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Dear Jackasses standing in & taking up half the subway car doorway during rush hour: move out the way to let folks on and off. Jackasses.

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NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

submitted 2 days ago • 1108 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 2 days ago • 3309 comments

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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NYC! 📣🗽☀️ We’re Standing Up for Science in Washington Square Park on March 7th from 12-3 PM! Share with someone in NYC who should show up & support Science! ⬇️ #standupforscience2025

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

submitted 3 days ago • 340 comments

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

Decent people thank Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 231 comments

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 532 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 3 days ago • 440 comments

we can still save social security if we start referring to it as the SS

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

submitted 6 days ago • 748 comments

The White House Correspondents' Association needs to stop covering the White House. Boycott. Blackout. Get out and cover what this administration DOES not what it says.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Usually the counterpoint to “president says false thing” is not “BUT he believes it.”

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

Carpet bombing the federal government is about more than just justifying tax cuts for the wealthy. It is also about flooding the labor market with supply to keep private payrolls down. Go do something more productive means go make someone else a fortune for less pay.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

submitted 7 days ago • 863 comments

If you are a 90s kid wondering what it was like to live in the Soviet Union where the media printed lies that everyone knew were lies, here you go. Apple does not have any manufacturing in Mexico www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 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

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MAGA has a bill that would disenfranchise someone you know. The SAVE Act is the GOP’s attempt at mass voter suppression disguised as an election integrity bill: indivisibleteam.medium.com/maga-has-a-b...

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 11 days ago • 296 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants. This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 14 days ago • 482 comments

$15 Billion+

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

submitted 36 days ago • 311 comments

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are trying to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

submitted 15 days ago • 524 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 18 days ago • 525 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 17 days ago • 452 comments

That satisfying swoosh of the Empty Trash button

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Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

submitted 23 days ago • 314 comments

Great point.

submitted 22 days ago • 1221 comments

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

submitted 22 days ago • 645 comments

This is the first story I’ve read identifying one of the detainees newly sent to Guantanamo, by @capitol.press migrantinsider.com/p/air-jordan...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 23 days ago • 861 comments

At this point, if a media outlet - or an elected official - isn't treating this as a MASSIVE crisis, at the same level as a foreign invasion or whatever, they are totally f'ed up. bluevirginia.us/2025/02/frid... h/t @memeorandum.com

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.

submitted 26 days ago • 288 comments

Yes! cc: @gillibrand.senate.gov STOP Voting to confirm ANY of these people— you cannot meet fascists halfway, and there are no trustworthy Rs- they’ll Lucy that football every time. @schumer.senate.gov (Chuck, please tell Senator G, who hasn’t yet set up Bluesky)

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Saturday, February 8th Union Square, 1pm. Protest #NYULangone, #MtSinaiHospitals and #NYPresbyterianHospitals wrong headed policies of caving to fascists. Stand for human dignity! #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️ [email protected] www.instagram.com/p/DFqYWvey6G...

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Russian government leading the effort to get Tulsi Gabbard confirmed. "We've got your back, Tulsi", says Russian TV. Trump's nominee for top State Dept job is a Uighur genocide apologist who also thinks America should deliver Taiwan to China. China and Russia LOVE Trump term 2.

submitted 28 days ago • 67 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 4322 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 27 days ago • 1419 comments