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submitted 1 day ago • 193 comments

Trump is butchering Ukrainians. Not for us. For Russia.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

That is exactly true.

submitted 2 days ago • 1281 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 2 days ago • 1297 comments

Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

President Trump's largely rosy assessment of the U.S. under his new administration is contradicted by other indicators, including public polling, economic markets, court rulings and remarks from U.S. allies.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Trump has been president for 6 weeks.

submitted 6 days ago • 145 comments

www.reuters.com/world/polish...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 9 days ago • 675 comments

“The Ukrainian Family”, Marc Chagall, 1943

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submitted 10 days ago • 880 comments

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

submitted 10 days ago • 493 comments

Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy

submitted 10 days ago • 3424 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 2836 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 10 days ago • 3191 comments

Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

submitted 10 days ago • 148 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 897 comments

America is bleeding power and influence around the world. Russia and China are laughing their asses off every single time Trump and Vance do something embarrassing—like today’s shitshow with Zelensky. We are a lot less safe with these clowns in charge.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Facts matter.

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

I don’t actually know the rules of the SOTU response, but if I were in charge, I’d play around with the format a bit. Bring in people harmed by Trump since he took office—Medicaid recipients worried about losing their health care, veterans who have been laid off. Make it about them, not us.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

A whale-watching crew in California captured video of a "superpod" of about 2,000 dolphins swimming off the coast. So many the water looked "like it was boiling," a boat captain with the crew said. nyti.ms/4ki1Fy7

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

submitted 12 days ago • 1036 comments

Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Elon Musk is wreaking havoc on US science in Antarctica. Program managers have been purged; workers fear they could be fired while being trapped until October; foreign nations including China already recruiting, poised to take over. This is from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 1579 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 3 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 16 days ago • 416 comments

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 18 days ago • 1119 comments

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

submitted 19 days ago • 413 comments

The Presidio Trust, a federal agency charged with running and protecting the historic San Francisco park, should be “eliminated” because it is “unnecessary,” according to an executive order issued by the White House on Wednesday night.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

NIH has a new center to study Alzheimer's & dementia It just lost 10% of its staff to the Trump layoffs, including a top scientist in line to be the next director "These people are experts and are irreplaceable" Important reporting from @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 23 days ago • 2044 comments

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

submitted 23 days ago • 396 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 23 days ago • 230 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 23 days ago • 301 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 23 days ago • 2686 comments

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-do...

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President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 24 days ago • 107 comments

NIEMAN LAB: “.. I reached out to 15 major news organizations to see what their style would be going forward. .. So far, none plan to switch completely to ‘Gulf of America.’” @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/trum...

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

submitted 25 days ago • 145 comments

NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 124 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 25 days ago • 1458 comments

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

submitted 25 days ago • 183 comments

“Adolf the superman swallows gold and spouts tin" 1932, a photomontage by artist John Heartfield, depicting Adolf Hitler as a powerful figure who takes large sums of money from wealthy industrialists ("swallows gold") but then only delivers empty promises and propaganda to the people ("spouts tin")

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I made this collage for my art class, Spring of 2023, about six months after Elon bought Twitter.

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Elon Musk, appearing alongside President Trump on Tuesday, defended his efforts to overhaul the federal government. His remarks included broad accusations and misleading claims. Here’s a fact-check.

submitted 26 days ago • 110 comments