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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 17 hours ago • 645 comments

From the beginning of his first term. Trump wanted to have a military parade in DC. “His” generals said no, because the streets would buckle under the tanks/trucks, and because they felt it was un-American. Those generals are gone now. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 22 hours ago • 108 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2506 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 22 hours ago • 40 comments

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 133 comments

World Wonders What Trump Has On United States That’s Forcing Nation To Keep Him In Power theonion.com/world-w...

submitted 20 hours ago • 135 comments

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

submitted 20 hours ago • 40 comments

The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 20 hours ago • 227 comments

Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away theonion.com/trump-u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 47 comments

Eggs are now so expensive they’re smuggling them like fentanyl.

submitted 18 hours ago • 736 comments

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 13 hours ago • 68 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 22 hours ago • 1373 comments

Not to mention the economic impact of correctly forecasting hazardous weather ... [ I have been in this work for over 30 years - in the Netherlands ]

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

submitted 11 hours ago • 330 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 15 hours ago • 623 comments

Score: Mills 1, Trump 0. She’s 100% right on the law. Trump’s “We ARE the law” was way, way over the top. No, Mr. President, you are not. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 87 comments

LOL, The Onion has outdone itself! Oh, wait... www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/20/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Amen to that.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1723 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2829 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2409 comments

Parents Defending Education challenges Chicago district’s Black Student Success Plan as discriminatory https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/cps-black-student-success-plan-challenged-parents-defending-education/

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The 'find out' phase is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 677 comments

The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for DC, without holding the Trump administration in contempt for continuing to freeze aid, wrote that theTRO doesn’t “permit it to continue suspending duly appropriated foreign aid “ with new, post-hoc rationalizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Illinois schools chief tells districts to follow state law, not Trump threats https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/illinois-schools-chief-says-keep-teaching-black-history-after-trump-letter/

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I’m encouraged by these town halls but I also remember very clearly how this happened in 2017 as well. Instead of responding to the complaints, they stopped doing them. www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...

submitted 1 day ago • 420 comments

Michigan’s high school graduation rate is nearly 83%, a new high for the state https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025/02/21/michigan-high-school-graduation-dropout-rates/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1324 comments

Got to say I LOVE the Trump Administration negotiating to get Rare Minerals from Ukraine, for 2 reasons: 1. It reduces our dependence on China for Lithium and Graphite (China provides near 70% of world supply) 2. More than 50% of those minerals are in Russian Annexed land.

submitted 1 day ago • 6790 comments

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 740 comments

Let me help those who just get mad and post. It will take years and possibly decades to build infrastructure anywhere in Ukraine to be able to mine these minerals. Then, the biggest refiner is China. It will take a decade for the first $ If Zelensky gets what he wants, who benefits the most ?

submitted 1 day ago • 3715 comments

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The good thing about a site like BlueSky is the "six degrees of separation" concept - the reason I joined Twitter in 2011 ...

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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

The right to seek asylum does not exist at the U.S.- Mexico Border. The Trump administration has made the U.S.-Mexico border a zone that is overtly hostile to human rights and displays utter disregard for the humanity and dignity of people on the move. Our briefing, out now 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Great Lakes states have, for years, been fighting an invasion of lamprey eels, which were devastating the fish stocks in the lakes. Trump fired the people who've almost succeeded in doing that. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

#Gaza: @chrislockyear.msf.org explains how North Gaza is almost inhabitable. The situation is appalling; there is nothing left. youtu.be/wz8qK7xNd9Y

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Of course. But being the party standing up for those fired will mean a lot to those fired and their families. It will also show the country that they are trying to bring order to chaos. And if they can get any Republican support at all, that's huge leverage for March 14

submitted 2 days ago • 527 comments

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

Every person deserves access to medical care — no exceptions. #WordlDayofSocialJustice

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“It took the Nazis 1 month, 3 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours..to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the 5-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it.” -Gov. Pritzker www.americaamerica.news/p/rooting-ag...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

On this day, Martin Luther King was arrested for directing a city-wide boycott of segregated buses in 1956. Dr. King's powerful acts of resistance inspired a global movement, affirming that protests are a cornerstone in the struggle for racial justice. #ProtectTheProtest.

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As the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears, Trump administration envoys travelled to Saudi Arabia and Ukraine to prepare negotiations on ending the war. If negotiations happen, here are three key issues to prioritize ⤵️

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Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur man detained in Morocco and at risk of extradition to China, has finally been freed after 3.5 years. We have been campaigning for his release since he was first detained in July 2021.

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Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments