Katie G.

Fearless Man Bravely Ventures Out Into U.S. Economy

Fearless Man Bravely Ventures Out Into U.S. Economy
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Straight down seems bad

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

If you use Venmo or CashApp and don't want to get scammed, listen up.

Jeff Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

New York City

Dan Flashes

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

Well, this sucks.

“We’ll see you in court.”

Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

Remember when America had friends?

Like a month ago?

WaPo: Trump Administration Reverses Plan to End Free COVID Test Program On Tuesday evening, the Trump administration reversed a plan to shut down the government website that ships free coronavirus tests to households, after The Washington Post reported that Health and Hum...

www.democracynow.org/2025/2/19/he...

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump Targets Agency Overseeing the Presidio, a Cherished San Francisco Park An executive order from the president also took aim at three independent agencies that promote peace abroad and work on development in Latin American and Africa.

President Trump moved to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that oversees the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge and one of the city’s most cherished public spaces, in an executive order issued Wednesday.

Thank you, Senator

This has the slight scent of GOP talking point on it.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to join Musk’s DOGE, NYT says Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is joining the Department of Government Efficiency along with Elon Musk, the New York Times said on Thursday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

There are other options. Please boycott Airbnb.
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Trump campaigned on lowering costs, but today’s inflation data shows he's failing to deliver on that promise.

President Trump should be paying attention to rising inflation instead of trying to gut the CFPB, which saves Americans money and protects them from Wall Street scams.

Thai Hostages Return From Gaza Thais were, after Israelis, the nationality most affected by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, with nearly 40 farm workers killed and almost as many captured.

Five hostages returned to Thailand on Sunday after 15 months of captivity in Gaza. At least 39 Thai agricultural workers were killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and over 30 were taken hostage by Hamas. “It felt like I died and I was reborn,” one man said of his captivity and release.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

A manicured hand holding a round blue button that says "We add more genders every time you complain"

Katie Porter or Elizabeth Warren

1. Always maintain a strong block finger.

2. Do not get sucked into debates.

3. See #1.

It’s the only way to stay sane on social media.

Hi Bluesky! Happy to be here ❤️