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Do New York Times reporters really believe Elon Musk’s real goal is “reducing waste, fraud and abuse”? If not, why do they say so? Is it cluelessness or complicity? My latest Stop the Press newsletter. Read and subscribe for free.

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No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

submitted 12 days ago • 132 comments

The Trump administration is: breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress breaking the law by ignoring a court order lying about it killing people *silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out

submitted 12 days ago • 111 comments

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

Perspective.

submitted 14 days ago • 109 comments

But Zelensky never even said 'thank you'-except he did, and then the ambush followed.

submitted 15 days ago • 184 comments

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 15 days ago • 354 comments

Lol if Americans are ever attacked and Trump asks for help and foreign countries just say, "Sorry, we want peace, so you should just surrender."

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

submitted 15 days ago • 688 comments

When America’s greatest generation fought the Nazis during World War 2, it’s doubtful they could have imagined a universe where Germany is a more trusted ally to the rest of Europe than the United States but here we are.

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire." America is under attack right now.

submitted 21 days ago • 341 comments

No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

submitted 21 days ago • 300 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 25 days ago • 1360 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 27 days ago • 2286 comments

No rapist left behind

submitted 26 days ago • 62 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 28 days ago • 992 comments

1/ Trump and Musk aren’t just replacing government officials. They’re replacing competence itself. Their goal isn’t efficiency—it’s destruction. Because when experts are gone, corruption thrives. Let’s talk about why authoritarians fear expertise.🧵👇 #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

All you need to know.

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

Make Corruption Great Again! www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/t...

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

submitted 34 days ago • 449 comments

For all of you in Vichy America right now...including corporate moguls who think you're playing this. moment right...you might want to go back and look what happened to the Vichy French after their disastrous bet on the fascists went wrong.

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

Elon says nobody actually voted for Harris, it’s all a hoax funded by USAID. This man is not well.

submitted 38 days ago • 348 comments

The way Republicans have been voting to approve OBVIOUS, unfit buffoons like Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr proves that either they think those cabinet positions are utterly meaningless, or they're just too cowardly to stand up to trump for anything. Or both.

submitted 39 days ago • 1209 comments

Irony is dead in this moment along with common sense. Trump who squawked “but her emails” incessantly, let Musk (unelected/not a govt employee) send his crew of kids in to review classified information & plug devices of unknown origin into the government computer system, compromising everything.

submitted 41 days ago • 362 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 41 days ago • 162 comments

The immigrant commiting crimes isn’t the one picking your strawberries and lettuce, it’s Elon Musk.

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

Democrats shld make clear to voters that this gives Musk's private sector employees the power to stop checks to any individual recipient in the US (Soc Sec, vets benefits, Medicare) as well as examine their private financial info. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 43 days ago • 126 comments

Not all Republicans are going to toe the line and blame DEI. But none of them will object to the Administration blaming DEI. Not even the ones who are women or non-white themselves. Because being in the 2025 GOP requires having no honor or character.

submitted 44 days ago • 30 comments

The worst people ever.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 45 days ago • 841 comments

Excellent post

submitted 48 days ago • 2081 comments

See, the problem is thinking that Hegseth being a rapist and a white supremacist with a history of financial mismanagement is a bad thing to Senate Republicans.

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

submitted 52 days ago • 2530 comments

Speaking out against Trump is, unfortunately, quite brave. You know you're going to live with death threats for the rest of your life. But if no one speaks out, we'll all be living with death threats for the rest of our lives.

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 53 days ago • 1920 comments

Owners’ box

submitted 54 days ago • 308 comments

Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard

submitted 54 days ago • 173 comments

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

Never going to forget or forgive a single fucking person who supported him.

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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

submitted 56 days ago • 171 comments

One upside of this moment is that all the tech bros like Musk, Yarvin and Andreesen have rushed to let everyone know they’re actually very stupid.

submitted 56 days ago • 44 comments