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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 19 hours ago • 241 comments

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

I used this metaphor when talking to a reporter: they are swinging a chainsaw through government services, with no investigation of the performance of people they are firing, or the value of services they are eliminating. Why would the unelected richest man in the world care about the damage?

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Pretty stupid of Bill Clinton and Congress to pass a line item veto act to cut appropriations from parts of bills as part of his innate veto power when he could just have some random guy cut funding decades after a law was passed supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 2 days ago • 2867 comments

in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 758 comments

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

In Dec '24, murders were down 16.4% from a year earlier, per Real Time Crime Index. Every category of crime measured by the RTCI is showing a decline throughout 2024 ranging from a 2.7% decline in rape to a 22.2% decline in motor vehicle thefts. realtimecrimeindex.com

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 5 days ago • 481 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 6 days ago • 381 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 6 days ago • 5670 comments

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

submitted 8 days ago • 116 comments

Help people learn about their rights. It makes fascist scum angry.

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 8 days ago • 465 comments

Well fuck.

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 8 days ago • 316 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 8 days ago • 481 comments

Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

submitted 8 days ago • 231 comments

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

The #2 official at the United States Department of Justice literally gave the Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" warning to the Manhattan prosecutors pursuing the Eric Adams case.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s... ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

This is the Deputy Attorney General doing an outright Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" And to be perfectly clear: this is a crime. It's obstruction of justice, cut and dry, plain as day, no ambiguity about it.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Clerked for Justice Scalia, member of the Federalist Society, picked by Trump administration last month

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

NEWS - As soon as DOJ's Public Integrity Section was informed it would be taking over Mayor Adams case, John Keller, the acting head of the unit and his boss, Kevin Driscoll, the senior most career official in DOJ's criminal division resigned, according to multiple sources. bsky.app/profile/kfau...

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Breaking — All probationary employees at OPM were just fired in a mass phone call. Acting Director Chuck Ezell told staffers, "I encourage you to use this as an opportunity for your next step forward," per recording I reviewed. On site staffers were given less than an hour to leave.

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Some federal employees got form emails saying they were fired, then saying the first email was in error, and then saying, yes, they were fired. Absolute clown show. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments