Profile avatar
deftchatter.bsky.social
53 posts 44 followers 39 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 25 Comments 25

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 238 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 8 hours ago • 74 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.

submitted 1 day ago • 1280 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 61 comments

Whether in the courts or by way of pressure on the Trump Administration, DEMAND evidence of these claims of fraud and waste. You’d think Trump would be running to Congress & to court to show what they’ve found, and yet…crickets 🦗

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

“The budget Mr. Johnson negotiated…calls for around $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, in an effort to counterbalance a portion of the tax cuts.” - NYT tRump insists he won’t cut Medicare or Medicaid, here’s what’s really being cooked up. Goal: vast tax cuts for the billionaires.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

New accusations emerged that Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia during a gathering of conservatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 293 comments

Illinois Governor Pritzker compares Trump to the Nazis Great speech. I think we just found the leader of the resistance.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 978 comments

WOW. Trump sucking up to war criminal Putin is so bad that even Mark Levin, one of the biggest sycophants on Fox News, couldn't remain silent

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

here's today's post: "long live me! blithers Mad King Donny" — what kind of delusional shit is this. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

The message is clear. The Trump WH thinks democracy is a joke.

submitted 2 days ago • 240 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

here's today's post: "elderly golfer blasts Ukraine for invading itself" — is Donny demented, or evil? trick question, it’s both. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

“Vice President JD Vance has tried to justify Trump’s ‘America first’ agenda as in keeping with Christian teachings… Yet that claim is so preposterous that it was denounced by Pope Francis.” https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Vance spreading extreme MAGAism to Europe. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

JOIN THE 24 hr. Economic Blackout Thursday, February 27th!! Details at The People’s Union (bottom of the landing page. jointhepeoplesunion.com

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 41 comments

www.facebook.com/share/p/1D72...?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking News: President Trump said he planned to take control of the Kennedy Center and intended to fire several board members and install himself as chair.

submitted 15 days ago • 306 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“Democracy IS in peril. Defend it with all your might”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments