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Man he really called it

submitted 9 hours ago • 55 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 330 comments

We're dropping our DEI policy as we seek to employ the most highly qualified candidates, which is why, going forward, we are only hiring applicants who went to ivy league schools because their rich dads donated money

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Thanks to @zey.bsky.social for writing this. Don't be afraid. Take action. We have a window of freedom left. Use it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

So if you get that OPM email, my only advice is to recognize (1) it is asking you to give them an excuse to fire you (2) it will be processed by an LLM. If you want to leave, good luck to you, thank you for your service. If not, reply in a way designed to not give their LLM bot those free excuses.

submitted 5 hours ago • 57 comments

According to Coinbase's just-filed 8-K (linked), the SEC has agreed to terminate with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase without payment of any monetary penalty. The 8-K does not state whether Coinbase has agreed to change any practices. In all events, a huge win for the Crypto industry.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

So patronizing when the dentist patiently explains how to floss. I'm not a baby who doesn't know how to do basic things. I'm a baby who doesn't wanna

submitted 14 hours ago • 295 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 227 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1081 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 472 comments

I've been saying this for a while about most of the new kids. Occam's Razor says that they're foreign agents, but Hanlon's Razor says that they're just sociopathic idiots.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

OK, I just want to temper everyone's enthusiasm with a story. A few years back a new player emerged onto Twitter. They called themselves the Intelligence Workers Union. They claimed to be a group of intel types who'd been secretly unionizing (since intel staff famously can't do so) for a year.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 978 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Patel: "Anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life and our citizens, here and abroad, will face the full wrath of the DOJ & FBI. If you seek to hide in any corner of this country or planet, we will put on the world's largest manhunt & we will find you, & we will decide your end state. Not you"

submitted 1 day ago • 1141 comments

PhRMA's deregulatory agenda for the 2nd Trump administration, in one slide. Magic AI pixie dust, "new and different forms of evidence," and "modernization" of "regulatory expectations" all code words for fewer, smaller, and weaker clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

the Chinese just had the biggest and most successful hack of telecom systems in american history and our top communications regulator is busy threatening CBS with a sham investigation of 69 Minutes

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

While it's true that Democrats in Congress -- and especially the House -- have relatively little power right now, what they can do is use their local offices to find people suffering from Trump's policies, like this caller, and lift up their voices and tell their stories

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Republicans basically voted against everything that helps you and in favor of everything that benefits the ukra wealthy. It's on the record. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2PY95uo/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It's no coincidence that Musk's companies are soaring in value as the regulatory agencies that were investigating or suing them are being gutted. The DOGE agenda isn't about "efficiency" — it's about Musk freeing himself from any accountability so he can line his pockets.

submitted 1 day ago • 169 comments

Get Rekt ™

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

"Wrongful spending" -- since DOGE hasn't produced any actual evidence of fraud, Hannity has made up a new term to gaslight his audience

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I’m waiting for the first performative defamation lawsuit by some Trumpist asshole who gave a Nazi salute, filed against someone who called it a Nazi salute. It will mirror the bullshit suits filed by the assholes who did the white power sign who whined that they had been defamed by naming it.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This is how the Tea Party started, after all. They just showed up and talked angry shit for a summer & then they got a lot of money from conservative donors, ran candidates for the next Congress and voila, the groundwork laid for takeover of their party. It is far from impossible to do. Hint. Hint.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

I'm disappointed this kind of thing can happen in my state, but I'm very glad that the NMSC called out the prosecutor by name. This ADA should not be permitted to prosecute cases for the state again.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico. Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow. “This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better” My latest kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Good thing Elon Musk has nothing to do with DOGE, otherwise this might look a bit shady www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

File under “grow a fucking backbone” (Keep calling your senators; they’re hearing this)

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Yes, the constitution says that. But I am a constitutional law scholar at an Ivy League school who always wanted to be published in the New York Times.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Once upon a time (let's say 2012) even a minor pundit using the r-word generated a week of critical stories, bipartisan pushback, Special Olympics using its undeniable oomph to push back in public fora, adults with Down syndrome on NPR, and more.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

wait until it’s the sovereign wealth fund but then we won’t have courts so idk

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

coiling yourself in knots to act like you don't recognize a sieg heil gesture because you're worried about the blowback from the "terrorist fist-bump" people is some worm hall of fame shit

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Looks like bad police officers can freely move from one department to another again. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

My biggest mistake in thinking about the 2024 election was believing that people would, you know, remember what four years of President Trump was like. The country and its institutions did perhaps too good of a job of resisting him and it made everyone forget who he was.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 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 • 3428 comments

And he's now removing info sharing details and showing the corruption... www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fErK9M/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments