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DOGE is emerging as the most inefficient, inaccurate govt operation If DOGE were a real DOGE, DOGE would shut this DOGE down www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Big win for Libertarians For Government Intervention.

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

submitted 15 hours ago • 244 comments

Democrats should not vote for a continuing resolution without language mandating the release of military aid to Ukraine. Because a Putin stooge is in the White House, and the GOP is in his thrall, Ds in Congress are the only backstop against the U.S. becoming an agent of Russia.

submitted 22 hours ago • 47 comments

Veteran unemployment rose in the first month of the trump administration. With federal hiring preference for veterans meaning they are disproportionately represented in the DOGE purge, trump admin will directly put more veterans out of work than any admin in the modern era.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

submitted 2 days ago • 600 comments

Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

The fact that Byron York, out of the loudest shouters about the dangers of a “deep state,” can suggest it’s illegitimate to identify the people who have been given unprecedented power to change the government shows how utterly lost to nonsensical fascist propaganda some “conservatives” are.

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

Can't wait to read all about what a great idea this is in the, uh, pro-free market opinion pages of the Washington Post

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

All those billions and Jeff Bezos still can't afford dignity

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Most on this site know that federal workers are good people who work hard. But it's striking to see the data. Federal workers put in more hours a week than anyone except military and self-employed. Federal workers take fewer days off than almost any others www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 99 comments

A YouGov poll of 4,071 Americans reveals differing views on whether Zelensky, Trump, and Putin are dictators. 41% see Trump as a dictator, with women (46%) more likely to agree than men (35%). 22% believe Zelensky is a dictator, while 45% disagree. www.newsweek.com/nearly-twice...

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

I have had several US colleagues contact me to find out how the job market works over here... the exodus from the US is about to begin. This kind of self-harm can take a generation to heal. Hey, at least #Brexit is no longer the most stupid act of national self-sabotage in the last 10 years!

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 13 days ago • 2398 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 14 days ago • 60 comments

Congrats to everyone who insisted they were better off four years ago -- you made it right back to the safety and security of "early COVID pandemic"

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 20 days ago • 207 comments

Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

Last time Trump levied similar steel tariffs, it led to an increase of~ 1,000 jobs in steel production -- but 75,000 fewer manufacturing jobs in downstream firms where steel or aluminum are an input into production. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

submitted 20 days ago • 61 comments

He’s Losing His Farm Due To Project 2025. My Thoughts. Please Share! youtu.be/DPpd2ORZATE?...

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

Trump's tariff-for-tax cut swap is very cleverly disguised populist policy that sounds like it's all about beating up on China to help American workers. The reality is that it's about tax cuts for the rich, paid for by import taxes on the American working and middle class.

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

The WSJ last April. The WSJ today. 🇺🇸

submitted 22 days ago • 107 comments

oh snap krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...

submitted 22 days ago • 112 comments

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

submitted 28 days ago • 831 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 29 days ago • 4934 comments

Trump says he's also going to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals

submitted 29 days ago • 330 comments

Summary of Trump’s first two weeks: Trump has thrown the federal government into chaos thus endangering your services and benefits; he’s pardoned violent criminals; he’s announced tariffs that will raise your prices; and he’s done nothing to help you and your family.

submitted 29 days ago • 117 comments

Now that Ukraine has become very active in the Kursk region, we would like everyone that hasn't found us on BlueSky, to be aware of the latest updates. Therefore, we would like to ask you to share this post in order to reach as many people as possible. Let's aim for 75.000 followers 👍

submitted 56 days ago • 35 comments