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WSJ's analysis of the fraudulent claims about savings that DOGE is making comes to similar conclusions NPR did earlier: $2.6B v $2B of real savings. But it also notes how much of the cuts are research focused. It also notes that JUST 2% would go to DEI. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1932 comments

About that 4.7 trillion and TAS code that supposedly Treasury has taken care of now applauded by Elon Musk and DOGE Looks like it was taken care of in 2024 under Biden www.fiscal.treasury.gov/cars/treasur...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 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 6 days ago • 2287 comments

Want to control what the US spends it's money on? Have Congress pass a spending bill and sign that into law. That's it, that's the Constitution. You can't pick and choose what you don't like about laws that passed before.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Current pop country music captures the movement of the right. Hardly any singing about poverty, relationships, or making one’s way in a tough world, but countless songs that go like “I don’t give a fuck if you hate my fifty thousand dollar truck.” No one even knew about your truck bro, relax

submitted 26 days ago • 195 comments

California Department of Water Resources Statement.

submitted 26 days ago • 473 comments

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available free on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

submitted 28 days ago • 259 comments

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health

submitted 28 days ago • 898 comments

Here’s a (very long) fact sheet on the Biden Administration’s record of accomplishments. Please feel free to share this ahead of his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office tonight at 8 pm EST. 🇺🇸

submitted 39 days ago • 152 comments

I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job

submitted 39 days ago • 4648 comments

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

submitted 39 days ago • 1900 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 45 days ago • 904 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 45 days ago • 821 comments

Jessica: There is a story that there was $17 million cut from the fire budget and that is inaccurate. The budget had an extra $17 million because they bought one off expenses. Respiratory protection for firefighters. There’s an extra $50 million set aside for the fire department

submitted 45 days ago • 145 comments

I lived in a town with a Butterball factory. I saw raids in the 90s with Feds coming in and leaving town with van loads of undocumented workers. You know what I never saw? The Feds arresting the folks who hired undocumented workers…

submitted 49 days ago • 159 comments

A vaccine that prevents 90% of cervical cancers!!! Any normal parent would be beating down their drs office door to get their kid vaccinated #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSavesLives www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Carter had solar panels installed on the White House. Reagan took them down. It was one of the first examples of one political party embracing technology and a clean energy future and the other appearing to get joy out of dragging their knuckles along the ground in order to hurt our planet.

submitted 52 days ago • 17 comments

In 1979, Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed at the White House. Ronald Reagan had them removed. We may be able to trace back the current "Do Harmful Things if it Trolls the Libs" Republicanism to Reagan removing those panels the far more forward thinking Carter had installed.

submitted 55 days ago • 1129 comments

Wow, I never knew he said this. Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time—a man of unmatched kindness and integrity. Truly, he was too good for us.

submitted 54 days ago • 992 comments

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

submitted 54 days ago • 289 comments

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)

submitted 56 days ago • 414 comments

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

submitted 56 days ago • 2054 comments

Breaking: Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the US, has died, the Washington Post reported. He was 100

submitted 56 days ago • 26 comments

"In this sea of opinion/bullshit, people today are much less likely to hit upon genuine information than they were 30 years ago. This bedrock fact means that they’ve become acclimated to relying on opinion/bullshit."

submitted 57 days ago • 19 comments

Missouri funds schools in the most inequitable way…only 32% of funding comes from the state. The rest must come from local taxes, which is why schools in the city have massive performing arts centers and million dollar football fields, and schools in the country don’t have science labs.

submitted 58 days ago • 121 comments

Costco responded to shareholders requesting that it withdraw from DEI policies. The response was direct and to the point: Costco says, "Our board has considered this proposal and believes that our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect & inclusion is appropriate & necessary." ❤️COSTCO♥️

submitted 58 days ago • 1102 comments

Happy birthday Jesus

submitted 60 days ago • 219 comments

A fair question.

submitted 61 days ago • 929 comments

U.S. House fails to reauthorize 20-year-old bipartisan bill to fund rural schools, communities Reported by the Idaho Capital Sun, part of @statesnewsroom.com. I've stopped looking for news in all the wrong places. Going local for pro-democracy reporting now. idahocapitalsun.com/2024/12/24/u...

submitted 61 days ago • 8 comments

TODAY’S EPISODE OF: WE FU*CKING WARNED YOU NYC firefighter unions that supported Trump and Republicans are furious at the House decision to strip funding for the 9/11 healthcare program.

submitted 62 days ago • 2179 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal court DENIES Republican motion to block certification of North Carolina Supreme Court election. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 65 days ago • 208 comments

Rep. Balint: "Who is it that we're negotiating with? It sure looks like we're negotiating with a boy billionaire who is playing at government. And why is he doing that? Because he's got $15 billion wrapped up in federal programs."

submitted 65 days ago • 181 comments

‘This week MAGA extremists in South Carolina introduced a bill mandating the death penalty for women who seek an abortion’. I don’t ever want to hear these mF’s utter the term ‘pro-life’ again! www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

submitted 65 days ago • 194 comments

Gov. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social declared a state of emergency in CA over avian flu. State inspectors detected the flu in over 650 herds of dairy cattle. While there is no evidence the disease has spread human-to-human, the potential has motivated the declaration. apnews.com/article/bird...

submitted 65 days ago • 70 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 66 days ago • 2671 comments

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

submitted 66 days ago • 1060 comments

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

submitted 67 days ago • 301 comments

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV. Big news. abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-p...

submitted 74 days ago • 123 comments

What a strange headline for a story that notes: 1. 2,169 ballots were rejected for no ID. 2. "The voter ID law disproportionately hindered Democrats." 3. "The evidence overwhelmingly shows" that fraud "is essentially nonexistent." 4. The state Supreme Court race was decided by only 625 votes.

submitted 91 days ago • 310 comments

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 95 days ago • 1047 comments

Sri Lanka tried RFK Jr.'s food plan, and it was catastrophic. Productivity plummeted, causing food shortages, skyrocketing prices, lost exports, and an economic collapse. Farmers faced huge losses, forcing the government to reverse the ban and import costly emergency food.

submitted 100 days ago • 290 comments