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You can be concerned about the structure of humanitarian aid. You can even do dramatic, major restructuring to it. You can also do it while not starving 300,000 innocent children to death. History will remember butchers.

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Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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So going forward if you’re parents or you need help with your social security payments get ready to deal with AI or possibly get ready not to have anyone to deal with at all. I know this is a stressful issue for millions of people. And precisely because of that I’ve been really cautious …

submitted 7 hours ago • 34 comments

Every single politician in America, especially Republican could learn a lesson about not cravenly debasing yourself like a pathetic meek coward. (There are other terms that come to mind.)

submitted 5 hours ago • 353 comments

i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions

submitted 5 hours ago • 63 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 6 hours ago • 193 comments

America First Strength is not a reliable protein powder brand. In 2019 they were found to be mixing the research chemical 3-4-hydrodeathasauralide with their Men’s Trad Rocket Fuel Jet Extreme energy bars

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

the real difficulty that AI presents is that it genuinely is a productivity enhancer for things that you know how to do already, but it actively inhibits you learning how to do things. in an ideal world you'd be somehow banned from using it for things until you could like pass a test or something.

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

SSA announces that staffing reductions will be "only" 15% of total workforce rather than 50%, a reduction of 7,000 workers that the agency expects to achieve through retirements and resignations, with a reduction in force scheduled afterward. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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NEW: During a 3-hour preliminary injunction hearing in a suit alleging that Elon Musk wields unprecedented power in violation of the Appointments Clause, a federal judge grew frustrated with government counsel's inability to answer questions about DOGE’s chain of command and Musk's role.

submitted 5 hours ago • 88 comments

it's still just striking to me that we're five weeks into this, and neither trump nor musk are offering up any treats, to anyone. everything is bad news. everything makes life harder. the only thing they're offering is a tax cut for extremely wealthy people, at the expense of everyone else.

submitted 6 hours ago • 115 comments

The right-wing’s completely myth-based obsession with Sparta continues to be hilarious.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

This is a big deal: the first indication that CFPB is going to be allowed to continue with ongoing litigation, in the MoneyLion case, where a judgment is likely imminent.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Brilliant analysis of Trump's time-honored white American grievance rhetoric:

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

It bears repeating.

submitted 7 hours ago • 313 comments

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 7 hours ago • 43 comments

SSA confirms my reporting earlier this week that the plan is to cut the workforce to 50k, down from about 60k, as part of a larger re-org. Not to cut the workforce by 50%. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨SCOOP: DHS recently requested IRS provide home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for suspected undocumented immigrants 🚨 IRS rejected the request on privacy grounds, but is negotiating on how to cooperate with DHS without breaking the law.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

there's probably a point to be made about abuse in interpersonal relationships being so normalized in general american culture that, when we see obvious cases thereof, many of us reflexively take the abuser's side

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

typically speaking dictators attempt to shore up support among the security services and do not touch pensions

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

This guy is a moron ofc, but it's important to cultivate some moron barometers

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

submitted 15 hours ago • 919 comments

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

submitted 12 hours ago • 213 comments

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 13 hours ago • 428 comments

You know what's interesting is all over the world people in different countries work radically different weekly hours on average and yet the difference in overall productivity between those workers is pretty modest. People who work fewer hours tend to use that time more efficiently.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

D.C. is showing the first signs of financial strain under DOGE: Unemployment claims last week jumped 25 percent over the previous week and home listings have also spiked: By @federicacocco.bsky.social @abha-b.bsky.social @aaronwiener.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

Feebly repeating “the dignity of the office” like DiCaprio as Howard Hughes going “the way of the future”

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

submitted 10 hours ago • 479 comments

systematically going around breaking shit the government needs to work is a form of civic education for low-engagement voters whose effects will outlast this administration

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

I'm far from alone here but if certain family members' social security payments end it will wreck our finances for life.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Major upheaval at the Social Security Administration, as Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek announces the departure of two dozen senior staff, the consolidation of the agency's 10 regions into 4 regions, and headquarters consolidation. Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/t/social-sec...

submitted 9 hours ago • 75 comments

again, we know what it looks like when the media does a full court press on an administration we've seen it before these folks have all spent years hyping up Zelensky as a hero time to channel that energy and hammer them relentlessly, day after day, on every show and every channel

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

FWIW, I think it’s essential for opposition politicians and media within the US to focus relentlessly on why this stuff is bad for Americans. It’s unsavory because frankly Americans are the least of the victims here, but that’s their role politically in this

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

one thing that is wild is that its easier for people to believe in the end of the world than it is for them to believe in the end of the 6th Party System

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

All Teslas! Point at the hood and give a thumbs down. They know what that means.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

submitted 9 hours ago • 89 comments

I actually think it will be very doable to recover quickly to America's former leading role in the world post-Trump, it will just require doing a lot of things that centrists and billionaires who'd prefer to return to the dysfunctional Obama-era status quo will find unpleasant or objectionable.

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

It was a shameful cowardly display in the Oval Office, but also as with everything it was very dumb as well

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

there's no room for fucking cowards or quitters in the second reconstruction, you can sit in the back and pipe down. these times call for courage and bravery and you don't have what it takes.

submitted 10 hours ago • 52 comments

The Washington Post has lost 75,000 subscribers since Wednesday, when Jeff Bezos reversed course and meddled in editorial operations, mandating what the opinion section can cover: www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

It always seems to be a central tenet of this sort of nonsense that government spending doesn't count. I personally blame not immediately paying a number of contractors to dig a vast hole and dump every copy of Amity Schlaes' nonsense book in it.

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All employees of the U.S. Dept. of Education have gotten two emails today offering $25k buyouts ahead of a "very significant reduction in force." The first was sent early today and then disappeared from inboxes minutes later. Another just came through. They have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to decide.

submitted 10 hours ago • 97 comments

Pretty clear. The goal here was to do a kind of ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine. They pushed Zelensky past his limit. Trump now says, in essence, you're own your own with Russia. Up to the free states of Europe now.

submitted 10 hours ago • 164 comments

really is just a senile john birch presidency isnt it

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments