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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to $1.3 million for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, really really really really really did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump, when Isaacman was offered the NASA post. This ranks up there as some of the worst testimony that I have ever seen on Capitol Hill.

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

The insiders seem to have had a 20min warning before the public

submitted 6 days ago • 318 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 6 days ago • 314 comments

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

submitted 6 days ago • 2370 comments

It seems that Trump wants a recession. Why? A recession will drive down the prices of real estate, companies, and shares of stock. Trump and his fellow billionaires want to buy up everything on the cheap and then enjoy the ride upward — no matter the cost to working people.

submitted 8 days ago • 283 comments

what a visual

submitted 9 days ago • 207 comments

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

submitted 9 days ago • 621 comments

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

submitted 11 days ago • 544 comments

Makes ya think

submitted 11 days ago • 221 comments

Warren: "This is really a moment when Republicans in the House & Senate have to ask themselves - are they really just here to bend the knee to whatever Donald Trump wants, even if it crashes economies all around the world? Or are they here actually to represent the interests of the American people?"

submitted 11 days ago • 146 comments

I've got a bunch of DMs here asking me, a retired military officer, what I think about Trump going golfing instead of meeting the returning caskets of four US soldiers killed overseas. It might be an unpopular opinion, but you know, good, go the fuck golfing. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

👇🏽🤷🏻

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

submitted 13 days ago • 83 comments

Incredible Harlan sequence here in full

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Perfection

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French President Emmanuel Macron has called for companies to stop investing in the U.S. for now.

submitted 12 days ago • 145 comments

OMG. I was wondering that as the tariff numbers made no sense, but this is even dumber than I thought. I mean, this is "fail your econ 101 class and have to go meet with the professor" bad.

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance. The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.

submitted 13 days ago • 180 comments

Trump is currently blasting the trade deal with Canada and Mexico. You know, the one he negotiated in his first term.

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

Elon’s Downfall

submitted 14 days ago • 232 comments

Farm families earn more than non-farm families. Farm families are wealthier than non-farm families. If Americans are to pay high tariffs to bring back toaster-making jobs, farmers should bear their share of the sacrifice. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments

Can’t blame the libs for this. electrek.co/2025/04/01/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 397 comments

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

submitted 15 days ago • 1261 comments

At some point we have to acknowledge that a large number of Republicans are just dumb as fuck. They have no worldview other than what Dear Leader says. That’s frightening.

submitted 15 days ago • 202 comments

Trevor Milton donated $920,000 to Trump’s PAC last year. He never made political donations before that. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 18 days ago • 548 comments

My hope is that when career professionals at Defense, NSA, CIA, State, and other agencies absorb the sheer hypocrisy of their bosses getting away with sharing classified information with zero punishment, they will anonymously leak every sordid story, rumor and detail about their bosses to the press.

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

Trump has set up an “electronic mailbox” for corporations to ask him for exemptions to the Clean Air Act. The exemptions would allow companies to pollute the air with mercury, which can cause brain damage and birth defects.

submitted 19 days ago • 183 comments

SCOOP: WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

In many places where Donald Trump is hugely popular, residents are increasingly reliant on state income transfers. The issue could fracture the Republican party. www.ft.com/content/45eb...

submitted 20 days ago • 59 comments

The thing I keep coming back to is that if a random airman who worked on the flight line had disclosed this info on an unsecured device, they'd be court martialed

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Ireland has now issued travel advisory to the US, after Finland, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. Is this what makes America great?

submitted 20 days ago • 164 comments

Was Tulsi Gabbard lying today, or was she lying yesterday?

submitted 20 days ago • 1195 comments

BREAKING NEWS: A high level source at the DOD has informed me that the Trump Administration authorized deployment of Signal onto government phones last month and it is a primary means of communicating with the White House. Read my exclusive story: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 days ago • 422 comments