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The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

submitted 53 days ago • 313 comments

It’s because of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

submitted 96 days ago • 80 comments

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

submitted 97 days ago • 637 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 102 days ago • 259 comments

And if my rough math is right, even if it has done what it claims it has still only saved about 6/10ths of a percent.

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

I wonder if we should be thinking of Musk's seizing of Treasury as an historic cyber-security breach that endangers the entire US and global financial system. Every government and financial institution in the world should be demanding that Treasury arrest the hackers, restore integrity of US govt.

submitted 116 days ago • 131 comments

The extent to which Elon Musk and the tech bros think they’re somehow the first people ever to think about how to run a government is astounding.

submitted 118 days ago • 109 comments

The same people having a temper tantrum over DEI just confirmed the least qualified Secretary of Defense in US history because Trump liked him on TV.

submitted 128 days ago • 511 comments

Link in reply

submitted 127 days ago • 311 comments

"In just under two-and-a-half minutes, Bishop Mariann Budde, fully comfortable in her own skin and righteously firm in Christ’s teachings, did more to challenge Trump than the whole of American political media in the past ten weeks." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/mariann-sp...

submitted 127 days ago • 67 comments

The horrors of this past week reminded me how batshit insane some of the anti-Dem rhetoric online during the election was, and upon reflection I think this was really a stand out performance from Bree.

submitted 127 days ago • 304 comments

UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said. Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz

submitted 128 days ago • 292 comments

On day 3, Trump targets legal immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 129 days ago • 22 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 129 days ago • 4349 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 129 days ago • 2493 comments

It’s a new Red Scare but now you don’t even have to claim people are secret communists to get them fired, you can just say that they heard someone defend affirmative action and didn’t immediately report it to the thought police

submitted 130 days ago • 33 comments

The GOP is literally telling you that their main policy goal is to ethnically cleanse the country.

submitted 130 days ago • 27 comments

I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work. Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.

submitted 130 days ago • 22 comments

submitted 132 days ago • 5 comments

christ this is tragic. one of the best rap jams of all time and the maga crowd couldn’t BE more bored. as @jimmybfox on threads said, “they got the Doggfather looking like a wedding DJ.” you didn't have to do this, Snoop.

submitted 134 days ago • 475 comments

Told ya. They're going after veterans' benefits.

submitted 137 days ago • 1001 comments

Trump has named Mark Paoletta to the Office of Management & Budget (OMB). Paoletta is a fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a key Project 2025 partner founded by Project 2025 leader Russ Vought (Trump’s choice 4 OMB Director). Paoletta says POTUS can withhold funds allocated by Congress. 1/

submitted 170 days ago • 54 comments

Beyond data privacy, the ruling class doesn’t understand that many Americans feel like they have very little to lose. We’ve been beaten down and bled dry by companies that just extract wealth. Members of Congress talk about protecting our “way of life” from China and it sounds like a punchline.

submitted 138 days ago • 27 comments

Don’t fool yourself. Senate Republicans are going to confirm them all.

submitted 138 days ago • 1230 comments

This is not the story. The story is Trump nominating a completely unfit person to run the defense department that he knows will be pliant and Senate Republicans making a choice to not give a shit. Hegseth didn't accomplish anything today.

submitted 138 days ago • 279 comments

I watched Pete Hegseth’s 3-hour hearing & heard remarkably little on Ukraine (just that Crimea was “a minor incursion”), Russia, NATO (except Trump “reinvigorated” it), Greenland (except climate change isn’t an issue) or even China (except it’s communist). See this great @atrupar.com 🧵 on the rest.

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

The recent board changes at Meta suggest the social media giant is gearing up for war with foreign governments. If it plays its cards right, and if the Trump administration bullies other states on its behalf, this could be a battle it could win. Depressing read from @davidallengreen.bsky.social

submitted 141 days ago • 15 comments

As a businessperson, you want to ask yourself how you got to the point where people feel it would be virtuous to stop using your product

submitted 140 days ago • 8 comments

this is worth reading if only as further evidence for the thesis that these self-proclaimed philosopher capitalists are total morons who huff paint and call it insight

submitted 142 days ago • 256 comments

A lot of the next four years are going to be an attempt to define criminals as a type of person who looks and sounds a certain way rather than defining them by the action of committing crimes

submitted 146 days ago • 49 comments

It's pretty wild that we just kinda move forward like the whole premise of the country didn't get thrown under the bus that day

submitted 146 days ago • 14 comments

No handover of power to fascists is peaceful. What will happen is a polite sanctioning and endorsement of an inherently violent transfer of power.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

4 years ago, I was locked down in the Capitol. When the majority of the Republicans voted to overturn the election AFTER the attack, something broke in Congress that still hasn’t healed. Truth is truth. And while it should never be partisan to defend democracy, we can’t pretend it isn’t.

submitted 146 days ago • 29 comments

At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.

submitted 146 days ago • 186 comments

New in PN: No, Trump wasn't "confused" about the New Orleans attack "He spread the lie that the attacker was an immigrant because it advances his political goals. He wants to harm immigrants and smearing them as violent criminals is a way to build support for massive human rights violations."

submitted 146 days ago • 111 comments

The video evidence is what I always come back to when I think of Jan. 6. We @propublica.org created this interactive piece of videos that Parler users recorded and uploaded from their own POV that day, and it remains as disturbing today as it was then. projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

submitted 146 days ago • 79 comments

From @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social's reflection on January 6. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

submitted 146 days ago • 19 comments

Happy You Don't Actually Get in Trouble For Inciting An Armed Rebellion You Get Rewarded Day for all who celebrate

submitted 146 days ago • 132 comments

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

submitted 147 days ago • 315 comments