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Oh you sweet summer child, Federal Hurricane recovery funding for west NC won't be "delayed." It's simply never going to happen. Ever. That ship sailed on January 20th. #ncpol www.yahoo.com/news/federal...

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1191 comments

Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 5 hours ago • 126 comments

Economies, too

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 12 hours ago • 335 comments

This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

submitted 13 hours ago • 626 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1434 comments

1/ I don’t know what to do about it—journalists need to eat—but paywalls are big part of our problem.

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

Sigh. Okay, guy, now stand up and say you were lied to, and that these people have no "acumen" and are cutting indescriminately, and you are against it.

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Not to alarm anyone but the stooge currently serving as acting head of the Social Security Administration, you know, the one w/access to all your personal info, was, as recently as two weeks ago on paid leave b/c career folks thought he was violating multiple privacy and tax laws

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

They are blanket firing all the women and Black people from their positions on the grounds that since they are women and Black people you can't know if they were actually qualified or "DEI hires." This is overt resegregation of the federal government. That's what it is. Media need to call it that

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Mr Putin must be so proud.

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"Musk isn’t just trying to bypass all checks and balances... and wreck the world, though he is doing all that. As we protest this vandalism, we need to remember that he aims to build a future in which we have nothing left to defend." newrepublic.com/article/1915... Increase character counts!

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A full-on purge of the military leadership, targeting women and people of color. This perfectly captures where we are: An escalating authoritarian takeover of the state, combined with an aggressive program to re-segregate the spheres of influence and power and restore complete white male dominance.

submitted 18 hours ago • 34 comments

It you can, try to always catch @thomaszimmer.bsky.social and @lilymasonphd.bsky.social podcast on the state of our "democracy." This week is compelling and clear-eyed as anything I've read all week. And everything is accelerating.

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Social Security is now under attack from Musk/Trump, and it will affect as many Americans as the attacks on Medicaid. This program provides support for seniors and many of the nation's most vulnerable. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1711 comments

DoJ investigation into cases against Trump marked by vested interests

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

Scum.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Months after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, Asheville remains one of the top destinations for 2025.

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Great now we can’t even look up what “verboten” means

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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As Gernot Wagner said over on Mastodon, Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

What's really funny* here is that "we're firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs because he's black" is at least partly PRETEXT here, for "we fired him because he wouldn't massacre civilians on our behalf" *for certain definitions

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Hitler destroyed German democracy in 53 days. We are on day 30. The purge of the military and FBI has commenced. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"Right now, it's mostly people just scared to death. People are calling me every day, asking if they're going to get a RIF.” www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

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I've yet to see any talking heads point out that today's deep slumps in both the NASDAQ and Dow Jones indexes have wiped out all of the irrationally exuberant gains they've accumulated since the mango moron's inauguration. From here on, ongoing market collapse will be pure bloodletting.

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

The cars keep lurching to the far right.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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It’s a great thing that universities in other countries won’t take advantage of this opportunity to reel in smart, talented people.

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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh OH. YAY!!!! #Murderbot

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

wait this can't be right, we have two business geniuses at the helm

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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