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What explanation can there be for this except that Trump and Musk for some sick reason I cannot fathom _want_ millions of Americans to die in the next pandemic? What would the elevator pitch for stopping attempts to prevent bird flu deaths even _be_? Is my mind just not evil enough to suss it out?

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

For accessibility: posting the chief information officer's resignation letter with alt text ⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

BREAKING: HHS employees are told that responding to the Five Bullets is voluntary, but warns that if you respond, "assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors."

submitted 4 days ago • 284 comments

The government claims it doesn’t know who runs DOGE.

submitted 4 days ago • 337 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 689 comments

I went to a #TeslaTakedown protest near Philly yesterday to report on a grassroots revolution: thousands of Americans mad as hell at an unelected billionaire oligarchy - and unwilling to take it anymore How taking down Tesla can save our democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

WSJ's analysis of the fraudulent claims about savings that DOGE is making comes to similar conclusions NPR did earlier: $2.6B v $2B of real savings. But it also notes how much of the cuts are research focused. It also notes that JUST 2% would go to DEI. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

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 6 days ago • 1305 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 489 comments

Trump schedule this week: Sunday - attend car race. Monday - golf. Tuesday - golf. Wednesday- golf.

submitted 9 days ago • 260 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” - Hagen Scotten In a world of Elon Musks, be a Hagen Scotten.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

submitted 14 days ago • 2708 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 14 days ago • 842 comments

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 14 days ago • 1064 comments

The outrage over Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" came when the top two officials at the DOJ resigned rather than follow his corrupt orders. These posts aren't as prominent, but their resignations should help force more attention on the insanely corrupt bargain between Adams and Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

The Eagles have set a new record across all sports of the sale of Fanatics gear in the 24 hours after winning a championship. And they're on pace to break the all-time record, set by the Eagles seven years ago. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk just wants to DOGE all accountability.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

This.

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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 17 days ago • 121 comments

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

submitted 19 days ago • 114 comments

Rumors that Elon Musk has bought a Super Bowl ad spot to promote disinformation on USAID. Excellent video here on the good USAID does in tbe world and the role it plays in promoting US Interests. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

submitted 19 days ago • 59 comments

Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.

submitted 19 days ago • 488 comments

Literally one of the most -basic- constitutional law cases, the Youngstown case, involves the Supreme Court telling the President that he could not order his Secretary of Commerce to seize steel mills during a strike when the U.S. was at war. 🙄

submitted 19 days ago • 141 comments

To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:

submitted 20 days ago • 99 comments

So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.

submitted 21 days ago • 257 comments

Trump: Tommy Tuberville, a great coach. You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes, he was a great college coach. Tuberville: I recruited him.. I got to be very good friends with him Mahomes: He did not recruit me at the time. I don't remember if I ever got to meet him or not.

submitted 22 days ago • 296 comments

Left: Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin dismisses Jan. 6 case of Jose Padilla on Jan. 21, 2025 Right: Interim US Attorney Ed Martin seeks withdraw as Padilla’s counsel of record on Feb. 5, 2025 He signed a dismissal for a client he was still recorded as representing.

submitted 23 days ago • 323 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

submitted 25 days ago • 202 comments

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 25 days ago • 143 comments

Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms. The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.

submitted 25 days ago • 1427 comments

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump each announce their agreement to pause tariffs for a month. Sheinbaum beat Trump to alerting the public. You can see what Trump left out of his message.

submitted 25 days ago • 521 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 25 days ago • 151 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 26 days ago • 1977 comments

#FYI: ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)

submitted 26 days ago • 61 comments

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?

submitted 26 days ago • 606 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 27 days ago • 591 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 28 days ago • 510 comments

This said it all about the obscene evil and misogynistic bigotry at play here:

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

submitted 28 days ago • 399 comments