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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 15 hours ago • 231 comments

Even MAGA can't keep up with Trump's lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 11 hours ago • 484 comments

Predict that some reporter will ask Trump about a third term and he’ll say, “I guess a lot of people are saying I should do it.” The reporter will bring up the Constitution and he will say, “I don’t know about that. It’s a very popular idea, frankly.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

1. The Republicans and the very obscenely rich have wanted to “privatize” Social Security and Medicare pretty much since the start of both safety-net programs. They have tried a few times, most memorably after the 2004 presidential election, and every time they did, they got zapped.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

By replacing a black 4-star general with a white 3-star general, we are finally bringing meritocracy back to the Department of Defense. by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Shooting out a television in the Jungle Room of Graceland with an illegal handgun makes you a king.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 17 hours ago • 35 comments

www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

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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 • 827 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 982 comments

NEW: While the agency is allowing disability discrimination probes to resume, the Trump administration’s investigation shutdown still applies to cases of alleged civil rights violations based on race and gender, according to a memo obtained by ProPublica.

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

From Russia With Free Shipping deadline.com/2025/02/jame...

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Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

I wonder what would happen if @wyden.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov asked GAO to investigate whether DOGE's "receipts" claiming savings amounts to fraud. Honestly, it's the only fraud found so far. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

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I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

submitted 2 days ago • 1105 comments

I want to put this back out there. Article from Fortune Magazine, of all places... fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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Tomorrow, Jay Kuo will break down Trump’s power grab into three buckets, looking at how successful he’s been at each. Yesterday, Todd Beeton looked at how the entire MO of Trump and his followers has become simply to “own the libs” at every opportunity. Don't miss either piece at The Big Picture.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 2 days ago • 921 comments

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

submitted 2 days ago • 412 comments

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

submitted 2 days ago • 1251 comments

"Trump did not run on a promise to unleash an unelected billionaire to slash-and-burn through the government, firing tens of thousands of employees and arbitrarily canceling contracts and federal programs. And even if he had, that still wouldn’t make it legal." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

Dark Pence is back.

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For people wondering when the right began falling in love with Putin: It was after the passage of the first anti-gay law in Russia in 2013. That was the moment GOP elected officials and rightwing Christian grifters started showing up on Fox to heap praise Putin. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/j...

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

This is @murray.senate.gov's effort to track what Trump has cut. I'd love to crowdsource a way to make this a point of exchange, to collect info from contractors who've gotten cut off, and match it to what she's learning as Appropriations Ranking. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Bernie Sanders: "The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk ... that's not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill. It's gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, 'we fought and died for democracy.'"

submitted 3 days ago • 397 comments

Elon claims trillions in social security went to dead people but instead of holding hearings on that today and having him and DOGE testify under oath, Republicans are filing bills to put Trump’s face on Mt. Rushmore & make his birthday a holiday. DON’T THEY CARE ABOUT OUR MONEY!

submitted 4 days ago • 287 comments