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The fuck. Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

"Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone"

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

The only difference is that in America, these fuckers won instead of getting arrested

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 4 days ago • 987 comments

Again, any time a Republican says we have to slash Medicaid to fix the deficit, they need to be asked why we shouldn’t just increase taxes on the rich. It’s a zero sum game. Make them defend giving more money to billionaires over keeping ordinary people healthy.

submitted 4 days ago • 137 comments

Please let this pass with one vote. Every single vulnerable Republican will be tarred as being the deciding vote on stripping healthcare from their constituents and exploding the debt, all to give tax breaks to billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

submitted 5 days ago • 805 comments

Random foreign actor: send us all your deets by tonite. Military leaders: Who the fuck is this guy? Don't do it. Obey the chain of command. Random foreign actor: Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

To be clear, no career staffers means no guardrails, no data security and, ultimately, no Social Security.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 13 days ago • 636 comments

This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on. That is part of the crisis we face.

submitted 14 days ago • 720 comments

I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of all USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.

submitted 17 days ago • 90 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 18 days ago • 2313 comments

Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Elections Commission, said Thursday in a social media post that President Donald Trump tried to illegally remove her from her job.

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

Scene at Treasury

submitted 26 days ago • 315 comments

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

submitted 26 days ago • 736 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 26 days ago • 927 comments

If you are more worried about protecting a political party from criticism, or spend more time policing the different types of leftists, progressives or liberals, all the while a right wing regressive oligarchy is dismantling the foundations of your country, you need to recalibrate your priorities.

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

I think there are good odds that the Trump administration uses the retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada on lumber as an excuse for large-scale private timber operations on federal lands. They may even try to privatize national parks, etc. at a significant level.

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.

submitted 28 days ago • 77 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 30 days ago • 2948 comments

It wasn't DEI, it was DOGE.

submitted 31 days ago • 177 comments

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

submitted 30 days ago • 2169 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 31 days ago • 259 comments

Update: It's not going so well.

submitted 31 days ago • 135 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 31 days ago • 1047 comments

Maybe cheap, maybe not. Completely fair for Dems to demand an investigation of whether Trump’s lawless, destabilizing blitz against the civil service, and his cronification of the Pentagon contributed to the accident in any way. Completely.

submitted 31 days ago • 44 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 31 days ago • 3791 comments

NEW: The Chairperson for the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency has sent a letter to the OPP advising they consult White House Counsel on the legality of ousting 17 inspectors general. 👀

submitted 35 days ago • 541 comments

Bishop Mariann Budde didn’t mention the word “mercy” by accident. It is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible. All of these “Christians” just scoffed at it.

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

A couple of comments abt Trump's IG massacre. First, as WaPo notes, Trump hired many of these people. A good chunk of Trump's fight against The Deep State is actually an attempt to disavow his own past choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 27 comments

NEW VIDEO: Trump signed an executive order that makes it easier to fire and replace federal employees. Paige and I discuss its connection to Project 2025 and the lawsuit filed against it. youtu.be/XdBIAW7J1Ng

submitted 36 days ago • 131 comments

Hegspeth is confirmed. Now What? He has no idea how to manage the Pentagon. So he is going to be dependent on his direct reports. Most of which require confirmation. The Dems have to use whatever political skills they have to get qualified, rational people in these positions ? Suggestions ?

submitted 36 days ago • 3407 comments

In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 37 days ago • 533 comments

Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)

submitted 40 days ago • 672 comments

Fox News reacts to stories like an immune system attacking a threat—whatever they hit hardest is what they fear most. A bishop preaching kindness and pleading with Trump? Immediate outrage. Elon Musk's salute? Full defense mode. Says it all.

submitted 38 days ago • 43 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 40 days ago • 1181 comments

This is the strategy folks. We need to prioritize, keep grounded.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"While the Mike Johnsons of the world are forming anti-porn accountability pacts with their teenage sons, the misogynistic view of women held by their porn-addled brethren is mirrored in their religious culture."

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

‘looting is out of control’

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Trump getting Turner booted as House Intel chair while making Tulsi Gabbard DNI is absolutely a five-alarm national security fire

submitted 45 days ago • 84 comments

Incredibly likely this gets remembered like Eisenhower’s farewell warning regarding the military-industrial complex that took shape during his presidency and came to define the country moving forward.

submitted 45 days ago • 85 comments

What Biden is warning about going forward: -oligarchy -the “tech-industrial complex” -disinformation -AI -the collapse of common purpose

submitted 45 days ago • 16 comments

Trump team apparentrly saying Hegseth FBI file too terrifying to let all but a couple of senators see it www.axios.com/2025/01/14/t...

submitted 47 days ago • 102 comments

Andrew Garfield gave $10 million to fire relief. The richest man in the world loaded up the pitifully tiny trunks of his dumb trucks with a few hundred dollars in groceries to promote himself. again.

submitted 48 days ago • 37 comments

Trump risks turning the US into a rogue state https://www.ft.com/content/39226003-2274-42b1-bae4-1a37d931f6b6

submitted 48 days ago • 26 comments