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There were already people in the government "reducing waste, fraud and abuse." Trump fired them and replaced them with one unelected asshole who's canceling programs he personally doesn't like and awarding himself government contracts

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to be very clear obama wins by 7 points in 2008 gop: no mandate obama wins by 4 points in 2012 gop: no mandate biden wins by almost 5 points in 2020 gop: no mandate trump wins by 1.5 points last year gop: the most sweeping mandate in american history

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It is an attack on our humanity. Once you turn off empathy you can do anything. It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

1. Short everything 2. Announce tariffs 3. Close out short positions 4. Buy the dip 5. Call off the tariffs 6. Sell the spike 7. Repeat Is there any reason to believe Trump's entire inner circle isn't doing this?

submitted 5 days ago • 105 comments

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

submitted 5 days ago • 740 comments

Translation: “I’m taking your taxpayer dollars, using them to buy crypto that I’m already invested in, and making myself and my rich friends billions of dollars.”

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Brought to you by the “pro-life” party, ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

submitted 11 days ago • 127 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 17 days ago • 1119 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 20 days ago • 2285 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 35 days ago • 166 comments

Facts.

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This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

submitted 36 days ago • 942 comments

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

submitted 37 days ago • 199 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 37 days ago • 600 comments

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

submitted 37 days ago • 91 comments

“The party running against the 3rd Reich wasn’t that great either” is how so many people sound. Like just stop talking! Shut the fuck up!

submitted 37 days ago • 226 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 38 days ago • 2305 comments

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

submitted 39 days ago • 348 comments

cool how Project 2025 went viral during the election, we were told Trump disavowed it and wouldn't do it, he got elected and started implementing it immediately and now we're being told "well this is what people voted for" they very explicitly did not

submitted 41 days ago • 430 comments

THE MOST important legal analysis I have read on the Trump presidency. It offers a unifying theory of the administration's unprecedented claims to extreme executive power. The claimed power to override Congress at a policy whim. By two brilliant scholars. Trevor Morrison and @adambcox.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 40 comments

I'm a former OMB official and this is absolutely true. And let's also not forget that these illegal actions have direct, harmful consequences for actual people. New moms won't get help feeding their infants. Small businesses won't make payroll. People could lose their jobs, their homes.

submitted 40 days ago • 65 comments

A huge problem right now is that the media is credulously reporting that so many things Trump is doing by EO/edict/OMB or OPM memo is just the end of the matter, that he can do it by fiat. That is not true.

submitted 40 days ago • 66 comments

jesus bouncy house christ abcnews.go.com/US/doj-order...

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

The US Constitution does not grant the President this unilateral authority. In Illinois, we will stand against unlawful actions that would harm millions of working families, children, and seniors.

submitted 41 days ago • 306 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 41 days ago • 1659 comments

Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.

submitted 42 days ago • 1092 comments

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

submitted 41 days ago • 158 comments

Dear the media (especially legacy outlet editors and the White House press corp), Congrats on getting the electoral outcome you hoped for. Sorry the bonanza of attention, ratings and glory you envisioned haven't materialized. Best of luck with the whole "enemy of the people" thing. Love, Democracy

submitted 43 days ago • 15 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 45 days ago • 1263 comments

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

submitted 45 days ago • 88 comments

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you will do something about it

submitted 46 days ago • 202 comments

Big yikes.

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This is a beautiful thread and some much needed perspective.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

He’s just a lying fascist. Don’t ask why. Don’t wonder aloud with stuff like “WTAF,” “how is this real?,” etc. Don’t spend that energy that way. It’s pointless. He’s a lying fascist. In his bones, at all times, until he dies he will be this. Now go do something about it.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like something that might come in handy.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

"Masculine Energy"

submitted 49 days ago • 289 comments

Good. About goddamn time.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

submitted 49 days ago • 920 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

submitted 53 days ago • 640 comments

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

submitted 52 days ago • 1738 comments