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Kaine: "He let Musk force the resignation of the FAA administrator. He disbanded an aviation safety committee... he's got an OMB director who's pushing a hiring freeze & saying 'I want to traumatize the federal workforce'"... he's got an anti-safety agenda..that's why he went the race-baiting route"

submitted 31 days ago • 438 comments

"Mike Johnson let [Steward Rhodes] wander around the Capitol...while claiming discussion of “mercy” was divisive” (EmptyWheel). www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/23/m...

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

Trump's AG nominee withdrew due to charges he was a sexual predator, while Trump's DoD nominee may survive charges that he was a sexual predator, as we learn multiple House Republicans texted a 1/6 witness asking for "sexual favors" and, uh, maybe Dems could draw a bright line around all this?

submitted 39 days ago • 166 comments

"This level of corrupt cash-grabbing would’ve been unfathomable for a president as recently as a decade ago. Now, however, it’s just another form of misconduct Republicans are doing their damndest to normalize."

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Treasury Secretary nominee structured his compensation to avoid $900,000 in Medicare contributions, contrary to IRS guidance. Because hedge fund guys need a break compared to mechanics, firefighters, and schoolteachers who pay into Medicare…

submitted 46 days ago • 204 comments

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

submitted 54 days ago • 1204 comments

Good morning Blue (and pink) Sky

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in celebration of Tom Holland and Zendaya’s engagement, please enjoy this moment from 2017 when she turned into a literal 😍 emoji and we all knew it was for keeps

submitted 56 days ago • 201 comments

And so it begings

submitted 76 days ago • 72 comments

Much needed good news. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #climatecontrol #globalwarming #environment

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

UnitedHealth CEO sent employees a memo yesterday (leaked to me) listing anonymous statements of support for the company.

submitted 81 days ago • 1098 comments

A real headline: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund. www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...

submitted 82 days ago • 106 comments

So, the very same Republicans who said they blocked the release of the House ethics report on Matt Gaetz because he is no longer an elected official, are vowing to further investigate Hunter Biden, who is not now, and has never been, an elected official? Do I have that about right?

submitted 85 days ago • 483 comments

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

submitted 88 days ago • 1098 comments

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

submitted 94 days ago • 234 comments

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

submitted 99 days ago • 663 comments

Judge Merchan takes Trump's sentencing date off the calendar while the parties brief Trump's motion to dismiss the case & vacate the conviction. Sad day for the rule of law.

submitted 101 days ago • 316 comments

REPORTER: Did you sexually assault a woman in Monterey, California? PETE HEGSETH: I have -- ah -- as far as the media is concerned, it's very simple. The matter was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared, and that's where I'm gonna leave it.

submitted 102 days ago • 486 comments

The controversy is not merely that Matt Gaetz raped underaged girls. The controversy is not even just that Donald Trump wants to make this sex predator attorney general. The controversy is that the entire GOP is OK with that.

submitted 102 days ago • 550 comments

Mediaite obtained the police report of the Pete Hegseth alleged sexual assault incident. The details are horrific and should be disqualifying.

submitted 103 days ago • 625 comments

Even if you call them "deportation facilities", they're still concentration camps. Last time Trump imprisoned migrant families and their children they got no soap, no tooth brushes, and little to eat. Children.

submitted 103 days ago • 66 comments

The same Republicans who demanded to see Kamala Harris’s work records from her job at McDonald’s 40 years ago are now refusing to release a new House Ethics Committee report on child sex trafficking allegations against Trump’s attorney general pick Matt Gaetz.

submitted 103 days ago • 55 comments

If there's one thing Republicans hate more than Matt Gaetz, it's Matt Gaetz facing any consequences for his actions.

submitted 103 days ago • 7 comments

so is anybody even going to bother to go through the motions of calling for Trump to divest from his businesses this time around, or did we just give up on that one too?

submitted 103 days ago • 1406 comments

When Trump fired James Comey in 2017, it was a nearly impeachment-level scandal because it was (rightly) regarded as an egregious abuse of power. Now he's going to fire Comey's successor, again for no legitimate reason, but no one cares because Trump has normalized abusing power.

submitted 104 days ago • 132 comments

Biden needs to release all info on Epstein and Diddy cases before they disappear forever. Which they probably will when Trump takes office.

submitted 104 days ago • 47 comments

Chekov's son

submitted 104 days ago • 63 comments

This is next level stupid. NYT: Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged. archive.is/iD723

submitted 105 days ago • 541 comments

this is how Nancy Mace welcomes the first trans woman to Congress

submitted 105 days ago • 1273 comments

“Serial philanderer… wrote having sex with an unconscious woman in college isn’t rape… member of a church led by a guy who thinks women shouldn’t vote… says no women in combat…” This @juddlegum.bsky.social list about Hegseth (who lives in TN) is something else. popular.info/p/13-things-...

submitted 105 days ago • 83 comments

Trump isn't even in office yet & we're already talking about letting him bypass the Constitution as though that's a normal conversation to be having.

submitted 105 days ago • 649 comments

The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.

submitted 108 days ago • 854 comments