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🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

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“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 335 comments

Yeah bro…Boooooooooo.

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

If you're too scared to do what's right, quit. There's a lot of good Americans who have the courage you lack.

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

I am trying to imagine the reaction of Joe Biden or Barack Obama had spoken to a Republican governor in this way at a public event. I just can’t. None of us can.

submitted 22 hours ago • 161 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2796 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 232 comments

Beware Trump especially on Friday evenings, notorious slow news time to undertake mischief with minimal scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 60 comments

To be clear, “Protests are useless” and “there is no point” commenters / trolls will be muted, repeated instigators will be blocked. 0 tolerance for bike shedding and concern trolling.

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Voter suppression won youtu.be/UhzJfiYHXZw?...

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Sean Hannity’s interview with Trump and Musk wasn’t journalism—it was a 20-minute infomercial. A servile display of propaganda, dripping with condescension, designed to polish their image. No challenge, no truth, just a loyal courtier flattering his king.

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And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Not only are the Congressman’s remarks not a threat but Martin was a defense attorney for people who actually did threaten government officials - the Jan 6th insurrectionists! - and works for a president who has made multiple violent threats (2nd Amendment people and Hillary, folks, remember that?)

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 687 comments

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 • 985 comments

Elon and other unvetted Trump enablers shouldn't have access to the entire nation's personal and financial data. Can my Republican colleagues acknowledge that? We're forcing a vote to block that access. Let's see where they land.

submitted 1 day ago • 253 comments

Jessica’s friend Greg, showed that Kamala actually won. Just to also give you hope, there are more people who know the truth than those who get sucked into the rabbit hole of disinformation

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This morning, my colleagues and I stood in front of FBI headquarters to make it clear to everyone who wants an FBI focused on violent crime and not on political retribution: Kash Patel would be a disaster as FBI Director.

submitted 2 days ago • 833 comments

"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly..." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 256 comments

Beastie Boys songs are even funnier when they became socially conscious and started doing rhymes like to rock the mic is my intention / I’m smart like the women at the Seneca Falls Convention

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I specialize in representing Democratic campaigns because I believe in the party. I litigate voting rights cases because the right to vote is the bedrock of our democracy. I speak out about free and fair elections because they are under threat. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

submitted 2 days ago • 141 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

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

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Jeffries: We’re dealing with a group of people where, for far too many of them, facts don’t matter. Hypocrisy is not a constraint on their behavior. And many of them have actually come to the conclusion that their shamelessness is a superpower. We have to hold them accountable…

submitted 2 days ago • 302 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

Love this guy. He appeared on the Mueller, She Wrote podcast in 2018. Hell of an activist.

submitted 2 days ago • 283 comments

This is how you know Patel has the votes. Collins would never be a deciding vote to sink one of Trump’s nominees.

submitted 2 days ago • 313 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1544 comments

It’s amazing how many Republican politicians, Fox hosts, & commentators have come out to strongly disagree with Trump’s statements about Ukraine while none of them even mentioned his name while doing so. Their level of fear and terror of Trump is something to watch.

submitted 2 days ago • 224 comments

But, but... I thought he was an environmental warrior, you guys! No? They're all liars and frauds? That's right. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 328 comments

As I noted in this morning's bonus "One First," this case (about Trump's attempt to remove MSPB Chairwoman Cathy Harris) is a much bigger test of how far #SCOTUS will go than the Dellinger case—because this case, not that one, implicates Humphrey's Executor: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-125-...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Just more proof that this Administration doesn’t care if we survive it…

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3426 comments

Medicare is under attack, too. Many seniors cannot physically travel easily. This new policy is cruel to inflict upon them and will increase burdens on doctors and nurses.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Elon Musk just had the Community Note removed from the clip of his interview with Trump that went viral on X. The note pointed out that Musk lied about having to rescue astronauts because Biden supposedly abandoned them.

submitted 2 days ago • 296 comments

Kash Patel’s ascent reflects the corrosion of institutional integrity. A purveyor of conspiracies, loyal to Trump over truth, he now holds power within the FBI. Governance bends to partisanship, eroding democracy’s foundation—once more, a little further.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

submitted 2 days ago • 410 comments

It turns out that this was projection from ambitious social climbers who were interested in conservatism solely for the sake of conserving their own privilege.

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Turns out we “deranged” people simply saw the truth clearly.

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