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submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

This!!👇👇👇 #Handsoff #trumpprotest #wethepeople

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Anti-trump protesters are not being paid. That’s ridiculous, and the only way the conspiracy theorists and maga can soothe themselves in the face of growing opposition without having to check their own beliefs.

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April 5, 2025

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 614 comments

#handsoff #indivisible Salem, Oregon

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This is what a peaceful protest a the U.S. Capitol looks like.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

A federal judge in Maryland granted a preliminary injunction on Monday barring top officials at the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management from turning over sensitive data to Elon Musk and members of his team while a privacy lawsuit continues.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Cait Conley, 39, a U.S. Army veteran and former national security official, announced on Monday that she is challenging Rep. Mike Lawler, a second-term Republican in a swing district in the suburbs north of New York City.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

Michael Astrue, a former head of the Social Security Administration under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, told NPR that Elon Musk is wrong about Social Security and that there is no widespread fraud.

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It's interesting that @CNN.com, the alleged "Most Trusted Name in News", doesn't appear to mention that AOC and Bernie had 32,000 at a Denver rally, and many thousands elsewhere. I just check CNN these days to see what they don't report on. It's a lot. I can't trust them at all.

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 14 days ago • 857 comments

“A mack-truck-sized breach”: @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social discusses being accidentally added to a Trump administration group chat planning military strikes. Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78

submitted 14 days ago • 81 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the White House said. It was an extraordinary breach of U.S. national security intelligence.

submitted 14 days ago • 656 comments

While Supreme Court's John Roberts and Donald Trump often converge on legal goals, sharp divergences are emerging, a constitutional law expert says, and through the president's executive orders flurry, he's 'proceeding as if legal constraints don't matter' reut.rs/4c8wX7j

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www.axios.com/2025/03/14/t...

submitted 24 days ago • 667 comments

Rep. John Larson delivered a fiery speech blasting Republicans for blocking Elon Musk from testifying to Congress and enabling the Trump administration to go after Social Security. #Resist #WeThePeople #UnitedWeStand

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

In answer to a question from the audience at SxSW last week. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/20Kb...

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

Jam the D.C. Mall with veterans, and those who honor, support and respect them on Friday, March 14th at noon. 👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

A US judge has ordered Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to turn over a variety of records and answer questions describing their efforts to slash federal spending reut.rs/4223ZSO

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

JUST IN: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.

submitted 25 days ago • 59 comments

Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk was “an hour of conversation among three men who have no idea how American democracy works,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/1ZbiqPfz

submitted 47 days ago • 49 comments

US President Donald Trump's approval rating has ticked slightly lower in recent days as more Americans worried about the direction of the US economy as the new leader threatens a host of countries with tariffs, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/4bbAGAf

submitted 47 days ago • 76 comments

Federal workers set off a counteroffensive with a raft of new lawsuits that contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the FBI and other federal agencies.

submitted 61 days ago • 146 comments

The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, Charlie Warzel writes. Will it work? theatln.tc/1hEuswrF

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My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

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It's Pritzker and AOC who get it so far. Who else?

submitted 66 days ago • 755 comments

So much for focusing on meritocracy. Lol

submitted 66 days ago • 576 comments

"Anyone naive enough to think that the government can deny fundamental rights to one group without putting another’s at risk is in for some nasty surprises." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... via @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Yesterday, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear that he does not know very much about Medicare and Medicaid, Katherine J. Wu reports:

submitted 67 days ago • 38 comments

Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years

submitted 67 days ago • 1206 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 67 days ago • 1404 comments