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Suggested changes: The far-right AfD, backed by JD Vance and Elon Musk, was rejected by 80 percent of voters, exit polls suggest. Mainstream parties plan to form a coalition without them because voters don't want them to govern.

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email. Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

Reminder for marginalized citizens of fascist regimes that if things become pressing, you don't have to think about immigration as 'all or nothing'. This is an error I see many westerners make--that if you can't get residency/asylum right away then it's not worth trying.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Telehealth isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. For many of my patients with Long COVID and disabilities, in-person visits are exhausting, inaccessible, or simply not feasible. Removing telehealth coverage means denying care to those who need it most. We must protect access to virtual care.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 17 hours ago • 99 comments

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

It’s been wild to see so many headlines about the firings at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and none of them explicitly saying “Trump fired the one Black person and the one woman so he could have an all white male Joint Chiefs”

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Call to action-Childhood vax/covid boosters (plz boost) RFK has fired ACIP to replace with his antivaxxers; kid vax + covid/flu/RSV boosters are at risk. States can make their own requirements. Use @5calls.org or @resist.bot to call your STATE reps to keep vax access. Script outline below.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The ol “how to stop a vampire” trick still slaps

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This isn't new news? Musk killed the bill at the end of the last Congress that had the Telehealth extenders past March 31, 2025 (and PBM reform)

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Hail to the thief. Stealing money from blue states, plundering our own country like it's conquered territory

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Excellent work everyone remember to bundle up it’s cold this time of year! Wouldn’t want chapped lips or a cold nose while you’re out shopping.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This muthafukka really doesn't take a bad shot.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Thanks to a loud public outcry and a relentless media campaign from outdoors influencers the Trump administration is reversing its plan to eliminate thousands of national parks jobs. Amazing work everyone. Keep speaking up, it matters!

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 2 days ago • 295 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1868 comments

I of course know what transphobes mean when they say “biological men/women” but as a trans guy I find the term funny because I am a man, and I have a body, so my body is a man’s body. therefore, biologically, I am a man 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

About 50% of his rockets explode in mid air but sure, let Elon "fix aviation"

submitted 16 days ago • 95 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 2 days ago • 353 comments

I never thought I would post this, but GO MPA! We’ve had our differences in the past, but I’m on your side.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: In a 5-4 win for unemployed workers, the Supreme Court allows their lawsuit to proceed alleging that Alabama is illegally delaying their benefits. Kavanaugh writes the majority, joined by the Dem appointees and Chief Justice. Thomas writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Look I know it's a cliché, but call your fucking reps. They don't get scared unless they hear from an overwhelming number of us all the time. Call them every damn day. Tell them to fight the hell back and protect us from Musk and Trump. It matters and it makes a difference, right now. reps.fyi

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

They voted for bad things to happen to other people is the truest read of the situation

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

By the way, this is one of the issues where you might be able to make some headway with GOP reps if you live in a rural district. It has always been the heavily red rural districts that stopped them from destroying USPS in the past. Reps know their constituents depend on USPS.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1025 comments

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family. Stop the rabid dog. apnews.com/article/tesl...

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 702 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 2 days ago • 692 comments

I can not tell you how angry I am about so many folks in Congress just rolling over. HE IS STEALING POWER FROM CONGRESS. IT IS A COUP. Day 31.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

NEW: Get ready for delayed tax refunds, long hold times + dropped calls with the IRS, thanks to Trump illegally firing more than 6,000 employees there today. *Except if you're a wealthy tax evader. You will now "feast" as the IRS strains to function. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-ma...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Trump’s latest EO targets immigrants' access to federal programs—despite the fact that undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for most fed. programs. This is a cruel distraction from his & Elon Musk’s dismantling of the government, built on scapegoating & spreading lies about immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is a common refrain that this year’s flu is really doing a number on folks, and of course now we have no idea what’s going on because the CDC is… in chaos? Incomplete?

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 3442 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments