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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 16 hours ago • 1286 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 407 comments

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress: With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

ICYMI 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

Her answer is completely unhinged on the level of a Baghdad Bob or the North Korean state TV lady. It could be a bit in The Death of Stalin. A parody of authoritarian regime apparatchiks emphatically professing belief in a patently absurd official line.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 10 days ago • 1751 comments

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

submitted 10 days ago • 367 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing. youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE

submitted 10 days ago • 123 comments

It started in Silicon Valley as a fringe idea: an inefficient democracy needs to die - replaced by a "red Caesar" dictatorship that would fire federal employees and govern with the latest tech Thiel, Musk and Trump are making this dystopia a reality. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

submitted 11 days ago • 257 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 12 days ago • 168 comments

Among the data used by Cambridge Analytica to profile gun owners in the database: income, debt, religious affiliation, whether they liked the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite. By Corey G. Johnson & @byardduncan.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

NEW: It's not just coders. DOGE is filled with lawyers, elite attorneys with conservative credentials. We have new names: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 15 days ago • 1401 comments

New jobs report one of the worst since COVID - 143,000 jobs created. So far under Trump: - GDP growth has slowed - Job growth has slowed - Inflation has risen - Destructive tariffs loom - Fed did not cut interest rates - GOP econ plans will explode the deficit

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

a lot going on but keep an eye or two on this in the coming weeks

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 15 days ago • 157 comments

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

submitted 16 days ago • 133 comments

Tomorrow AM's pod on this is really harrowing stuff. He goes into detail about what this really means. Absolutely awful. Trump/Musk are trying to wreck our standing in the world.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Trump has seized the archives, the article explains, because he feels the prior archivist played a role in revealing he had classified documents piled up in an unsecured bathroom at his tacky golf club. Once again, we all have to suffer because he got caught criming.

submitted 16 days ago • 99 comments

WAPO: ".. Records obtained by The Post show that several members of Musk’s DOGE team .. were given .. sweeping authority to install and modify software .. and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 16 days ago • 134 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

submitted 17 days ago • 83 comments

The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 19 days ago • 282 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 821 comments

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

submitted 24 days ago • 987 comments

A SpaceX Dragon docked with the ISS in September - for this purpose - and is already scheduled to return in March. All arranged by NASA while Biden was president. Trump has had nothing to do with it. Fantasy stuff.

submitted 24 days ago • 94 comments

Hi! Are you on Medicaid and were you essentially turned away from the ER by being told that it isn't clear that you care would be covered due to Medicaid portal issues? Email me at [email protected]

submitted 25 days ago • 49 comments

GOP lawmakers are aiming to erase trans Arizonans from public life and ban government agencies from displaying LGBTQ pride flags, ignoring warnings from their attorneys that doing so might be unconstitutional via @glorihuh.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Directly under the supervision of Russia's Presidential Administration, the Russian government's "Social design Agency" expands operations to social media platform BlueSky, with initial efforts aimed at swinging German elections and discrediting Ukraine. kyivinsider.com/russian-infl...

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

submitted 28 days ago • 4898 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Trump's DHS just invoked a never-before-used authority which permits the federal government to deputize any state or local law enforcement officer to have the same powers as an ICE or Border Patrol agent.

submitted 29 days ago • 138 comments

Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely wapo.st/4hkbEB6

submitted 29 days ago • 71 comments

Buried in Trump's border Executive Order is a line for the HLS and DOD Secretary's to report back to him about invoking the Insurrection Act. This is a very dangerous escalation. We will discuss it today for @votevets.org with former ND Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Join us live at 1PM ET/11AM PT!

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

"“The rise of Nazi Germany, where these industrialists and financiers made a pact with the devil, is similar to what Russian oligarchs did in 2000 with Putin,” he (David de Jong) said. “That, I think, is the most apt comparison.” www.publicnotice.co/p/david-de-j...

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Wow

submitted 30 days ago • 889 comments

Leaked documents suggest the group is trying to rebuild its brand by targeting youth, and in particular the Boy Scouts www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 30 days ago • 119 comments

Trump just literally eliminated an Executive Order to reduce the price of prescription drugs. They are ripping you off, personally. They never gave a shit about the price of anything.

submitted 32 days ago • 227 comments