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If today’s Oval Office meeting was supposed to make Trump look tough, he is sadly mistaken. Trying to extort and humiliate a democratic ally invaded by Russia is a disgusting display of weakness and fealty to Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 182 comments

The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools. I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 972 comments

Attention working-class Americans: Republicans’ new budget does NOT include no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on Social Security. Instead it protects tax handouts for billionaires and makes way for the largest Medicaid cut in history.

submitted 5 days ago • 298 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 2643 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 836 comments

This is some Handmaid's Tale level shit right here. A proposed law in Missouri will create a registry of pregnant women, identify women who are "at risk" for abortion, and match them with potential adoption partners. What. The. Fuck. #WomensRights #HerBodyHerChoice www.reddit.com/r/missouri/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 17 days ago • 1913 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 17 days ago • 487 comments

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

submitted 17 days ago • 1240 comments

The CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, is warning of layoffs due to Trump’s policies. Assembly plants likely to be hit: OHIO/MICHIGAN/KENTUCKY/TENNESSEE “President Trump has talked a lot about making our U.S. auto industry stronger… So far what we’re seeing is a lot of cost and a lot of chaos”

submitted 19 days ago • 450 comments

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

submitted 20 days ago • 2423 comments

I wonder how one possibly justifies any of these actions

submitted 20 days ago • 973 comments

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

submitted 20 days ago • 476 comments

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

submitted 20 days ago • 636 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 20 days ago • 3884 comments

Reminder: this is completely lawless

submitted 23 days ago • 1635 comments

The U.S. Department of Justice agreed to restrict the Department of Government Efficiency access to Department of the Treasury records after a coalition of federal unions and an advocacy group sued to block DOGE’s actions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 25 days ago • 295 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 26 days ago • 2610 comments

"The C.I.A. sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last 2 years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say risked the list leaking to adversaries." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 533 comments

This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.

submitted 28 days ago • 608 comments

SHAHID: “If this were happening somewhere else 🇺🇸 media & state dept would refer to this as a coup… why does a billionaire industrialist with millions in government contracts (Musk) need the social security #’s of every American?” Full: youtu.be/UBmFx5rUglA?...

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments

NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

submitted 28 days ago • 1129 comments

This. Stop rolling over and make them work for it.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh

submitted 29 days ago • 968 comments

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it ." We are literally re-loving the past.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 30 days ago • 1063 comments

What a fucking subhuman answer. Absolutely despicable.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations. “We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.” New, from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 125 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 32 days ago • 3790 comments

Wow RFK Jr. just perjured himself on live tv

submitted 33 days ago • 3191 comments

I am completely unsurprised

submitted 34 days ago • 277 comments

it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit

submitted 37 days ago • 377 comments

So how’s it going so far?

submitted 37 days ago • 513 comments

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

submitted 40 days ago • 1459 comments

Yet another way for the GOP to stack the deck after the fact. 🙄

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments