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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 144 comments

Don't hold back now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 259 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 2 hours ago • 126 comments

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: February 22 edition" — fake-Donny dances, Proud Boy prances, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

submitted 17 hours ago • 231 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 17 hours ago • 839 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1514 comments

Hero of the day!!! #resist

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1679 comments

“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

submitted 2 days ago • 713 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 2 days ago • 1381 comments

Another shoe drops. The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration resigned after DOGE sought access to highly sensitive recipient information. Trump & Musk’s effort to steal your data and gut your hard-earned benefits continues. While the GOP remains silent.

submitted 3 days ago • 309 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1216 comments

from today's post — thanks for reading! link to the whole enchilada is here: bit.ly/3EFpcc2

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Just imagine years ago someone saying “In a few years, the president of Ukraine will be obviously better than the president of the United States”, what would your reaction have been? Laugh? Cry? Other?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 10 days ago • 1394 comments

If Democrats are looking for a great, clear, forceful spokesperson while they are in exile from power, this is the person.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk. Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding. They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.

submitted 5 days ago • 211 comments

Truth Social lost OVER $400 MILLION last year in $3.6 million in revenue www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

submitted 5 days ago • 497 comments

Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.

submitted 6 days ago • 745 comments

here's today's post: "JD Vance lectures Germany: be nice to your Nazis" — Germany doesn’t need your bullshit, thank you very much. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 6 days ago • 151 comments

Braindead, maybe, though the bigger problem is the pathetic lack of any guiding principles whatsoever among Republicans in Congress and at the Supreme Court and in the main offices of the cowardly owners of major media outlets in the U.S.

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Yeah, you do that, San Diego, because this is the answer. Raising fares is sure to attract more riders (not). www.cbs8.com/article/news...

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Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

Deceased 🤣💀

submitted 9 days ago • 1559 comments

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

submitted 10 days ago • 119 comments

It was never about “free speech.”

submitted 10 days ago • 204 comments

Dumpy says jump, Google asks how high. Disgusting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Yes I do not doubt this is accurate. Trump is making us vulnerable to terrorist attacks. 🥺

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I'm here mostly for @jefftiedrich.bsky.social's take. Will look up some of my other favorites, too, from the old days at what some of us like to refer to as Xitter.

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