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submitted 4 hours ago • 105 comments

Musk & DOGE are now f*cking with the Social Security Administration. 🚨 IMPORTANT: If you or a loved one experience delayed SS payments or difficulty accessing SSDI services, CALL THE PEOPLE’S HOTLINE! Tell your story. ☎️ 503-212-4600 ☎️ Pass it on:

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

We’re in a timeline where I agree with Mike Pence 🤯

submitted 4 days ago • 510 comments

A 🧵 on threats to/attacks on #PRESSfreedom in the US. Without a #FreePress American democracy will fail. Authoritarians always “come for” the truth tellers. Weapons include threats/stochastic violence “enemy of the people”, abuse of power by officials (subpoenas), lawfare, intimidation.

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: We have filed a new preliminary injunction against DOGE & Musk to block them from from violating privacy and security laws under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts

submitted 5 days ago • 136 comments

Meidas takes the #1 podcast spot, Trump’s DOJ is in chaos, Musk is dodging accountability, and MAGA chaos is hitting Social Security, Ukraine, and veterans. Protests are growing as the public grows angry. Don’t miss today’s bulletin!

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

I don't recall that being his campaign slogan

submitted 4 days ago • 266 comments

Do they support cuts to life-saving medical research? Most members of Congress from Tennessee won't say www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

When “doing your own research” means Googling the cost of child-size coffins

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

A federal judge just said that Cathy Harris, who chaired the Merit Systems Protection Board during the Biden admin, must be temporarily reinstated to her position — after she was fired by Trump — and returned full access to the benefits of her office until further order of the court.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Stephen Miller explodes trying to defend DOGE. “When faced with even the simplest questions about DOGE, Donald Trump’s former immigration ghoul couldn’t keep his cool long enough to make it through an interview on CNN.” newrepublic.com/post/191665/...

submitted 5 days ago • 496 comments

Today in Politics, Bulletin 74. 2/18/25. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

“Congress wants to cut government but not their own budgets. Elon Musk's 'Dept. of Government Efficiency' wants to slash spending—except on his own gov-funded ventures. If they’re serious about cuts, they should start with their own staff and perks. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 5 days ago • 267 comments

FAA's Enterprise Network Services (FENS) is the primary means through which the agency is working to establish a more modern network infrastructure for managing its own operations & the U.S.' civilian airspace. March 2023, Verizon was given a 15y, $2.4B contract. Today, DOGE says Starlink will do it

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

From @vox.com @awprokop.bsky.social: The Trump administration told a judge Elon Musk does not head DOGE. Huh? www.vox.com/politics/400...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It’s not about “government efficiency.” It’s about autocratic power.

submitted 6 days ago • 185 comments

A top Social Security Administration official resigned after clashing with Musk staffers over access to sensitive personal records. They sought entry into an internal system containing Americans’ private data. Thank you, Michelle, for resisting—and for your 30 years of service.

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

Activism is a team sport. None of us can do it all. We each do what we can, when we can.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Jessica: You need to talk about the 3,400 people who were fired from the fire service. Trump was out in California talking about how we need more people working on this, we need to be raking the leaves… 57% of the land there is run by the Federal Government

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

TODAY at NOON. #WeThePeople rally hosted by @indivisibletn.bsky.social @changetn.bsky.social @andersoncountydems.bsky.social @blountdems.org @knoxdems.bsky.social @sevierdemocrats.bsky.social and @indivisibleknox.bsky.social 🇺🇸 mobilize.us/s/Y2KGWg/ #PresidentsDay

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Reuters: USAID WATCHDOG PAUL MARTIN HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM HIS POSITION -OFFICIAL AT OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

submitted 12 days ago • 1186 comments

Why we all need sisu – the Finnish concept of action and creativity in hard times

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

"The constitutional question of whether the president can delegate authority to a billionaire campaign donor to shut down federal agencies is not one Republicans are very interested in answering." Our loss. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/musks-usai...

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Gen Z finds democracy dull because it knows so little about history

submitted 14 days ago • 96 comments

Push back everywhere. You obey in advance if you call this takeover/hijacking an "audit".

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, Vance, and Musk are pushing to rehire a staffer who resigned after being called out for a social media account with a history of racist posts. “To err is human, to forgive divine,” Elon Musk said in defense of the move. No—it’s not err; it’s racism. No excuses.

submitted 15 days ago • 269 comments

Image by: @illustrationsbyanniee Shared from: @amypoehlersmartgirls DON'T BE T.R.A.S.H. It's so simple. Love thy neighbor.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: this is completely lawless

submitted 16 days ago • 1644 comments

Musk’s staffers are heading to the Pentagon, while Trump continues his attempted purge of Washington. He recently announced on Truth Social that he is appointing himself as head of the Kennedy Center and plans to remove multiple members from its board of trustees.

submitted 16 days ago • 249 comments

We said we were leaving The Bad Place if he bought it. We stayed. Then we said we’d leave if he did away with fact checking. We stayed. Now he has unfettered access to our federal government and our personal info. It’s time to go.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Marko Elez, an Elon Musk staffer with access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payments system, has quit after racist and pro-eugenics posts surfaced, including one stating, ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’

submitted 17 days ago • 410 comments

A staffer for unelected billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE has links to a deleted social media account that advocated for racism and "eugenic immigration policy." The 25-year-old employee, Marko Elez, who has since resigned, was embedded in the Treasury Department. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 17 days ago • 169 comments

WSJ reduces Musk’s staff by one. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 17 days ago • 173 comments

Marko Elez is the first of Elon Musk's DOGE boys to resign after the Wall Street Journal uncovered racists posts including ones where he "advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act" & backed a "eugenic immigration policy" Elez previously worked at SpaceX and currently works at X

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

BREAKING - Elon Musk minion RESIGNS in disgrace Marko Elez, 25, previously called for a "eugenic immigration policy" and repealing the Civil Rights Act Straight up NAZI RACISM of the sickest kind - and he was in charge of all of your tax and payment info through the US Treasury

submitted 17 days ago • 204 comments

Marko Elez = mini Elon Musk

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments