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That is because they are mendacious

submitted 119 days ago • 129 comments

setting aside the fact that the entire white house staff is utterly poisoned by online in a way that actually exceeds any democratic staffer, it is incredibly pathetic that they look at trump's temper tantrum and see "strength"

submitted 119 days ago • 195 comments

Completely on point.

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I’m so ashamed for my country right now. We should be so much better than this. Being an American used to mean more than “cutting deals” and berating victims of aggression to feel tough. We are losing what so many patriots before us have built and defended in blood and treasure. Very sad.

submitted 119 days ago • 13 comments

What a buffoon doling out performative right-wing trash. Zelenskyy is fighting a war against a dictator who bombs civilians and kidnaps children, and this guy thinks the big issue is that he doesn't wear a suit. How can you be so soulless?

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Perfect

submitted 119 days ago • 36 comments

Congress is debating a bill that will lead to weaponized takedown requests of lawful speech with no real safeguards. Tell Congress to vote No on TAKE IT DOWN.

submitted 119 days ago • 14 comments

So Republicans are considering new "that new debt doesn't matter" innovation to the budget process. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/r...

submitted 119 days ago • 39 comments

Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. Read more: theatln.tc/SowY3Uin

submitted 119 days ago • 93 comments

The idea that JD Vance—who has never been to Ukaine and chalks up his knowledge to shit he read on the internet—believes he knows more about the situation in Ukraine than the man who has led it for the past 5.5 years is a perfect encapsulation of the havoc this administration is wreaking worldwide

submitted 119 days ago • 111 comments

D.C., we keep on trucking. 🚚 If you are or were a federal worker, our Signal tipline is always open and actively monitored: 917-512-0201.

submitted 119 days ago • 13 comments

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 119 days ago • 1075 comments

Jeff Bezos had a busy day Wednesday. After announcing the obliteration of the Washington Post’s editorial page that morning, he had dinner that night with Donald Trump. 👉

submitted 119 days ago • 176 comments

Not in this clip, but during his rant Trump said he felt sorry Putin was caught up in the Trump-Russia scandal & said Putin did nothing wrong. Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump & Russian intel mounted ops in 2020 & 2024 to boost Trump. Yet Trump sees Putin as a victim. Deplorable.

submitted 119 days ago • 115 comments

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

submitted 119 days ago • 442 comments

Trump: You don’t have the cards Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards Trump: You’re playing cards Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?

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Please fix this headline, @financialtimes.com. There was _no_ meltdown from Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It was the allies of Putin—Trump and Vance—who melted down while a TASS reporter they invited into the Oval Office looked on to report back to the Kremlin. Don’t tarnish Zelenskyy over a Kremlinist plot.

submitted 119 days ago • 103 comments

Any fool can break things open.substack.com/pub/billmcki... @billmckibben.bsky.social nails it re NOAA ++

submitted 119 days ago • 3 comments

The chaos of Trump's first month in office is no accident. This gutting of the federal government and impounding of Congressionally allocated funds was laid out years ago by Russell Vought, Trump's OMB director and Project 2025 architect. Todd Beeton looked at his core beliefs for The Big Picture.

submitted 119 days ago • 85 comments

Susan B. Glasser takes no prisoners with this column. Brilliant. 'the man who calls himself our King is more than delighted for his enemies to wallow offstage in their own weakness. Nature, and Trump, abhor a vacuum' www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Per a source, the firings of probationary employees hit NOAA's office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) today. It includes not just newer young scientists but people at the top of their field who have been there for years but were technically probationary for admin/not-relevant reasons.

submitted 119 days ago • 67 comments

This seems interesting….

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New, from me: Tulsi Gabbard purged trans intelligence officers after a Chris Rufo smear campaign. They were targeted because they were trans, their words were mischaracterized, and they were offered no due process. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

submitted 120 days ago • 74 comments

Please share this thread of the enrollment in ACA plans, Medicaid/CHIP & Medicare for the total populations of EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

If you're worried about aviation safety, these NOAA/NWS cuts are just as alarming as anything happening at FAA.

submitted 119 days ago • 30 comments

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Remember the day Elon bragged with an infantile giggle about putting USAID into the "wood chipper". just your bog standard sociopath marauding through our world.

submitted 119 days ago • 95 comments

Hundreds of USAID workers who had been fired or placed on leave returned to their offices on Thursday to retrieve personal belongings. They were given just 15 minutes each to clear out their old desks.

submitted 119 days ago • 70 comments

Ending virology and vaccine research is far more dangerous than virology and vaccine research itself. We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.

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Historian Rick Perlstein has dubbed this dynamic the “right wing ratchet.” It only ever goes one way, toward ever more radical things that would have seemed outlandish months ago but are now just the new normal, with more ratcheting into previously unthinkable territory to come.

submitted 123 days ago • 9 comments

All Pete Hegseth talks about is being a warrior and instilling a warrior mindset in the military. Personal courage is the cornerstone of the warrior ethos. I wonder how that fits with being such a coward as to fire generals with 35 or more years of service in a press release on a Friday night.

submitted 123 days ago • 954 comments

On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, @mpolymer1.bsky.social underscores why the U.S.’s muddying of the conflict’s origins will likely have a deeper impact on our global relationships: www.msnbc.com/way-too-earl... @waytooearly.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Trump signed USMCA in 2020. Utterly disregarded its provisions in 2025. How can any nation enter into agreements with the United States when its president's signature is worthless? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 123 days ago • 52 comments

* Dallas Fed Mfg Index Feb - biggest sequential plunge since March 2020 “.. Significant declines in production, new orders, and capacity utilization, while input costs rose and wage pressures eased slightly.” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 14 comments

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

submitted 123 days ago • 405 comments

This is informative. Thanks

submitted 123 days ago • 1018 comments

NEW: OPM Legal Guidance after Musk Takeover EXPLICITLY Says Fed Employees Never Have to Respond to Elon's GWES Emails talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/opms-...

submitted 123 days ago • 23 comments

The bells that have rung now at the FBI, with Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, cannot be unrung. And we will rue the day we didn’t hear them as dire warnings for the country’s future. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/an-obituar...

submitted 123 days ago • 63 comments

Katherine Clark: "The people in my district -- Republican constituents who voted for them -- are not going to be okay. They are being asked to foot this tax bill to benefit Elon Musk."

submitted 123 days ago • 59 comments

The Daily Beast calls Bongino a “Trump sycophant podcaster,” but that hardly does him justice. Bongino is not simply a cartoonish clown; he is a caricature of a cartoon; and the comparison to clowns is deeply insulting to that august profession. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 123 days ago • 16 comments

The mainstreaming of the once-fringe Proud Boys: "What view [do] we have, that Republicans don’t have now?" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... @byelliesilverman.bsky.social

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Dowd notes in her column, “America’s Emperor of Chaos” has not yet made his horse a consul — as Caligula was said to have done. But she notes, “A horse might be better than some of the sketchy characters surrounding Trump.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 123 days ago • 14 comments

The Administration's new strategy for freezing or terminating funds is to rely on T&C of awards. I've written a piece about why that may be unlawful, even where the T&C purport to authorize it. www.justsecurity.org/108132/trump...

submitted 123 days ago • 5 comments