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This is good and beautiful. (Except for time flowing downwards from the top, which makes me dizzy.)

submitted 115 days ago • 7 comments

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

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submitted 121 days ago • 694 comments

chat.. did we just witness the greatest dunk in the history of the universe

submitted 122 days ago • 131 comments

submitted 125 days ago • 391 comments

What if half the country refused to file their tax return?

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

New GOP budget includes $150 billion increase in military spending...for eggs

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

“The party that once prided itself on standing up to Moscow,” Jonathan Lemire writes, “has bowed to a president who himself is bowing to an adversary.”

submitted 129 days ago • 50 comments

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For 16 years, U.S. aviation had a perfect record—ZERO major commercial plane crashes. Then Trump returned and in just 29 days the USA has had seven crashes, 15 aviation disasters, and 85 dead, on pace for this over 1,000 dead this year via plane crash.

submitted 130 days ago • 221 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 130 days ago • 1899 comments

“Trump’s so-called reforms will only make it harder for the White House and the Republican Congress to enact their own policy aims, and harder for any president to get things done in the future,” @annielowrey.bsky.social discusses Trump's attacks on the civil service:

submitted 141 days ago • 14 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 141 days ago • 1494 comments

Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.

submitted 143 days ago • 384 comments

President Trump’s proposal to take long-term control of Gaza marked a rare moment of discord in a largely unified Republican party

submitted 143 days ago • 19 comments

This is correct.

submitted 145 days ago • 634 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn1q...

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Damn you Martin Short and your fentanyl smuggling empire!

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

I asked Elon’s Grok 2 the question of whether and how you could destroy the country through insane trade wars and hijacking Treasury’s payment system. And I must say, what I got back seems to be a fairly good analysis.

submitted 146 days ago • 451 comments

What Elon is doing to the government and the country and everyone’s reaction to it this weekend reminds me of the xenomorph and the crew of the Nostromo as they slowly catch on to what’s happening on their ship.

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I'm just looking around while waiting on my wife

submitted 150 days ago • 2 comments