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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 383 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 5 hours ago • 235 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 245 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1160 comments

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 4 hours ago • 467 comments

Wyoming votes against their own interests example 101: my colleague worked on a grant (resources for older adults with dementia in Wyoming) for months, & then due to Trump's EOs, the funding mechanism was pulled. Hundreds of thousands of potential $ for Wyoming older adults gone.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Extortion. Blackmail. Ransom. Call it what you want, but demanding half of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for defense isn’t foreign policy, it’s a shakedown.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

Afraid we will lose our government because Judges will sit on their hands rather than act with any sense of urgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

The corruption that has happened in this month alone could take all of the nation's remaining journalists years to fully document.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

I want to go back in time and tell Reagan this is the leader of conservative America

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submitted 2 days ago • 937 comments

Isn’t it time for the folks on the left who aligned themselves with the “anti-woke” movement to admit they were conned?

submitted 1 day ago • 438 comments

We now have a government staffed completely by a 4 Chan message board.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 767 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3420 comments

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

submitted 3 days ago • 818 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 1 day ago • 1573 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Yesterday, the federal Council on Environmental Quality announced that it had rescinded the federal regulations implementing one of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Read out full statement: suwa.org/suwa-stateme... (1/3)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Owning the libs by pledging fealty to a king

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 3 days ago • 518 comments

Windsor ON waitress: “oh, you’re American. Is the English menu ok or would you prefer one in Russian?”

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

At my public library I can borrow books, ebooks, audiobooks, read magazines or newspapers in person and online, take online courses, use research databases, borrow DVDs and CDs, stream movies, TV programs, music, borrow a wifi hotspot, game, musical instrument, park pass, attend programs, and more!

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks"

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

The NSF EPSCoR grant paid for my first summer of research. The NSF Advanced program funded the conference responsible for me not quitting grad school. The NIH LRP help me do a post doc by reducing my financial burden. I was a free lunch, WIC and Section 8 kid.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment