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Today, we sued the Trump administration to ensure it cannot use the Presidential Records Act to conceal DOGE records from the public. DOGE has been granted sweeping access to federal agencies, and its records should be well-preserved and available to the public. www.pogo.org/post/pogo-su...

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Since taking office, Trump has been trying to advance the unitary executive theory, a fringe legal theory that asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.

submitted 2 hours ago • 47 comments

Pied Kingfisher Seen in Kruger, perched on low bridge above the Sabie River, waiting. #Birds #BirdsofAfrica #birdsofbsky #wildlife #birdphotography #kingfisher

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda). These are common residents here at Tapir Valley. Photo by @waxwingeco

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 108 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

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When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

Every time I see a headline like this, I check to see whether it was Maggie or Swan bylined.

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

Another six-byline alarm on DOGE’s specious accounting. “That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

This is exciting, with so much of the world's soil being degraded in quality.

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Good morning! 🪶

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 3 hours ago • 41 comments

I mean, Trump has been saying some wild crap lately - wilder than usual. Given his diminished capabilities, his team absulutely could be feeding him doctored up misinfo (saying he has a "70% approval" for example) and then toddles him out to blather nonsense. I take Zelenskyy at his word here.

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Trump is living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” as a result of his administration’s discussions with Kremlin officials. Zelenskyy said he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful.”

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Klass is the most rooted, clear thinking, and articulate public intellectuals I know of. Read him for the deep drivers, meaning, and consequences behind the daily outrages and choices we face. @brianklaas.bsky.social

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Even before Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration’s staffing levels were at a 50-year low due to a decade of budget caps & cuts authored by GOP lawmakers. Further staff cuts and office closures can only make things worse for America's most vulnerable. New, @propublica.org

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

submitted 3 hours ago • 30 comments

Some were probably mistakes given that they’re clueless ideologues but clearly others are willful lies. It’s a propaganda operation as much as a far-right culture war campaign. “The cancellations listed come disproportionately from businesses run by women and people from minority groups.”

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Wrote a little something in the mighty @rollingstone.com about #TeslaTakedown. In anticipation of our upcoming second weekend of protests! Join or create an event for ANY day and ANY country at Teslatakedown.com. Download our flyers and background to get informed and get involved!

submitted 15 hours ago • 38 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 • 26 comments

Intolerable. The national parks belong to the people. Once you’ve ruined them, mined them, and sold them for profit, they’re never coming back.

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 14 hours ago • 135 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 10 hours ago • 41 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 21 hours ago • 51 comments

Stunning Crested Tit 😊

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 33 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

The new golden age of America, sponsored by the GOP Tax Scam: the sick and the hungry suffer, while the billionaires on the front row of his inauguration gets the gold.... Don't Cut My Medicaid

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"A swath of Airbnb hosts are ditching the platform in response to its billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia going full MAGA since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Gebbia joined Elon Musk’s doge last week. www.thedailybeast.com/airbnb-hosts...

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Found some waste, fraud and abuse: "We’re going to run a marketing campaign" "The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off migrants and to flatter Trump on television." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments

Why does he look like a phantom hitchhiker? 😂

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

This raises the not unreasonable interpretation that Starlink is a state agency. I’m very familiar with the case law saying that since NCMEC fulfills a law enforcement function it’s a state agency. Same principle at play here.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Every time I see these stories I don’t only think about how much effort it is to defend every single program, I think how much it must infuriate the people who thought they could just sweep everything away to keep getting told no. Tiny wins are still wins

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Bald Hill Beach is great for sunsets ... and last night was no exception.

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Infuriated constituents barbeque their GA Repub Congressman for his failure to do anything about the ongoing destruction of the United States Trump, Muck, & DOGE are awakening the American People - a sleeping giant - who will be filled with a terrible resolve www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

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Elon has intervened in two legal requests in the US: one for Trump, and another for likely suspect leakers. A description of his efforts to stall the Trump warrant is in the Jack Smith report that Aileen Cannon is refusing to release.

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To accept this post in this circumstance is to demonstrate that you are unfit to hold it. To accept this post is dishonorable.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

The Current Regime rescinds their cutoff of funding for legal aid for migrant children No explanation given by Trump’s people, but wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of outraged & outspoken Americans are the reason azmirror.com/briefs/trump...

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