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Rep Kevin Hern—scared to say anything against Trump. The obvious—if Zelenskyy were a dictator, Trump would love him like he loves Putin. Glad to see folks in Oklahoma calling him out. Even small town halls matter right now. Don’t let them off the hook. Keep calling, emailing, and confronting them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 212 comments

Maybe I’ll treat my family to 4 or 5 eggs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

Musk and DOGE are closing local Social Security offices, making it hard for people with disabilities to access help. Frank Bisignano, former FISERV CEO, is Trump’s nominee for commissioner of Social Security. He is likely to expand this. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 21 hours ago • 73 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 20 hours ago • 147 comments

Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

submitted 19 hours ago • 55 comments

People will die. Blood on Republican hands. RFK Jr. Makes His First Anti-Vaccine Move www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-... via @WSJopinion

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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

submitted 23 hours ago • 121 comments

1/US demands Ukrainian minerals or face cutoff from Starlink. It is the most venal form of economic coercion. And it will only accelerate the backlash to US tech platforms. Now Starlink = AWS = Facebook for friends and foes alike. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

"casually" is the key word here. As @abenewman.bsky.social and I say - www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o... - the Trump administration seems to assume there is no cost or risk to weaponizing infrastructure for short term advantage.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I'm not sure it's actually set in that the Trump administration has done an end run to effectively grind to a halt new scientific research. They're not pausing the money. They're pausing the meetings needed to sign off on the $ www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

1/ "The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money."

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Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Another scoop from @peard33.bsky.social: DOGE installed Tom Krause at the Treasury Department. He's keeping his job as the CEO of a software company that has millions of dollars in federal contracts, including with the Treasury Department www.wired.com/story/krause...

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"One recently fired employee was an aeronautical information specialist who helped plan airplane routes, or “highways in the sky.” ... “To put it frankly, without our team ... pilots would quite literally be flying blind,” they said."

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“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 799 comments

Texas. Where the lone star is a review.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Gov. Janet Mills and Bishop Mariann Budde walking into a bar. And Donald Trump immediately shits his pants ... #StrongWomen #StatesRights #ReligiousFreedom #StayStrong

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This is a good story about micro impacts of tariffs that could have macro effects The U.S. is trying to build out power capacity to meet rising demand from AI and data center demand Transformers used in power grids are especially vulnerable to tariff disruptions www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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How does having trained staff at places like DHS, DOEd, DHHS, & DOC protect Americans? Without them, we couldn't fight child abuse, prosecute CSAM traffickers, & prevent early deaths. Your federal government is a cooperative of highly skilled, dedicated citizens who work to protect kids everyday.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

It's extra wild considering that Mogensen was a pilot on SpaceX's Crew-7 mission

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Whistleblower letter sent to the Senate and the DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Immigration Detention Ombudsman Tuesday urges investigating likely fraud and abusive conditions at Torrance County Detention Facility, violating its contract with ICE news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Trump has been president for 31 full days. He has spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. All of which makes him money.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This. Let’s be done with the whole “run government like a business” bs, shall we?

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

everything is made up apparently

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open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 274 comments

* JOINT KYIV PRESS CONFERENCE WITH US ENVOY KELLOGG AND UKRAINE'S ZELENSKIY CANCELLED AT U.S. REQUEST - UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT'S OFFICE @reuters.com

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Minnesota’s deputy director for the Small Business Administration was fired Feb. 7, rehired days later when the government said it made a mistake, and then fired again last week. Another federal employee who was abruptly fired has newborn twins in the NICU. More stories of chaos + cruelty:

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Donald Trump has now backed the GOP House bill that would deliver $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich, while raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion and cutting $2 trillion from America’s middle class. I’m ready to fight to make sure this bill never passes.

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DEUTSCHE: “.. Inauguration day was exactly a month ago .. no signs yet that fiscal outlays have fallen in the first few weeks of the administration.”

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This is the intersection point between Muskian arrogance and idiot populism: The conviction that there’s an extremely simple solution for everything that, somehow, nobody else has ever noticed & that you via either genius or “common sense” have uniquely hit upon.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

This is what I was talking about last week.

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41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by NBC News, despite Trump promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 923 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4563 comments

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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“Fact check: Trump falsely claims Zelensky has a 4% approval rating. It’s above 50%” www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

The Russian stock market loves Donald Trump. Why? He's now the American mouthpiece for the Kremlin. Shameful stuff.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Good thread and honest to God this is what happens when you assign the algebra problems to the kindergarteners. Those of us who were assigned to manage grants had to prove our competence first! #DrownDOGE #ArrestMusk

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Asked about Musk’s claim that the FAA didn’t fire anyone affecting safety, they respond: “Well, he’s wrong.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 767 comments

What the fuck. This would essentially end the ability of anyone who doesn't have 20% down to buy a home. An end run around FHA and a direct hit on working families.

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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

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