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The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 14 hours ago • 668 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 14 hours ago • 404 comments

Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

Gee I wonder.

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 17 hours ago • 79 comments

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

submitted 22 hours ago • 1009 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 15 hours ago • 67 comments

What a petty little bitch. It must be a requirement for the Trump DoJ.

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

I’m shocked.

submitted 15 hours ago • 472 comments

Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I wonder what race he … come on, let me finish before you start laughing

submitted 16 hours ago • 46 comments

A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

This letter to the editor from 1961 voices the same diagnosis of the nation's ills and the same solution--to completely obliterate the New Deal state--that animates the MAGA/Project 2025 blitz we're experiencing now. That 1961 newspaper was put out by a fascist who helped found the Posse Comitatus.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

This is how dictators talk.

submitted 18 hours ago • 135 comments

Emergency food, TB testing and other programs have not resumed, despite a judge’s order halting President Trump’s dismantling of USAID.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

submitted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 18 hours ago • 134 comments

“It is not too late to salvage the agency and its mission. The agency’s partner organizations are hanging on and its overseas missions seem to have remained mostly intact, for now. The laws establishing U.S.A.I.D. in federal statute and its budget appropriation remain in force and unaltered.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 21 hours ago • 2120 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 19 hours ago • 149 comments

“Dissolving” the leadership of the USPS and “absorbing” the agency into the executive branch? Are you kidding me? We've already seen the effects of Trump trying to undermine USPS independence. Under Louis DeJoy, a Trump crony from his first term, Maine experienced chronic mail delays.

submitted 21 hours ago • 22 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

submitted 21 hours ago • 47 comments

Yes, Rufo is good at playing the good faith to the reactionary centrists. The guy knows his marks.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

submitted 21 hours ago • 87 comments

Wah wah wah. Fuck this cunt.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I wanted to comment on this new piece on how firing bureaucrats ➡️ dictatorship. This is important research & you should read it. BUT, it is focusing mainly on cases where dictators succeeded. Are there important differences between these cases & the US? A 🧵 👇 theconversation.com/firing-civil...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 676 comments

Fox really can't handle when they get challenged.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump's SEC and DOJ dismissing lawsuits against crypto scammers and Musk's companies is too on the nose.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

On Feb. 21, 1965, civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot to death in New York. Three men identified as members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of murder and imprisoned. All were eventually paroled. (Convictions of two of the men were dismissed in 2021) Read more: t.ly/2NyWx

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

submitted 1 day ago • 450 comments

Good Lord, the bucks suck man. They are just not a good basketball team.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is the most concise analysis of the strategy to dismantle the US that I have read.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How Vladimir Putin became an unlikely folk hero for many white working-class Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Did the US fight on the wrong side in World War II? This Federalist Society law professor thinks so.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

The Trump/GOP “Big Beautiful Bill" in question: — Cuts to Medicaid, which will rip health care away — Cuts to SNAP, which will strain food assistance — Gives more $$$ to billionaires like Elon We need 3 House Republicans to stop this disastrous bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Punchbowl News reporting that Trump and Hegseth plan to start firing top generals, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was overwhelmingly Senate-approved for a 4-year term back in 2023. No one can say they weren’t warned.

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

The difference between MAGA and the Nerd Reich is that the Nerd Reich's plan assumes Trump is too lazy to be dictator.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Lol...

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This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/20/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is an uncomfortable truth people won't want to hear.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Scoop: 40 news orgs have signed on to a letter circulated by the WHCA supporting the AP and denouncing Trump's move to block them from official events. The WHCA has gone through great pains to keep the letter from leaking, but I obtained a copy. Read it in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

It’s scary to have threats of violence directed toward you. It is fucking reprehensible to use your power to deflect those threats and in so doing amplify them ten thousandfold against the population you claim to represent.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

The oath of office doesn’t have an “if I’m really scared all bets are off” clause. It is precisely when it’s hard that the oath matters most. When breaking it is the greatest betrayal it can be.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments