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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

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Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 2 hours ago • 86 comments

Slay of the day by Federal Judge Reyes.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 1 day ago • 1370 comments

there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Let’s be 100% clear. The postal service is literally in the Constitution, explicitly assigned as a congressional power. If Congress wants to abolish or privatize it, that’s up to Congress. The President can’t just wake up one day and do it on his own.

submitted 21 hours ago • 42 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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“The costs of dismantling agencies, dramatically politicizing state capacity, and demeaning the idea of public service will still be counted long after Trump has departed the scene,” Donald Moynihan writes:

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Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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God this is all so, so dumb

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New Scientist magazine interviewed me about the Space Library www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKXr...

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Der Spiegel cover 👀🇺🇦

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it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

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"Do you believe men and women should be treated as social, economic, and political equals?" All: Yes: 84% No: 6% No Among: GOP: 10% IND: 5% DEM: 2% YouGov / Feb 8, 2025 / n=1131

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Extortion. Again.

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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 1 day ago • 351 comments

The chyron. All she said was "We will follow state and federal law" and Trump asserted that he IS the law.

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

Imagine how news media would respond if it was Harris saying this after a dozen eggs topped $8 nationally

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WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

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Secretary Turner wants to cancel HUD programs that serve seniors and people with disabilities. Harming seniors and vulnerable Americans does not make our government more efficient. Senator Warren, Senator Smith, and I are holding this Administration accountable.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

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lmao, jesus

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#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🇺🇸

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Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I write about trump take egg.

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Kash Patel’s confirmation to head the FBI is quite a contrast to what happened with Richard Nixon’s first pick, L. Patrick Gray, who Congress rejected for being to partisan & too close to the president—the same characteristics Patel possesses. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Could a plot of dirt be the reason Neiman Marcus is closing the iconic downtown Dallas store? More than 100 years of Neiman Marcus history appears to be ending because of a 25-foot-long plot of dirt sitting under the iconic downtown Dallas department store’s escalators.

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Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

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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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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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would like this to go much faster while also realizing that this is shockingly fast for politics

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“I’m a lifelong Republican, through and through. But the stuff going on lately, it’s crazy. This Ukraine stuff? He’s honestly crazy.” - completely unexpected conversation today with a professional acquaintance in finance

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Whitehouse: "Remember Trump-Russia? The Mueller report said there was Trump-Russia. The bipartisan Senate intelligence report said there was Trump-Russia. Repeated trials brought in evidence showing Trump-Russia. There was, is, and forever shall be Trump-Russia."

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“They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former member of Trump’s first administration tells me. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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If you're legitimately too scared to act in the country's best interest, you have one and only one option: resign

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Remember, the cruelty is the point. 11-Year-Old Takes Own Life After Classmates Reportedly Threatened To Have Her Family Deported mediaite.com/a/rnrse via @mediaite

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🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.

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