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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

submitted 10 hours ago • 731 comments

Troopers in Central Florida appear to have been given direction not to wear their name tags during ICE operations.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 3 days ago • 4577 comments

The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

submitted 3 days ago • 764 comments

This morning, like every morning, US President will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 265 comments

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 409 comments

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 4 days ago • 451 comments

McGovern: We live in the richest country on Earth and not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one and especially when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big fat tax break.

submitted 11 days ago • 69 comments

BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

submitted 12 days ago • 403 comments

Tonight, while we sleep, Republicans will pass the biggest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in our history. 🇺🇸 Tax cuts for them, health care cuts for you.

submitted 13 days ago • 61 comments

Alex Lawson to Rep. Miller-Meeks: Last time you spoke with us you lied to our face and said you wouldn’t vote for Medicaid cuts, but you’ve voted for the largest cuts in the history of the country. Do you have any comment on the health care that 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?

submitted 13 days ago • 779 comments

Back the blue? Your followers BEAT the blue on Jan. 6 and then you pardoned them. Shameful.

submitted 15 days ago • 954 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 961 comments

DHS official Tricia McLaughlin keeps insisting that members of Congress and the Newark mayor assaulted and "bodyslammed" ICE officers even as Blackwell plays her video demonstrating that they in fact did not

submitted 16 days ago • 1101 comments

My Saturday PSA: Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore. Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office. Stop talking about Joe Biden. Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.

submitted 16 days ago • 392 comments

Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.

submitted 18 days ago • 1430 comments

1. Far right federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has just vacated all EEOC protections for gay and trans people in the work place. He says protections from "being fired" do not mean they are protected from harassment by Title VII. I cover this insane ruling here. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 108 comments

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

submitted 17 days ago • 2460 comments

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

submitted 17 days ago • 3976 comments

BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politican. Representative Greg Landsman sold up to $50,000 of United Health, $UNH, on 03/26/2025. Since, $UNH is down 53%, and it was disclosed that the DOJ was investigating $UNH for possible Medicare fraud. He sits on the House Subcommittee of Health.

submitted 18 days ago • 173 comments

Reading the story about the woman in Georgia who is brain dead and on a vent but not allowed to die with dignity because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. Even in death, our bodies are not our own. State-owned property.

submitted 18 days ago • 740 comments

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

submitted 18 days ago • 74 comments

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

submitted 18 days ago • 586 comments

"Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has banned further testing of symptomatic farm workers after several tested positive for H5N1. Internal messages warned CDC staff: "This is your last warning talk to the media about bird flu, and you'll be fired and blacklisted from public health"

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

Elon Musk, US oligarch, instructed Grok to post about the fictitious "White Genocide in South Africa" completely unprompted across Twitter. The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.

submitted 18 days ago • 133 comments

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

submitted 19 days ago • 457 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 19 days ago • 1591 comments

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

submitted 19 days ago • 2913 comments

Weber: I'm glad you're addressing us instead of speaking to the camera. … AOC: There are 13.7 million Americans on the other side of that screen. Hello. I’m talking to you because I work for you. They deserve to see what is happening here..

submitted 19 days ago • 903 comments

RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

submitted 19 days ago • 1468 comments

NEW: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

submitted 19 days ago • 126 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 19 days ago • 2477 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 679 comments

Beware, fellow Michiganders.

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Great Replacement Theory in action… On day one, Donald Trump suspended the refugee settlement admissions program. But now he’s giving white Afrikaners U.S. citizenship because they “could be assimilated easily into our country”? This isn’t a dog whistle—it’s a freaking bullhorn!

submitted 21 days ago • 357 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but 30% is still a high tariff…and it’s still going to drive prices up. But sure, businesses can “plan” for 90 days until the next erratic change. Awesome.

submitted 21 days ago • 402 comments

Just a thought: Instead of white Afrikaners from South Africa, how about we fly American kidnapping victims from El Salvador back first?

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

Just another Maga Monday: White people from South Africa are now being brought to the US as trump grants them refugee status while he is deporting brown & black people by the plane and bus load. Taxpayers are funding racism.

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

submitted 21 days ago • 176 comments

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

submitted 22 days ago • 1778 comments

It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.

submitted 22 days ago • 266 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 22 days ago • 2734 comments

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

submitted 23 days ago • 755 comments