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RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.

submitted 17 hours ago • 920 comments

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 703 comments

Elon’s own AI bot is calling this illegal ⚰️

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

Trump has created the illusion of getting a lot done because: a.) Whereas past administrations were constrained by their inclination to obey the law, he doesn't give a shit b.) He cares more about the illusion part than the actually getting stuff done part c.) The media falls for it every damn time

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

If true, this is enormously important.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Read @monicahesse.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 450 comments

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

For those of you asking why Pete Hegseth has a Russian email address: It's so he can log into Signal.

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

submitted 2 days ago • 382 comments

One of the worst things to happen to TV news in my lifetime is the fixation on how politicians should deal with a crisis from a PR perspective rather than the scandal itself. This wasn't common years ago. They just discussed the substance of the news, not how politicians should spin things.

submitted 2 days ago • 293 comments

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

submitted 3 days ago • 475 comments

Signalgate is just the start. In its first two months, the new Trump administration has made move after move that exposes the government to penetration by foreign intelligence services. By me in @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Are you, like millions of Americans, looking to buy a Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, or Kia? Trump is making it 25% MORE EXPENSIVE. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

Excellent. Must read.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 557 comments

Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

submitted 2 days ago • 575 comments

1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians. It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.

submitted 3 days ago • 264 comments

Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.

submitted 3 days ago • 1602 comments

Trump’s new EO on voting exceeds his power—elections are conducted by the states. Congress, not Trump, has the power to legislate national standards they have to follow. So why would he do this? It’s about voter suppression & making it more difficult for people like you & me who oppose him to vote.

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

Yep. Federal records. You're supposed to protect them, not delete them.

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

Houthi War Plans Signal group: Looks like the Office of the Director of National Intelligence needs to conduct a 'national security damage assessment' and report it to Congress. Except it also looks like Tulsi Gabbard was part of the Signal comms. Recusal? Resign? Here's the relevant statute:

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:

submitted 4 days ago • 1849 comments

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 4 days ago • 1559 comments

reminder: most americans have no idea any of this stuff is going on. the signal leaks. the destruction of dept of education, social security. they have no idea. they are trying to live life and this information isnt getting to them. take it upon yourself to spread the data.

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

Donald Trump’s VP, DNI, NSA, Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, CIA Director and Secretary of State were all on a text thread about bombing Yemen, and he knows nothing about it? Who the fuck is running the country then, because clearly it is not him.

submitted 4 days ago • 415 comments

Democrats on the various Senate Committees who will be hosting the members of the Houthi PC Group Chat had better...and I mean this respectfully...FUCKING INCINERATE THEM. Save the bullshit. Burn it down. USE THE WORDS: illegal. treason. leak. reckless. dangerous. compromised. DEMAND THEIR PHONES.

submitted 4 days ago • 242 comments

"After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years... As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

If there were an agency dedicated to finding corruption, fraud and waste in the federal government, it would start right here.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

The @theatlantic.com is worth every penny. Subscribe today.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

Pete Hegseth is a danger to this country and our men and women in uniform.

submitted 4 days ago • 1170 comments

Remember how assmad they pretended to be at Lincoln for this

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, you don't say. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 195 comments

NONE of this is normal

submitted 6 days ago • 1798 comments

He’s going to make us all pay for his own perceived failures as a father.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Stewart-Cousins: My father had Social Security in the amount of $300. Like Lutnick said, he would not have called if he did not get the Social Security check. He had dementia. But the people who take care of him would have called because it made the difference of him keeping a roof over his head

submitted 6 days ago • 235 comments

The politics of ending vaccine requirements in Texas is in conflict with the reality of a raging measles outbreak in West Texas. Texans for Vaccine Choice, a powerful political action committee, has been leading the fight to weaken vaccination requirements.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 7 days ago • 799 comments