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So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

submitted 20 days ago • 124 comments

People need to understand something. There is no DOJ, FBI or DOD. There are entities—the DOJ and FBI—run by Trump’s personal attorneys, who see their agents as a weapon for Trump to wield against his enemies, and there is an alcoholic who’s been open about wanting a white Christian fascist nation.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

new orleans boos the department of homeland security

submitted 120 days ago • 366 comments

DOGE recommendations have driven the Trump administration to begin axing employees at NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA is considered one of the world’s premier centers for climate science and weather forecasting. While the Trump administration claims that no…

submitted 120 days ago • 59 comments

I don’t ask for favors too often but I have one today. Harry Dunn and I have a podcast and it’s free to subscribe. Please take a moment: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

submitted 124 days ago • 126 comments

Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!

submitted 125 days ago • 564 comments

“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

submitted 125 days ago • 2871 comments

The New Orleans Pelicans held a baby race tonight…

submitted 124 days ago • 176 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 125 days ago • 1032 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 126 days ago • 419 comments

This will make our troops less safe. Again, he's building a significant amount of backlash and stepping on a lot of toes. The Pentagon never created a job if there wasn't a need for it. And why anyone would celebrate people losing their jobs whether corporate or government is beyond me.

submitted 126 days ago • 14 comments

Um

submitted 127 days ago • 550 comments

#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Nina Simone was born on this day in 1933 in Tryon, N.C. Denied admission to a music school because of her race, Simone went on to a successful career as a singer, songwriter and pianist, using music to express her civil rights activism. /1

submitted 126 days ago • 28 comments

Consider... tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their government jobs. Jobs that may have taken up to a year to secure. They bought homes, cars, started families. No income now to make payments or feed babies. How does that help our economy?

submitted 126 days ago • 28 comments

FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

submitted 127 days ago • 593 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 126 days ago • 1953 comments

AOC: “Elon Musk is not going after efficiency — he is trying to gut everything good in 🇺🇸 for his own private profit… America is not for sale.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGXObpu...

submitted 126 days ago • 111 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 127 days ago • 1667 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 127 days ago • 723 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 127 days ago • 1517 comments

Any Republicans want to grow a spine and stand up to this with us? Many of you represent rural areas who will suffer the most from this!

submitted 127 days ago • 73 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 127 days ago • 958 comments

Carville: The key issue is that in this century under Democratic President 50 million jobs have been created. One million jobs under Republicans

submitted 127 days ago • 82 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 127 days ago • 832 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 128 days ago • 524 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 131 days ago • 2347 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 131 days ago • 799 comments

Holy. Fuck.

submitted 133 days ago • 508 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 133 days ago • 2695 comments

If he decides to rename Canada as North Wisconsin, is that what you’ll call it in the United States because of the “US audience” Go right ahead and bend the knee, you cowards @axios.com

submitted 133 days ago • 54 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 134 days ago • 5962 comments

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because less independence is what we need...

submitted 135 days ago • 371 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 135 days ago • 86 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 135 days ago • 1430 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 136 days ago • 537 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…

submitted 136 days ago • 543 comments

SCOOP: Dozens of workers at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau have been fired in an after-hours blitz. The emails they received were not even personalized.

submitted 136 days ago • 121 comments