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This is how it’s done.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2489 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 18 hours ago • 213 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 362 comments

Kamala Harris's work as Attorney General of California 13 years ago is helping Californians who lost their homes in the recent wildfires. That's impact. h/t: Mitali Modi.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Not the main story, but Trump has chosen a recently retired three-star General, John Caine, to replace Brown. Going back a very long time, Chiefs of Staff have had four stars -the highest rank- and related command experience before they became C.O.S.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

white guy DEI

submitted 15 hours ago • 212 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 15 hours ago • 132 comments

As someone who has been trying to find the right doctoral program, can confirm. Multiple schools have told me that an unofficial version of this is already in effect. An educated public with access to current research is the worst enemy of everything this “administration” is trying to accomplish.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

The politics of respectability is still hegemonic in the Black community and this administration is doing everything they can to signal that’s a suckers bet.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 143 comments

Wow! Exp'ns collapse, inflation exp'ns surge at 1yr, 5yr highest since 1995, according to UMich survey #econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

mitch mcconnell will die loathed by nearly everyone in the country and many more across the world, and it's infinitely better than he deserves

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 982 comments

lmao, jesus

submitted 23 hours ago • 275 comments

Remember this as he tries to burn us down. THIS IS WHY. He’s never held accountable.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When my daughter died, I got a letter from the state of Virginia. They were sorry for my loss, and they wanted to collect some survey data, as part of research to prevent future infant deaths. I was touched to know there were people working to prevent what had happened to me.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

On academic independence: I sat in a meeting room with top leadership two years ago of a flagship U.S. university and asked them “what are you doing about ideological risk?” They asked me to clarify what I meant. I said “your entire board of trustees are appointed by your state governor. … (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Saturday Feb. 22, at 2:00 pm here in D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial, there's a rally for Ukraine, organized by United Help Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine, and others. Trump may have switched sides. America needn't. unitedhelpukraine.org/events/3-yea...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Tyranny is rising in the White House, and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know—rather, the people would like to know, what you, Congressman, and your fellow congressmen are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House."

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

This seems to keep happening...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Why do most people not know this, Ron? Who is supposed to be messaging this, Ron?

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As we know, old people in need of medical services have a really easy time travelling, especially in rural areas.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump 1.0: Bribe Zelenskyy for Biden dirt on a secure phone line Trump 2.0: Extort war-torn Ukraine for half its mineral wealth on Fox News

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

So we spent a ton of money to move 170+ Venezuelans from inside the United States to #GTMO, where we spent a ton of money to hold them for less than a month, before we spent a ton of money to bring one of them back stateside and repatriate the rest. Talk about wasteful government spending…

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: While the Trump Justice Department is telling a federal court that Elon Musk has nothing to do with DOGE, Republican members of Congress are telling their constituents that DOGE is “led by Elon Musk.” See below 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

This is an excellent template and should be disseminated widely

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

This is a dictatorship trying to solidify its position by intimidating the opposition. So glad they just installed a levelheaded guy and not an insane bloodthirsty madman at FBI

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

More of this! Los Angeles, let's make sure everyone in this administration know that they and their agendas aren't welcome here

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"You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is," ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe told the Huntington Beach City Council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Elon has been on a years-long campaign to hamper CA high-speed rail. Have to assume he’s all over this.

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www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n... Rebecca Marodi, a California fire captain who was targeted by the right-wing as supposedly being a “DEI hire” and therefore blamed for the LA fires, has been found stabbed to death in her home.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

This is not ok. #rebeccamarodi #LA

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Weekly Initial Claims (first-time applications for unemployment benefits), a proxy for layoffs, increase to 219K (up 5K from prior week); 4-week moving average of continued claims decrease from 1870.2K to 1862.5K in Feb 2025 #claims #econsky

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• Initial claims rose by 5K to 219K, slightly above expectations (consensus: 215K). • Continuing claims also edged up to 1.869m (cons. 1.868m) from 1.845m Notably, these figures exclude recent federal employee layoffs, which are reported separately (shown below). More thoughts in the 🧵 #EconSky

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

More from @stevenrattnerr.bsky.social: The House GOP plan Trump endorsed is poised to slash Medicaid by around 10% and SNAP by around 20% AND increase deficits by $2.8 trillion to pay for tax cut renewals. #EconSky

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We are in rapid descent toward Putin's Russia, where you have to do business with regime allies or face persecution

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Explain Trump's behavior towards Russia without the "Russian conspiracy hoax"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is also how autocrats stay in power. They loot the state and use public resources to redistribute to voters. Trump knows the "Trump Checks" from 2020 made him popular. So its not unrealistic to expect him to do it again, but without the permission of Congress to do so.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments