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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 8 hours ago • 63 comments

Holy f*ck! Do private security have the right to commit battery? Do they have the right to arrest people?

submitted 26 minutes ago • 0 comments

@beyer.house.gov caught OPM/NSF arbitrarily reclassifying non-probationary NSF employees as probationary so they could be fired more easily. beyer.house.gov/uploadedfile... See also Reuters (which didn't link letter): www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... I hope the satire writers are watching.

submitted 18 hours ago • 38 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 1 day ago • 613 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

I kept thinking, The War on Terror paid for this.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

We need to demand our military leaders uphold their Oath to protect & defend the US Constitution.

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 1 day ago • 657 comments

Sums it up…

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@meidastouch.com killing it. www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-de...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

He said he wanted to be a dictator...

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 8 days ago • 536 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 8 days ago • 2927 comments

Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

submitted 8 days ago • 134 comments

“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644

submitted 8 days ago • 222 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 922 comments

The rule of law we take for granted was centuries in the making. But it can be destroyed in weeks. www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th... @stevevladeck.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

Women is now a banned word. And so many more www.kpbs.org/news/economy...

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

This.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

Ah yes "Welcome to Saudi Arabia, come enjoy the World Cup stay for imprisonment for Tweeting about women's rights." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Google Calendar has wiped out Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hispanic Heritage, Indigenous People Month .. from its global default settings. “the growing number of cultural events was not ‘sustainable’” - Google spokesperson Fuck GOOGLE EVERY DAY!

submitted 13 days ago • 163 comments

You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

ust reviewed the coverage of Carl Nichols' decision enjoining Trump's shutdown of USAID. Only Politico (and my own post) note that Nichols specifically said that DOJ presented no evidence of fraud or corruption. EVERY OUTLET should emphasize this. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Valid point

submitted 15 days ago • 8 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 16 days ago • 1527 comments

This is a very helpful resource for parents to help kids make sense of and manage tragic events in the news. https://kottke.org/25/02/mister-rogers-on-how-to-talk-to-kids-about-distressing-news-events

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

School districts in TX are sending out notices to parents letting them know that ICE is boarding school buses and might take their kids if they don’t have a birth certificate with them. And yet I was told that this election wasn’t life or death and that there’d always be another one.

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 6591 comments

Children’s Hospital Colorado has stopped giving all gender-affirming medical treatment to patients 18 years old and younger.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 18 days ago • 2101 comments

INDIVISIBLE Sacramento stopped by the Sacramento district office of @padilla.senate.gov to talk about how Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step Trump/Musk's quiet coup. @schiff.senate.gov @indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social youtu.be/dqmUjBEI0FQ

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Officers have been sent a word list that would get a grant pulled from funding by the Trump administration along with a decision tree diagram. This is a direct attack on science and research. "Female", "Females", "Disability" and "Disabilities"=banned words.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I think perhaps the best course of action is to trap Musk and his team in DC. February 3, 2025

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 comments

Treasury officials told WSJ that DOGE access is “read-only.” It’s possible Bessent’s team is buying time for a White House takeover, but I imagine they are working the media this way because they believe it (and maybe to assert they’ll defend their autonomy). Who is right? Shocking we don’t know.

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments