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BOOM. (As an aside, having pronouns in mail/email signatures is VERY helpful when someone you're not familiar with has a gender-neutral name like "Chris" or "Sam" regardless of trans/gender ID issues)

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 204 comments

Would be interesting to know whether the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser reviewed this arrangement and whether it would constitute an international agreement. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 6 hours ago • 187 comments

What’s being lost as health experts are caught in the drive to shrink the federal government? Today’s story w/ @anniewaldman.bsky.social is about the ones working to save lives We’re going to keep reporting & want to hear from you. Reach me on Signal 312.730.4797 or at [email protected]

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Gotta watch the local and state politics - this is where they're trying to solidify their fascist grip on our country.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration is significantly shrinking the agency that helps state and local officials protect voting systems, Stateline reports. stateline.org/2025/0...

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Good to see the power of the people is still alive. We the people govern ourselves in a democracy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 48 comments

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

"Political deviants of all kinds long found it convenient to slipstream under the language of more respectable right-wing politics. But...this analysis misses the ways in which the Trump years have genuinely made so many right-wing people worse."

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

It used to be "the left is making up all the stories of hate crimes or brutality." Now it's "don't let your heart be moved by the bad things we're doing."

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Name one thing Trump has done that Putin isn’t ecstatic about.

submitted 17 hours ago • 79 comments

For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 18 hours ago • 801 comments

More CFPB news: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employees have been told that the bureau's Washington HQ lease is cancelled and the agency has 30 days to vacate the building www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 1 day ago • 986 comments

Beware Trump especially on Friday evenings, notorious slow news time to undertake mischief with minimal scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 60 comments

Someone send Insurrection Ed a dictionary

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 551 comments

If you take Canadian oil out of the equation, Canada actually has a trade deficit, and the U.S. has a surplus — of $58 billion. We supply cheap oil to the USA to ensure North American energy independence, so North America can never again be held hostage by OPEC countries. #Canada #Trump #cdnpoli

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2744 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 21 hours ago • 103 comments

“Many workers say they live in a constant state of fear, unable to trust their colleagues, unable to speak freely, reflexively engaging in self-censorship even on matters they view as crucial to national security.” Fed gov used to be a great place to work, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 17 hours ago • 48 comments

"The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech" The president set a precedent by banning them for not writing"Gulf of America"and they rightly want that precedent overturned apnews.com/article/ap-l...

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

I didn’t even realize there was another Nazi salute at CPAC aside from Bannon. Fuck all of these people.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

Another possible explanation why Republican congressmen aren't doing their jobs is they're busy abusing their young mistresses www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 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 21 hours ago • 133 comments

Don’t see how gov can even defend this lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 17 hours ago • 51 comments

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 22 hours ago • 845 comments

Be clear about what you are seeing. The firing of these senior officers has nothing to do with competence. This is creating an oath of loyal by the Armed Forces to the Leader. We face an uncertain future.

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

Quite the consequential Friday night massacre. They not only took out three top military leaders, but also the JAG officers who interpret what’s lawful and constitutional for military command.

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

The language of the letter aims not only to let people go but also to gaslight and demoralize them. It doesn't matter what the actual ability, knowledge or skills are.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday banned Elon Musk’s team from regaining access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment and data systems until the conclusion of a lawsuit that claims the group’s access is unlawful.

submitted 18 hours ago • 84 comments

[email protected] shows you where you can watch the best picture nominees this year, and some thoughts on whether they deserve that title: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-wat...

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

“That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

FWIW, if I ran a newsroom, I'd assign a bunch of reporters to very-specific Trump-related beats, require them to publish almost daily, and insist they always stay in their lanes. No saving up reporting for a big package geared towards the Pulitzer Board or holding back material for a book.

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

submitted 1 day ago • 23 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 19 hours ago • 325 comments

"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 19 hours ago • 43 comments

Churchill: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Trump and Musk: "Who cares. Let Russia win."

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Why we have and need a US Department of Education 🚨 New from @brookings.edu scholars, an initiative to walk through the federal role in education, particularly the ongoing need for a Department of Education and all it does www.brookings.edu/collection/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 577 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 19 hours ago • 200 comments

The Great Start Readiness Program, which enrolls more than one-third of Michigan 4-year-olds, passes a benefit-cost test, mainly by increasing parents’ earnings: New analysis by our @timbartik.bsky.social #Econsky #Edusky

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So, the House Republicans published their official budget resolution today, which, as expected, calls for gutting Medicaid/CHIP. As a reminder, nearly 80 million Americans rely on Medicaid/CHIP for their healthcare coverage...nearly half of whom are children. acasignups.net/25/01/30/psy...

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

President Donald Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, as part of a broader shakeup of top military officers.

submitted 19 hours ago • 58 comments