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What do we do when working within the system no longer works? This is the great and for many, unaskable, question looming above Washington on this dark, cold February night. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

The worst part about Trump is the way he seems to have everyone hypnotized. His supporters literally never question anything he does, and his opponents seem too frightened to impose real consequences. Restraint and decorum aren’t going to stop him.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I mean…

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Details as of NIH funding in AL as of 3/11/2024: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:

submitted 14 days ago • 108 comments

NEW: Elon Musk's buddies and DOGE underlings are working in the dark to make drastic changes to the US government. @propublica.org is shining light on them with our new tracker. Read. Share. Most importantly, send us your Musk tips: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

Time for real leadership, both in government and among citizens. However this turns out, grandstanding for votes is obsolete.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve lost track. Is it 1788 or 1789?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Since the FBI appears to be the only agency that is both still functioning and not headed by a lunatic, the Washington Field Office needs to open an investigation into the breach of the computer systems at Treasury, stat

submitted 18 days ago • 938 comments

It’s about time

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A must-read piece by Rothkopf. "My reaction is not hysteria. It’s not exaggeration. It’s not premature. Where we are is a place we have never been in this country and the threat we face is by no means one that we can survive—because something precious and fragile is at dire risk of being lost."

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 21 days ago • 770 comments

Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 583 comments

Some incredibly troubling moves in past 48hrs; I hope to write later abt the most worrisome at DOJ/FBI, etc. But I don't want to skip a 🧵on the spending freeze/s, where cts are moving fast & public pressure helps. Q I've been getting: If they w/drew the OMB memo, why is so much $$ still frozen? /1

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

How Donald Trump's tariffs could impact consumers

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Wrecking ball: Trump’s power-hungry orders wage war on US government

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

submitted 22 days ago • 2580 comments

#UnitedStates State and local governments should prepare for changes to CISA, cyber experts say, statescoop.com/state-local-...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Tempted to follow a bunch of political and news handles here, but don’t want it to be a place to get angry and anxious, so prob going to stick to books, art, urbanism, tech, and science for now. We’ll see.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Is this where the Resistance meetings are?

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments