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It appears DOGE is passing to billionaire Peter Thiel Palantir has received $113M+ in gov funds & a new $795M DoD contract. Their surveillance software is being used & could compile all our personal data into 1 place with little oversight The threat is NOT gone It is growing. @altnps.bsky.social

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The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 300 comments

Musk may (or may not) be leaving Trump regime, but we do know the 32 federal investigations into Musk's companies that were all started before Trump came to office, are paused, dismissed or simply disappeared. Re-sharing my article on this: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/did-trump-...

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submitted 16 days ago • 1063 comments

They keep publishing exactly what they’re doing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 60 comments

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

If you don't think framing matters, let's look at the key way Republicans are trying to hide the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Even as a journalist, I try to give orgs and press officers benefit of the doubt - they lead tricky jobs having to communicate around questionable actions But when lives are at risk, it's harder to forgive - my reflections on a scoop where @wearequeeraf.com has either been lied to - or misled🧵

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Just wanted to see if this story was still in WAPO archive www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sau...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump hopes you won't notice his latest attempt to purge civil servants The Trump administration put notice of a plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers in favor of political loyalists in dry, bland legalese. How to act, @www.allrisenews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-purg...

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...

submitted 27 days ago • 142 comments

“A blind man cld see that the upcoming administration is stacked with ‘our guys’ from tech, specifically from Thiel's camp *** Our cover is blown [so stop apologizing] … We are the new elite because we are the most capable…” - Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko, 12/14/24 1/

submitted 28 days ago • 187 comments

Know how Baby Boomers had a baby boom without a $5000 bribe? The top marginal tax rate during the Baby Boomer generation was 77% to 91%. Right now under Trump's tax scam its 37%. Keep your weak $5K, tax billionaires what they should be taxed, & pay workers a living wage. Baby problem solved.

submitted 41 days ago • 19 comments

NEW: AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday, @wired.com has learned. @mollytaft.com w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 48 days ago • 41 comments

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 51 days ago • 180 comments

🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)

submitted 54 days ago • 132 comments

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 55 days ago • 206 comments

Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 55 days ago • 9 comments

The SAVE Act is blatant voter suppression for tens of millions of women and trans Americans. It should terrify us all. I'm voting NO.

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 61 days ago • 62 comments

So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?

submitted 67 days ago • 49 comments

🧵 Ten reasons authoritarian leaders deliberately crash their own economy while attempting full overthrow of democracy:

submitted 67 days ago • 102 comments

Wonder what we’d find if we started scrutinizing the tattoos of ICE agents? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 69 days ago • 58 comments

As I explain here, security isn't even the biggest part of the Signal Scandal. This is to keep actions secret from the US government. It's how to do crimes, bribes and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

submitted 70 days ago • 135 comments

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

submitted 77 days ago • 107 comments

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

submitted 76 days ago • 301 comments

I hate saying breaking news, but that’s what’s happening. This story is going to be everywhere.

submitted 78 days ago • 43 comments

Billionaires were never going to save us from the climate crisis. Real change comes from collective action, not the whims of the ultra-rich. futurism.com/bill-gates-g...

submitted 79 days ago • 18 comments

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

submitted 83 days ago • 367 comments

You know, I've never once had a LGBTQ person force their "lifestyle" on me. But these miserable greedy billionaires, man, they are in my face every goddamn day.

submitted 85 days ago • 44 comments

🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.

submitted 86 days ago • 157 comments

Time to mute the Rocky myth. We should celebrate the excellence of Philly’s real fighters instead. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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We reviewed the federal contracts DOGE slashed in Pennsylvania. Most were for minority or women-owned businesses.

submitted 88 days ago • 15 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 87 days ago • 1279 comments

If your “natural immunity” is so great that you “don’t need vaccines” then why do you need to buy so many supplements and potions and veterinary pharmaceuticals? If infections aren’t actually a problem at all then why are you using horse dewormer on them?

submitted 91 days ago • 28 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 93 days ago • 158 comments

Just saying

submitted 93 days ago • 12 comments

Shorter Ram Emanuel: “I am a rapist, therefore trans people do not exist.”

submitted 94 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 96 days ago • 431 comments

MAGAs are gutting: •Medicaid—60M Americans need to survive •SNAP—40M Americans need to eat •School Lunch—30M kids need daily •Housing Assistance—5M families need to live ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 Billionaires In a word—BARBARIC. Here's how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-republ...

submitted 97 days ago • 24 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 97 days ago • 468 comments