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submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

“US will end the temporary protected status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians despite deteriorating conditions in Haiti, with gangs controlling about 85% of the capital and sexual violence against children increasing by 1,000% last year, according to the UN” Article link in comments 〰️AdminJenn

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

Current mood

submitted 15 hours ago • 395 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 19 hours ago • 809 comments

The world is watching Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and our European allies to curry favor with the Kremlin. All of us — Democrats, Republicans, elected officials and ordinary citizens — must push back with every tool we have if we are to save our own democracy and others.

submitted 4 hours ago • 138 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 1330 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1044 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 554 comments

“It’s getting a little uncomfortable even for me.”— Fuentes reacts to Bannon’s CPAC salute

submitted 18 hours ago • 72 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 1 day ago • 2150 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 1 day ago • 1818 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1536 comments

Only 47 more months to go

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

submitted 3 days ago • 410 comments

I really thought they were writing these with ChatGPT but any LLM at least knows how to spell “executive” correctly

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

submitted 2 days ago • 1310 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 842 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1210 comments

Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

submitted 2 days ago • 1036 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1914 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 965 comments

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment. Hello?

submitted 3 days ago • 220 comments

Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

submitted 3 days ago • 801 comments

On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the internment of thousands of loyal Japanese American citizens. This act was a betrayal of our most sacred values as a nation. California stands for our fellow Americans, regardless of national origin or immigration status.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

submitted 2 days ago • 363 comments

TO DEM POLITICIANS: Your base is FURIOUS over your lack of FIGHT. Commit to filibustering everything. Wage lawsuits over everything. Flood the zone on every media outlet highlighting MAGA corruption, imperialism, oligarchy & extremism. Bipartisanship is dead & a coup is happening. Act like it.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

I try to keep the language on here… PG… but in this case i can’t. You, Trump, are a traitorous piece of shit

submitted 3 days ago • 2030 comments

Since 2023, the California National Guard’s Counter Drug Task Force has helped seize $300M worth of illicit fentanyl. We’re continuing to make progress in educating Californians on the dangers of fentanyl, getting this drug off our streets, and providing life-saving treatments.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1347 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 921 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4564 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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It is ILLEGAL for landlords and hotels to exploit the #PalisadesFire and the #EatonFire by jacking up prices on Angelenos. File a report via oag.ca.gov/Report or 1-800-952-5225.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

Explain it to us like we're in Bible study.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

“The impact of gaining access to the data could be seismic on the defense industry.” @attackerman.bsky.social reports on ex-officials' fears that a defense-contract database could soon be under Musk’s command undercutting competitors to SpaceX

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 4 days ago • 1253 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 4 days ago • 577 comments

Hakeem Jeffries refuses to call for Eric Adams' resignation, instead calling on Adams to show "that he has the capacity to continue to govern in the best interest of New Yorkers"

submitted 4 days ago • 1111 comments