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The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

submitted 42 days ago • 156 comments

I knew this day would come sooner than it should when he was diagnosed with heart disease last year but it’s still too hard to take. Moshu was an ambassador for the zoo and his breed, a master snacker, and a bringer of joy. He will be missed.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

No one ever said they were creative.

submitted 105 days ago • 902 comments

Trump, who has played golf on 13 of his first 48 days back in office, claimed civil servants haven’t been showing up to work.

submitted 105 days ago • 203 comments

Jesus Christ this is all we need right now.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

if only there were an agency charged with preventing shit like this that wasn’t under the thumb of the person running the very company that’s doing shit like this

submitted 111 days ago • 40 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 126 days ago • 524 comments

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submitted 127 days ago • 725 comments

JUST IN: USAID employees say the administration is not complying with Judge NICHOLS' order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions cut against his order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 135 days ago • 174 comments

No coincidence — Musk’s attack on the CFPB came as he cut a deal with Visa to go into a payment business the CFPB has been regulating to make sure people don’t get ripped off. His companies have been investigated by many agencies he is dismantling. www.levernews.com/musk-targets...

submitted 135 days ago • 60 comments

Just a reminder that women were intentionally excluded from medical research until 1990, in many cases they wouldn't even use female mice, we didn't get a law about including women in healthcare research until 1993, so just think about that when you see that keyword list about studies

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

submitted 141 days ago • 30 comments

www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h...

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

Oligarchy doesn’t even begin to describe what this is

submitted 142 days ago • 428 comments

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 141 days ago • 91 comments

hm it feels a biiiiiit on the nose for the new administration to literally erase people who look like me

submitted 141 days ago • 16 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 141 days ago • 418 comments

“The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”

submitted 141 days ago • 175 comments

That there isn't already a national revolt against Elon Musk, shows how far we have fallen as a society.

submitted 141 days ago • 231 comments

Don’t forget it

submitted 141 days ago • 451 comments

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

submitted 142 days ago • 450 comments

Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."

submitted 143 days ago • 856 comments

Musk has not divested from his conflicts of interest, which are insoluble. This White House has not disclosed any ethics waiver. There is no precedent in U.S. history for an unelected oligarch holding this level of power & direct influence over agencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

helpful and important to stop thinking of x as a social media platform and see and talk about it for what it is: a political weapon

submitted 142 days ago • 53 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 142 days ago • 93 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Federal Worker: “Those of us within the ranks of the federal workforce looked on in horror at all of this. Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.”

submitted 142 days ago • 92 comments

This appears to be an announcement by Musk and the attorney for the Stop the Steal domestic-extremist movement (Martin, now posing as a lawman rather than a criminal) that anyone who opposes the ongoing fascist coup will be arrested and jailed. We are getting ever closer to The Point of No Return.

submitted 142 days ago • 291 comments

Oh, so he’s going to “Twitter Files” the USAID? People need to get up to speed real quick on this cast of characters and how they “work” to spin conspiracy theories and twist facts into false political narratives. Mr. “frame game” here (quoted by Musk) might be a good place to start.

submitted 142 days ago • 27 comments

MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts. Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.

submitted 142 days ago • 82 comments

And which were not optional for the employees.

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The Trump administration appears to be punishing Department of Education employees for attending diversity training sessions that were held during his first term. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i...

submitted 142 days ago • 39 comments

In non-horrific, my brain is going full Scanners news, bebeh elephant! Rose lost her little girl Lily several years ago. I hope this is a little girl elephant.

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submitted 142 days ago • 21 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law. Follow @democracydocket.com for full details. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 142 days ago • 475 comments

💰market plunges, suddenly they realize what many have been saying all along: tariffs are a tax (on consumers)

submitted 142 days ago • 57 comments

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

submitted 142 days ago • 444 comments

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 142 days ago • 140 comments

BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 142 days ago • 208 comments

mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

submitted 142 days ago • 446 comments

Then you should have voted to impeach him you cowardly fuck.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 142 days ago • 1583 comments

This fucking clown show lunatic who is not from the US, has zero vested interest in serving this nation, is 4channing the federal government

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment