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submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

submitted 6 days ago • 604 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

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I watched “Number 24” about the Norwegian resistance the other day. Am watching “Watch on the Rhine” now. These stories are so darkly resonant now. I can’t help but wonder if they are more than that. Foreshadowings of choices we will all soon face. Am I being melodramatic? I fear I’m not.

submitted 6 days ago • 367 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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submitted 7 days ago • 267 comments

Too true!

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Every day these people show us who they are

submitted 14 days ago • 772 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 15 days ago • 1527 comments

One of the key points of non-violent direct action is to force the authorities to stop you -- to force their hand, to make them arrest you, and yes, perhaps even make them lash out in violence -- and to broadcast those images to an otherwise apathetic public. Be confrontational, not compliant.

submitted 15 days ago • 84 comments

US Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-2131 The switchboard will transfer you to your rep regardless of your district. It may be busy. Keep calling.

submitted 16 days ago • 249 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 572 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 18 days ago • 1425 comments

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

submitted 19 days ago • 261 comments

Perfectly captured.

submitted 20 days ago • 1489 comments

For the visual learners...

submitted 20 days ago • 682 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 20 days ago • 3292 comments

TRUDEAU: “I want to speak directly to Americans — our closest friends and neighbors… yes, this will harm Canadians, but it will also have real consequences for you.” #TrumpTradeWar

submitted 20 days ago • 830 comments

He can’t

submitted 23 days ago • 253 comments

Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump:

submitted 23 days ago • 404 comments

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here at Bluesky for the follows and the conversations and the constructive, substantive interaction. It's a great forum, a great resource for circulating and talking about the news, and -- most of all -- a pleasure. I'm grateful!

submitted 23 days ago • 4125 comments

Watching these red states attack federal funding—apparently not realizing that most of their states are broke and would completely collapse without it—will always be hilarious to me. “Give it all back to the states!” Sit down, Cletus. Your state can’t buy sandwiches for kids.

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submitted 25 days ago • 1272 comments

Excellent post

submitted 27 days ago • 2082 comments

NEW: The Chairperson for the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency has sent a letter to the OPP advising they consult White House Counsel on the legality of ousting 17 inspectors general. 👀

submitted 28 days ago • 541 comments

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

submitted 30 days ago • 813 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 916 comments

Agreed with @NormOrnstein - definitely do NOT share this image!!! Lol bluevirginia.us/2025/01/satu...

submitted 43 days ago • 204 comments

A remarkable report on the ongoing, regrettable, and accelerating implosion of The Washington Post.

submitted 47 days ago • 300 comments

It's really not about leaving the other platforms. It's about bringing people here and giving them more engagement than the other apps. That's what people want. Engagement. Takes nothing to offer it If there is a user on another app that you like, DM them and invite them here. Post and tag me

submitted 47 days ago • 1442 comments

Facts.

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The armed insurrection on January 6, 2021 was an inside job. — We should neither forget nor forgive that.

submitted 47 days ago • 177 comments

This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago. In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists. Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.

submitted 48 days ago • 1240 comments

This is so spot-on it’s scary.

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submitted 60 days ago • 116 comments

Kash Patel is looking for political revenge. No interest in delivering justice. Like his leader he too has an "enemies list" and publicly threatened media figures and political opponents with jail time. This is not the kind of leadership we need!

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submitted 66 days ago • 175 comments

Great advice from @jenrubin.bsky.social today. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Home insurance in areas hit by repetitive disasters is going to be the number one housing affordability issue over the next 4 years. And possibly going into the midterms. More so than interest rates. Florida in particular is going to have huge problems.

submitted 83 days ago • 1686 comments

Donald trump, convicted felon, appointed Charles Kushner, also a convicted felon, to be his US Ambassador to France. What an embarrassing clown show America has become.

submitted 84 days ago • 576 comments

KASH PATEL’S CONFIRMATION HEARING WILL BE A TRAIN WRECK. Patel keeps claiming he was the “lead prosecutor” in Benghazi, but he was actually a junior staffer—never the lead. Watch this video to see him lie again and explain his plan to turn the Hoover building into a “deep state” museum.

submitted 84 days ago • 590 comments

For those who forgot

submitted 88 days ago • 65 comments