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Happy Friday! This is the resistance. Cause some Good Trouble today!

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 1377 comments

I didnt think it possible to respect @marcelias.bsky.social more than I already did. This is truth to utterly corrupt and corrosive power.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 965 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

I’m asking you to check back in. A few minutes each day. Each one of us needs to be a witness.

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Michael Steele goes off about Elon Musk and DOGE: "They've got your data, dumbass...I want somebody to show that they care enough to get off their fat ass and say something about it." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 215 comments

I'm in. February 28, 2025!

submitted 6 days ago • 342 comments

This account is REALLY doing the right thing on Instagram. Go follow & share.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

The Republican budget cuts taxes for their billionaire donors, while cutting off Medicaid from older Americans in Nursing Homes. Every single Budget Committee Democrat voted against it. And now the battle moves to the House Floor.

submitted 8 days ago • 606 comments

Undermining checks & balances is a key strategy of autocrats around the globe But other countries have successfully pushed back against illiberal forces—& Americans can learn from their examples Read more in our Democracy Playbook👇 www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

NEW: I just reintroduced my We the People Amendment. It’s past time to reverse the disastrous Citizens United decision and put power back in the hands of the American people. Corporations are NOT people. Money is NOT speech. Let’s get this done. jayapal.house.gov/2025/02/13/j...

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 10 days ago • 576 comments

And trying to remove the guy who protects whistleblowers who might call out the thievery. Robbers hunting down the cops.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal.

submitted 11 days ago • 186 comments

ICYMI: I joined 90 House Democrats in denouncing Trump’s cuts to NIH and demanding answers on the threats they pose. Trump and Elon are slashing funding for scientists working on cures to Alzheimer’s and cancer. Funding that would save lives. Restore NIH funding NOW.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

If Musk compromises the Social Security Administration in any way, millions of Americans could miss their checks. If Elon is all about transparency, he should drop by House Oversight and tell the American people why he's messing with their social security. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

submitted 12 days ago • 366 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 13 days ago • 384 comments

THIS is the version of the ‘farmer who’s about to lose his farm’ testimonial that you need to see. Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!

submitted 12 days ago • 204 comments

"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 13 days ago • 292 comments

Daily reminder with these chodes: Every accusation is a confession (and a concession).

submitted 14 days ago • 828 comments

#BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 15 days ago • 1401 comments

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submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 17 days ago • 1755 comments

NEW: Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

submitted 16 days ago • 424 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 17 days ago • 526 comments

I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is. Know your rights. Pass these around…

submitted 28 days ago • 690 comments

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

submitted 18 days ago • 1271 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada? Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally? Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

submitted 19 days ago • 225 comments

Parents, teachers, and STUDENTS—Trump is coming for our schools so we better be ready to stand up for public education. This former preschool teacher is ready to fight for our kids—we can’t let Trump defund our public schools. Repost if you’re with me.

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 18 days ago • 2271 comments

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 19 days ago • 2172 comments

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

submitted 19 days ago • 344 comments

📌Stop calling it DOGE and start calling it COUP

submitted 19 days ago • 82 comments

!!!!

submitted 19 days ago • 136 comments

There is bipartisan support to cut red tape and make the government better. But that doesn’t involve giving an unelected billionaire complete control. DOGE is not a government agency and Elon is not a government employee or appointee. Is the GOP just a bunch of lemmings?

submitted 19 days ago • 390 comments

Btw let me reinforce this again when it comes to this crew: EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION.

submitted 20 days ago • 785 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 20 days ago • 4031 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 20 days ago • 3292 comments