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If you're looking for a word to describe Donald Trump & Elon Musk, the Germans are seven decades ahead of you.

submitted 7 hours ago • 64 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1158 comments

C-PAC is a cult gathering, not a convention! This “Third Term Project” poster at CPAC is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. The same people who were screaming about “the deep state” are now openly fantasizing about a dictator-for-life.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1574 comments

Forgot to post the second sign we took to the Tesla Takedown, courtesy of my younger child

submitted 7 hours ago • 66 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 13 hours ago • 356 comments

Says the guy who won't even respond to the mothers of his own children

submitted 11 hours ago • 2347 comments

He nails it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1388 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1158 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1321 comments

Governor Janet Mills, effectively told Trump, “I won’t bow down, mushroom boy!”

submitted 1 day ago • 201 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

submitted 14 hours ago • 94 comments

Well. Tulip is awake

submitted 18 hours ago • 342 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

submitted 1 day ago • 1988 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 1 day ago • 961 comments

Shane Trejo: "Trump is making the globalist slime show their true colors. Hopefully it leads to Right Wing Death Squads before long. This plague must be put down." #MIGOP #RepublicansForNationalRenewal #3rdTermProject #MagaNazi

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

For those that didn’t believe me when I said Trump is gonna try to run again in 2028…

submitted 13 hours ago • 81 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1951 comments

Thousands of federal employees, some of them Trump voters, are now without jobs thanks to Musk who is going to get contracts and government subsidies for his companies. This while the price of eggs & groceries are high. These families just lost a source of income. How do you think will play out?

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

submitted 14 hours ago • 113 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 1 day ago • 505 comments

Take a moment to process this: Musk has had his private thugs—who aren’t public servants and don’t work for the government and operate under no known standard of conduct—as _federal law enforcement agents_. When a CPAC host told him his army of security is “enormous,” he replied it should be bigger.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 841 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

submitted 1 day ago • 606 comments

From United Humanists on FB

submitted 23 hours ago • 804 comments

Happy Friday! This is the resistance. Cause some Good Trouble today!

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.

submitted 1 day ago • 739 comments

Casually bringing this back… #OCanada 🍁

submitted 1 day ago • 320 comments

“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

submitted 1 day ago • 535 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

While the governor of Oklahoma is on right-wing media every day glazing DOGE, domestic violence homicides in his state have hit a record high. Between all the pronoun-bashing and diversity-slashing Kevin Stitt does on TV, when does he have any time to address this crisis?

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1548 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1019 comments

WATCH: “What are you going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House?” An @reprichmccormick town hall in a red GEORGIA district erupts in cheers - then boos loudly as he tries to invoke Biden and both-sides Trump’s actions. Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DGUf45s...

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3429 comments

Trump voters wanted the rest of us to suffer to feel great again. They wanted us to experience pain. The ones crying now with "I didn't know Trump would do that" mean they didn't think it would affect THEM. But they were perfectly fine with everyone else suffering. Alas. We're all in it now.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

Bryce Canyon National Park 🇺🇲

submitted 1 day ago • 369 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

submitted 2 days ago • 578 comments

I feel like a lot of very normie very moderate liberals prefer AOC to most other congressional Dems and there’s something there, something to build on.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Do the people in the USA ever question the fact that they are the richest country in the world, but crime, healthcare, education, life expectancy are all like a 3rd world country. Do they not realize they are being robbed?

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments

Big news at @democracydocket.com! 🥳

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

The last thing King Donold wants is for millions of Americans to protest in Washington DC and just not leave.

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Protests happen when they happen, if you can only show up on certain days show up on those days, if no protest is available on your dates then organize one, open your own spaces. Protests need to be daily, but not everyone is expected to show up daily. Do what you can when you can. Just show up.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments