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submitted 3 hours ago • 37 comments

When the GOP says they are cutting Mandatory spending they are saying they are cutting Medicare and Social Security. Examples of mandatory spending: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Interest on the federal debt. That’s our money!!! They are stealing!!!

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

I think it’s important to note that the people showing up for these are kind of average regular folks. They’re just… your neighbors. But with a sign lol. That allows for the creation of a powerful social norm that encourages broader participation and allows us to see it as the normal thing one does.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Seen today in Lower Manhattan...

submitted 4 hours ago • 90 comments

Maybe this is partially wishful thinking but I think Trump is engineering a major disaster for himself in the Pentagon

submitted 4 hours ago • 33 comments

i don't know a ton of Troops, but the ones I know are mad. there's certainly a massive right wing radicalization problem with The Troops but it's still a pretty substantial minority.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

"Only 34% approve of what Musk is doing Only 26% are OK with him shutting down govt programs And a whopping 63% don’t like Musk’s marauders gaining access to federal government databases containing Social Security, Medicare and tax information" www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Repealing Section 230 with an autocrat in power will not hold tech accountable, it will suppress speech and force platforms to silence users who say things the regime doesn’t like.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Jordan Peterson is another example of what I call a competency cosplayer. Informed people immediately identity him as an intellectual fraud, but uninformed people can fancy him an intellectual who flatters their unexamined prejudices.

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

"You must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end?" - Maine Gov. Janet Mills

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 6 hours ago • 477 comments

ThRead:

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

COMMENTARY: When government shuts out journalists and the public we serve, it's not a sign of strength. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldZ...

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

Some thoughts on this, in no particular order. 1.) The Ukrainians were initially willing to give some level of mineral rights to the US for support; the Trump administration instead pushed for a massive grab of those rights and tried to force Zelenskyy into it with a late-night "sign this" move.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 201 comments

Kristi Noem last night said the $200 million DHS ad campaign to scare immigrants and praise Trump was his idea — and that he specifically demanded the ads “thank me for closing the border.” I’m not sure why, but this is news you can only get at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

submitted 9 hours ago • 55 comments

Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

submitted 19 hours ago • 258 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 7 hours ago • 192 comments

It is indefensible for legacy outlets to claim they “first reported” things independent journalists or less traditional outlets had first, which they obviously saw. It’s very common, WP does it but NYT is particularly notorious. And it’s not just tacky, it’s making an objectively false statement.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1083 comments

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 9 hours ago • 90 comments

Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

Again, where are the university presidents & why is it not “collectively in front of microphones in DC raising hell about this”? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments