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Former FBI agent John Buma, a whistleblower who accused the bureau of suppressing his investigative work on topics including Rudy Guiliani's ties to suspected Russian agents, was arrested yesterday in New York and charged with disclosure of confidential information, per an FBI spokesperson.

submitted 20 hours ago • 107 comments

Really key stuff here. DOGE flipped the Institute's security contractors - Inter-Con - against them by threatening to cancel all their security contracts across the federal government. This is where DOGE's money meets up with guns and the lawyers are kicked to the side.

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

submitted 1 day ago • 2578 comments

What the hell kind of Stasi bullshit is this, FBI? Just following orders?

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

It is human trafficking.

submitted 2 days ago • 169 comments

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Mainstream media will remain unconvinced that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship up to the moment when they're so convinced that they're afraid to say it.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

"I don't care what the judges think" should be grounds for impeachment for any public official, but especially for key actors in the national security system.

submitted 3 days ago • 253 comments

ICE has been packing courthouse cells in Baltimore for days at a stretch, lawyers in the area say, seemingly violating the agency’s own rules. Immigrants there have no access to beds, showers, hygiene products, or lifesaving medication, writes @tanvi.bsky.social.

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Every ounce of energy, time, attention spent attacking any Democrat is idiotic while the republic falls apart around us. Stop circular firing squads and attack vulnerable GOP interests instead.

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As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 511 comments

The Trump admin is gutting the Justice Department's unit that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption. The unit, the Public Integrity Section, has overseen some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive prosecutions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

More of this, please

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Trump is using the White House to make a commercial for the richest man in the world while Americans’ 401ks are plummeting.

submitted 9 days ago • 1396 comments

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

submitted 9 days ago • 2867 comments

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

submitted 8 days ago • 1102 comments

If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming.

submitted 10 days ago • 144 comments

It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.

submitted 9 days ago • 299 comments

Dear Democrats: 📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED. 📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.

submitted 11 days ago • 1815 comments

Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace. Today: X completely down. The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third. Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.

submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

America: The oligarchs broke in, ransacked our Republic, ended democracy and took everything. We just sat there and watched. 😭 World: omg. WHY?!? America: Decorum.

submitted 12 days ago • 272 comments

Washington Post under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid" Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"

submitted 12 days ago • 131 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 12 days ago • 1296 comments

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

submitted 13 days ago • 272 comments

MAGA may not have ever received the Epstein files, but the Trump administration did just put the prosecutor who prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell on leave!

submitted 12 days ago • 312 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 13 days ago • 1316 comments

“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...” "Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 1211 comments

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 219 comments

The suspension of all US intelligence sharing with Ukraine would also allow Russian forces to intensify their drone and missile strikes against the Ukrainian rear, affecting millions of Ukrainian civilians and the growth of Ukraine's defense industrial base (DIB). isw.pub/UkrWar030425

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 16 days ago • 744 comments

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

submitted 18 days ago • 1031 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 18 days ago • 3337 comments

Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.

submitted 19 days ago • 345 comments

NEW: I understand that at right about the time of yesterdays blow up at the White House the US ordered the withdrawal of at least one and possibly two P-8 surveillance aircraft equipped with AAS radar pods which had been operating in the airspace over and around Romania and ordered them redeployed …

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

The only money I spent today was to donate to Ukraine. Slava Ukraini. war.ukraine.ua/support-ukra...

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US intelligence indicates that Russia and China are attempting to recruit federal employees fired by the Trump administration, sources say

submitted 20 days ago • 171 comments

Just an amazing photo. (📸 Pool, via AP)

submitted 21 days ago • 91 comments

When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

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BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner nypost.com/2025/02/24/m...

submitted 24 days ago • 472 comments

Here’s the new Deputy Director of the FBI. 👇

submitted 24 days ago • 1193 comments

Americans must understand what the Reichstag Fire was. In 1933, the Nazis used arson at Germany's parliament as a pretext to seize dictatorial power. Americans must beware of something similar – real or invented – happening here. Seem farfetched? Not when Trump is dismantling democracy as we speak.

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

Here’s what happened at the summit I spoke at in Washington, DC today. Tell me free speech isn’t under attack: youtu.be/Gnt4PNS7lJU

submitted 25 days ago • 166 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 26 days ago • 668 comments