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The slide toward authoritarianism could not be more overt. And yet so many remain silent.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1544 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

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 3 days ago • 1215 comments

Egg prices are up 53% compared to last year and the spread of bird flu is a major reason why. How has Trump responded? By letting DOGE fire thousands of federal employees across the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA who could respond to this outbreak.

submitted 4 days ago • 204 comments

This gives me joy.

submitted 5 days ago • 179 comments

Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

submitted 5 days ago • 254 comments

I think I know who's going to win this battle.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Same

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 5 days ago • 2642 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."

submitted 6 days ago • 311 comments

And on FOX NEWS, no less.

submitted 7 days ago • 1247 comments

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

submitted 7 days ago • 245 comments

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

submitted 6 days ago • 333 comments

He’s right again.

submitted 7 days ago • 435 comments

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 1437 comments

Imagine if Barack Obama or Joe Biden said they were above the law. Imagine if Obama or Biden were pocketing tens of millions of dollars while they were in office. Imagine if Obama or Biden pardoned people who violently attacked the Capitol to prevent a Republican from taking office.

submitted 7 days ago • 69 comments

Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?

submitted 6 days ago • 1057 comments

This is going to get ugly.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 7 days ago • 6491 comments

KC forgot my friend @therickwilson.bsky.social 's first law: Everything Trump touches, dies.

submitted 13 days ago • 51 comments

JD Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer and sitting VP, claims judges can’t check executive power. That’s literally their job. Courts overturned Nixon, Bush, and Trump. If judges couldn’t rule on executive actions, presidents would be kings.

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

republicans could never persuade the public to vote for social security cuts so instead they’re gonna have their billionaire dictator unilaterally destroy the program

submitted 13 days ago • 155 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 13 days ago • 3701 comments

Visit me in the camps

submitted 13 days ago • 1684 comments

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Meanwhile, egg prices.

submitted 16 days ago • 137 comments

Help spot the pattern… ❌Banned clubs at West Point: Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and Native American heritage clubs ✅Not banned at West Point Military Academy: German, French, and Polish clubs Can’t quite put my finger on it…

submitted 16 days ago • 270 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Children are now starving. Vaccines have stopped. A rented ambulance can no longer come to the site of a bombing. Days into the Musk/Trump attack on US foreign aid, here’s what’s happening already wapo.st/42J2gCF

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

They’re going after the weather Just like they said they would in project 2025

submitted 17 days ago • 420 comments

Why does Doocey have a Squatty Potty in the WH Briefing Room?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments