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It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.

submitted 3 hours ago • 48 comments

OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

submitted 9 hours ago • 511 comments

Run for Something had to lay off a bunch of staff over the past year. Big Democratic donors don't seem to be flocking to support them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

This is some lovely infographic design

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 20 hours ago • 586 comments

This is just awful. I’m trying to be patient but holy shit Democrats, what are you even doing? I got a fundraiser today from the DGA about how PBS is under attack. Are you fucking kidding me? Fire all of the consultants you have. Start over. DM me.

submitted 20 hours ago • 491 comments

Local news has picked this up, noting, “Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris also appeared to be in attendance at the event, although he has yet to offer a public statement after multiple attempts to contact his office.“ You can see him downthread. www.khq.com/news/attende...

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 17 hours ago • 99 comments

Dear manager: 1. Friday night I crashed your party 2. Saturday I said, "I'm sorry" 3. Sunday came and trashed me out again 4. I was only having fun, wasn't hurting anyone 5. And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 16 hours ago • 123 comments

'luigi mangione being celebrated as a hero will lead to a valorization of vigilante violence' is one of those things that only sounds reasonable if you start paying attention to American vigilantism at the exact moment it targets someone with wealth and influence

submitted 23 hours ago • 65 comments

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 23 hours ago • 98 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 282 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 23 hours ago • 192 comments

Democrats should all start making the jerk off motion when asked about anything Trump-related, just to see how it gets described. “Controversial gesture that suggests self-pleasuring”

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

It's been awesome seeing the same conspiracy theorists and people on the right who built careers warning about FEMA camps actively support migrant concentration camps. FEMA camps but thee but not for me, I guess.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2057 comments

More carnage. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Weekend must-read. Quote of the day: "Durbin, essentially proposing to solve the problem of book-burning by making it illegal to publish books."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

I’m here in Rockville, MD for another #TeslaTakedown protest outside a local Tesla dealership!

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 1 day ago • 233 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

Alex Kozinski has gone completely off the deep edge. abovethelaw.com/2025/02/disg...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

h/t @crampell.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

The Democrats are taking another long weekend and STILL agreeing to unanimous consent. It’s fucking insane. These people are not fucking listening.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

From @reuters.com: DOJ said it will drop an administrative case that accused billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX of hiring practices that illegally discriminated against immigrants. www.reuters.com/legal/us-say...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Absolutely shocking and very worrying from NOAA www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Looks like @nytimes.com has stealth-edited this to add Evans' affiliation with Young Republicans. No correction or update note. I don't think I've ever worked with a single editor who would let me get away with that but it seems to happen regularly over there.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

coiling yourself in knots to act like you don't recognize a sieg heil gesture because you're worried about the blowback from the "terrorist fist-bump" people is some worm hall of fame shit

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

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US and Russian participants met in Switzerland for unofficial talks about the Ukraine war in recent months, including as recently as last week, three sources with knowledge of the matter said reut.rs/4ic373v

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By the way, this is one of the issues where you might be able to make some headway with GOP reps if you live in a rural district. It has always been the heavily red rural districts that stopped them from destroying USPS in the past. Reps know their constituents depend on USPS.

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No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Tonight I’m pulling an all nighter in what's called a "vote-a-rama" with my colleagues to amend and reduce the harm to Michiganders in the Republican-led budget proposal. www.youtube.com/shorts/-QBvs...

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110 donors. 214 listings. over 300 individual items. Twelve days. The auction is officially OPEN 🧶🏴‍☠️😱🏳️‍⚧️🖌️ Let’s raise some money for trans kids in the South! www.32auctions.com/ofmdcraftfai... #ofmdcraftfair

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

one of the most insidious things happening in american politics right now is flying under the radar through Delaware's Dem-controlled legislature. important thread explaining what's going on there:

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments