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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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Biden capped insulin at $35/mo -- Republicans are now undoing it Biden capped inhaler at $35/mo -- Republicans are now undoing it Biden stopped banks from hurting you with overdraft fees -- Republicans are now undoing it Trump, Musk, and the GOP are RAISING your costs

submitted 9 days ago • 99 comments

#trump #resist #fascism #history #writer #interestingfacts

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#abingtonfire #firstresponders #DOGE #musk #EPA #trump #booksky #writer #Humans>$

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 11 days ago • 2399 comments

This is alcoholism 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 1176 comments

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 26 The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

when Germany calls our government out for promoting Nazism, take them literally and seriously

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 14 days ago • 599 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 14 days ago • 6080 comments

If Pam Bondi wants to dismiss the Eric Adams indictment, she can just do it herself. She is the attorney general, she doesn’t need to have a line prosecutor do it for her. But they want to be able to say a career person did it.

submitted 14 days ago • 428 comments

Hagan Scotten, who wrote this spectacular resignation letter, was an army ranger for 8 years, top of his law school class (Harvard) & a John Roberts law clerk. Not exactly a candidate for Trump’s liberal deep state.

submitted 14 days ago • 121 comments

DOJ resignations over orders to drop charges against the NYC mayor (via Reuters) - Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon - Kevin Driscoll, head of the Criminal Division - John Keller, head of the Public Integrity Section And 3 of his deputies: - Robert Heberle - Jennifer Clarke - Marco Palmieri

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

Republican Congressman Bacon on Trump’s “peace plan”

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BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 97 comments

NEW: Donald Trump fired a bunch of veterans today while simultaneously hindering care for veterans. In a month or so, republicans in Congress will cut food stamps so these veterans won’t be able to feed themselves or their families. I wonder how many of them voted for Trump.

submitted 14 days ago • 585 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers have taken an additional $7.4 million this week in expenses, bringing the total to $14.4 million.

submitted 15 days ago • 300 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 15 days ago • 522 comments

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

submitted 16 days ago • 368 comments

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of US elections have been placed on administrative leave by Homeland Security, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. apnews.com/article/elec...

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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NEW: In a move that could jeopardize U.S. election security at the state level, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency put employees tasked with securing elections from foreign threats on administrative leave.

submitted 17 days ago • 140 comments

Trump just suspended enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a key anti-bribery law signed by Carter in 1977. For 50 years, it stopped corporations from bribing foreign officials. Now, Trump is letting corruption run wild.

submitted 17 days ago • 568 comments

BREAKING: Steve Bannon will plead GUILTY in the Manhattan (state, not federal) We Build the Wall case. Bannon's lawyer said he will get NO JAIL TIME in the deal. Can that be true??

submitted 18 days ago • 233 comments

This is part of the Project 2025 plan. Defy the courts and the law and defy anyone to stop you. When they control all three branches of government, and the courts don't have an independent enforcement mechanism, who can stop them? The states can file lawsuits, but they don't have armies.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

submitted 20 days ago • 79 comments

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 21 days ago • 2345 comments

Lieu: Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern California for a PR stunt

submitted 22 days ago • 266 comments

With Congress failing to check Trump’s worst instincts, the courts are our last defense. Great tracker of Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions in justsecurity.org

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

American farms supply ~41% of the food aid USAID sends around the world each year. In 2020, they bought $2.1 BILLION in food aid from American farmers. “You start dismantling these [food aid] programs and it’s a ripple effect,” he said. “The farmers are affected; the farm economy is affected.”

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’: Click for the latest from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’ More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were…

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

It's not just a coup. It's a coup being executed by white supremacists and Christofascists. And Darren Beattie isn't merely some new minor functionary—he's been given what's considered one of the ten most powerful jobs at Foggy Bottom. He wants us to abandon Ukraine to Russia and Taiwan to China.

submitted 25 days ago • 165 comments

The second quote is not Cicero. It’s Taylor Caldwell in one of her novels.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

A foreign-born private citizen with unfathomable wealth & deep financial ties to our nation’s adversaries has seized control of our government and is currently canceling congressionally apportioned spending without a shred of authority. And no one seems to be able to stop him. So this is fine.

submitted 25 days ago • 612 comments

Correct. A crisis in which the actual elected president affirmatively seeks to dispense with the Constitution and laws he swore to preserve, protect, and defend, and has ceded control of critical executive functions to an unsupervised and unelected oligarch who has become his master.

submitted 26 days ago • 194 comments

FACT: Yup, Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year 👇 Read more here: bit.ly/4hjLUot #TaxFairnessNOW

submitted 25 days ago • 129 comments

Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.

submitted 26 days ago • 542 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 26 days ago • 708 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office

submitted 26 days ago • 773 comments

🪓MASS DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many vaccine recommendation scientific pages!

submitted 27 days ago • 290 comments

“The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades & length of service of gov’t workers…We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems”

submitted 28 days ago • 287 comments

At what point do we start calling what Elon Musk is doing inside our government a coup

submitted 27 days ago • 1308 comments