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david-in-design.bsky.social
Hoping that humanity’s constructive traits will vanquish the self-destructive ones. It’s not going great at the moment. Work: I make healthcare technology easier to use. Personal: Husband, dad, dog owner. Lifelong learner. KCRW music fan.
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“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” she said.

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Trump keeps racing to rehire federal workers he fired because — surprise! — we need experts on nuclear weapons, bird flu prevention and park management.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Polls are already demonstrating public dissatisfaction with Trump-Musk’s autocratic overreach and top agenda items, yet they have only intensified their assault, and GOP lawmakers who have dared to air their concerns have done so in only the meekest of terms.

submitted 11 hours ago • 43 comments

Comic ✏ by Clay Bennett Click here for more comics 👉 https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Vance’s culture-war tirade against the Europeans was not only pointlessly confrontational and ill-informed; it was also delivered at a moment when lectures on democracy from America have inevitable “Physician, heal thyself” overtones. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

submitted 10 hours ago • 28 comments

The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it struggles with growing manpower issues, according to videos and testimony obtained by CNN: bit.ly/3Xg5Fp1

submitted 10 hours ago • 101 comments

This month, @karenhao.bsky.social spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who described how the Trump administration is pushing a new ideology and stoking paranoia. “People are terrified,” one source said, “not for losing their jobs but for losing democracy.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

President Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine is a reversal of the last three years, the editorial board writes, "but also a repudiation of a nearly eight-decade core belief that the United States was safer in a world where it stood against aggression and authoritarianism and for freedom."

submitted 9 hours ago • 46 comments

"Donald Trump’s quest for power is endangering our military," @reed.senate.gov writes. wapo.st/4kaHAKc

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

Seems like the GOP is getting to be too racist, even for other far-right world leaders.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

"This is the kind of error from which a career is not supposed to recover. By the time I had lunch with Kevin Hassett in 2007, he should have been a laughingstock." Meet your director of the National Economic Council:

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Remember Rosie the Riveter? She’s thriving in Ukraine.

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

submitted 7 hours ago • 65 comments

A poll of swing-district voters is already showing heaps of warning signs for Republicans bent on helping billionaires. That was fast.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

To reflect the momentous events of the past week we designed two covers featuring Donald Trump. One explains how Europe must respond as he and Vladimir Putin smash the post-war order econ.st/41vGi5q The other considers the power of the president econ.st/4gRbzUD

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

When Germans go to the polls on Sunday, the future of the post-war system is on the ballot. The verdict threatens to destabilize Europe.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

“The chickens have been treating me very unfairly.”

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

“You’re gonna make a few mistakes when you’re up all night tripping on ketamine,” the 16-year-old deputy head of DOGE said.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Murdoch-owned Post has more courage than congressional Republicans. Wow.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Trump wants to be a dictator and so far he’s nailed the first syllable

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

People who are freaking out about Bannon’s Nazi salute at CPAC haven’t been paying attention—it’s been the official salute of MAGA for a long time.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Elon Musk Forms Department Of Underaged Clowns Harming Everything (DOUCHE)

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

So like when does the Golden Age start

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

When Trump promised to make prices go down I guess he meant stock prices

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

German comedian explains and skewers fascism in Germany and the US youtu.be/bLWLb0RM7HQ?...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

In 1987, Trump was having financial difficulties (he lost $1 Billion dollars from 1978-1990) - so he turned to Russia. The KGB literally paid for his trip to Russia, and he was recruited by the KGB. #Krasnov

submitted 21 hours ago • 31 comments

See, with the information filtering out of former KGB agents about ‘Krasnov’ (the handler’s name for Trump) being recruited in 1987, it bothers me that #auspol feels that ‘Hey, this seems like a reliable chap with whom we can do business.’ It’s either stupid, or evil www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

🚨Former KGB head Alnur Musayev states that in 1987, the USSR's 6th KGB Department, responsible for recruiting spies from capitalist businessmen, recruited 40-year-old Donald Trump, codenamed "Krasnov"

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments