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Every now and again I see that there are some people here in the year 2025 still spending lots of time online passionately emoting their hatred of Bernie Sanders’ campaign staff from five years ago and I remember how much intense mental illness exists in this society.

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 69 days ago • 1572 comments

RIP to a genuine hero

submitted 71 days ago • 96 comments

So I went through all of the Epstein files that were released. Not much - if any - new information. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump both flew on the Lolita Express, which we knew. I hope phase 2 is more illuminating, because this was a complete bust.

submitted 75 days ago • 113 comments

Cat

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

submitted 77 days ago • 251 comments

Show me the lie

submitted 77 days ago • 11 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 83 days ago • 262 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 99 days ago • 913 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 105 days ago • 925 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

submitted 105 days ago • 4334 comments

I am imposing a 100% tariff on my wife for importing various knick-knacks, baubles, and doohickeys into our home

submitted 105 days ago • 39 comments

Here's a piece @ddayen.bsky.social did after Bondi was nominated. So far no question on her role in helping banks get away with mortgage fraud, harming millions of Floridians. prospect.org/justice/2024...

submitted 118 days ago • 122 comments

Working on a story about democratic leadership's choice of geriatric congressman Gerry Connolly over AOC to head oversight. If you have any tips about Connolly, text me at 202-510-1268 (I will protect your anonymity). My DM is also open

submitted 147 days ago • 677 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power." "In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

submitted 149 days ago • 467 comments

Nancy Mace lied about being assaulted. I keep saying this but she still hasn't sued me for defamation.

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United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."

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submitted 159 days ago • 404 comments

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

submitted 159 days ago • 1156 comments

“You should not go into debt if you get sick or pursue an education" would be one hell of a rallying cry for the Democratic Party. Currently, they cannot stand for policies that get at the root causes of corporate greed. My latest in ⁦‪@Newsweek‬⁩ ⬇️ www.newsweek.com/democrats-wi...

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Slain CEO dumped stock right before DOJ investigation became public. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/lawsuit-ag...

submitted 159 days ago • 48 comments