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BREAKING: Trump and Republicans say they’ll focus their efforts on defeating Native American candidate Deb Haaland, who is running for governor of New Mexico. She has protected sacred lands and stood up to bullies. It’s obvious why they want her to lose.

submitted 33 days ago • 367 comments

Defeatism is exactly what Trump, Vance, and Musk want us to feel. They’d like nothing better than for us to give up, so they can have it all. Cynicism and hopelessness play into their fetid hands. Keep up the fight.

submitted 38 days ago • 244 comments

Corporate monopolies aren’t just bad for business — they’re bad for your wallet. Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.

submitted 37 days ago • 244 comments

Nearly 13 million people in the U.S. hold green cards. Tens of thousands more are here temporarily as foreign students and professors. All are now in danger of being arrested by the Trump regime if they exercise their First Amendment rights.

submitted 37 days ago • 97 comments

Trump and Musk's SSA cuts will mean longer wait times for beneficiaries, worse customer service, and fewer people receiving their earned benefits. Make no mistake: this is an attack on Social Security itself.

submitted 37 days ago • 94 comments

📢 ICYMI: This Thursday at 8PM ET, we’re hosting a mass call to talk about how we stop mass federal worker firings. Hear from workers, labor leaders, and elected officials about what’s happening and how to fight back. RSVP now: bit.ly/march13RSVP

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Trump and Musk’s layoffs are creating chaos—and jobless workers are paying the price. ❌ 62,000+ federal workers fired ❌ The unemployment system can’t handle the surge ❌ Delays mean families are left without income This isn’t “efficiency.” It’s destruction. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/07/d...

submitted 38 days ago • 33 comments

Boycotting Tesla is not "illegal", as Trump claims. The purpose of a boycott is to send a clear message: We the people have the power and choice to not give our hard-earned cash to billionaire oligarchs.

submitted 37 days ago • 468 comments

The Postal Service is in the crosshairs of President Trump, who plans to fire the USPS board and merge the agency with the Commerce Department. This is part of a long history of attacks against the postal service by Republican members of Congress, who have long targeted the agency.

submitted 37 days ago • 26 comments

Overheard: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

submitted 38 days ago • 2167 comments

Bring men like this back into our living rooms!

submitted 38 days ago • 189 comments

💵 Corbin Trent: “Americans’ purchasing power plummeted by 61% since 1950… every generation since WWII handed a worse deal than the one before it…” Even 2 paychecks doesn’t cover what 1 used to. An under-discussed economic disaster Trump rode to power👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/building...

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Market down. Twitter down. Recession talk up.

submitted 38 days ago • 461 comments

🚨 TWITTER IS DOWN! 🚨 Roll call for our Bluesky friends! Sound check! Drop a 💙 if you’re here!

submitted 38 days ago • 1930 comments

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

submitted 44 days ago • 5903 comments

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

submitted 44 days ago • 8606 comments

VERA (Voluntary Early Retirement Authority) emails went out across HHS last night. Done properly, VERA is designed to reduce the workforce by ⬆️ the number of people eligible to retire and ⬇️ the number of involuntary separations. Of course, no guarantees it will be done properly. Stay tuned.

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submitted 45 days ago • 326 comments

Hi — quick question: How is this legal? www.wired.com/story/people...

submitted 44 days ago • 1440 comments

🧹 Housekeeping note 🧽 We are now @altcdc.altgov.info! The #AltGov family is moving to a dedicated domain to help you identify verified accounts.

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

Also, tulips.

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

Imagine that. 💰

submitted 45 days ago • 1032 comments

submitted 44 days ago • 90 comments

We had just fought a war of independence with England after all.

submitted 44 days ago • 252 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 44 days ago • 1191 comments

This is so cruel.

submitted 49 days ago • 567 comments

Josh gets it. The real “Musk derangement syndrome” is @RepJohnRose letting him dismantle our government while ignoring (and hiding from) his own constituents

submitted 49 days ago • 35 comments

Absolutely overwhelmed to be in the presence of the first-ever printed book to use the Cherokee syllabary, the Cherokee Constitution of 1827. At the American Antiquarian Society.

submitted 50 days ago • 109 comments

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

submitted 49 days ago • 468 comments

Just got my official termination notice. I will be unemployed, thanks to DOGE, at the end of the week. Things are going to be tough. But! I've got books available (and more to come). Also, I'd like to help on any of YOUR creative projects. Need a writer? Editor? Sounding board? I'm your guy.

submitted 50 days ago • 277 comments

You sure that's the best way to describe it?

submitted 49 days ago • 133 comments

$38 BILLION and counting — Stop calling Elon Musk “the richest man in the world”, start calling him “the biggest hypocrite in the world”

submitted 49 days ago • 44 comments

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

submitted 49 days ago • 2751 comments

Gene Hackman has died at 95. I recently wrote about his performance in Night Moves for a Criterion release that will arrive in a few weeks. Like anyone who writes about Hackman's acting, I had to come up with novel ways to avoid the word "perfect." It wasn't easy. >

submitted 50 days ago • 159 comments

The wealthy commit fraud WAY MORE than the rest of us do. They also serve WAY LESS time in prison.

submitted 49 days ago • 660 comments

South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson wants to put Trump on new $250 bill. Current laws prevent a living person from appearing on U.S. currency. Our tax dollars are PAYING him money to write BS bills that help NO ONE. THIS IS A HUGE WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!

submitted 50 days ago • 816 comments

WATCH: “Are you wearing a wire today, Cam?” In a new filing, disgraced ex-speaker Casada (R) & Cade Cothren suggest current speaker Sexton (R) wore a wire to help federal prosecutors. They face a corruption trial next month. (To be fair we asked other legislators too👇🏽)

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

🧵RFKJr said the measles outbreak that led to the death of a child is “not that unusual” (links below). That’s a lie. It IS unusual because we have the ability to have NO measles outbreaks. But with falling vaccine rates, we are seeing yearly outbreaks of increasing size (links below).

submitted 49 days ago • 27 comments

:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred." --THEY KNEW (2022)

submitted 50 days ago • 404 comments

There are now 955 cases & 60 deaths from an unknown illness in DRC (links below). As this outbreak is growing, CDC is not permitted to exchange information with WHO and USAID outbreak response support is banned. Yesterday the Supreme court “paused” a federal judge order for USAID payments to resume.

submitted 49 days ago • 34 comments

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.

submitted 50 days ago • 449 comments