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

submitted 17 hours ago • 932 comments

The government shuts down on March 14 unless Congress passes a new spending bill. Republicans need Democratic votes to pass anything, but they’re pushing a budget that slashes essential programs, attacks basic rights, and hands unchecked power over to Trump, Elon Musk, and their billionaire allies.

submitted 16 hours ago • 76 comments

When you visit the parks enjoy your time and you see the rangers smiling and helping. Just remember that they probably didn't sleep the night before and that they probably spent the evening crying. We've also been secretly training bears to use tasers so if you're an asshole...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

This is very involved, but a good resource for all of us, I think: choosedemocracy.us/tracking-tra...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Stop blaming Ukraine.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 2 days ago • 878 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1552 comments

Odd the “America First” people have the same exact agenda as the Kremlin

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🚨 JUST IN: Canada DEFEATS the USA 3-2 to take home the #4Nations Championship

submitted 3 days ago • 1371 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 3 days ago • 1114 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 3 days ago • 5084 comments

🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1304 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Oh look, all the oligarchs are now joining forces against us. www.newsweek.com/airbnb-joe-g...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 6 days ago • 2641 comments

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

submitted 6 days ago • 683 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

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Donor's choose is doubling donations today! Code: HEART Please help me to make my school the "good school" by providing copies of WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS for annotation during Women's History Month. #booksky #teachersky #tlsky tinyurl.com/4x3faffv

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 10 days ago • 793 comments

This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

submitted 9 days ago • 1535 comments

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 9 days ago • 1065 comments

I think attitudes towards government employees are a bit like attitudes towards race and religion and sexuality. Plenty of people are unregenerate bigots in the abstract but have That One Black Friend who They Don’t Think of As Black. There are exceptions in the particular, unreconciled. /1

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Brilliant piece you will not see elsewhere: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

submitted 10 days ago • 145 comments

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 12 days ago • 671 comments

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

submitted 11 days ago • 1041 comments

The playbook for the Trump administration is Project 2025. Have you read it yet? Like horror comics? Here's your explainer with colorful pictures. stopproject2025comic.org

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

The wonderful Mike Luckovich

submitted 12 days ago • 282 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

35 years ago today, Nelson Mandela, a champion of the oppressed, was released after serving 27 years in South African prisons. His legacy reminds us to reject hatred, uphold freedom, and work toward a better world for all.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

submitted 13 days ago • 910 comments

His attempt to address these concerns is just a fig leaf. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 1165 comments

YUP. Puppy bowl is great. Elon is not.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

February 7, 2025

submitted 16 days ago • 71 comments

This headline should actually say IN AN ACT OF TREASON, THE CIA PUT A TARGET ON THE BACKS OF EMPLOYEES AS PART OF THE ONGOING COUP.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

🤷🏻

submitted 16 days ago • 447 comments

The Law and Order party? More like the Crime and Chaos party! Am I right, folks?

submitted 16 days ago • 318 comments

DODEA schools were told they couldn’t hold celebrations or events for Black History Month or other cultural observances. The teachers are given lists of books they have to remove.

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A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. Public health practitioners warn such outbreaks will become more common because of scores of laws around the U.S. — pending and passed — that ultimately lower vaccine rates. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system.

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