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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

submitted 14 hours ago • 262 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 39 minutes ago • 58 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 2 hours ago • 353 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 59 minutes ago • 169 comments

I think it's useful to boil fascism down to "a cult of power." In the US we can see it in the irrational admiration for the ultra-rich like Musk or the Silicon Valley oligarchs, or in the unquestioned obedience a mob boss bully like Trump receives from Republican "leaders" and the base.

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Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 3 hours ago • 112 comments

AZ AG Kris Mayes: This is a coup by Trump against our Constitution, because they are violating not only the separation of powers but also the court orders We have federal judges saying to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, “Stop this now,” and yet we believe they are violating those orders.

submitted 20 hours ago • 141 comments

So per Bannon, Jewish people are the number one enemy of Israel, and Israeli support mostly comes from groups whose support for Israel is predicated in their belief in genocidal apocalyptical prophecy. I'm starting to think that U.S. support for Israel isn't about combatting antisemitism at all.

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

"[W]hat is happening is an attempt to destroy all the pipelines for Black influence and advancement at the federal level, the corporate level, and at the academic level, so that a Black leader will never rise to rule white people ever again, whether it's in the workplace or the White House." 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It wasn't "debunked" it was fraudulent from the get go. It wasn't a well meaning person saying, "wear copper for your aching joints", it was a cynical attempt to make money with intentional lies.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 579 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 493 comments

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Führerprinzip

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1123 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

The highest ranking trans person in the federal government was fired last week amid the broader purge. It was certainly political and targeted. 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Kash Patel is Director of the FBI. Here's what's coming... Patel will use the FBI to investigate (possibly prosecute) perceived political opponents of Donald Trump, including former Biden Administration officials, current Democratic lawmakers and anyone that criticizes the Trump Administration.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

Put simply: they're stealing our money.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 3 days ago • 245 comments

This is an absolute fucking disaster. Teenaged cybercriminals with physical access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding."

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America’s enemies are crowing over NED’s shutdown. A Chinese website celebrated the downfall of this “infamous” outfit, claiming that “NED has long supported anti-China organizations.” A top Kremlin official wrote that NED’s “activities have been recognized as undesirable in Russia.” wapo.st/40XP5LO

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

Regrettably I think there is a strong chance this loathsome unamerican creep will keep his job. Keeping him is a flex, like rehiring the “normalize Indian hate” guy was. They are steadily dragging the Overton window to allow more overt white nationalism and racism.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Well now that Republicans are okay with Federal government interference in state level politics and handing the private data of citizens to unelected billionaires, I look forward to the next Dem president doing exactly those things.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 4 days ago • 507 comments

Hey, I know her! Time to dig out this old meme I made as advice to lawyers about social media.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

By rights, this would be another enormous DOJ scandal www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Not all that familiar with the New Testament, so perhaps some of the good Christians who serve in the Trump administration could explain how this gibes with their deeply held beliefs. Remarkable reporting via a 5-person NYT team. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

Not sure why we’re assuming that gutting disability programs is an accident but I guarantee you this wasn’t a whoopsie of language use, it was a very intentional attack on the disabled.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

When a far-right government official uses a media apparatus he controls to incite hateful mobs against his enemies, one cannot help but consider the historical analogs www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Free speech

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Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

Musk seems to think he uncovered massive fraud. In fact this is a well-known issue having to do with COBOL programing and the cost of inputting death data for people who died decades ago before records were digitized. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

submitted 7 days ago • 658 comments

Almost as if they were agents of a hostile foreign power sent to infiltrate our government for that very purpose

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

he has gone too far guys www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments