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Amazing

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This is a truly frightening—like movie villain over the top—speech from the acting head of FEMA warning the agency’s workforce not to fight Trump’s will. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjyyPUMw/

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

Here are the federal charging documents accusing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka of "trespassing" by walking onto private property... ... that belongs to a prison company... ... that contracts with the feds... ... and is therefore government property.

submitted 12 hours ago • 130 comments

JUST IN: Trump administration lawyers have given Judge Boasberg documents they say show US "does not have constructive custody over" El Salvador CECOT detainees. But DOJ submitted them under seal. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

Former Wharton Business School Professor: "Donald Trump Was the Dumbest Goddam Student I Ever Had."

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to pause much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

Whoa...how about some great Friday night news instead??? The 14-day temporary restraining order blocks admin from: 🛑 Any further DOGE order to "cut programs or staff" 🛑 Executing existing RIFs 🛑 Issuing further RIFs ...in connection to EO, OMB memo, reorg plans. See page 40 here:

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

They’re lashing out against Habeas and arresting Mayors because they know their position is weak and getting weaker, and they’re panicking. It’s scary to live through, but it’s less scary when you remember this isn’t coming from a position of strength, it’s sweaty desperation.

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 14 hours ago • 107 comments

🧵Ok, I rag on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, for his impeachable conduct on deportations and abandonment of all his prior views. But today he's the one "constantly on the phone" and paying attention to the India-Pakistan crisis. Should we be reassured? Absolutely not. 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 67 comments

There's a lot to this, but I'm stuck on one thing: If Americans have a patriotic duty to be as healthy as possible, maybe the Trump administration should be promoting vaccinations?

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 comments

He’s currently plating the Oval Office in gold while selling luxury dinners at his private golf club to rich foreigners who buy his personal crypto token. You know, poor people shit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 119 comments

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1347 comments

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

submitted 1 day ago • 463 comments

The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.

submitted 22 hours ago • 124 comments

Casey Means, President Trump’s pick for Surgeon General, isn't currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be surgeon general—to them, her anti-vaccine opinions aren't extreme enough.

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

For pretty much any government agency you can think of, if their software doesn't work, the agency doesn't work. DOGE fucked up the FAA's software, and people are going to die because of it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Columbia undergrad Mohsen Mahdawi can stay free on bail, per unanimous US Court of Appeals for Second Circuit. It denies govt's stay and mandamus requests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

This is, in a nutshell, much of the MAGA/DOGE philosophy - eliminate enough public employees so that their organization cannot function. (This is the Consumer Product Safety Commission)

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I think it's bad that the president's attacks on journalists regularly feature calls for government regulators to punish them.

submitted 22 hours ago • 239 comments

The Washington Post reports that Marco Rubio's State Department has launched a new project of sorts: Getting foreign nations — particularly, nations who may want to curry favor with the tariff war — to adopt Elon Musk's Starlink service. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

tired: SignalGate @wired.com: The Signal clone, TeleMessage—which Mike Waltz appeared to use in a Reuters photo—has been hacked. And Customs and Border Protection also confirmed it used TeleMessage. Welp.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

NEW: Dozens of contracts killed by DOGE have now been resurrected by federal agencies. DOGE's website still lists them as "terminated," however, inflating the group's success with $200M+ in savings that have already vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Republicans' "budget will skewer the poor and squeeze out crucial long-term investments in energy, scientific research, medical advances, and children," @annielowrey.bsky.social writes:

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

It's a white supremacist administration. All of this tracks.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/08/m... A study released Thursday by researchers at Yale and Harvard provides the most comprehensive accounting yet of the scope of NIH cuts. Virtually every area funded by the NIH, the world’s premier biomedical agency, has been impacted.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

submitted 1 day ago • 302 comments

Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Powerful

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

Senate Democrats unified in opposition to block the crypto-friendly bill that would have enabled Trump’s corruption. We were worried about losing some Democrats on this vote, so thank you for speaking up over the last day. Your calls definitely made a difference.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

To be clear: the Trump administration is trying to send migrants to Libya specifically because of their gross human rights record - not in spite of it. They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

A decades-long campaign to prevent infants from dying in their sleep has become a casualty of the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts, and doctors fear it could contribute to more infant deaths at a time when mortalities have already been rising. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

I know some of you may do this anyway, but I nonetheless urge you NOT to send items like these to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 601 D St. NW, Washington, DC 20530. Please do NOT do that. Thank you.

submitted 1 day ago • 748 comments

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

CDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Legislation moving through the Texas Legislature would give the attorney general power to enforce a pre-Roe law that criminalizes abortion procedures, even out-of-state. Critics say the language is being pushed through a "backdoor effort." boltsmag.org/texas-1...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Judging by Pete Hegseth's priorities, I can only assume transgender servicepeople are flipping these planes into the sea. www.yahoo.com/news/us-navy...

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Watch the new Surgeon General nominee rattle off "too many too soon", "our bodies know what to do", "THEY don't let you think these things!!!!" and the rest of the core RFK Jr disciple articles of faith. Then call Bill Cassidy in the morning and tell him this time, vote fuck no.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

The good people of the United States need to rise up against Trump’s extraordinary assault on our public health.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I hate these people so much. I do not want to be an American under this regime. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

WSJ: Cadwalader’s pact with Trump “is backfiring, adding to an exodus of lawyers that has placed the firm on uncertain footing.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

I reported this in March and posted it again yesterday bsky.app/profile/jswe...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments