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Either this is a distraction, which is irresponsible, or it’s serious, which is insane. You choose, Mr. Trump.

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Pentagon denies Trump’s claim: “The U.S. did not give Ukraine $350B—only $183B,” reports Voice of America. $58B of that was spent in the U.S. to boost defense industry & upgrade weapons. They add that $3.9 billion authorized in aid, remained unspent. www.holosameryky.com/a/trysta-pja...

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

JUST IN: MSPB member Cathy Harris, who's suiing over Trump's attempt to fire her from a position overseeing civil service disputes, lines up #SCOTUS litigator Neal Katyal for likely high court fight

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

Fellow journalists, what shorthand phrase are you using to describe DOGE when "cost-cutting project" is clearly lying to readers? I opted for "government-disruption project" in this story I wrote Friday, but I'm open to ideas.

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 19 hours ago • 37 comments

He’s really picking the wrong city to fuck with this time. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 12 hours ago • 990 comments

#Emails2DOGE

submitted 12 hours ago • 184 comments

#Emails2DOGE

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

submitted 13 hours ago • 154 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 18 hours ago • 240 comments

The shareholders at Tesla would probably like to ask a similar question: "Elon, what did you get done for us last week, other than further alienating our most likely customers with your obnoxious fascist stunts?

submitted 15 hours ago • 251 comments

This is correct. Health care is one of the data-driven ways you reduce crime 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Elon Musk Causes Panic For Federal Employees. I need your help to spread this everywhere because if people don't read Elon's Twitter, they may not be aware. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 13 hours ago • 103 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1228 comments

"Reagan was a zealous patriot, a gifted orator, and a statesman. Trump is a grifter, a humorless clown, and a dangerous demagogue. The very idea of a Trump-Reagan fusion is a grotesque calumny of the Gipper." Gabriel Schoenfeld from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trumpis...

submitted 12 hours ago • 61 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 13 hours ago • 517 comments

The month of moping ends now. Here is an incredibly practical plan for fighting fascism. And it involves you acting, not waiting for Democratic spinal growth. Let’s go. Watch and share Anat Shenker-Osorio’s brilliance. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

The Nazis are burning down the parts of government that help people while telling their base that the problem is not the arsonists but the marginalized communities also struggling under the boot of the state. We keep asking "why are they doing this," and it's because you have neo Nazis in charge.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Do you make less than $360,000 a year? Your taxes are about to go UP. And you have Trump, Musk, and the Republicans to thank for it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 93 comments

"It makes me sick to think of him profiting from such vile hate.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

What the fuck does this even mean? They are just terrorizing millions of hard working Americans for sport. Trump and Musk are the most anti-worker public leaders America may have ever produced.

submitted 18 hours ago • 75 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

In case anyone has any doubt whose idea this is, Musk sent similar emails to employees shortly after buying Twitter www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-ex...

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

📌Happy birthday, George Washington. You couldn't believe this if you tried ...

submitted 19 hours ago • 78 comments

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

submitted 17 hours ago • 303 comments

Elon Musk issuing government edicts on the platform he owns. I guess if you are on a vacation, in the hospital, etc, the government will just assume you've resigned if you don't respond to the email?

submitted 17 hours ago • 40 comments

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 17 hours ago • 468 comments

As per usual, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social has managed to distill exactly what needs to be said. Litigation is crucial. Yes, the courts are captured. Yes, laws are not real. Whatever. We should still be litigating tooth and nail.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

🧵 1/Chilling read about an ‘87 miniseries. Available on YouTube. “If the election of an 🇺🇸president abetted by Russian interference seems stranger than fiction, you're almost right. Exactly 30 yrs ago, in the midst of the Cold War, ABC aired a 7 night, 14 1/2 hr… www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

This is horrific to see. And any news organization that resorts to any sort of euphemism to describe this is absolutely failing everyone.

submitted 18 hours ago • 39 comments

Did you know? Republicans want to cut $880 BILLION from Medicaid to pay for a massive $4.5 TRILLION tax cut for their billionaire donors! Let that sink in for a minute…

submitted 21 hours ago • 179 comments

Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 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.

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NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

$200 mil in self-glorifying ads & he's cut children's cancer research, USAID for starving & sick children, is bankrupting American farmers who grow the food for the starving children. And J.D. Vance has an app that let's foreign investors buy up said farms that Trump/Musk/Vance are bankrupting.

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Irish Roman Catholic bishop Michael Router praises Episcopal bishop Mariann Budde for her address to Trump in the U.S. National Cathedral. www.newwaysministry.org/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I've been thinking a lot about Hanlon's razor recently ("never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") and about how it is based on a fundamentally false dichotomy. Malicious stupidity is a real thing...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

PSA: Just cuz something happens doesn’t mean it is constitutional. Don’t forget that.

submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

Thoughtful decision by Judge Ho to ask for independent briefing on whether to dismiss the DOJ case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams - my take on just how extraordinary it is that DOJ is trying to dump the case - youtu.be/H07bOercnfU?...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the President, but Trump and Hegseth’s firing of CJCS Chairman General Brown will reflect badly on the civilian leadership, not on the military.

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In 2019, RFK, Jr went to Samoa to discourage people from taking the measles vaccine Vaccination rates for kids plummeted 5 months later, Samoa had a measles outbreak 5,000 people got sick 83 died The measles isn’t coming for RFK But he’s making damn sure it’s coming for every American instead

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

I am fine with the US negotiating to get access to rare earth minerals anywhere in the world ... through willing exchange and investment. Not by duress. Not as loot gained by carving up a people's freedom.

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