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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1971 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2435 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

We need to stop saying DOGE is doing this. REPUBLICANS are doing this. Don't let the elected Rs dodge responsibility for this shit show.

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submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

“Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” - Anne Lamott

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 12 days ago • 569 comments

Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes and call the CFPB “woke and weaponized.” The CFPB fights overdraft and junk fees, goes after lenders that target servicemembers with predatory loans, and has returned $20 billion to Americans. This is a giveaway to scammers & crooks.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

TODAY: We’re rallying at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Sen. Warren and Rep. Waters to fight back against Elon Musk. Musk is trying to kill the CFPB, which Americans rely on to protect against corporate exploitation and bank fraud. Join us if you're in DC: www.mobilize.us/indi...

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Open message to Elon Musk: Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?

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Whole Foods is refusing a valid unionization vote because they claim the NLRB can't certify the vote. Seems like it would be reasonable to refuse to buy their food until they recognize their workers have rights and value?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE's next target is the CFPB, which has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011. Trump just fired its pro-consumer director and had his Treasury Secretary, a hedge fund manager, halt the CFPB's work. This is a coup against the American people.

submitted 15 days ago • 165 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 138 comments

Hands Off Our Medicaid! www.aft.org/protect-medi...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Keep it up. The judicial orders will need all our support to make them mean something.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk’s team is set to delve into the nation’s aviation system, with his 20-year-old staffers utilizing AI to assist the FAA in a rapid overhaul of aviation technology. However, a more practical solution would be to simply hire more workers, as the FAA is severely short-staffed.

submitted 16 days ago • 384 comments

Keep it up! Make your voices heard. Calls, show up in person, attend a protest, write letters to the editor, send emails. All of it.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

submitted 17 days ago • 156 comments

Don't forget to watch what your local government is doing. School board budgets are happening.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

ATTN: it might be a good idea to freeze your credit with all three agencies now that Musk has all your info. I froze mine long ago and it’s pretty easy to unfreeze temporarily if you need to.

submitted 18 days ago • 396 comments

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

submitted 18 days ago • 100 comments

Trump doesn’t care about any of those things. The sooner our elected officials realize that reality the better chance we will have of mounting a serious resistance.

submitted 18 days ago • 368 comments

Remember when the parents all freaked out when schools shut down over covid.... Pssst teachers you have a pretty big lever to pull to wake people up. Time to start sick outs and strikes in response to trying to destroy the department of ed and all of whatever this is.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

How do we defund this timeline?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "We're already hearing now, with [Trump] pulling the plug on USAID, that China is moving in-- to say that 'they don't want to help you, but we're happy to help you.'"

submitted 18 days ago • 101 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

Wow. Jamie Raskin discusses a possible impeachment of Donald Trump for illegal executive overreach. “Find me two Republicans and I’ll go to work tomorrow.” Would you support impeachment against Donald Trump?

submitted 18 days ago • 1765 comments

Trump is on an imperialist goose chase threatening Canada, Greenland, and Panama with annexation. Why? Because he doesn't want you to pay attention to his disastrous cabinet picks that are moving through the Senate this week.

submitted 19 days ago • 243 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "This is a coup, which is a seizure of state power by unelected actors... In addition to everything that Trump is doing to dismantle every part of gov’t that doesn't profit him personally, we have this additional problem of Elon Musk trying to consolidate state power under him."

submitted 18 days ago • 343 comments

Actually, given how much banking info Treasury has on taxpayers, someone HAS broken into all of our bank accounts

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

The USPS just suspended the acceptance of packages from China and Hong Kong until further notice.

submitted 18 days ago • 608 comments

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

submitted 19 days ago • 457 comments

This is the kind of action I’ve been looking for!

submitted 19 days ago • 990 comments

Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session. They should have come back, the place is on fire. Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING

submitted 20 days ago • 1145 comments

I can't log in to my social security account. Not trying to be conspiracy theorist here, but multiple times with the right log in information and this is the error I repeatedly get.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

This is exactly what we want to see from Democrats right now! There’s no excuse for Senate Democrats to be confirming any of Trump’s nominees while MAGA’s illegal power grab continues. If you’re represented by Sen. @schatz.bsky.social, be sure to thank him for fighting back against President Musk.

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

Good morning and WTAF?! That our institutions allowed nameless “men in black” to take over our most sensitive payment systems because an unelected South African billionaire said JUMP is the greatest dereliction of duty bullshit ever in this country! 👇🏽 WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?? 🚨FIVE-ALARM FIRE!🚨

submitted 21 days ago • 50 comments

No one voted for Elon Musk. An unelected billionaire is trying to raid the Treasury Department and take money from the American people. This is a constitutional crisis and we choose to fight. We’re taking action to stop the Trump-Musk power grab this week. Join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

Over the last nine days, the house has been out of session while the Democracy is sold for parts. Would have been nice had the Democrat come back on their own and sued, yelled, stood up, etc. Anything but stayed home

submitted 21 days ago • 1670 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 21 days ago • 770 comments

Musk’s allies were granted access to the U.S. Treasury payment system. Treasury stays silent. White House stays silent. Why the secrecy? Time for an explanation and full transparency.

submitted 21 days ago • 1269 comments

There have to be some state AGs with some ideas on the laws broken by giving Musk access to all the data. We are really going to need some badass Federalism as part of the solution to this disaster.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This was good context for what we are experiencing open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Mexico is Texas' largest trading partner. Trump's 25% tariffs aren't just going to raise prices - they're going to put Texans out of business. Many Texas truck operators, warehousing companies, car dealers, and more won't survive this tax hike. www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 22 days ago • 638 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 22 days ago • 1780 comments

Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is" Powerful

submitted 23 days ago • 164 comments

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

submitted 24 days ago • 351 comments

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 24 days ago • 974 comments