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Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

submitted 18 hours ago • 260 comments

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

submitted 19 hours ago • 910 comments

"Immigrants didn't steal my job. The president did."

submitted 15 hours ago • 108 comments

"So is OPM providing a project/charge number to respond to that email? No? Oh, well I'm sorry that we can't work on unfunded projects for other agencies at this time"

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

www.cbsnews.com/news/economi...

submitted 21 hours ago • 52 comments

Count me in.

submitted 21 hours ago • 36 comments

NEW: Federal government employees are sending me ideas for how to respond to Musk's OPM "Five Bullets" email. My latest: #Emails2DOGE www.muellershewrote.com/p/federal-wo...

submitted 14 hours ago • 172 comments

My $5,000 DOGE check will be immediately donated in full to help federal workers pay for their lawsuits against DOGE.

submitted 13 hours ago • 308 comments

Another sharp intake of breath from the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Not very transparent www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 235 comments

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1280 comments

Sunday reading: A MAGA Feeding Frenzy Is Ravaging the Constitutional Order The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. Less a single master plan – and more comprehensive chaos. This week’s piece:

submitted 14 days ago • 12 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 1 day ago • 40 comments

1/ "The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money."

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 1 day ago • 56 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 1 day ago • 493 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 1 day ago • 190 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

It’s nonsense—but deliberately. The terms are vague and meaningless so they can ban ANYTHING if they want to.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 3 days ago • 1103 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 1 day ago • 871 comments

Imagine being too far-right and Nazi-like for the French far-right: "French far-right leader cancels US speech after ex Trump aide Bannon appeared to make 'Nazi gesture'"

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

"We [the Executive Branch] are the federal law" is a dark horse candidate for most Hitlerian Trump quote from 2025. Surprised this did not get even more media coverage and provoke even more outrage. The literal, actual truth, of course, is that the federal government has three co-equal branches.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Um. “The I-Team also reached out Thursday afternoon to the alleged victim, who we’re not naming, but who is not the congressman’s wife.”

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUES THE WHITE HOUSE to stop punishing the news agency, its clients and readers for not calling the Gulf of Mexico by the name President Trump wants // Jeremy Barr reports www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 706 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

It’s imperative at this point that Europe develop a defense posture independent of the United States, which should be treated as the ally of Russia that it has now become.

submitted 1 day ago • 278 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1998 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 1 day ago • 657 comments

For a bunch of different reasons, I think I need to hire someone to doom-scroll for me.

submitted 1 day ago • 617 comments

Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Yo DOGE, Found your waste! 👇🏼

submitted 3 days ago • 892 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 3443 comments

Last I checked there was a federal criminal statute on extortion that’s enforced by the United States Department of Jus— … oh wait, never mind

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

Pam Bondi makes several false claims here. There's no reason to believe Biden's security clearance ever lapsed. Trump's demonstrably did.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

"Mr. Trump’s pattern of repeating what Mr. Putin says and being steered toward policy decisions by foreign strongmen has caused grave worry in both Europe and Ukraine" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 4 days ago • 647 comments

Reading also hard

submitted 4 days ago • 244 comments

Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.

submitted 4 days ago • 273 comments

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 4 days ago • 2407 comments