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Here come the “town hall no-show’s”. #Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 21 hours ago • 102 comments

Seeking increased government efficiency—with subject-matter experts and forensic accountants and care with downstream impacts—would have been a legitimate policy program. The ritual humiliation of our countless dedicated public servants is unnecessary, cruel, and indecent.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

NYT: “.. In only five of the 90 cases were patients vaccinated ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

I feel like we’re weeks away from seeing Trumpers do this en masse at a rally

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 18 hours ago • 368 comments

Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 144 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1994 comments

Daily reminder of who Musk is:

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.

submitted 1 day ago • 670 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

As I look at this chart of BRK cash as % of assets & see how it got so high circa late 2004 I am reminded of what Howard Marks said on his recent Odd Lots podcast with @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social how they raised money then so they would be prepared when the time came.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Median age of homebuyers is at record highs apolloacademy.com/wp-content/u... Might be a good time for one of those pieces on how young people have given up on ever being able to own a home, or is that something the media only say when a Democrat is in the White House?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

naked corruption and 100% regulatory capture not the stuff of healthy societies and eventually MARKETS

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Refugees in the US give money to US taxpayers. From 2005–2019, refugees paid $123.8 billion more in taxes than they received in expenditures: aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fisc... That's federal, state, and local combined. Everything. Now we have obliterated that low-cost, high-return investment—>

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Total sociopath. Has just destroyed thousands of lives (including veterans) and is just totally delighted by it. Sucks that the world is only now waking up to what many of us could see so clearly many years ago. He hasn’t changed. He has always been this person. Ask @thevivllainous.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Fine Rupert, but the brainwashed need to see this on Fox News as well.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Another mixture of incompetence and malice. Employee credit cards are easier to track than an endless stream of checks, and correspondingly they're cheaper because you need less admin work and employees spend less time in arduous request/reimbursement processes.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Cracks in the dam status: growing

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

imagine if AG Merrick Garland did a speech at Netroots Nation and slobbered all over Joe Biden like this

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

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I recommend this book - basically a diary kept by a lawyer during the Great Depression. With the gold standard, people would go to the bank, withdraw their deposits, exchange them for gold, then put the gold in a deposit box at the same bank. THAT is a bank run with no release valve.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This week, I wrote about the worrying rise in American credit card delinquences, now at a 13yr high. Delinquencies are high but extremely concentrated - among young people, in poor locations, and with bad credit ratings www.economist.com/finance-and-...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Nobody’s tried anything like that before. Could be interesting.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Ah yes, because the context will make it all better.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Just to clarify: The “dictators” she’s talking about are the leaders of the country that got invaded and our NATO allies. Not the actual dictator who invaded a country and murders critics at home. Courageous stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

DEUTSCHE: “.. Inauguration day was exactly a month ago .. no signs yet that fiscal outlays have fallen in the first few weeks of the administration.”

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".. It was the first time an appellate court had weighed in on Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship .. Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have likewise blocked it .." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/us-app...

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* EXCLUSIVE - US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

DOGErs now accessED into systems designed to protect US critical infrastructure from cyber attacks

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 3 days ago • 564 comments

This is horrific.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Damn I should have figured that the man who looks like a giant thumb would also be the most easy to spy on phone typist. He probably has to bang his head on the screen one letter at a time lol

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments