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

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New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him Data analyst working in the anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of DOGE Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 8 hours ago • 675 comments

DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Some things to know about General Brown: - 41 years of military service - F16 fighter pilot and instructor with 3000 flight hours, 130 in combat - Master’s in aeronautical science - son of a U.S. Army colonel and Vietnam veteran - grandson of a WW2 veteran

submitted 9 hours ago • 27 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 20 hours ago • 449 comments

Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 136 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

So the scuttlebutt in MAGA world is that the replacement for Caleb Vitello to head ICE is going to be Madison D. Sheahan, a former Noem staffer and currently the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. I am not making this up. www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/meet-th...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Andrew Natsios, the Republican politician who ran USAID under George W. Bush, clarifies: USAID "builds goodwill & political influence and economic influence. It promotes American business. It protects us in terms of disease threats around the world. It is in our national interest”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The level of petty I aspire to be 🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Usha Vance, is that you?

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

About 19,000 people are sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking each year. Many, many more are charged and convicted in state courts. For this math to hold up, the U.S. would be losing tens of millions of people per year to drugs. Overdose deaths are high, but not even close to that.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Nicely done, Gov. Mills. This is how you stand up to a bully.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

Instead we all have a very nasty life. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

So I don't think we're invading Canada

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Acknowledging that plane crashes are rare events in the first place...how common is it for airlines to preemptively offer money to victims? (Article didn't give any indication). Them offering money before the crash investigation is even over feels...odd.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. fvcurrent.com/p/border-tra...

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Mike Pence re-growing his spine isn't the development I anticipated for 2025 but I'm here for it.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

They will justify 4.5 trillion in tax cuts by showing they saved a few billions because people don’t fully grasp very big numbers.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Despite DOGE, Trump's agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S debt Budget experts on the “rhetoric versus reality” behind the Trump-Musk efforts >> www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

'Utter incompetence': Federal agency rehires crucial workers after 'accidentally' firing them — again www.alternet.org/trump-usda-f...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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 3 days ago • 1052 comments

Being unable to answer this question is absolutely insane and completely without any precedent in American history. DOJ's official position is that the chain of command flowing from POTUS to DOGE not only doesn't pass through Musk, but they don't know who is in charge of it.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Musk named his little project DOGE. He's absolutely steeped in memes and online garbage. Of course he knows what 14 means when he posts those flags. Delete your Twitter.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments