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Big Deal: The office of special counsel, the head of which Trump recently tried to fire before being blocked by a judge, has issued an opinion which suggests that many of the recent firings are unlawful. The details here matter. So def read the piece. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

submitted 9 days ago • 891 comments

In advance of SpaceX/Elon engineers causing more airliner catastrophes here's a remind that American commercial aviation has had a near perfect safety record going back 23 years. Totally unprecedented in aviation history. Here's a graphic that gives the overview.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

I'm starting to think that maybe robber barons aren't buying newspapers and social media sites to promote the free flow of information.

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submitted 13 days ago • 132 comments

Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 14 days ago • 541 comments

3400 Forest Service employees laid off, after the deadline.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

just a storm of small dick energy here

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

substack.com/@chrischirp/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Not to worry as it’s only a tier 1 violation of the Constitution and, as everyone knows, it only really becomes a problem at tier 3 and above.

submitted 24 days ago • 221 comments

Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit. By me at @wired.com:

submitted 24 days ago • 219 comments

updated with additional info >> Trump II Punishes Fed Workers For Attending Trump I Diversity Training talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

New: A group representing thousands of US doctors is suing the Trump administration over the sudden removal of public health data from government websites, arguing it creates a “dangerous gap” in information available to track disease and diagnose patients www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 1032 comments

As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's @steveinskeep.bsky.social speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's history, in which a few wealthy men grew very close to political power.

submitted 24 days ago • 53 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 24 days ago • 428 comments

A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will try to help.

submitted 25 days ago • 55 comments

No president has the authority to override the protections Congress has granted to people seeking safety at the border.

submitted 25 days ago • 55 comments

This at an essential point. If Republicans want to abolish USAID they're as free to do that as with any other part of the government - through Congress. (i.e., follow the constitution) There's a budget process starting right now. Go for it. Doing it this way is illegal.

submitted 25 days ago • 58 comments

Musk’s Little Green Men: Meet the teen and early twenties college drop outs who control the budget of the US government. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musks...

submitted 26 days ago • 39 comments

Make America Healthy Again

submitted 28 days ago • 427 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 28 days ago • 2949 comments

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

submitted 28 days ago • 2002 comments

Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Throuhg the Federal Government? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...

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