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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia, according to a current official and two former officials briefed on the secret instructions." "Part of a larger re-evaluation of all operations against Russia."

submitted 22 hours ago • 75 comments

Incredible chart

submitted 22 hours ago • 66 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice? CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 2291 comments

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Russia, Russia, Russia.

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This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 1508 comments

NEW: So today in DOGE order just went out that all civilian DOD credit cards are immediately frozen/can't be used. This applies to people who are in the midst of DOD official travel. So maybe you're in Albania and your credit card just stopped working. Or maybe you're on travel from ...

submitted 4 days ago • 279 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 4 days ago • 3398 comments

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Kristi Noem told attendees at a CPAC dinner Friday that Trump directed her to launch a taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanded she thank him in the ads. No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

Trump's House allies launch a new frontal attack on the federal judiciary with bogus impeachment effort. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The U.S. attorney in Washington says DOJ "will be vigilant in standing against entities" like the Associated Press, that "refuse to put America first." The AP's transgression is, apparently, not adopting the president's preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

People are mad, and we should be. We know when we’re being scammed. In the name of “efficiency” Musk is firing park rangers and cancer researchers, and defunding Medicare and Medicaid, all to find money for tax breaks for himself and big corporations.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

"As President Trumps' [sic] lawyers" ... Uh ... that's not your job, champ.

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Grok Response: Elon Musk is the biggest liar on X, connected to 15 pro-Russia accounts. AI expert Linus Ekenstam asked Grok who spreads the most disinformation, and the answer was blunt: Musk, the master of deceit, is leading the charge in spreading falsehoods. www.yahoo.com/news/grok-re...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Do Americans want to be aligned with Russia against all of our traditional allies in Europe and Asia? I don't think so

submitted 7 days ago • 923 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 8 days ago • 258 comments

"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

I just hope Amazon puts the focus back on classic James Bond storytelling elements. Like the long history of villains that are grossly wealthy, insecure egomaniacs desperate to validate their fragile egos with wild schemes to control the media, governments, and space itself.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Beyond the cruelty, there’s the dumbfounding incompetence. First, they push through an announcement that 2200 employees would be fired from the Indian Health Service, removing doctors & nurses from our poorest citizens. Then they reduced it to 950 layoffs. Now it’s zero ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-...

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 16 days ago • 136 comments

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 3449 comments

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

submitted 16 days ago • 103 comments

The other crazy thing about this is that it shows that Musk and his entourage THINK THAT WHAT HE DID AT TWITTER ACTUALLY WORKED and was a good plan. The levels of delusion are fairly stunning.

submitted 16 days ago • 63 comments

The State Department's "procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles."

submitted 18 days ago • 110 comments

“Gulf of America” is the “Freedom Fries” of 2025.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

House GOP wants $4 TRILLION dollar debt ceiling increase. You marks really thought the world’s richest man and the guy with the golden toilet seats were really going to “fight the elites” for you? Nah, they just want their tax breaks.

submitted 19 days ago • 780 comments

No, they haven't "sparked debate." They've sparked backlash against a bad faith actor with a direct financial interest in propagating this nonsense no matter who he kills.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

submitted 21 days ago • 498 comments

MAGA: “He’s saving us so much money!” His tax cuts alone for billionaires will add $3.9 trillion to $4.8 trillion to the deficit.

submitted 21 days ago • 62 comments

Trump meme coin update: TRUMP: Over $100 million in trading fees THE PUBLIC: Over $2 billion in loses

submitted 21 days ago • 89 comments

Every Fed who deals with IT or security is saying the same thing, all of us.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 22 days ago • 527 comments

Russell Vought just told CFPB to shut down @rmac.bsky.social & @stacycowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments

Have you seen this scoop yet? Trump’s pick to be FBI chief was paid by a pro-Putin propagandist.

submitted 23 days ago • 65 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 1679 comments

Father, tell me again how The Event started…

submitted 24 days ago • 73 comments

How is this not a crime, a conflict of interest requiring recusal, or something you get disciplined for? You are the prosecutor and the defense lawyer on the same case?

submitted 25 days ago • 89 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 26 days ago • 810 comments

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 26 days ago • 917 comments

We are going to see political investigations and prosecutions. The question is whether the public, the courts and the media will recognize and call them out as political. Will they stand up against them or will people stay silent and allow them to continue.

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