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New: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 3 hours ago • 150 comments

JEFFRIES: “we have no leverage” SCHUMER: pulls out a lime and limply waves it around BERNIE:

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www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 23 minutes ago • 5 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 21 minutes ago • 6 comments

Rescind TEN of the seventeen acceptances?? Pretty disheartening stuff. Especially when the time used for evaluating/planning with students could’ve been used elsewhere. Hard times for scientific training clearly only getting harder.

submitted 21 minutes ago • 2 comments

You have died of procedural norms.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

submitted 1 hour ago • 22 comments

French President Emmanuel Macron: "Russia has produced a considerable war effort, with the result that Russia today invests 10% of its gross domestic product in arms production. In France, it's 2%. And we've almost doubled our budget since I've been here.

submitted 9 hours ago • 37 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 15 hours ago • 132 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2450 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

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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 2 hours ago • 652 comments

So I guess that Stool Pigeon they found deep in the org chart at Social Security is already taking a meat axe to the place at DOGE's direction on his first day running the place. Buckle up everybody.

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

Decades of sacrifice and work by generations of men and women across the globe up in smoke. Truly tragic. Tens of millions of American voters squandered the legacy of their parents and grandparents for the thrill of racism and “owning the libs.”

submitted 56 minutes ago • 21 comments

Street Mob Presses Tough Demand in Revised Protection Racket with Shop Owner.

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It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 2 hours ago • 42 comments

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 21 hours ago • 238 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 18 hours ago • 643 comments

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

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 14 hours ago • 971 comments

The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

Trump was willing to stand up there for a few minutes to pretend to care about black history, but hugging the guy was a deal breaker.

submitted 3 hours ago • 313 comments

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 14 hours ago • 358 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 14 hours ago • 95 comments

Europe will need an additional 300 000 troops and an increase of defense spending by EUR 250 billion annually in case US withdraws from the continent - Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Bruegel⤵️ Source: ifw-kiel.de/publications/

submitted 5 hours ago • 38 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 27 comments

❗️Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of America, for which we are willing to die, — US General Mark Milley

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 12 hours ago • 112 comments

1/ "The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money."

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“The fanatics will never leave, and they're going to do a huge amount of damage but out of this damage will come some kind of shift of mind.” - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social to Waj and Francesca's YouTube show for Zeteo: 'America Unhinged'. Watch/share/subscribe:

submitted 10 hours ago • 52 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 18 hours ago • 838 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

submitted 10 hours ago • 149 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 12 hours ago • 173 comments

👇🏽

submitted 13 hours ago • 274 comments

oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

submitted 18 hours ago • 492 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2147 comments

Canada held a solidarity rally in support of Ukraine against the fascist Russian invasion and the unsurprising US betrayal. Scenes from Montreal. #3E #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #StandWithUkraine

submitted 22 hours ago • 184 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 20 hours ago • 880 comments

This is going to go on at many universities - the uncertainty will lead to fewer graduate programs. It will hobble scientific research which appears to be the goal.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

How evil do you have to be to hate a nation that builds Spyro monuments during a war

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments