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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

07.09.2025 19:13 👍 11063 🔁 2475 💬 240 📌 130

609.

03.09.2025 22:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel strongly that T-Rex matches the general fall color scheme and therefore is definitely allowed! Also so cool that I’m quite willing to come up for a reason it fits with any theme.

14.07.2025 17:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love it!

05.04.2025 17:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mine recently did that too and I still feel lost.

13.03.2025 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs.

When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

11.03.2025 15:28 👍 4419 🔁 2367 💬 190 📌 318

Our solidarity should be that we want to let people live their best lives.

Every person. ALL PEOPLE.

06.03.2025 17:01 👍 307 🔁 66 💬 2 📌 0
What To Tell Your Member of Congress In response to last night’s “Alert” post a number of TPM Readers...

A few of you have asked me what to tell members of Congress if you call them. I don't know how to write scripts. But this is my best stab at explaining how I see the situation and what Democrats need to do. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

25.02.2025 18:26 👍 252 🔁 70 💬 35 📌 13

Thank you. I needed this thread today.

21.02.2025 20:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sending hopes for a swift recovery! It’s so hard when they are sick.

20.02.2025 01:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

16.02.2025 17:26 👍 16868 🔁 4778 💬 177 📌 118

We’re not free until we’re all free.

And the corollary of that—and I need some people to REALLY fucking internalize this—is that if you gamble with someone else’s freedom, you’re risking your own.

14.02.2025 17:44 👍 290 🔁 73 💬 2 📌 6
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You don’t often see what the bureaucrats do, how the civil servants are serving you but I can assure you they are. When they are gone you will miss them because without #civilservants, you will no longer have a civil society.
4/ END

11.02.2025 19:09 👍 806 🔁 154 💬 14 📌 2
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The media is still calling it “cost-cutting” and “finding waste” when Musk’s crusade is obviously ideologically-driven

09.02.2025 14:10 👍 2164 🔁 612 💬 69 📌 27

So cute!!

09.02.2025 00:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.

07.02.2025 15:33 👍 10708 🔁 2496 💬 281 📌 160
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

06.02.2025 22:19 👍 1250 🔁 488 💬 33 📌 24

Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

05.02.2025 05:59 👍 5840 🔁 2667 💬 278 📌 161

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

04.02.2025 15:09 👍 3686 🔁 1503 💬 100 📌 59

There’s a good reason stable, functional governments follow standard democratic procedures to make policy. Whatever else these memos are trying to do, there’s no way to achieve “government efficiency” through chaos, confusion, and caprice.

29.01.2025 18:33 👍 707 🔁 69 💬 21 📌 1
Cover for the governess affair by Courtney Milan. A woman in a yellow dress is looking at a flower. Next to this is a banner saying "free."

Cover for the governess affair by Courtney Milan. A woman in a yellow dress is looking at a flower. Next to this is a banner saying "free."

Celebrate New Year's Eve with a free download of The Governess Affair novella.

The start of The Brothers Sinister series ripples through The Duchess War and The Heiress Effect, expanding the emotional impact of both. /jb

31.12.2024 20:08 👍 184 🔁 96 💬 6 📌 8

That’s fair!

25.12.2024 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve also found the whole “live action” but most if not all of the characters are CGI a very weird use of the label “live action”.

24.12.2024 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I feel this.

19.12.2024 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m at the listening to music irresponsibly loud point in distraction and energy. So, if you’re one of my neighbors, sorry or you’re welcome depending if you like my playlist?

11.12.2024 15:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apparently my in-laws other grandkids make a game of shouting at Alexa to play baby shark. This continues until they unplug it.

28.11.2024 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh no.

24.11.2024 02:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0