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This proposed mineral deal with Ukraine is outright extortion. Trump isn’t offering protection for Ukraine and it will of course be rejected (as it should be). I imagine Trump will then blame Ukraine for not being willing to negotiate and walk away. He may also walk away from NATO at the same time

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

Here's an action to take today: If you're in TX or LA, call Ted Cruz or Bill Cassidy and ask them why they're letting Trump piss away America's competitive advantage w/o lifting a finger. Mention this article. Cruz (Chair of Commerce): (202) 224-5922 Cassidy (Chair of HELP): (202) 224-5824

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

👀 www.adn.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 995 comments

This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Congress is considering a budget resolution that could raise the Dept. of Homeland Security's budget by up to $175 billion. Handing this notorious agency a blank check to expand its operations is a terrible and dangerous idea and it will almost certainly make its abuses worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Last night, Trump said he wouldn't cut Medicaid. He just endorsed the House Republican budget that makes at least $880 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. They'll say or do anything to get more giveaways for their billionaire donors.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????

submitted 5 days ago • 461 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

submitted 7 days ago • 229 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 8 days ago • 942 comments

The National Archives safeguards our collective history, protects the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government. action.everylibrary.org/nationalarch... follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is how white supremacy works. The parade is to honor the birthday of an historic Marylander. What if the parade were for Samuel Chase or Francis Scott Key? It would be fine. Douglass is defined by the feds only by his Blackness. But they’ll deny it.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Last week Elon Musk's staff entered NOAA, the US climate science agency, raising fears for the data it holds @michaelemann.bsky.social said Musk's behaviour "debases the @royalsociety.org as long as he remains in it"

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

He's very old and low energy and needed to get to bed.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Automakers Sue To Kill Maine's Hugely Popular 'Right To Repair' Law https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/07/2256236/automakers-sue-to-kill-maines-hugely-popular-right-to-repair-law?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Google's Super Bowl ad about how every business can benefit from using AI contained a factual error produced by Google's AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

A new study reveals that shifting seasonal sea levels along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast are driven by wind-driven water movement, an insight that will help scientists improve sea level forecasts and better predict flooding risks. www.climate.gov/news-feature...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Last night on CNN I argued that the FBI under Kash Patel is on track to plunge the US toward another 9/11. www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, received stock grants from Trump Media & Technology Group worth more than $800,000 that didn’t appear on his financial disclosure or ethics agreement, which detail how federal appointees will handle potential conflicts of interest. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Wired continuing to run circles around the NYT & WaPo & like every other Important Newspaper www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Dear @kenmartin.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: take page from my own Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. Your job is to make their lives miserable. So far, you've been failing at this task. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

▶️ @crew.bsky.social, @pogo.org, @protectdemocracy.org & more joining together ⤵️

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

submitted 23 days ago • 2514 comments

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy voted against FAA funding in 2019 during his time in Congress. His vote to defund the air safety agency raises questions about his current role overseeing transportation safety.

submitted 24 days ago • 482 comments

If a plane crashes and Biden is President, blame Biden. If a plane crashes and Trump is president, blame DEI.

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

Less than ten days into his second term, President Trump sent the nation into a tailspin that caused real people real harm.

submitted 24 days ago • 73 comments

RFK Jr. refers to high death toll in US under COVID and Dems sit quietly like bumps on a log failing to point out that the reason for that was not the b.s. described by RFK Jr. but Trump and Trump policies. Candidly, with one or two exceptions, I'm deeply disappointed with Dems on this panel.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

I appreciate all that Mark has done for me. Great attorney and even better friend.

submitted 27 days ago • 52 comments

Quaker groups sued in Maryland today to prevent U.S. immigration agents from carrying arrests and searches in houses of worship, after the Trump administration rescinded guidance that protected churches and schools from his mass deportation campaign. www.reuters.com/legal/quaker...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It is no ado about everything, actually.

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

consolation for the Super Bowl losing team: don't have to go to WH

submitted 28 days ago • 415 comments

This is a good question. In 2017 big law firms spoke out and pledged to take cases pro bono. This time, it's ominously quiet. I fear Big Law, like big business is hedging to avoid being on Trump's enemies list. Shameful.

submitted 28 days ago • 152 comments

the back story to Colombia's showdown with Trump is quite something

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment