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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 20 hours ago • 620 comments

Trump is much fonder of the world's most brutal autocrats than he is America's allies -- or the countries that were our allies before he retook power.

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1378 comments

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1925 comments

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

The Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans.

submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

The Social Security Administration’s records include all Social Security numbers, comprehensive medical records for disability benefits, bank information, earnings records and more, Altman said. “There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Elon is telling everyone that he discovered trillions of dollars of social security money has gone to dead people & there is something else Congress is doing today besides holding hearings & having him testify about it under oath? Why? What could be more important?

submitted 5 days ago • 217 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 846 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Elon Musk posted these two tweets on the same day

submitted 6 days ago • 276 comments

The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.

submitted 6 days ago • 294 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 921 comments

NEW: Inside a chaotic 48 hours of resignations and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

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submitted 6 days ago • 783 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

🤔

submitted 7 days ago • 941 comments

A statement from Robert B. Fiske Jr., John S. Martin Jr., Mary Jo White, James B. Comey, David N. Kelley, Geoffrey S. Berman, and Audrey Strauss:

submitted 8 days ago • 204 comments

More than 60 major moves that President Trump and his administration have made in his first 23 days, including executive orders and agency memos, have aligned with proposals in the Project 2025 blueprint, according to a New York Times analysis.

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

submitted 9 days ago • 2712 comments

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

It's day 22 and he still doesn't have a plan to lower your prices.

submitted 11 days ago • 1837 comments

It would be nice if someone who has sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution actually understood it. Checks and balances, man. Checks and balances.

submitted 14 days ago • 151 comments

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 83 comments

There it is

submitted 17 days ago • 801 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2838 comments

Holy shit. “USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down. Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.” Follow the money.

submitted 18 days ago • 345 comments

Is there someone else available to be the Front Man? We got to have a little self-awareness here.

submitted 18 days ago • 459 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 19 days ago • 2652 comments

How it started.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

everybody clap for elon and his fluff monkey. they "deleted" the office that now allows you to file your taxes for free as opposed to paying Turbotax

submitted 19 days ago • 109 comments

A woman who was pardoned by President Trump for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for driving drunk and killing a passenger in another car, nearly a year after the riot.

submitted 23 days ago • 116 comments

Trump's handling of this situation should be treated as one of the biggest scandals in presidential history. There is blood on his hands.

submitted 23 days ago • 1294 comments

Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers

submitted 23 days ago • 3821 comments

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

submitted 24 days ago • 259 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 24 days ago • 1414 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 24 days ago • 555 comments

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 24 days ago • 331 comments

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

submitted 24 days ago • 123 comments

It’s a cult. Their position is whatever the dear leader dictates at any given moment.

submitted 25 days ago • 124 comments

A flood of criminals loosed upon us. Expect more of these idiots to commit new crimes.

submitted 26 days ago • 102 comments

The Leaning Tower of Treason.

submitted 28 days ago • 780 comments

On today’s episode of “if Obama” If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup” Shameful.

submitted 29 days ago • 264 comments

lolll

submitted 28 days ago • 809 comments

Apt Onion headline for six days into Trump II -Claims to redefine Constitution via exec order -Fires inspectors general in open violation of law -Confirms dangerously unqualified SecDef -Pardons numerous 1/6 rioters who beat police No opposition from Rs, Ds and media quiescent. There will be more.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

1) Incite violence 2) Remove security from targets of incitement 3) Pardon those who commit violence against the targets.

submitted 30 days ago • 70 comments