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The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

19.04.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 37077    πŸ” 14910    πŸ’¬ 899    πŸ“Œ 521
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12.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security

Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

10.04.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 30730    πŸ” 6575    πŸ’¬ 3079    πŸ“Œ 1351
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54221    πŸ” 10192    πŸ’¬ 935    πŸ“Œ 493
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Yep

28.03.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 49535    πŸ” 15359    πŸ’¬ 746    πŸ“Œ 593

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24.03.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type β€˜Trans’

Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type β€˜Trans’

Conservatives Boycott Computers After Noticing Keyboard Can Be Used To Type β€˜Trans’
theonion.com/conserv...

23.03.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9216    πŸ” 1397    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 81

It’s a joke about our collegiate sports making millions for schools and corporations while banning the athletes doing the hard work from making any money… which only changed recently. But thanks for the insults

23.03.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Godspeed, good sir. Beware the music montage… The eyes shall leak before the dialogue doth return.

23.03.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to 'fight oligarchy' The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda β€” and the Democratic Party's muddled response.

The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Fighting Oligarchy" tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump's agenda β€” and the Democratic Party's muddled response.

22.03.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4036    πŸ” 582    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 56
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences β€” a reason America declared independence

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences β€” a reason America declared independence

The pamphlet is the Declaration of Independence

www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

23.03.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals Secretary of State Marco Rubio says β€œthere are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.

Sometimes I think everyone would be well served with a 2 hr crash course in the core grievances that lead to the founding of America β€” like shipping citizen convicts overseas against their will to serve sentences in places where they had no rights & no way to defend them

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

23.03.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 451    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 10

Yes! Please God let this be the death rattle of the patriarchy. Tomorrow is coming, and yesterday can’t stop it.

23.03.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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23.03.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If Bea were alive today

22.03.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t come for the Golden Girls. This could be what finally gets the people in the streets. Should have been dehumanizing immigrants, trans kids, people of color, and women… but if this is the wake up call we need to organize and stand up for one another, y’all bigots picked the wrong punching bag

23.03.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What about the path back to power for the American people based on leaders who listen to those they represent and decide on issues accordingly instead of making decisions in blind allegiance to a political party?

23.03.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

23.03.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

… how β€˜bout be the leaders who listen to their constituents and act? Who respect the Constitution and protect it?

Or at least be the people who get good things done instead of shit??? We have enough shit to wade through for the next decade if we’re lucky enough to last it.

23.03.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S. The advisories come after some citizens from European countries and Canada have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States.

The advisories come after some citizens from European countries and Canada have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States.

22.03.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4020    πŸ” 1310    πŸ’¬ 194    πŸ“Œ 128

I didn’t know Ireland had its own NCAA

23.03.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

22.03.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2233    πŸ” 788    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 107
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

β€œThe opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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22.03.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 44643    πŸ” 14537    πŸ’¬ 1196    πŸ“Œ 1085

This will never fade. My sister’s oldest boy is 10 now and I still talk about him to people in the grocery like he’s famous

22.03.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

22.03.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 167308    πŸ” 27173    πŸ’¬ 4304    πŸ“Œ 2165
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How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

With cuts to nearly all the staff at the Department of Education's primary data agency, low-income and rural schools may not get the federal funds they rely on in coming years.

21.03.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 733    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 21
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Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the administration scrutinizes green card and visa holders who have expressed opposition to its policies.

U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the Trump administration scrutinizes legal immigrants who have expressed opposition to its policies. It has prompted American allies to update their travel advisories.

21.03.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 383    πŸ” 173    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 30

Up for top billing in today’s edition of β€œmy job isn’t that bad,” the police officer that had to wait, monitor, supervise and then recover the digested diamond earrings…

@petersagal.bsky.social is it too late for tomorrow’s Wait Wait?

22.03.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œFair proceedings free from any suggestion of impartiality are essential to the integrity of our country’s judiciary…”

My brain hurts from the mental gymnastics it took to process the heinous typo or willful ignorance it took to open the legal motion to disqualify a federal judge with this phrase.

22.03.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0