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Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland informed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could face steep fines for having accepted a luxury jet from the Qatari government, arguing the gift violated the Constitution and a federal gifts law, and required congressional approval.

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"President Donald Trump moved late Thursday to fire the three Democratic commissioners on the five-person Consumer Product Safety Commission, his administration’s latest test of the limits of presidential power over independent agencies."

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Today seems like a good day to remind you that Trump's 2017 tax cuts — which he's now trying to make permanent — were trickle-down economics on steroids. youtu.be/XdzzvRJM4eY?...

submitted 71 days ago • 40 comments

Amazing. Even the Trump administration's own lawyer can't explain the legal basis for deporting the Salvadoran man who was removed in "error." Is JD Vance going to do some snide little tweets about this DOJ lawyer now? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 81 days ago • 41 comments

After the national-security breach on Signal, Trump’s administration “again wants you to believe that two and two make five,” writes Peter Wehner. “When there is no objective truth, when everyone gets to make up their own reality,” authoritarians thrive.

submitted 81 days ago • 12 comments

He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

submitted 82 days ago • 903 comments

1/ The number of protests planned for tomorrow is enormous. Given what Trump has done to the economy, and everyone's collective ability to pay for household expenses/retirement I'd expect them to be huge. Find out more at handsoff2025.com

submitted 82 days ago • 53 comments

Everyone involved in the Alien Enemies Act "deportations" (kidnapping) is a depraved monster. This poor man and his family, my god. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 86 days ago • 79 comments

IT GETS WORSE Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. New via @wsj.com:

submitted 89 days ago • 2511 comments

"Lies have always been the engine of MAGA, but now we face the prospect that many government statistics, on which businesses, health professionals, and our whole society depends, will be manipulated." Sharpie work will be pervasive and professionalized.

submitted 89 days ago • 34 comments

Elon Musk might be cutting government spending, but not on his own projects — billions in extra federal money is likely headed toward SpaceX, thanks to policy changes that will make the world’s richest man even richer. A NYT investigation examines the Trump-era shift toward SpaceX nyti.ms/4kPE8VJ

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“.. a lot of what has been broken in the last six to eight weeks is not repairable,” said Dr. Judd Walson, who chairs the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s department of international health ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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OH, HOLY HELL This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...

submitted 119 days ago • 28 comments

Tragically, the Measles outbreak will almost certainly expand Even worse, with anti-vax, anti-science, conspiracy theory superspreader RFK, Jr in charge of Health and Human Services More outbreaks of other diseases will surely occur Meaning more people are likely to die

submitted 119 days ago • 17 comments

This is fucking insane.

submitted 119 days ago • 82 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 122 days ago • 959 comments

I worked in the Biden Admin on supply chain issues. When there was an infant formula shortage, we relaxed import restrictions, flew formula in, invoked the Defense Production Act, etc. Most important: we told the public what we were doing. Silence from Team Trump on eggs.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

The president having what amounts to a business meeting in the Oval Office with a foreign investment fund that backs a golf tour that's held numerous events at his properties is pretty outrageous. The conflicts are even more brazen than last time. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

submitted 124 days ago • 8 comments

Hegseth orders military to draw up plans for 40% total budget cuts over the next fives years, 8% per year. Exponentially worse than sequestration that crippled the military in 2011. wapo.st/4hHV3Yt

submitted 126 days ago • 233 comments

Democrats, ARE YOU LISTENING???

submitted 126 days ago • 47 comments

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

submitted 126 days ago • 36 comments

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment. Hello?

submitted 126 days ago • 214 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 126 days ago • 1189 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 126 days ago • 1346 comments

Here are the GOP members of the Senate Finance Committee--consider going to their LOCAL office this week and exhorting them to figure out why DOGE is in your financial records.

submitted 127 days ago • 190 comments

This is how the federal government is run now: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 127 days ago • 8 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

submitted 130 days ago • 2500 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 132 days ago • 1721 comments

We’re done here. Right?

submitted 134 days ago • 3435 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 136 days ago • 414 comments

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

submitted 137 days ago • 404 comments

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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submitted 140 days ago • 345 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 141 days ago • 1248 comments

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ordered 12 officially sanctioned clubs for women and ethnic or racial groups to shut down immediately, in a drive to comply with the Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion, the academy said on Wednesday.

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To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

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BREAKING: All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for USAID, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, CBS News reports USAID has more than 10,000 employees, with about two-thirds serving overseas This outrageous move will only bolster China’s global influence.

submitted 141 days ago • 234 comments