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BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

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SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

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www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

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If only Rubio would listen to Rubio 🙁 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGtcq5W...

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Oligarchs have each other’s backs. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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Believe women. We need to say it. Hillary was right m.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVW...

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As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

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Measles parties - the deliberate act of exposing oneself or one's child to an infected person to build immunity. Do we really need to say this? They're a bad idea. www.wired.com/story/measle...

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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... I have only listened to 10 minutes of this, but it is clear we have failed young men. They have all been duped by “media”

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@mcuban.bsky.social Zelenskyy implies that Putin will take advantage of Trump and Trump’s ego crumbles. It eats him alive. Trump can’t help himself. It sets Trump off that he would be lesser than anyone. His only defense mechanism is complete denial. www.instagram.com/reel/DGoXULf...

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The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $3.01 billion in arms & equipment sales to Israel $2.04 billion in bombs $675.7 million in bombs & weapon guidance kits $295 million in bulldozers Administration said "an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale," waiving congressional review

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Zelenskyy implies that Putin will take advantage of Trump and Trump’s ego crumbles. It eats him alive. Trump can’t help himself. It sets Trump off that he would be lesser than anyone. He hears his father saying it. His defense mechanism is complete denial. www.instagram.com/reel/DGoXULf...

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submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

As I’ve said, the goal is to delegitimize the very idea of the federal government. Break the govt., then complain how broken it is. Lather, rinse, repeat. When the federal govt. barely exists, there’s no one to stop them. Authoritarian kleptocracy is great for the authoritarian kleptocrats.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

it's like watching ants find their way around a puddle. you can do it little guys! keep working those tiny brains!

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

submitted 6 days ago • 3423 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 7 days ago • 2171 comments

Here are the deficits listed in the House GOP budget outline being voted on this week. You will note that it doesn't come close to a balanced budget.

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2971 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 162 comments

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 8 days ago • 235 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 9 days ago • 305 comments

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 10 days ago • 487 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1585 comments

Judge Ali now (and, below, me earlier this afternoon):

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 13 days ago • 1056 comments

In 2 days they are supposed to report on how they have provided price relief to the people

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 12 days ago • 2199 comments

The DoD firings are going to be... interesting. The DoD civilians are the ones who actually keep the major functions on every base up and running. The military personnel move around so much, there's no continuity without the DoD civilians.

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 305 comments

"Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated." Honestly, is there a more pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards & simps in the entire world?

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 14 days ago • 466 comments

Yep. Here's a starter pack of local journalists and news sources for your consideration. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

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I’m not sure federal lands will remain open to the public. You gotta drill baby drill somewhere. This is all so sad and unnecessary.

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

I'll set aside that he thinks chicken farms are going to build high tech security perimeters against geese. If he's talking about bio-sec and anti-virals, maybe not an ideal time to be firing everyone at USDA and CDC.

submitted 15 days ago • 222 comments