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Hold on. Have they considered if a 20-year-old cybercriminal says "but Elon says you have to!" Surely that carries the force of law, right?

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 3 hours ago • 121 comments

Another example of how these attacks on higher ed are impacting more than a university campus or a ‘college town’; they impact society.

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Separately, on Musk's email, a point I think is not being made enough is that federal payroll makes up less than 5% of US government spending. Federal workers are 1.4% of all workers, but they're responsible for how 25% of US GDP is spent. This has nothing to do with saving money

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 comments

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 81 comments

The Trump administration told Mexican officials to impose duties on Chinese imports to avoid US tariffs.

submitted 2 hours ago • 41 comments

In November, they voted for Trump. In February, he laid them off. For the next election, they're thinking Trump.

submitted 2 hours ago • 40 comments

I hate when a narrative is reinforced by factual events

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

With Elon’s “tell us what you accomplished last week or you’re fired” emails: I can confirm that he didn’t limit himself to the executive branch. He sent them to employees of the judicial branch as well.

submitted 4 hours ago • 147 comments

Sen @smith.senate.gov holds the seat previously held by the great @alfranken.bsky.social , and earlier by the great Paul Wellstone. She is living up to that honorable tradition. (Has announced she's not running again.)

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

That guy is Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command. He's basically the guy in charge of making sure the boats are good boats. And he has to send a frantic email out telling everybody to treat DOGE like a phishing attack.

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

Christopher Miller is the Executive Director at Naval Sea Systems Command. VADM James Downey is the commander of Naval Sea Systems Command.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Did you know that Medicare does NOT pay for long-term care. NOPE. 2/3s of longterm care for your parents is paid by MEDICAID. If you want Medicaid cut, your parents wiil need to move into your house when they need long-term care & YOU will be providing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

From a source whose agency got the Musk/Trump email: Numerous federal employees often don’t check their emails unless told to. They also don’t typically have govt issued computers so many can only access email at the agency or department facility…

submitted 4 hours ago • 34 comments

In the White House's readout of Trump's call with Trudeau, they claim that "President Trump reminded the Prime Minister that the [Ukraine] war should never have started and would not have had he been President at the time. The Prime Minister agreed."

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

Interesting dilemma for anyone working in classified jobs. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 8 hours ago • 36 comments

Good thing we are not in a race against any adversarial countries over science and technology www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

The US economy is currently bigger than the next three largest global economies combined. Trump is blathering about the 19th and early 20th centuries because he thinks he’s living in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

submitted 8 hours ago • 97 comments

The stage of capitalism where companies advertise on a Nazi porn site for fear of government reprisal. gizmodo.com/it-sure-look...

submitted 8 hours ago • 30 comments

Rachel Maddow, what does she have? She took a sabbatical. They paid her a lot of money. She gets no ratings. I should go against her in the ratings

submitted 8 hours ago • 368 comments

Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 9 hours ago • 135 comments

New findings from Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio & Bob Ward Generic ballot —> D+5 Among swing voters: —66% say tax priority should be helping working class families; 1% say helping highest earners —Top-polling policy: extend expiring health care tax credits under ACA

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

submitted 11 hours ago • 89 comments

‼️ Ukraine demands to reduce the mineral fund from $500B to $100B, NV reports based on sources. Zelensky previously stated that U.S. spending on the war in Ukraine was around $100B, not $500B. nv.ua/ukr/world/ge...

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

Poland is paying for and will continue to finance Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system, according to Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski.

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 9 hours ago • 324 comments

Trump lies his ass off at CPAC: "77 million [votes] and it's actually much more than that, because despite that, they cheated like hell. It was just too big to rig."

submitted 9 hours ago • 262 comments

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

submitted 10 hours ago • 80 comments

“Twitter is not real life” they say, as twitter nazis including the richest man in the world tear down the government around them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Also note the context of some bad polling numbers for Musk, a few GOP in Congress raising a few questions, and another story or two of "WH insiders and Cabinet Secs worried and unhappy about Musk". Trump is really doubling down on Elon, not throwing him overboard.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Representatives are having a rough time answering to their constituents. Make sure you keep calling, and absolutely show up to your local town halls and make sure your voices are heard.

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

The Tesla Cherry Protest is over 300 strong! Way to show up South Jersey! #teslatakedown #protest

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Really interesting that this (more sparsely attended) event focused on Trump's sell-out to Russia. I expect fury abt the DOGE cuts. But this is a bit of a surprise.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 178 comments

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

Man he really called it

submitted 9 hours ago • 55 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 9 hours ago • 216 comments

This is basically it:

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 11 hours ago • 393 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 12 hours ago • 97 comments