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There were already people in the government "reducing waste, fraud and abuse." Trump fired them and replaced them with one unelected asshole who's canceling programs he personally doesn't like and awarding himself government contracts

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Denmark lost 52 soldiers fighting alongside the US. Now they feel threatened by Trump www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

Perhaps Lankford could let his state’s Senator know so that he can stop kowtowing to Trump and Elon who keep firing everyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 237 comments

What we saw last night was nothing but lies beyond count. The twisting of good projects overseas into dark evil and almost 5 minutes of lies about Social Security recipients. It’s all twisting reality so fools are eager to tear down the very system protecting them. They’re coming for ALL of it.

submitted 4 days ago • 629 comments

To cheers and laughter from Republicans, President Trump rattled off statistics about how many people over age 100 are in the Social Security database. But those claims have already been largely debunked. Follow live updates.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

"A little disturbance but we're okay with that."

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

NEW: "Employees [of the Social Security Administration] have been fired and offices have been shuttered in what the SSA described in a press release as an 'agency-wide organizational restructuring that will include significant workforce reductions.'" Can a privatization push be far behind?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Military state

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These demotions are political reprisals

submitted 6 days ago • 161 comments

Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.

submitted 8 days ago • 384 comments

pay the president and the government drops your case?

submitted 9 days ago • 124 comments

Opinion | I’m a pediatrician in Texas. Things are dire and we need your support – not your condescension - The Guardian

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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I was pictured and quoted in the #NewYorkTimes today asking the relevant question

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This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 14 days ago • 235 comments

www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

submitted 14 days ago • 484 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 14 days ago • 702 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 15 days ago • 646 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 15 days ago • 200 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 17 days ago • 429 comments

We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.

submitted 17 days ago • 398 comments

These cowardly puppets would’ve stayed mute if their guy had blamed Poland for Germany’s 1939 invasion — something not even Adolf Hitler dared to do www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 172 comments

When they’ll use fake grand jury investigations as a pretext to claw back funds illegally, there’s a rot at the top.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 19 days ago • 859 comments

This is a phenomenal and very important thread for anyone protesting or considering protesting right now.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 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 21 days ago • 654 comments

FOLKS.

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

Peace in our time

submitted 21 days ago • 145 comments

A point to consider.

submitted 21 days ago • 1254 comments

And now this! contrarian.substack.com/p/musks-stat...

submitted 31 days ago • 157 comments

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

submitted 34 days ago • 1382 comments