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Extortion. Again.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

NYT reports the Trump administration is considering a plan to hold migrants at military detention sites, including Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, CO. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

It’s cute he thinks Trump gives a damn about Congressional input

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Greenlands defenders are ready to defend Greenland, against any threat from US. #cdnpoli

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 4 days ago • 578 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 5 days ago • 1510 comments

"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 5 days ago • 902 comments

The VP of the US responding to a journalist. What a great role model for our kids.

submitted 5 days ago • 2558 comments

Can anyone find a copy of this wrap ad that the Post had no problem running last fall? Would love to see it. thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

A nice op-ed attacking Trump by some guy named Mitch McC— … wait what??

submitted 10 days ago • 1144 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 10 days ago • 1751 comments

The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

submitted 10 days ago • 260 comments

JUST IN: The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.

submitted 11 days ago • 328 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 13 days ago • 408 comments

Without congressional authorization.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Instead of gutting government programs that make the world a safer place we should be cracking down on ubiquitous tax avoidance by our country’s biggest corporations.

submitted 14 days ago • 185 comments

“A lot of people think that Elon Musk is off the chain and causing all kinds of havoc,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) said on the Senate floor Thursday. “I haven’t seen that yet.” I can recommend an eye doctor and point you in the direction of USAID. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Presidents do not have security clearances. There is nothing revoke. The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.” executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 16 days ago • 438 comments

Viewer feedback tonight came in the form of a letter from a federal employee in Colorado...

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

The immigration bust in Colorado was a bust, if you judge it by the feds' own goals and the results announced by Fox News. Both Fox News and the Trump administration blamed local media for the lack of success. #copolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T-W...

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

"Musk's team have already gained entrée to data on federal student aid, including the personal information for millions who receive student loans from the government..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 16 days ago • 522 comments

NEW: ICE operations are underway in Denver and Aurora this morning, following similar operations in Chicago and New York www.9news.com/article/news...

submitted 17 days ago • 70 comments

Now is the time for courage. Do not be afraid. Do not be silent. joycevance.substack.com/p/make-the-s...

submitted 18 days ago • 429 comments

More Coloradans work for the federal government than any private employer in the state: almost 40,000 people. And they have a new boss: Elon Musk. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=apMJ...

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

Musk's assault on USAID -- which has been one of most important tools of U.S. foreign policy (in addition to saving countless lives) since JFK -- is also being openly cheered on by the Putin regime.

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

I will give either a limb, or my undying gratitude,* to the first news site that publishes a story detailing the extent to which the DOGE actions are illegal or improper, exactly which laws are applicable, and what legal action would be feasible to reverse these moves. (*I get to choose which)

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 615 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 20 days ago • 3292 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 539 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 482 comments

#cyberbarons . . . the term perfectly captures what the resistance needs to focus on fighting

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

“'They seem to want Treasury to be the chokepoint on payments, and that’s unprecedented,' the person added, emphasizing that it is not the bureau’s role to decide which payments to make — it is 'just to make the f-ing payments.'"

submitted 21 days ago • 178 comments

Ok

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 22 days ago • 1829 comments

Please don't resign. From @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/please-don...

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

“Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.”

submitted 22 days ago • 84 comments