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I have heard from workers at multiple agencies that they have been advised by managers not to respond to Musk’s email. Some didn’t say why, others said they’re waiting on guidance from agency leadership—but we can guess what they’ll say.

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The DOGE gang that can't shoot straight: If this is true, it means that not only have the DOGEbros sent an email with a demand of questionable legality to all executive branch workers, but they have sent it to judicial branch employees who are constitutionally beyond their reach.

submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

Statue of Liberty Manly, IA

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

My dog is here to tell you that no matter what’s happening in the rest of the world she’s still got jokes.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Cheerful round-up of bad news for Tusk/Mump.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

After all his claims about free speech, Trump tried to turn the entire government into a vast censorship machine

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Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Good morning! 🪶

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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Wait till they hear about the Department of Transportation

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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there’s emergency beer or emergency pizza, but what we need right now is an emergency caturday

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

anyway here’s a handsome old man dog and his opinion

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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Two Colorado hospitals on Wednesday announced they will resume gender-affirming care for people ages 18 and younger. For families of transgender children, the announcement brought a wave of relief after weeks of heartbreak and scrambling to find new places to receive care.

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This is how to be an ally to the trans community. Also, this isn't just an ex NFL player, he's the first punter ever inducted into the hall of fame.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Boston rally for healthcare, research and jobs. Labor stands up for science; science stands up for labor.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 NEW: Wow, Trump's former VP Mike Pence just called Trump out for lying about Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 103 days ago • 4678 comments

We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

The Denver Broncos have accidentally fired the entire defense and are trying to rehire but cannot reach them

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The IRS has “a vast amount of data from e-payments firms like Zelle, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay, all of which would compete directly with X Money Account, a payment system under development by Mr. Musk’s social media site, X.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 786 comments

To the many people I have read about who are now expressing regret at having voted for Trump, I am sorry you were misled. But the best and most effective thing you can do now is to become an advocate in your community to let people know what’s going on and to get the truth out. Organize people.

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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Good morning! 🪶

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This may seem small in the scheme of things, but is going to make a lot of people who aren’t otherwise engaged in politics big mad.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments