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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 2 hours ago • 338 comments

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 2 hours ago • 196 comments

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

submitted 1 hour ago • 106 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 3 hours ago • 73 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 3 hours ago • 136 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

lol once a cable news host, always a cable news host. leaning into something he actually has experience doing.

submitted 16 hours ago • 125 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 20 hours ago • 113 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

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 21 hours ago • 147 comments

More CFPB news: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employees have been told that the bureau's Washington HQ lease is cancelled and the agency has 30 days to vacate the building www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 19 hours ago • 34 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 225 comments

The Trump administration reversed itself on making funding and staff cuts to a federal health program for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, after bipartisan criticism of the moves.

submitted 17 hours ago • 85 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1056 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 18 hours ago • 320 comments

“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 19 hours ago • 84 comments

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

have been wondering about this. as long as you're a temporary govt worker, there's some logic. you don't have to upend your professional life to help on some govt task for a month or two. But now he's a top admin appointee and also CEO of major federal contractor. how is that ok?

submitted 22 hours ago • 38 comments

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 22 hours ago • 177 comments

“The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource” by Christopher L. Hayes 8-Word Book Review: Brilliant analysis by one of my favorite writers Rating: ***** #BookReviews #Nonfiction #shortreviews

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 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 22 hours ago • 508 comments

Hern won 60-34 in November. www.newson6.com/story/67b7b1...

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

Down 29.6% over the past 60 days

submitted 23 hours ago • 104 comments

The anti-DOGE backlash is showing up in GOP reps districts talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle... via @TPM

submitted 23 hours ago • 63 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 23 hours ago • 236 comments

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Yes great point!

submitted 23 hours ago • 44 comments

The constant dynamic in Trump 1.0 was people in the admin telling Trump “you shouldn’t do that;” sometimes that was because it would be politically dicey, or illegal or violate vital norms. But sometimes it was just because it was a very very stupid idea that would blow up in everyone’s face.

submitted 23 hours ago • 95 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 939 comments

Really enjoying “The Sirens’ Call” by @chrislhayes.bsky.social so far. An excellent and deep exploration of attention, how it functions and what we’re all up against in our modern world. Interestingly, lots of topics that are adjacent to things like public space, the power of a good walk, and more.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

lol come on guys

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1218 comments

Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

Delaware is worried that corporate exits would remove a major source of income from the state. So it's poised to pass a bill written by Elon Musk's lawyers that would weaken shareholder rights and likely give Musk a $55 billion payday. From @ryanlcooper.com: prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

If you de-zoot the toots here, he’s saying he spent $44b on twitter as part of his right wing political project—which is both obvious and something you can’t say in the newspaper.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

I'm impressed by @chrislhayes.bsky.social's new book, "The Sirens' Call". I expected an alarmist, too-late self-help book about recapturing your attention span, but instead it's actually a really thoughtful overview about the commodification of human attention and the grift of ad tech.