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DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

25.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 973    🔁 347    💬 21    📌 31
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I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt

24.11.2025 21:44 — 👍 1388    🔁 442    💬 57    📌 34

Democrats are responsible for every intemperate comment from every random anonymous internet communist.

But the Republican president who is at the center of a cult of personality that has consumed the entire GOP can call for mass executions, and somehow this isn’t laid at the feet of Republicans.

20.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 667    🔁 162    💬 11    📌 3
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Trumpian math: “Every one of those boats kills 25,000 Americans,” he tells 60 Minutes. Nine boats in the Caribbean so far since mid-September. That adds up to 225,000 dead Americans. CDC: 76,000 people died of drug overdoses in the most recent 12-month period. 🤔

03.11.2025 01:28 — 👍 1620    🔁 533    💬 261    📌 70
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Exactly what happens when Billionaires are given the keys to the country, just one example, it’s sick & unacceptable!

🗳️Vote All Republicans Out!🗳️

03.11.2025 18:43 — 👍 145    🔁 60    💬 3    📌 1
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It’s not *going* to happen. It’s already happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. trib.al/7imoDs5

Everyone, but especially liberals (and those of the multimillionaire and billionaire variety), needs to pay close attention to this phenomenon.

03.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 128    🔁 61    💬 5    📌 0

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

03.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 26262    🔁 10403    💬 689    📌 489
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Big oil and coal are paying Trump and the short sighted Republicans to kill all the green energy projects. China shames us with their progress. The only large country doing more poorly than us is Russia. Shameful.

02.11.2025 20:12 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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What if Walmart turned its parking lots into solar farms? We asked experts to help crunch the numbers.

South Korea has mandated solar canopies for large parking lots. It's a no-brainer. We could offer firms incentives to do it here, or they could just friggin' do it! (H/t @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social)

Here's a little sumptin' I put together a while back...

02.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 1846    🔁 530    💬 120    📌 42

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

31.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 20552    🔁 7362    💬 481    📌 272
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League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court permanently BLOCKS the administration from implementing part of Executive Order requiring documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration application.

A BIG VICTORY for our clients--DNC, DGA, DSCC, DCCC, Sen Schumer and Leader Jeffries--and all voters!

31.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 6339    🔁 1742    💬 129    📌 58

Yes. Yes, we can. We can call them Nazis. We can call them Nazis today. We can call them Nazis tomorrow. We can call them Nazis for as long as they act like Nazis.

31.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 105    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 0

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 39428    🔁 14891    💬 567    📌 661

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

27.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 24841    🔁 9507    💬 1032    📌 513

Remember how 20-year-olds barged into federal buildings and stole our most sensitive data? Shortly after, a masked army kidnapped hundreds of people and trafficked them to a concentration camp overseas. That secret police—along with the military—now occupies our cities. This is an attack on the U.S.

27.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 4159    🔁 1399    💬 93    📌 39
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Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.

The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP.

They are refusing.

Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.

27.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 928    🔁 426    💬 37    📌 23
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Free Speech is American’s inalienable right!

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I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

22.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 15983    🔁 4131    💬 532    📌 118
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My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and…

I was purged from the voting roll.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

17.10.2025 00:37 — 👍 5789    🔁 2349    💬 174    📌 91
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October 12, 2025 On October 9, President Donald J.

October 12, 2025

13.10.2025 03:29 — 👍 1133    🔁 365    💬 58    📌 70
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Home run closer in the wonderful @hcrichardson.bsky.social 's letter from last night:

13.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ll continue to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.

13.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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October 12, 2025 On October 9, President Donald J.

October 12, 2025
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🤣🤣😜😜

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The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can unilaterally withhold $4 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress that his regime deemed “wasteful.”

Meanwhile, he’s happy to bail out his authoritarian pal in Argentina to the tune of $20 billion.

Talk about wasteful.

29.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 5090    🔁 1647    💬 230    📌 62

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