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"Politicization of the military, bringing the military into politics and bringing politics in to the military, is bad for military effectiveness, it is bad for democracy, and we are now here, deep in the middle of it" [email protected], with appropriate alarm about the Trump military purges

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 hours ago • 41 comments

If the GOP wants to eliminate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, introduce a bill, put it up to a vote. Campaign on it. Say it, cowards. Stop hiding behind the illegal DOGE “DEI” chainsawing.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Meta is a censorship engine for a fascist regime

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

Trump is proving that what DEI is really about is preventing people from consistently hiring unqualified White men when there are qualified women and people of color. And that's why Trump hates DEI.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

A little bit of sane reporting. The explosion of rage that this article has triggered in offices at the Waksman Institute was audible from this side of the Atlantic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Reporter @owillis.bsky.social saw a too-perfect quote from a Black voter -- ID'd as an AI worker -- in an NYT quoteboard. So he did checked -- and voila, turns out the guy is a flak for Houston Young Republicans. NYT stealth-edited the guy's bio the next day. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 952 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 23 hours ago • 527 comments

We've hit the full Orbanization of the US government and are steaming toward full Putinization but with none of the, you know, strategic purpose or any sense of where should be going at all.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

RFK plans to ban mRNA vaccines.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

As @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying for years and in her books, they want to strip our country down and sell it for parts. They're looting everything, including our data and public lands to sell to the highest bidder. Every Member of Congress should have seen this coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Trump campaigning: "I alone can fix it" "I will have it solved in 24 hours" Trump in office: fires the people tracking bird flu but never mind, "the big things we can blame other people for"

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

but don’t worry, the trump White House and musk want you to know nobody who performs safety critical functions was purged needlessly

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

They cannot withstand four years of this. We gotta get real comfortable with radical annoyance. Get vocal. Get involved. Show up. They will buckle. Doesn’t have to be all of them. Just enough. McCain was enough for one vote. But it’s going to take unprecedented fortitude to salvage our democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

submitted 1 day ago • 239 comments

where are all the newspaper columnists calling for the cops to violently crack down on CPAC like they do on college kids? go bust some heads and ruin some lives for these scumbags like you do for kids protesting the killing of innocents?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

We finally have an actual 1A question about social media and I’m wondering where the Twitter Files dupes are?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

USPS is the second most popular federal agency after the National Parks Service and just ahead of NASA. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

🚨The Trump admin is moving to terminate Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians in the United States, seemingly illegally moving up the expiration date from next February to August of this year. In a single day, 500,000 people could lose work authorization and deportation protections.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

dailymontanan.com/2025/02/20/a...

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