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A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

important to note that the position the AP is taking isn't petty and they explain it well: They acknowledge the Mt. McKinley change because the executive branch has controlling authority over that name.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal” — Richard Nixon, 1977 “He who saves his country does not violate any law” — Donald Trump, 2025

submitted 10 days ago • 119 comments

is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?

submitted 15 days ago • 1422 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 18 days ago • 738 comments

Does maga know what money laundering actually is?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Is there a source that aggregates and fact checks Elon musk's Twitter?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽‍♂️

submitted 22 days ago • 428 comments

The Trump Playbook: 1. Manufacture a crisis. 2. Hype it up. 3. Pretend you solved it. 4. Declare yourself the victor. 5. Repeat. Basically has our allies asking, “what bone do we throw this crazy idiot so he can parade around beating his chest saying he won?” It’s all a farce. (via Ana Navarro)

submitted 22 days ago • 30 comments

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

submitted 22 days ago • 233 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 23 days ago • 1308 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 25 days ago • 503 comments

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

submitted 28 days ago • 1380 comments

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

submitted 27 days ago • 380 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 27 days ago • 1667 comments

DO NOT SPREAD THESE KINDS OF MESSAGES AND SHUT THEM DOWN WHEN YOU SEE OTHERS SHARING THEM Please. On behalf of the entire immigrant community, but also myself and every member of our staff. There is nothing Trump could do that is worse than what these rumors are doing

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

submitted 28 days ago • 4397 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 29 days ago • 1664 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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submitted 33 days ago • 985 comments

Ladies and gentlemen: we did it

submitted 32 days ago • 1055 comments

Stephen Miller and Homan’s goal is to shock and awe blue cities to terrify whole communities. They’ll deliberately targeting businesses, schools, hospitals churches and other places of worship. They want Americans to be afraid. Mayors and governors must stand up to them. Lawyers get on standby.

submitted 32 days ago • 888 comments

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

submitted 33 days ago • 1521 comments

If you're a federal worker and you want to blow the whistle and share emails or memos from the new administration, my DMs are open and I'll keep you anonymous.

submitted 34 days ago • 353 comments

You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining. We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines. It's great, I love it.

submitted 34 days ago • 432 comments

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments

I have faith in Hegseth. A lot of the abusive blackout drunks I know have turned it around with the gentle nudge of an insanely stressful job w/ no oversight or accountability.

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 35 days ago • 925 comments

Absolutely all of this, and also just the propagation of mass fear and a feeling of brutal inevitability. The truth is that ICE has nowhere near the capacity it wants these communities to believe it does, and we need to be cautious not to do their psyops for them

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

submitted 36 days ago • 1112 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated