what did and didn't happen in the Lincoln bedroom. #TheWeeklyShow

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Musk, who has not been elected or officially appointed to any office, successfully pushed the FAA Administrator to resign 9 days ago.

submitted 32 days ago • 161 comments

What happens when you try to overthrow the government in a functioning democracy with the rule of law

submitted 36 days ago • 54 comments

This is how you do it...

submitted 40 days ago • 1051 comments

"Convinced that a climate change apocalypse is upon us they shamelessly spend their vast wealth on expensive escorts in Switzerland... which they fly to in their environmentally-unfriendly private jets" Pretty much lines up with what we all suspected.

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Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

submitted 38 days ago • 134 comments

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

submitted 38 days ago • 1035 comments

NEW: U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta has barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C. without approval from the Court. Notably, this week, Speaker Mike Johnson was absolutely fine with Rhodes — a terrorist — visiting Capitol Hill, where he chatted with Republican…

submitted 38 days ago • 133 comments

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 39 days ago • 414 comments

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

submitted 38 days ago • 812 comments

You guys need to see this and take it in… Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.

submitted 39 days ago • 953 comments

All Americans can agree on this: no president should use disaster victims as political pawns. Yet President Trump is doing just that—focusing on validating his own conspiracy theories rather than helping Americans. Our families need help and compassion—not political games.

submitted 38 days ago • 40 comments

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

submitted 38 days ago • 1660 comments