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a very confused Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims by definition come from insane asylums

submitted 15 hours ago • 578 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 10 hours ago • 725 comments

#Emails2DOGE

submitted 10 hours ago • 170 comments

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 361 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 15 hours ago • 140 comments

submitted 11 hours ago • 542 comments

I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

submitted 14 hours ago • 115 comments

Elon’s evil munchkins sent this ridiculous email out to all 2 million or so Federal employees demanding they reply by midnight Monday. If you want to let them know what you did last week I’m bet they’d love to hear from you at [email protected]! I can’t wait to tell them about my norovirus symptoms!

submitted 12 hours ago • 426 comments

"No kings, ___" is a good template if we need a catchy slogan format No kings, save Medicare No kings, protect trans kids No kings, fund science research No kings, hell yes functioning democracy Etc

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In Muskrats descended on Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. Consequences significant for millions of Americans www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1909 comments

DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

These people are idiots!

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

submitted 4 days ago • 1012 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 807 comments

theintercept.com/2025/02/17/e...

submitted 5 days ago • 2074 comments

Trump Admin fired all of the US Attorneys appointed by Biden, informed them by email, and sent the messages to the wrong email addresses. Not just classless, but incompetent, too.

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 5 days ago • 2090 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Six people are carrying out the work of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting group at the US Department of Education, though one of them hasn’t completed ethics or information security training, according to a court filing

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2687 comments

FAA workers fired by Trump on the Friday before a busy holiday weekend included radar, landing, navigational aid maintenance, and air traffic controller. The National Air Traffic Ass said in a statement it was "analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety."

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 5 days ago • 869 comments

Yep, this.👇 "Running the ad would have risked placing the paper — whose ailing finances were exacerbated in October when 250,000 Post readers canceled their subscriptions following Bezos’ decision to block the paper’s endorsement for Kamala Harris — directly in the administration’s crosshairs."

submitted 5 days ago • 281 comments

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 5 days ago • 200 comments

Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

Know your rights. I'm aware #FBI and #DOJ officials and litigators etc are following this account for updates and analysis. I can't recommend highly enough this careful expert analysis by my (brilliant) colleague @rickhills.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b... If you call yourself a Christian while trying to eliminate programs like HEAD START You have been judged and found wanting

submitted 6 days ago • 165 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2110 comments

We should have told them.

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Is it a requirement that everyone involved in DOGE is a twenty-something Nazi?

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

Wow.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

submitted 98 days ago • 112 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 7 days ago • 2976 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments