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BREAKING: President Trump fires the country's highest-ranking military officer amid a wave of top brass dismissals at the Pentagon.

submitted 15 hours ago • 98 comments

Trump benefits from the bully pulpit of the presidency, a legislative branch that has contracted out all of its autonomy, and Elon’s unlimited funding—but if he loses popular support, none of those things will matter. And we’re already seeing the tide turn. McCormick’s district (below) is R+22.

submitted 15 hours ago • 159 comments

Fabulous defeat for the fascists!

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

Volume up!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 17 hours ago • 835 comments

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

submitted 21 hours ago • 125 comments

Know why the US is $36 trillion in debt? Because the Republicans give rich people and corporations tax cuts, and we, the middle and lower class, foot the bill. Rob the poor to give to the rich. #VoteBlue2025 #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

submitted 23 hours ago • 25 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

It only took Hitler 53 days in 1933 to dismantle democracy in Germany. JV Vance's chilling choice to meet with neo-Nazis in Germany are a reminder that Trump kept the Hitler playbook by his bedside. www.cnn.com/videos/polit... We have to fight back!! LFG!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1196 comments

Plot twist 😂😂 #funnymemes #memes #DonaldTrump #airplanes

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance 🧵 You learn something new every day if you listen & are open. Today @lefty1959.bsky.social taught me about the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy uprisings that enveloped several largely Muslim countries & the effects are still felt today.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

EVERY FUCKING WORD OF THIS! We have to take the gloves off! So listen up @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.org We are ready to fight! And if you fight, know that we will stand beside you every step of the way!

submitted 16 hours ago • 73 comments

I'm starting to think that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax.

submitted 17 hours ago • 187 comments

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from implementing bans on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies and by businesses that contract with the federal government. www.yahoo.com/news/us-judg...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

👊🏽Judge said 🖕Felon Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

A Jan. 6 defendant from North Carolina, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of "Production of Child Pornography" and "Possession of Child Pornography," & Trump & his administration wanna pardon this guy? WTF, America! Did you vote for that, MAGA? whyy.org/articles/don...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

He’s Black. 👀 #Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on Fri, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.” apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 17 hours ago • 453 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 17 hours ago • 161 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 67 comments

Musk, the memo warns, is moving rapidly to take control of the apparatus of US Government power on behalf of a core network of interests who subscribe to Yarvin’s ‘ Dark Enlightenment’ ideology.

submitted 21 hours ago • 23 comments

Don’t Cut My Medicaid

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

Did you know that 72 MILLION Americans rely on Medicaid for healthcare? The Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans in Congress want to take it away to give tax breaks to billionaires. Don't let them take away our healthcare. Let them know you didn’t vote for this shit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 155 comments

Earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way back in 1987 under the code name “Krasnov.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 49 comments

📉📉📉

submitted 17 hours ago • 871 comments

At the end of Trump's first month back... • The Dow has stumbled • More Americans disapprove than approve of Trump's handling of the economy and don't believe Trump has done enough to lower prices • And a majority of Americans believe Trump's tariffs ( #TrumpTaxes ) hurt the economy

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1053 comments

🔥 MEDICAID IS A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT A HANDOUT! 🔥 80M Americans—kids, moms, seniors, POC, rural folks, & the disabled—CLING TO IT FOR LIFE! Republicans ready to SLASH it? OVER OUR DEAD BODIES! Don’t cut my Medicaid!

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

⚡️ 🇺🇸🚫 Republicans in the US have launched efforts to withdraw Washington from the UN amid concerns that the international organization is not advancing American interests, — Fox News.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 2 days ago • 4207 comments

Handsome beast! #blackcat #mainecoon #cats #catsofbluesky #blueskycats

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The foreign aid pause case is not the first time of his second term that the Trump administration has been found by a judge to be in violation of a court order.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Ppl are so quick to call Black ppl ghetto when this is the most ghetto shit ever! He’s a King alright! King of Traitors! King of Felons! King of Liars! King of Cheaters! #VoicesOfVictory #SheShed

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments