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If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 1 day ago • 856 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 hours ago • 242 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1972 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 544 comments

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1303 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

This is what I was talking about last week.

submitted 3 days ago • 285 comments

Connolly: "The fallacy of Musk's argument is they never look at revenue. They only look at expenditures. If you want to save social security, it's a fairly easy fix. Raise income threshold subject to withholding tax & you can extend social security by 40 to 50yrs. He doesn't want to talk about that"

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

submitted 3 days ago • 1103 comments

I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

submitted 3 days ago • 693 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1465 comments

Oh cool Trump just re-invented DARE.

submitted 3 days ago • 1200 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

submitted 4 days ago • 631 comments

I'd bet cash money that he cut a deal to get a private mail delivery contract, and to hand over his project to electrify the USPS truck fleet to Tesla in exchange for his resignation. Just a hunch.

submitted 4 days ago • 617 comments

“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 4 days ago • 261 comments

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

submitted 4 days ago • 1224 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

Trump Admin fired all of the US Attorneys appointed by Biden, informed them by email, and sent the messages to the wrong email addresses. Not just classless, but incompetent, too.

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

I want to save billions of your money and make our government more efficient. Rummaging through your personal shit is not that. A party of chaos loses—always.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? If it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” —A. Lincoln

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

It's heartening that today the leaders of the two major parties in Germany are unequivocally anti-Nazi and anti-fascist. It's horrifying that today the president and vice-president of the United States of America are not.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

The IRS Free File pilot program helped 140K taxpayers save $5.6M in tax filing costs in 2024. Despite recent claims, the program is still running and is now available to 30M people in 2025. Any attempt to dismantle it will enrich the tax prep industry at your expense.

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

Walking the dog. Like I do every day. She pooped. Like she does every day. I picked it up with a little baggie. Like I do every day. But today, instead of waiting to toss the bag of fresh, steaming dogshit in a trash can at home, I left it on the hood of a double-parked Cybertruck. Where it belongs.

submitted 7 days ago • 1048 comments

At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

submitted 7 days ago • 823 comments

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

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If you think Nazi flags are ok, but Pride flags aren’t, you may just be a horrible, hateful human being.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

“…according to arts leaders, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feel it is no longer safe to speak freely about art and culture in the United States.” wapo.st/4hTr3Z2

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

Looking forward to celebrating SNL’s 50th this weekend! Heading to Radio City for the concert tonight with my son, Joe. Do you remember the Al Franken Decade? And the Joe Franken Decade? Well, now it’s the Al Franken Millennium. And it still will be for 975 more years! #SNL50

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

When you definitely care about chronic diseases

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NEW: approximately 330 National Cancer Institute probationary employees will be fired this afternoon. That’s a bit less than 10% of its entire staff.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.

submitted 8 days ago • 1057 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 8 days ago • 327 comments

Acting AG Emil Bove tried to reassign Mayor Adams’ case to the public integrity unit at Main Justice in DC. Upon learning of this, senior DOJ officials resigned. The heroes are here.

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

Hey, if you're working in a federal agency or department—or know someone who is—and have a story to tell, please contact me here and we can move to Signal. Good luck to all.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

This is starting to make the Saturday night massacre look like a garden party. The people with real responsibility, the AG & the acting AG are lined up with the WH, not the courageous prosecutors standing up for ethics and integrity.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments