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It feels very clear from the various reports that Senate Democrats see the political challenge posed by the CR as the fact that they've been given actual leverage and are expected by their base to do something with it. That's why they're doing this cloture-in-exchange-for-amendments deal

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I know it ain't brand new anymore, but golly i love this too much not to post it...

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Every single Ways & Means Republican voted today to block transparency and protect DOGE's access to your sensitive information. Why are they so afraid to defend the rule of law and stand up to President Trump and Elon Musk?

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A young lady originally from Whitehorse is being detained in a detention center in Arizona. She was detained March 3rd, after her visa was denied. Facebook post from her Mom is in the pics below. It's a disturbing sequence of events. Do not travel to the US.

submitted 13 hours ago • 79 comments

Tariffs, fed employees, grants, foreign aid, etc There's so much trickle down loss from all these foolish (largely illegal) changes Trump is making

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Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House (sort of). If the government shuts down it is 100% on them. Ignore the any media that claims otherwise.

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When elected officials aren’t allowed to question those in power, your democracy is in full collapse. Assemblymember and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani held back by police for trying to question Trump’s ethnic cleansing head Tom Homan. #FuckICE (📷 @mahoneyw)

submitted 8 hours ago • 139 comments

👇🎯 For years now, there has been an entire class of Pundits whose stock in trade has been contrarian “folks are hysterical & deranged to worry about authoritarianism” takes. Everyone’s wrong a lot of the time. But the sneering condescension & near-total lack of reflection is the tell.

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Walz: Just like Elon Musk talks about entitlement programs. Those aren't entitlement programs. Those are the things keeping my mom alive. She paid into social security for 80 years. She should get that money back. And that's not what they believe

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In case you were wondering, they are going full-out antisemitic against the Jewish judge that blocked Khalil’s deportation. Because none of this is about countering antisemitism. It’s about weaponizing (real) antisemitism to undermine democracy and the rule of law.

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Graduate students are soon inexpensive and ultimately predominantly highly skilled work often with great ambition. Just like cutting IRS funding, this will just cost the USA much more via lost innovation, intellectual property, and entrepreneurs than the minor savings of cutting grants.

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New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

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NEW: A federal judge, for the first time, has ordered discovery on Elon Musk’s role in DOGE and his authority over the massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

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A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought Pokémon Go Full story: www.404media.co/saudi-arabia...

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NOW: hundreds of students from NYU and New Yorkers are getting ready to March for Mahmoud Khalil and Palestine! NYPD watching close by and on the move.

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every day, he wakes up, watches four hours of television, presses the DIET COKE button, then presses the MAKE THINGS WORSE button

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NEW: Dept of Education employees told that all ED buildings in DC area will be closed tomorrow for undisclosed "security reasons". Says everyone has to be out by 6 PM today.

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DHS is now polygraphing its own employees—not for espionage, not for corruption, but for the crime of revealing truth. This is not about national security. This is about the criminalization of conscience.

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Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

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I'm waiting for the deeply reported piece on how General Dynamics and Lockheed feel about their international sales being jeopardized by Trump treating planes like a Kindle membership. [fixed]

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

It’s been 30 years since I arrived in America. As a 12 year old refugee, I could have never imagined I would have the opportunity to represent the community that welcomed me with open arms 🥰. I'll be forever grateful for the American people who gave me and my family a second chance at life.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

We are governed by such adults.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

i'll say it again, this thing where musk encourages people to all live communally and work 18 hour days together and bring their families and never be apart from one another? it's fucking cult shit, and the federal government shouldn't be paying for or encouraging it

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

My latest for @truthout.org reports on librarians who are running for office and taking power. As Ilana Stonebraker says, we need to imagine ourselves as the deciders.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Now THIS is what I’m talking about 🔥 @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

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A total failure of Article I. This, as it turns out, is not only confirmation of Juan Linz's concerns about presidentialism. It also makes clear the Founders' greatest error: they simply could not fathom politicians who cared so little about their constitutional power they'd let a Mad King steal it.

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It hasn’t even been two months and already we know we don’t need the long judgment and perspective of history: his second administration is extremely high up there, arguably the top, in terms of both most openly and brazenly corrupt and lawless: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Senator? Senators? Please state your names for the record. I cannot tell who you are... your face is completely covered in, um, fur? Orange, black, white fur writhing around... like, my much like a leap of leopards!" thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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the Reagan-worshipping CIA wing of the Democratic party is memoryholing their own triumph in September, when they convinced Harris to shelve Walz and make out with the Cheneys and stop talking to the base. they got what they wanted, watched it lose, and immediately rationalized away their fuckup.

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the Dem strategy:

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The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”

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A lot of the details in this NY Times story are previously reported but this part - this part! - is new. It's either wild freelancing from an unconfirmed nominee; a vicious negotiating squeeze; or Canada is in severe peril with the threat coming from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

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Europe has about 10X Russia’s GDP, over 3X its population, and greater conventional military capabilities (especially after Russia smashed much of it failing to conquer Ukraine). The realist material power move is side with EU against RU. The anti-democracy, pro-corruption move is side with Russia.

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I guess it's Friday

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Dolly Parton has released a new song called If You Hadn’t Been There as a tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean. “If you hadn’t been there / Well, who would I be?” [youtube.com]

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