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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 6 hours ago • 699 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

submitted 6 hours ago • 57 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 3 hours ago • 191 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 7 hours ago • 1196 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 13 hours ago • 66 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 1 day ago • 577 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 1 day ago • 1111 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 844 comments

🔥 NEW YORK: “The red line has been crossed. They’re not playing by the rules. We have to the gloves off.” Big ovation at an @RepPaulTonko town hall as a teacher encourages him to push back even harder, even get arrested to stop the Trump/Musk rampage. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGVuDVe...

submitted 17 hours ago • 53 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 838 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

submitted 1 day ago • 1016 comments

Trump & Musk claim they’re cutting waste, but their priorities tell a different story Jobs or money cut from feeding starving kids, fighting bird flu & protecting the nuclear arsenal—while Trump pushes for TWO new Air Force Ones when what we have now is just fine Fake populism at its finest

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 2 days ago • 977 comments

Dem base: "Oh my god, Trump is acting like a king! Please raise the alarm!" Democrats: "Too complicated. No way to explain this to normie voters." Dem base: "OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY JUST CALLED HIMSELF A KING" Democrats: "A distraction. We should talk about the complicated policy stuff."

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

How Hitler seized power: 1. Create a crisis. 2. Demonize opponents. 3. Declare a state of emergency. 4. Undermine elections. 5. Make the rule of law irrelevant. 6. Rule by decree. If America falls it will be because of the people who didn’t pay attention.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

President Trump is firing American workers who monitor bird flu outbreaks, safeguard nuclear facilities, and now those who promote American history in Dorchester – all to help pay for tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations.

submitted 3 days ago • 169 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 2 days ago • 920 comments

Dems, if you don’t shove this down his throat (metaphorically) you are worthless.

submitted 2 days ago • 141 comments

Such a shame that every media outlet is in the House and Senate press galleries ready to cover a Dem daily press briefing (it's their beat if it's done in Congress) but Dems simply won't do it. I've every detail covered on this, so there's no excuse @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Imagine if President Barack Obama had done this. From an official White House account no less. This. Is. Insane.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

submitted 3 days ago • 1196 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 3 days ago • 777 comments

BERNIE: “Trump, Musk, and the oligarchy are moving us towards authoritarianism and the privatization of every government agency… millions of people all over 🇺🇸 need to stand up to it.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGPQky6...

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are messing with your Medicare benefits. Democrats passed a law to finally let Medicare negotiate with Big Pharma for lower prices. Now Trump and Musk laid off the negotiators. That means higher drug costs for you. Nothing efficient about that.

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

“Absolutely heartbroken… I am a father, loving husband, and dedicated civil servant.” While Kevin O’Leary says “cut cut cut cut more” — as if 🇺🇸 is a business (it isn’t) — these are the people whose lives are being ruined by Musk/Trump to pave the runway for greedy tax cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 3 days ago • 1258 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 3 days ago • 1262 comments

The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

submitted 4 days ago • 606 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 4 days ago • 1514 comments

The more you know…💫

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

No, 150-year-olds aren't collecting Social Security benefits. Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud; but there's a much simpler explanation.

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 5 days ago • 2246 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 5 days ago • 788 comments

I absolutely love this idea.

submitted 6 days ago • 648 comments

Authoritarianism relies on elite consent which is why after the fall of Nazism collaborators were dealt with the way they were. A lot of elites are collaborating right now

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

submitted 6 days ago • 2411 comments

this is unreal

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

Trump is having English translated to English 💀

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

Action item for today New Yorkers: call Gov. Hochul and demand she fire NYC Mayor Adams. What a joke of our democracy he has made!

submitted 7 days ago • 121 comments

Q: “When Elon Musk met with Prime Minister Modi, did he do so as a CEO, or as a representative of 🇺🇸?” TRUMP: “I don’t know. I’ll ask him.” 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 7 days ago • 200 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 238 comments

Hochul has to remove Eric Adams as mayor, today The conservative head prosecutor in NYC who just quit her job rather than participate in the Adams-Trump corruption spells it out: Adams offered a quid pro quo, trading the freedom of New Yorkers in exchange for the charges being dropped

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 8 days ago • 1783 comments