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The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

submitted 1 day ago • 670 comments

More Americans say Trump is a dictator than say Zelensky is

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

What is Liz Cheney up to these days? Adam Kinsinger is all over social media. Why is her profile so low??

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump’s approval rating is underwater and sinking fast.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 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 1 day ago • 3408 comments

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

submitted 1 day ago • 881 comments

Facts

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly — and we should probably listen.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 848 comments

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

submitted 2 days ago • 1018 comments

Pretty devastating new WaPo poll on Trump A majority of Americans: • Say he’s not honest (62%) • Say he’s exceeded his authority (57%) • Disapprove his job as president (53%) • Disapprove his economic record (53%) • Disapprove management style (54%)

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

submitted 2 days ago • 528 comments

BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

submitted 2 days ago • 269 comments

Exactly right

submitted 2 days ago • 752 comments

Congratulations @meidastouch.com well done! Thank you for everything that you do!👏

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Trump's a sociopath

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

You cast the net too widely, and you’re gonna drown in it yourself. JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy is now on a list of books to be reviewed and possibly banned, per PEN America.

submitted 2 days ago • 262 comments

Kelly loeffler is married to the owner of the New York Stock Exchange 👀👁️👁️💯

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Unfortunately firings have continued at the National Nuclear Safety Administration. I’ve been contacted by an NNSA worker who was fired, then told her termination was paused, then told she was fired again. She says there were numerous others at NNSA treated the same way. These people keep us safe.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Oh nothing to see here — just the United States of America aligning itself with Russia and against Europe. This is fine. Totally fine.

submitted 2 days ago • 418 comments

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in his state of the state address: “it took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. ” Exhorts constituents to “gather your justice and your humanity.”

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

A drug addict who makes cars that spontaneously explode, plows into cops, and crash at much higher rates than other cars, is going to fix the air traffic control system? I'm not getting on a plane until this drug-addled illegal immigrant is deported or imprisoned.

submitted 4 days ago • 928 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 466 comments