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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~$2 billion owed to contractors for work they've alreayd performed. Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh dissent. t.co/k86ttz6Wdt

submitted 21 hours ago • 981 comments

From The Language Nerds: Word of the day is 'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve. How long does it last? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Finally using the “L” word. Let’s call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

Trump has been president for 31 full days. He has spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. All of which makes him money.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 18 days ago • 288 comments

Joe Biden might have been old, but his administration and its officials knew what the National Nuclear Security Administration was responsible for and never fired those in charge of managing our nuclear stockpile “by accident.”

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

What courage and honor sounds like: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” —resigning from SDNY over pressure to drop corruption charges against NY Mayor Eric Adams

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

If Elon Musk truly cares about being "maximally transparent," he should release the forms showing his financial interests. Americans deserve to know how Elon Musk will profit from his role in the Trump Administration. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 240 comments

Thanks, Elon. My salary is public, as is my financial report. But since you ask, when will you be releasing yours?

submitted 20 days ago • 581 comments

Trump’s new Health Secretary RFK Jr. cannot say whether health care is a human right. Meanwhile, his own family can.

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Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

submitted 21 days ago • 306 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 24 days ago • 1230 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Agree 💯

submitted 29 days ago • 278 comments

TRUMP: machine-guns crowd of pedestrians at Fifth Ave NYT: President's most daring argument for population control brings new scrutiny.

submitted 29 days ago • 44 comments

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that they can.

submitted 29 days ago • 198 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 33 days ago • 3621 comments

There were physicians promoting snake oil during the COVID pandemic. Physicians used to encourage smoking tobacco. So don’t come at me with “so many physicians signed a letter in support of RFK jr” cuz my follow-up question is: based on what peer-reviewed evidence?

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

RFK jr.s hearing would go a lot faster if Democrats didn't have to explain to him what the job entails. He seems completely unprepared.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

#RFK looks like he is going to have a heart attack on live TV. Someone get him a to a doctor.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

RFK says have 66% of children have chronic disease. The percentage of children with chronic diseases varies depending on the definition used, but it's generally between 10% and 30%. #RFKLies

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

📌None of this was possible without Fox's noxious propaganda.

submitted 36 days ago • 70 comments

Let's be clear: the Medicaid portal went offline because of Donald Trump's orders. The only reason it is back on is due to outrage from the American people. Now, they are trying to lie about it. Medicaid was never taken away from Americans under President Biden.

submitted 36 days ago • 596 comments

Halting spending approved by Congress. Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies. Replacing civil servants with loyalists. All plans pulled from Project 2025. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?

submitted 36 days ago • 128 comments

I just heard from a nonprofit in Massachusetts that helps veterans with transitional housing. Trump's shutdown of gov funding hurts their ability to buy and prepare food for 100+ veterans. Rent is due in 5 days. The loss of funds could mean some veterans face eviction.

submitted 36 days ago • 367 comments

I just voted NO on Scott Bessent’s Treasury Secretary nomination. He is Trump’s top pick to do the hard work of cutting taxes for every billionaire in America, himself included.

submitted 37 days ago • 253 comments

Okay, is it just me? Who else has been pronouncing $Trump and $Melania as strump and smelania?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I'm just saying...

submitted 41 days ago • 610 comments

Republicans plan to pay for their billionaire tax cuts by slashing health care for kids, seniors, and people with disabilities. It’s robbing working families so the richest Americans can get even richer. I’m in the Senate to fight back.

submitted 41 days ago • 252 comments

One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time. No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

submitted 41 days ago • 1524 comments

Sorry buddies but we're not stupid

submitted 43 days ago • 377 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 579 comments

Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

submitted 43 days ago • 1157 comments

Eating Hostess Cupcakes and Pringles for breakfast. Is this depression or anger? #EatingMyFeelings

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments