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A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.

submitted 17 hours ago • 85 comments

HE’S GETTING RID OF FEMA TO DISTRACT FROM HIS FOX NEWS DEFENSE SECRETARY’S SIGNALGATE DEBACLE, AS WELL AS THE RAMPANT DESTRUCTION HE’S BROUGHT TO OUR ECONOMY! HE’S MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE SO PEOPLE WON’T TALK ABOUT HIS DISASTROUS “PRESIDENCY!”

submitted 17 hours ago • 281 comments

This is utterly horrifying

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Detention of student visa and Green Card holders paves the way for denaturalization and deportation/incarceration of citizens not born here (there are 24 million of us).

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

Most people don’t know this, but @PBS is part of the backbone of America’s emergency alert system. • Helps push IPAWS alerts (AMBER, weather, etc.) • Broadcast-based = works when cell towers go down • Trusted info during crises #PBS #EmergencyManagement #IPAWS #PublicSafety #Infrastructure

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

submitted 21 hours ago • 715 comments

Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2464 comments

So aside from losing the house if Elise left and not being able to pass anything else ever, losing the majority in the house creates a very real possibility half his cabinet gets impeached over signalgate.

submitted 15 hours ago • 137 comments

Be aware that government records belong to the government—& the American people. And that those records can hold people w/political power ACCOUNTABLE for what they do. The accountability of politicians to the people who gave them power is the ESSENCE of democracy. Signal prevents accountability.

submitted 15 hours ago • 91 comments

if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it... www.aarp.org/politics-soc...

submitted 16 hours ago • 338 comments

"Stick to comedy" they say, as an unelected emerald mine trust fund baby guts the entire infrastructure of the United States and whatnot.

submitted 16 hours ago • 131 comments

WIRED is interested in what jobs are being cut at HHS. If you're one of the 10,000 HHS staffers affected by the layoffs, feel free to reach out. You can find me on Signal at emullin.06 or email me at [email protected].

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 18 hours ago • 561 comments

"But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, who both remain in their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on administrative leave and told late last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 13 hours ago • 299 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 22 hours ago • 574 comments

The tariffs are grounded in a bogus "national security emergency" because that's the statute he's abusing to break the principle that taxes are supposed to be levied by our elected representatives. It is an illegal sham and another deeply anti-constitutional action, not just bad policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Good line from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1704 comments

They misspelled automobile. Apparently spellcheck is woke.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

I repeat. If you’re a police officer in America and you think you need to wear a mask to do your job, you shouldn’t be a police officer in America. This is happening. This is insane. This is wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

The welfare savings in today's spring statement come almost entirely from cutting benefits for the disabled

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Let’s be real: everyone in this administration already lied under oath during their confirmation hearings.

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submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Trump DOJ lawyers making it clear that you should never trust a word they say. They'll renege on deals over and over again. (This is the AP WH access case, doc here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 1 day ago • 523 comments

A reminder: Ru is absolutely NOT winning on the battlefield. It’s bogged down in Donbas, sending wounded soldiers on donkeys. It begs for the Black Sea deal to come back because it cannot achieve dominance militarily. It begs for sanctions relief. Ru could win, though, w Trump’s continued help.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

By the way don’t let these automobile tariffs completely change the channel - a Fullbright scholar was kidnapped in broad daylight - a massive and generationally damaging national security breach just occurred

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

DNI Gabbard testified she maintains her "First Amendment rights" to post comments through personal accounts regarding views that might be different from her official work positions. Yet law firms & lawyers (incl me) are being targeted by Administration for excercising their 1st Amendment rights. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.

submitted 2 days ago • 251 comments

Holy shit. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy. Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose. We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Florida– there are two critically important special elections coming up on April 1st that could bring some sense of balance, some sanity back to Congress. Vote for Gay Valimont (FL-01) & Josh Weil (FL-06). We need these two voices of reason in the US House. We’re one week away. Make a plan to vote.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Part of why elections in the US are so secure is because they’re run by 10,000 local jurisdictions like mine. Trying to rig an election is like trying to rob every bank in America at the same time To rig American elections, you need to federalize them. The President’s new EO is doing just that.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

They didn't even pick a controversial person WITH a medical license, but one who previously got in trouble for practicing medicine without one www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 2 days ago • 612 comments

My goodness, the WH press secretary just lies without any shame whatsoever. Breathtaking!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Probably more than a few cases like this

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The President of the US and richest man on earth, unilaterally STOPPED children’s cancer research and clinical trials because they view them as “wasteful”. If this doesn’t get your feet in the streets, I don’t know what will. #standupforscience #scienceforall

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Well, okay. You can read the "attack plans" yourself. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

for sale: politicians’ spines, never used

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

The US government officially stopped bothering to avoid civilian casualties earlier this month:

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Thank you for confirming that there are other Signal groups Waltz

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

There are RULES for gov’t documents—who has them, sees them, keeps them, where they’re kept—because they’re a record of gov’t business. Not open to all—but containing the doings & ACCOUNTABILITY of what our gov’t does. The Nat’l Archives stores much of that vital data. DJT fired the archivist.

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 2 days ago • 1054 comments