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Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1234 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 2 days ago • 213 comments

Todays hero

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Laguna Beach is an art colony. We support the arts. Chip Bok is the brilliant award-winning political cartoonist that created this artwork.

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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The GOP convicted felon has launched a war on the American people & our constitution. We have guardrails to stop a rogue president. But are our lawmakers? Happy to be part of it & obey, in the foolish belief that THEY will be spared. Wait for the final irony. #Opposition #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

submitted 2 days ago • 280 comments

Hong Kong’s Democratic Party says it would start preparations to disband and wind up its affairs after a meeting of its leadership, amid a years-long national security crackdown in the China-ruled city.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 582 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1304 comments

1️⃣ In these dark times, there’s a light: people are rising up and fighting back! Here are prime examples of opposition across the country. Remember, YOU are not alone. Every act of resistance counts! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Oh boy.

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Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

submitted 6 days ago • 1212 comments

'Not well received'... Hegseth, Vance embarrass themselves on international stage... https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-well-received-hegseth-vance-062507922.html

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

This FACT SHEET offers great info to share with others who may not follow any political news. I took an excerpt from it, basically @murray.senate.gov quotes, & submitted it as a letter to the editor of our local newspaper (see next post). 1/2 www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Video: hacker group Anonymous warns Trump of systemic attacks, calls for mass uprising v fascism skwawkbox.org/2025/02/11/v...

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National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF

submitted 7 days ago • 1573 comments

⚡️'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says. "Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Navalnaya, widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before the anniversary of her husband's death.

submitted 8 days ago • 521 comments

DOGE Website Hacked and Defaced — Internet Laughs at Musk: ‘These Experts Left Their Database Open’ dailyboulder.com/doge-website...

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Musk's companies have received BILLIONS of $$ from govt contracts & subsidies. 🔥Now the State Dept is planning to buy $400M worth of armored Teslas. Can you say CONFLICT OF INTEREST? 🗣️Nicely drop this gem of a truth bomb on someone who doesn't follow news. www.businessinsider.com/state-depart...

submitted 10 days ago • 122 comments

Donald Trump’s press conference today was one of the most disgraceful moments in U.S. history, signaling a complete surrender to Vladimir Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 908 comments

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

submitted 11 days ago • 3643 comments

Musk power grab: the EO Trump signed today puts Musk's DOGE mostly in charge of developing massive downsizing plans for federal agencies, and explicitly gives DOGE approval authority over "all" hiring into career civil service positions www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ron Howard FTW 🎯

submitted 14 days ago • 487 comments

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this.. truthout.org/articles/tes...

submitted 14 days ago • 510 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 738 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

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“For accepting the [hundreds of thousands of] deportations, Maduro is likely to ask the U.S. to drop a federal indictment against him on charges of drug trafficking, as well as the $25 million reward offered for information leading to his capture.” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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Read this bombshell CNN story after they received internal emails detailing backroom maneuvering for Musk & DOGE access to the US Treasury federal payments system Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Lieu: Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern California for a PR stunt

submitted 16 days ago • 266 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

submitted 16 days ago • 607 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2838 comments