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Folks in rural areas: The Big Beautiful Bill will close your local hospitals after the Medicaid cuts take effect. Tell your senators your community needs them to stay open!

submitted 9 hours ago • 251 comments

Members of Congress are being denied access to an ICE facility in Manhattan, because the conditions inside are that bad.

submitted 8 hours ago • 477 comments

I assume Trump's political appointees including those in the Cabinet would be interested in knowing whether all of their private, vetting info turned over to the White House has gone directly into Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy agencies for future exploitation and blackmail.

submitted 9 hours ago • 41 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 hours ago • 60 comments

Republicans in Congress are hiding their "Big Beautiful Bill" from you. Why? Because they know it's a bad look to cut kids' school lunches just to fund tax handouts so Mark Zuckerberg can buy another island.

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

A brave 20 year old US citizen that stood up to ICE, Adrian Andrew Martinez, disappeared by the regime. His family currently unable to find him after being kidnapped by regime troopers. His mother: "I have no idea where he's at. I don't know if he's okay. I'm really worried right now." #StopICE

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

I'm disgusted. This Afghan ally served alongside our troops, was here legally, showed up for his hearing, followed every rule— And he was targeted by ICE anyway. Our nation promised to protect him. But there is simply no one Donald Trump won't betray. www.cbsnews.com/news/afghan-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

BREAKING: We just sued the Department of Homeland Security over their use of excessive force against protesters, reporters and legal observers. Exercising our rights to free speech should never be met with retaliatory attacks by federal agents. We’ll see you in court, DHS.

submitted 11 hours ago • 71 comments

Trump has overplayed his hand and he's doubling down by escalating his vicious deportation and militarization agenda across the country. Fight back, Dems! It works! Trump loses on this! (And it's also the right thing to do, you know, morally, if that happens to factor into your politics at all).

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

VACCINES: Former ACIP members warn that the abrupt dismissal of all 17 panel members and replacement w/only 8 appointees could undermine decades of vaccine policy, weaken access to life‑saving immunizations, and erode public trust in U.S. immunization programs. buff.ly/lsqWej8 #medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Yes! Let’s go!

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition. https://trib.al/b3Fsz7f

submitted 7 hours ago • 15 comments

Don’t be fooled folks.

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

“Recent policy changes around COVID-19 vaccines are already sowing chaos and confusion and restricting vaccine access — including for people who should still be eligible to receive them.” I wrote about RFK Jr’s anti-vax chaos for @thesicktimes.bsky.social. thesicktimes.org/2025/06/19/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

These laws have long served as the bedrock of equity, ensuring all Americans have access to education, health care, housing and more. I continue to stand with fellow AGs to protect these essential laws: tinyurl.com/4b75vme5

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 1 day ago • 1578 comments

“Americans are being forced to accept masked paramilitary forces stopping you anytime, anywhere—demanding to know where people are from,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “It is an assault on the idea of America itself.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 106 comments

It’s about the erasure of Black history and the reentrenchment of white supremacy across every facet of society 👇👇👇

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submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

See, most of the time when people say something is Orwellian, they are full of it. This, on the other hand, is actually Orwellian.

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

It's a great day to write your lawmakers about public land selloffs in the Senate's 'Big Beautiful Bill.' Let them know that your favorite trail leads to a big beautiful view, and that you don't want to see it go up for sale!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Juneteenth is a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go. Today, we’re once more committing ourselves to the work of ending systemic oppression of Black people in America. We’re not free until everyone is free.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I'll say it over and over. I do not believe in gate keeping. I do not believe in pulling up the ladder. I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next. Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The scale of last weekend’s “No Kings” protests is now becoming clearer, with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single-day protests in US history. between 4 and 6 million people showed up – this could be a turning point www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Lee’s greed was a tactical blunder. Call the Senate tomorrow. They’re weak on this. 📞 (202) 224-3121 www.usa.gov/elected-offi... “Lee drew strong condemnation from many of his fellow conservatives in particular, who have slammed the proposed sell-off as a betrayal of the American people.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

I know my colleagues already dropped this line (h/t: @brendanvduke.bsky.social ), but it bears repeating - there already exists a rural hospital fund and it is called: 🚨🚨MEDICAID🚨🚨 www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Today’s decision out of Rhode Island isn’t getting a lot of attention, but it’s very important. Trump tried to withhold fed’l funds from states that won’t help with his immigration policy & mass deportations. A Judge just told him he can’t do that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 19 hours ago • 105 comments

They always lie. No border agency has any credibility left after all the nationalistic and racist narratives they have not only spewed but embodied. They're gaslighters and abusers. Treat them accordingly.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 97 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 23 hours ago • 277 comments

Public lands are wildly popular amongst people o of all political affiliations. We can’t let this happen please let your congressmen and senators know how you feel about this.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests. Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.

submitted 15 hours ago • 145 comments

Congressional oversight continues to be ignored and this dude actually says they called the cops on them? And they flaunt this illegal action so calmly. Shameful how we now have a whole agency ignoring laws and constitutionality.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Great thread on the mess coming down the pike.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 2 days ago • 255 comments

Trump promised peace in Ukraine and no new wars on the campaign trail. Will MAGA admit they were lied to…again?

submitted 2 days ago • 207 comments

Deploying military troops domestically is, in no way, part of "national security policy."

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

The Supreme Court just ruled against trans rights. Join us outside the court for an emergency rally at 3:00 pm today to show we won't be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Our Constitution is clear: Only Congress has the power to declare war. Yet, administrations too often bypass this fundamental check, plunging us into conflicts that cost countless lives, drain our resources, and destabilize entire regions. We cannot allow this to happen again.

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

They are taking money from the poor to hand to the rich. Reverse Robin Hood politics. We must reject the “Big Beautiful” Bullshit.

submitted 2 days ago • 520 comments

Evil, petulant, dumb, and unfair to millions of people who paid into the system and deserve much better. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Public service doesn’t require elected office. You hold the highest office in the land: citizen. Flex on fascism. Go community, now.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

submitted 2 days ago • 1732 comments

damn -- Duckworth to Hegseth: "If you want to be the DHS secretary, maybe you can apply for that job when you're fired from this one due to your incompetence."

submitted 2 days ago • 593 comments