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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 6 hours ago • 110 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 216 comments

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the *offer* of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 11 hours ago • 138 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are *exceptional* thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 14 hours ago • 46 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

Again: I don’t think the primary goal of the anti-D.E.I. authoritarianism we’re seeing is re-segregation. It’s TOTAL human enslavement to corporations. Re-segregation is just a stop on that train. Explicit white supremacy and patriarchy are being used to make techno-fascism seductive to the masses.

submitted 15 days ago • 32 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1930 comments

Despicable. Elon Musk has just suggested Zelenskyy is sending soldiers to die so he can make money. “What are they dying for? I’ll tell you what for. For the biggest graft machine I’ve seen in my life. Poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money.”

submitted 1 day ago • 329 comments

Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

These stories are not discussed as widely in the Western press as they ought to be, so it's good to see The Telegraph giving this some attention. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Penn is my employer. So the long arm of the Lawless One has reached me personally. I just want to vomit. But I figure I'll stick with my employer as they bend over and not let the Spawn of the Devil's Own Strumpet win. Besides, I'm too old to get a new job. Heavy sigh.

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the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

Campaigning in NC, Trump promised them more money. Whoops www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/c...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

This is the reason other news outlets need to put their foot down more. They need to show the leverage they have. At the end of the day, Trunp doesn't want to only communicate through Newsmax, OANN, and Breitbart.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Part of the problem with newspaper journalism is that too many of the people in the mainstream media want to be in an MFA writing program. They want to be cute and clever and get praise from each other for a unique turn of phrase, when the job is telling people the fucking news.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

This is happening to thousands of people but of course only your friend is worthy of the king's mercy. What the fuck are we doing here bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

yeah the mistake they made was assuming their colleagues would have some bare minimum of professional pride or backbone

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

“Musk has said he'd like to trim $2 trillion, putting DOGE at 0.1% of his goal.” It’s already an absolute mess and he still wants to cut $2 trillion more.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If this is true it’s an unbelievably foolish, self-destructive approach to the problem. The media cannot function properly while it cuts secret deals with this administration behind the scenes.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

I need to take a little walk.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

there used to be a time when a teen on a bicycle would heave the news into your driveway in the morning and then that was all the news you got for the day in many ways this was a perfect system

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Dear @nytimes.com: If *you yourselves* know that what Trump is saying is nonsense, put that in the headline.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Man this is a fucking riot. From site to author to subject matter.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

i wish the republicans had been this limp and useless when obama had the supermajority. forget universal healthcare, we could have gotten reparations

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 2 days ago • 322 comments

Destroying our assets isn’t “cutting costs” or “stopping fraud,” it’s just destroying assets. Safe air travel is an asset. Safe food is an asset. Our education system is an asset. Medicare is an asset. Anytime a politician or the press says this is about saving money, they are lying.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

When you fire a bunch of air traffic controllers, then you have a bunch of accidents: you are not saving US money When you fire a bunch of poultry inspectors, then you have a massive outbreak that wipes out chickens & eggs, leading to soaring scarcity & soaring prices: you are not saving US money

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

This is my current understanding of the Constitutional order in the United States It is, needless to say, very bad

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Compare this to any random statement from AOC, Crockett, Frost and you see the difference between a schlub playing pick up basketball and an NBA all star. Maybe don’t pick your leaders from the people who just hang around a long time and make the right friends (Pelosi).

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 3 days ago • 1052 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments