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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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For those who don't know offhand, the $207 million that the National Endowment of the Arts got last year was less than 0.003 percent of federal spending www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a... It's about 1.0 percent of Elon's SpaceX and Starlink contracts, though.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 35 days ago • 187 comments

Please … clap?

submitted 40 days ago • 359 comments

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

submitted 40 days ago • 81 comments

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

submitted 40 days ago • 132 comments

I’m not saying Trump is a Russian asset trying to destroy America from the inside, I’m simply saying if he was, it would look exactly like this.

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

Not everyone at Skadden welcomed their preemptive deal with the White House. Meet now former partner Brenna Trout Frey, who refused to be complicit in the exploitation of her firm to settle scores and erode the rule of law.

submitted 49 days ago • 60 comments

Keep talking about Signalgate. Give them no peace.

submitted 51 days ago • 248 comments

It took the Trump administration 63 days to have a major national security breach become public news. Imagine what we don't know about.

submitted 51 days ago • 40 comments

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 53 days ago • 984 comments

A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 53 days ago • 19 comments

Is Bondi going to prosecute this guy federally as a domestic terrorist?

submitted 53 days ago • 2244 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 53 days ago • 807 comments

So our government leaders respond to air strikes in which they kill 53 people with fire and American flags emojis? How mature

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

I know this is hardly the most interesting thing here but it amuses me how these guys are high fiving each other like this was a big deal and not just another US bombing campaign

submitted 53 days ago • 12 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 53 days ago • 923 comments

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

submitted 53 days ago • 423 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 61 days ago • 1848 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 226 comments

Interesting

submitted 60 days ago • 459 comments

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.

submitted 65 days ago • 820 comments

We were all drinking after that shit, so I get that part. But the Christian conservative decided to drive and put everyone else in danger.

submitted 71 days ago • 229 comments

Last year, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) — the former GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — told a reporter that because of right-wing media, Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” Here's how that happened: www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/...

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

submitted 87 days ago • 26 comments

Truly want to know how the Secretary of Defense ends up owing $33K in back taxes.

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 87 days ago • 1070 comments

In a new filing, an official in the Trump Administration says that Elon Musk is not the Administrator in charge of DOGE. He’s a Senior Advisor to the President, per declaration.

submitted 88 days ago • 180 comments

I tried to tell you folks: Tuberville wants to privatize Social Security. Beware seniors. He and Trump are coming for you www.al.com/politics/202...

submitted 156 days ago • 65 comments

Update: www.wcnc.com/article/news...

submitted 90 days ago • 24 comments

“I didn’t expect a Trump win to cause me to lose my job, but that’s what happened...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 98 days ago • 946 comments