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In other words, a party.

submitted 4 hours ago • 278 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2383 comments

"[W]e are reprinting an editorial from the Clarksdale Press Register in Mississippi, which a Chancery Judge, Crystal Wise Martin, ordered removed.... We view this judicial overreach as an abuse of power, a blatant violation of constitutional rights, and a dangerous precedent that must be resisted."

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

A remarkable piece of journalism (Oct 2024) from ProPublica, which had uncovered this video from Russell Vought, now OMB director. "We want to put them in trauma," he said, of the federal workers he planned to villainize. www.propublica.org/article/vide...

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 12 hours ago • 901 comments

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

submitted 16 hours ago • 651 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1285 comments

If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

Was complaining about [gestures broadly] in the family chat and my brother, a reliably warm, sunny person, said “you know, whenever I start to feel bad about circumstances beyond my control, I just take a moment to yell at my senator.” Then he shared this app apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is why "how many genders are there, huh?" is such a dumb question. It's like asking exactly how many colors exist. Even blue is a fuzzy category, why would you expect human beings to be simpler than photons?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

What do these agencies have in common? Agriculture, CFPB, Defense, Equal Employment Opp. Comm., Federal Election Comm., Interior, Justice, Nat'l Labor Relations Board, Office of Gov't Ethics, Securities & Exchange Comm., Transportation. ✔️Investigating Musk's companies ✔️Sudden Trump firings

submitted 2 days ago • 4 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 2 days ago • 2477 comments

While it's true that Democrats in Congress -- and especially the House -- have relatively little power right now, what they can do is use their local offices to find people suffering from Trump's policies, like this caller, and lift up their voices and tell their stories

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

He’s coming for our Mail. Call Your Reps and Demand that Congress Fight: @repdwightevans.bsky.social @congressmanboyle.bsky.social @scanlon.house.gov @fetterman.senate.gov and especially @davemccormick.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trump-preps-...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 990 comments

Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

If you have an R rep, call 'em up and ask them why they hell they aren't speaking out like Balderson. Call 'em now. Tell 'em to stand up for you against Trump and Musk. Ask 'em if they're cowards. Tell 'em to step up like Balderson, or step down. reps.fyi

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We don’t have the luxury of sitting these fights out. The stakes are too high. 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

If you haven’t yet taken real life action, please use this latest outrage to light a 🔥 under you and find a group, get involved in your community, call your reps, take to the streets, whatever approach suits you. Action > Anxiety Real Life > Social Media You got this!

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 460 comments

When you fire a bunch of air traffic controllers, then you have a bunch of accidents: you are not saving US money When you fire a bunch of poultry inspectors, then you have a massive outbreak that wipes out chickens & eggs, leading to soaring scarcity & soaring prices: you are not saving US money

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

submitted 9 days ago • 156 comments

It’s extra important for your GOP senator to hear from you right now if you’re in one of these states. Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

Our Representative Glenn Thompson announced office hours today using Mike Armanini's office in Dubois, PA. Unfortunately, Glenn didn't show up. He sent staff instead.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk going after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells you everything you need to know about their priorities. Instead of lowering prices on "day one" as Trump said, he's raising costs on families by letting Wall Street cheat them.

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

No need to parse dog whistles with the advocate for Germany’s neo-Nazi party, who laments the end of Apartheid in South Africa, does sig heils in public, denigrates minorities, and proclaims that white men are inherently superior. Yes, he is. We don’t need to ask anymore, we need to deal with it.

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

Dem consultants: If you don’t mention inflation and betray trans people in literally every post, your career is over. Republican consultants: Hell yeah let’s have the puppy killer build the concentration camps and the corpse defiler fire the cancer docs, our base is going to love you forever.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices. As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

House Republicans unveiled their budget plan this week. Here's the summary. Step 1: Take billions from health care and kids' food. Step 2: Give the money in tax cuts to the rich. Step 3: Profit.

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

I just introduced an amendment that stops the Republican plans to pay for their massive tax cuts for billionaires on the backs of working Americans. Predictably, Republicans are outraged—because nothing makes them angrier than the idea of billionaires paying their fair share.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

One action a day is the goal! What did you get accomplished today? The Republican agenda is planned out to overwhelm you. To prevent burnout, focus on Small, intentional steps to create real, lasting change.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

If only there were another institution that could help everyday people understand the existential danger Trump's initiatives pose. One that might use its influence to shame legislators to meaningful action. A fourth estate, if you will

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

A woman once suggested cornering her in an elevator at 4am and inviting her to your room wasn't a great way to make a good impression and now the CDC won't publish current bird flu spread warnings.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 16 days ago • 157 comments

Every Republican in the Senate just voted to confirm Russell Vought. We’re going to hold them accountable for every piece of the Project 2025 agenda he implements and all the harm it causes to the families they’re supposed to represent.

submitted 17 days ago • 277 comments

Please plan a visit to your nearest US Senate office to push senators to stand up against Trump’s lawless overreach. Your ask will be slightly different if your senator is a Democrat or Republican. We put together a toolkit with everything you need to know: http://indivisi.org/...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

We don’t have to imagine what Russell Vought would do. He already told us in Project 2025. We protested through the night to send a clear message: NO to Russell Vought. We cannot stand idle while he seeks to harm Arizona children and families.

submitted 17 days ago • 70 comments

“President Trump is breaking the law. Here are some examples.” See? It’s not hard.

submitted 18 days ago • 186 comments