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submitted 11 hours ago • 586 comments

'provocative' is a fascinating euphemism for 'racist' here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

What’s that you say? People like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and their attorneys wielding complex narratives for their own ends, which do not align with the facts of reality? Could it be any other way?

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 7 hours ago • 38 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 10 hours ago • 95 comments

Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

submitted 17 hours ago • 63 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 7 hours ago • 320 comments

Let’s be 100% clear. The postal service is literally in the Constitution, explicitly assigned as a congressional power. If Congress wants to abolish or privatize it, that’s up to Congress. The President can’t just wake up one day and do it on his own.

submitted 7 hours ago • 37 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

On the one side, I do not love being a Jew in a country now ruled by explicit Nazis. On the other hand, this is all amazing ad footage for the Dems in 2026.

submitted 8 hours ago • 62 comments

A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

Jack Posobiec, a prominent influencer, has a long history of promoting antisemitic and white supremacist content. He traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week.

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

Pierre’s not just taking a single page, he’s following Trump’s whole playbook.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Poilievre's tone deaf 'Bring It Home' ad was loudly booed by fans watching last night's game at a bar #cdnpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

I thought Musk was a fraud starting ~2017, when The Boring Company touted 'tunnel transport' pipedream specifically to hamper Calif high-speed rail. Never went anywhere finance.yahoo.com/news/seven-y... Then anyone on Xitter saw... (Was always against Iraq war www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...)

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 233 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 23 hours ago • 89 comments

We need to start the Politico Read A Fucking History Book Challenge.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Great ad!

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Carefully done study clearly shows X and TikTok pushing pro-AfD content to Germans whose own selections of who to follow are neutral. In other words, heavy pro-AfD thumb on the scale by Elon Musk and CCP. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/in-g...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Let's be clear: CQ Brown was fired because Trump and Hegseth couldn't see past his skin color. General Brown has 40 years of distinguished service. Trump and Hegseth just want yes men who look like them. This is destabilizing for our nation.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

Katie Arrington, former South Carolina state lawmaker who helped steer Pentagon cybersecurity contracting policy before being placed on leave amid accusations that she disclosed classified data from a military intelligence agency, announced she is the DoD’s new chief information security officer.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

To say Trump exaggerates is an understatement, but if Trump’s story of first meeting Caine is remotely true, we are in a new stage of danger.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 336 comments

300 people showed up outside of Murkowski & Sullivan's offices. On a Thursday. In February. In Anchorage, Alaska! Alaskans are taking a stand and demand our elected officials to do the same. We don't expect you to save us but we do expect you to STAND WITH US! In-person town hall anyone??

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

Nicole shared with me that Medicaid cuts would mean she can’t afford even one month of medication for her son with special needs. I heard so many powerful stories like hers at San Ysidro Health’s El Cajon clinic – and that’s why I’ll keep fighting for Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The federal workforce is under attack from the Trump administration. But who are federal workers? 🔹 ~3 million people 🔹 93% work outside of DC 🔹 Diverse representation of race & age 🔹 Top occupation: medical/public health www.epi.org/blog/a-snaps...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Confirmation needed but this was one way many folks pointed out that RFK Jr can destroy vaccines without simply taking them away. ACIP reviews data and makes recommendations about vaccine usage in the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

I cannot confirm this independently but I am hearing the same thing from a source. If anyone can confirm or share info about the definitive shutdown of the 2024 PRAMS data collection can you contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1076 comments

This is huge breaking news. Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chief of Naval Ops, Vice of the Air Force and all three JAG’s of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Watch this breaking news report we did for @votevets.org tonight. This is outragous. www.youtube.com/live/OdOjEdR...

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

"your health care coverage for Elon’s tax cuts. That is the fundamental fulcrum on which the next two years of American history — and quite possibly many years into the future — will turn." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 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 1 day ago • 1972 comments

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

How many paragraphs do you think @apnews.com writes before mentioning that the white 3-Star General Trump plans to install (after firing the Black 4-Star Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) isn't even legally eligible for the job? apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments