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Beyond betrayal.

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 1 day ago • 2244 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1968 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

Senate Republicans just launched an all-night voting spree to rip apart Medicaid and starve kids—all so they can hand more cash to billionaires like Elon Musk. They’re doing this while most people aren’t watching. Absolutely disgraceful.

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

we have reached the point where Trump is triggering, on a daily basis, what would be impeachment-level scandals in any other administration

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I've been seeing lots of super compelling videos of park rangers and federal lawyers and other federal workers telling their stories. Talking about what they did at their job, how it helped the American people, and why they want to keep doing those jobs. This is the way.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments

An FBI Director is supposed to be nonpartisan. Kash Patel wrote not one, not two, but THREE books for children with Trump as a king.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

Our new post-NATO allies. I feel safer already.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is an absolute fucking disaster. Teenaged cybercriminals with physical access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Constitutionalism is popular; even officeholders who are incapable of being anything other than slavish followers of public opinion ought to be aggressively defending and advocating for it

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

Important 🧵.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

QUIET PART OUT LOUD — Watters outlines Fox’s role in the right-wing propaganda effort: “We are waging a 21st century info warfare campaign against the left… Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it...”

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

It’s weird how we’ve memory holed the fact that Obama entered his first term with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House and McConnell’s response was “We’re going to make Obama a one-term president,” not “there’s little we can do”

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.

submitted 5 days ago • 167 comments

the short version: rfk wants to bring back slavery, right down to black children working the farms, and he's using mental health as a justification as to why it's good for the kids. and they won't be done once they destroy mental health meds and trans meds and birth control.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Sure, since you asked so nicely! 1. McConnell and the Senate GOP kept Judd Gregg from joining Obama’s Cabinet and blocked Tom Daschle — a powerful senator! — from being Obama’s HHS pick.

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

This is just so incredibly racist, my god

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

I've lived democratic backsliding & authoritarianism across multiple countries. I've watched repression creep across staff planning sessions & editorial rooms, from both the left & right. The #1 way it happens? Self-censorship. Before your opponents ever censor you, self-professed allies do.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

It’s not “dumping” either. It’s human trafficking.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2047 comments