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Has anyone made a good waste fraud and abuse graphic where it's Vance Musk and Trump that I can put on facebook? If you already have it there I'll give you a share

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

We talked to employees across the federal government about how they are resisting Musk and Trump. One of the funnier stories is from USDS, where some workers keep putting up a sign that reads "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE" after it's being taken down over night. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 886 comments

Billionaires like Elon Musk are working overtime to raise taxes & costs for working families. Meanwhile, Musk’s company, Tesla, avoided almost all federal income tax on nearly $11 billion of U.S. income over 3 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is gaining access to sensitive personal information through the Department of Education, including Social Security numbers, tax returns, and more. An unelected billionaire has no right to exploit confidential information.

submitted 5 hours ago • 24 comments

"Only 34% approve of what Musk is doing Only 26% are OK with him shutting down govt programs And a whopping 63% don’t like Musk’s marauders gaining access to federal government databases containing Social Security, Medicare and tax information" www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

My mom helped run a Social Security field office for most of my childhood. The population that these locations serve is overwhelmingly disabled, elderly, poor or some combination thereof. That’s who they’re looking to deny services and resources.

submitted 4 hours ago • 39 comments

"Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner." wapo.st/41qBKwR

submitted 8 hours ago • 48 comments

I talked to the only Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigator in Alabama, who was terminated in DOGE cuts, for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I don’t normally engage with propagandised fools but when I do, I try to out-propaganda them because they are genuinely so silly.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Oh FFS, New York Times, this isn't to "root out diversity initiatives", it's just plain firing people, including the highest ranking officers, who ain't white guys.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2342 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2739 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

I hope it goes without saying that this goes doubly for purged military officers

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

New York Times asking "also" to do some heavy lifting there...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 Oh, that went well: Russia used the first round of talks with the US over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of Nato forces from the alliance’s eastern flank, suggesting Trump admin could acquiesce to seal a peace deal according to Romanian government.🧵 www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Don't let the bluster and bravado create its own truth. We're seeing over-reach which will have such complex and widespread blowback and consequences, here, there, and everywhere, that the incompetents at the top will be overwhelmed and eventually brought low, as they should be.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Don't be wowed or depressed by the bluster. It's not going well with the people.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Always stand up to a bully

submitted 1 day ago • 953 comments

Self-portrait of Bolognese anatomist, lecturer, and wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774) dissecting a human brain, 1755 (Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Università di Bologna) #earlymodern #18thc

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#FrescoFriday A female figure swathed in pink gracefully flying away. From atrium of Villa Arianna, Campania, 1st C. In the Museo Arqueológico de Stabiae Libero D'Orsi, Castellamare.

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If there's one thing to call about for the next several days, it's this: early next week the house will be voting on a budget resolution that decimates Medicaid. This is an immediate life-and-death issue for so many, and the GOP House majority is razor-thin. Call early and often. And pass it on.

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A guide to various resources for tracking what Trump-Musk are up to. choosedemocracy.us/tracking-tra...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Democratic governors should have all walked out together midway through that meeting but especially after Trump's attack on Gov. Janet Mills. I don't know why they didn't. Makes no sense.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

During my long years of fieldwork, I should have made more diligent prayers to Homobonus of Cremona for whom church doors miraculously opened.

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It was a moment of defiance of which we can all be proud, and we can all praise Governor Mills. What was "stunning" and shameful was the pathetic display of bullying by this sick, mean-spirited, vile, lying buffoon of a president we've inflicted on ourselves and on the world. His days will end.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Maine Governor Janet Mills shows more spine in 30 seconds than the entire GOP combined in the last 9 years. Good for her defying this attempt by Trump to illegally coerce her. This is how you make wannabe strongmen look weak youtube.com/shorts/Jmn_I...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We need more elected officials like Gov. Mills. Bullies hate it when you stand up to them. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

More of this, Democrats, governors, public officials, citizens, everyone. Push the big bully back, push him back. Relentlessly. We will win.

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Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

Scenes from the life of St Jerome BnF MS Latin 1; Biblia (Vivien's Bible, known as the First Bible of Charles the Bald; 9th century (845 CE- 851 CE); Abbey of Saint-Martin in Tours; f.2v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 828 comments

Also and not for nothing, vote by mail

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments