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submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 7 days ago • 194 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military:

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 242 comments

Did you know? Republicans want to cut $880 BILLION from Medicaid to pay for a massive $4.5 TRILLION tax cut for their billionaire donors! Let that sink in for a minute…

submitted 10 days ago • 204 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 10 days ago • 123 comments

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 10 days ago • 101 comments

DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

If Trump is assassinated it won’t be Iran that did it. It will be God, the same God who saved Trump in Pennsylvania — having now watched Trump’s first days as President and realizing it was a catastrophic mistake.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Socialism

submitted 29 days ago • 323 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 29 days ago • 619 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 30 days ago • 537 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 30 days ago • 4017 comments

He is going to say "pinky swear you will protect our border. And buy more booze and stuff from us. " They will say yes. Won't actually buy the stuff. And he will declare victory Trumpenomics

submitted 30 days ago • 2051 comments

As a passive beneficiary of US hegemony my life will be more difficult if it ends, but we seem determined to go in that direction, so

submitted 30 days ago • 137 comments

If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

submitted 30 days ago • 2406 comments

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

submitted 30 days ago • 483 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 30 days ago • 1093 comments

my favorite CIA fact that puts many of its early/deranged activities (e.g. MK Ultra, agents putting psychedelics in each other's coffee cups) in important context is that it was formed only in 1947. it was less than 20 years old when JFK was killed, younger than homeland security is today

submitted 33 days ago • 87 comments

A reminder to the US Senate....nominees lie to get the appointment. Remember when Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh swore before you that they would absolutely NOT overturn Roe? How'd that work out? Rely on their actions and their past behavior, not their "testimony."

submitted 33 days ago • 91 comments

Seems like this is important; why would the new president not focus on staffing, but make this a culture class in the midst of great tragedy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 33 days ago • 2305 comments

Hegseth has been defense secretary for less than a week, and he’s already responsible for the deaths of five dozen Americans.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 33 days ago • 840 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 34 days ago • 2439 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 37 days ago • 105 comments

We are not out of the woods, folks. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

After claiming he doesn't know who Laura Loomer is and merely took a photo with her at a book event, Kash Patel is asked if he's familiar with Stew Peters, an antisemitic podcast host. Patel: "Not off the top of my head." Durbin: "You made eight separate appearances on his podcast..."

submitted 33 days ago • 369 comments

It’s the 15th anniversary of Citizens United which allowed unlimited money into our elections. By effectively putting a price tag on the US government, wealthy donors and special interests gained an outsized influence in Washington. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.

submitted 41 days ago • 190 comments

Bishop Budde’s inspiring words were spoken simply and kindly as she exemplified the role of religious leaders in calling on the powerful (like the new President) to take card if the poor, and the marginalized. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4h...

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

Laws for the rich written by the rich.

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submitted 41 days ago • 253 comments

Pete Hegseth's former sister-in-law accuses the defense secretary nominee of being abusive to his second wife, according to an affidavit she sent to senators. Hegseth denies the allegations.

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

EO: "the immutable biological reality of sex" Biological reality:

submitted 43 days ago • 277 comments

It's 2025. 80 years after helping to defeat the Nazis in World War 2, the USA decides to try fascism for itself. 😔 #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #oligarchy #fascism

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

Better late than never. Biden removes Cuba’s terrorist designation. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The hits keep on coming

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

AOC remains one of a handful of elected democrats who understand how politics operates

submitted 49 days ago • 123 comments

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submitted 50 days ago • 18 comments

In response to a question from Sen Hirono, Hegseth just refused to say whether he’d comply with an order from Trump to shoot protesters in the legs

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

FACTS

submitted 50 days ago • 97 comments

Thank you Julie Su

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 455 comments

sometimes i despair at the cadre of chuds, liars and degenerates who are about to take power in washington and then i remember that even 160 years ago this was a country where people would shake off accusations of serial child rape and elect a guy to the senate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H...

submitted 49 days ago • 188 comments

I want to call attention to the next paragraph, implying that a laissez faire government and media would allow "society" to simply work out its differences. This is actually the third exec I've heard say something like this in recent weeks, so I'm convinced it's an internal talking point 1/7

submitted 53 days ago • 65 comments