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You can’t fix stupid

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

cutting childhood cancer research… www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

submitted 8 days ago • 133 comments

Donald Trump has betrayed Ukraine. His abhorrent actions today have embarrassed and weakened this country in the eyes of the world.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

Leaders of nations across the globe like, respect, and get along with Zelensky. He has not had meetings with any of them that were anything other than cordial and respectful from both sides. Only one was hostile, disrespectful, obnoxious, nasty, and vicious - Donald Trump.

submitted 12 days ago • 274 comments

United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights. Or providing security for money. It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies. Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.

submitted 17 days ago • 346 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 17 days ago • 3896 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 17 days ago • 1053 comments

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for more than 110,000 refugees, including thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. “We feel betrayed,” said one Afghan American soldier. With @texastribune.org

submitted 17 days ago • 88 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 21 days ago • 576 comments

Fear and Loathing at CPAC

submitted 20 days ago • 82 comments

Jeez, I wonder why an organization that has people living undercover in hundreds of countries around the world would want to recruit “diverse” individuals? The stupidity is breathtaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 132 comments

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

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submitted 21 days ago • 762 comments

President Trump said he would have had a “very nasty life” if he lost the presidential election, a surprisingly public acknowledgment that his legal challenges could have consumed his life and brought jail time.

submitted 21 days ago • 299 comments

President Trump is famous for loving everything gold and other trappings connoting royalty. But in a post on Truth Social, he went a step further, likening himself to a king as he celebrated his administration’s move to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program.

submitted 21 days ago • 162 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 528 comments

New ICE data shows Trump isn't just arresting criminals. The number of detainees without a criminal conviction or pending criminal charges increased by more than 1,800 in the first two weeks of Feb. — representing 41% of the total new detainees just in that period. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 21 days ago • 2196 comments

Hate to break it to you, Senator, but Trump is not Neville Chamberlain. As misguided and naive as Chamberlain was, he was at least acting in good faith and in what he believed was the cause of peace. Trump is Joachim von Ribbentrop—or worse.

submitted 21 days ago • 249 comments

Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 24 days ago • 161 comments

"Attorneys, he said, 'don’t resign because you disagree with the policies, but because you are being asked to do something you believe is ethically, morally or legally improper'...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 241 comments

DOGE is about to receive full access to IRS taxpayer data. On its own, that’s horrific. But it gets worse. The guy with access reposted content by Nick Fuentes (who advocates killing Jews) & says he was inspired to join DOGE by Ron Unz (an antisemitic Holocaust denier). This is beyond dangerous.

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

DOGE spreads misinformation about fraud because it wants to implement Project 2025 and give the rich more tax cuts www.npr.org/2025/02/16/g...

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

This is utterly damning. Of Adams. Of Bove. Of Bondi.

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

It gets worse, if you can believe it!

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Per this article, Ms. Sassoon chose to resign instead of being complicit in dropping the case against Eric Adams. Bravo to Ms. Sassoon for not bending the knee. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 133 comments

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

submitted 27 days ago • 265 comments

"U.S.A.I.D. employees, who mostly joined the agency in hopes of making the world a better place, are in agony," our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. "'We're just paralyzed,' an agency employee in Africa told me. 'No one is in charge.'"

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

He does, and he used to, too.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal.

submitted 30 days ago • 186 comments

Susan Collins has told reporters she will vote for Psycho Bob to lead the HHS. It proves one thing. Susan Collins is incapable of learning a single lesson.

submitted 30 days ago • 1296 comments

“...'the most consequential security breach' in American history." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 337 comments

New tonight Elon Musk retweets a post contemplating DOGE or the Trump administration defy a court order imposed by a federal judge “I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us”

submitted 32 days ago • 94 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 941 comments

WTF??!! “The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general.” Trump ousts at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge

submitted 47 days ago • 147 comments

Besides flagrantly contrary to law, the coordinated late night firings were an extremely creepy operation, timed to slip in under the news cycle. Inspectors general are critical to accountability of large agencies. This is like breaking the security camera before robbing the bank.

submitted 47 days ago • 67 comments

submitted 47 days ago • 676 comments

DOD, State, Transport, EPA are 4 of the 12 where IG’s were sacked. It’s hard to explain the significance of this if you haven’t worked in government. But take it from me. Firing 1 holdover ID would be news. A coordinated 12 on a Friday night, is….HUGE and we have an extremely dangerous president

submitted 47 days ago • 101 comments

UPDATE: NYT reports that Trump fired 17 inspectors general in a late Friday night purge. The firings threatened to upend the traditional independence of the internal watchdogs. tinyurl.com/4v87day6

submitted 47 days ago • 60 comments

The IG firings wd have been a major scandal in years past. The closest analogue is the 2006 US Attys firings, which triggered immediate Congressional hearings + rough political fallout. Here there is no possible pretense that the firings are benign-they are designed to foil oversight and reporting.

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

Hegseth Told Senator He Paid $50,000 to Woman Who Accused Him of Rape www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

submitted 47 days ago • 30 comments

Since he's been in office (less than a week): egg prices up, gas prices up, Nazi salutes up

submitted 47 days ago • 249 comments

Can someone remind me what it’s called when the government seizes private businesses?

submitted 51 days ago • 1513 comments

Don't EVER tell me you "back the blue" again, you seditious felon. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 51 days ago • 466 comments

There's something needs to be said And it's important You don't need to be gay to stick up for your gay friends You don't need to be trans to stick up for your trans friends You don't need to be Jewish or muslim or Hindu or black or white You only need to be good people To stick up for your friends

submitted 51 days ago • 80 comments

This is important.

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments