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TRUMP: fires black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; fires female chief of naval operations; hires unqualified replacement, a white man NYT:

submitted 6 hours ago • 89 comments

being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

submitted 16 hours ago • 349 comments

He was too Black for the moment.

submitted 14 hours ago • 408 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 1 day ago • 656 comments

At this point, journalists have to seriously consider not using Twitter anymore, in my opinion. (I stopped tweeting in November, for what it's worth.) I get why many are still over there -- but we all have to question why we are helping a platform that actively demonizes and censors us.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 3 days ago • 1420 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 431 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 6 days ago • 2091 comments

Despite frigid temperatures and fierce winds, hundreds of protesters gathered outside New York's Capitol on Monday, Presidents' Day, to voice their opposition to the policies of Pres. Donald J. Trump and billionaire donor Elon Musk, the unelected leader of the Department of Government Efficiency.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a terrible bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

submitted 6 days ago • 1283 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

submitted 7 days ago • 647 comments

Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Control Almost Half Of New York State talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.

submitted 8 days ago • 191 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 10 days ago • 491 comments

Jail!

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

In its totality what's happening at HHS & NIH is a Musk/Trump effort to shutdown almost all cancer cure research in the US. No more new cures. Cancer's brand is really in the dumps. It polls terribly. This is a political argument that is straightforward to make. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 9 days ago • 1087 comments

incredible the mental gymnastics folks will do to justify cowardice

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Courage is contagious. Read and share this letter.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 10 days ago • 3236 comments

🚨🚨🚨Hochul, speaking on Maddow, changes tune slightly: from “no” on removing Adams, to “will consult…and process” and look at removal anew.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

If yr a govt worker or anyone else w sensitive/confidential info to share about whats happening inside the federal govt you can reach me via encrypted mail at joshtpm (at) protonmail dot com or via Signal at joshtpm dot 99. Please only use these encrypted channels for confidential communication.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

It's good that the sdny people are resigning rather than carry out Trump's corrupt order to spare Eric Adams reportedly because he's agreed to an immigration crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Can’t wait for Trump’s minions to depict a republican attorney who clerked for Scalia as some kind of Marxist deep state mole

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 10 days ago • 5019 comments

President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are stealing from us.

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

i think it's cool that the president is functionally a drug-addled billionaire nazi

submitted 12 days ago • 184 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 12 days ago • 2085 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 12 days ago • 1185 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments

Very cool that people now need to explicitly, verbally endorse two complete fictions in order to get a job. Very cool.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Biden wouldn’t get rid of DeJoy

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

huh, i wonder what this is about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 352 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 17 days ago • 2170 comments

After all that Marko Elez was the first taker on the resignation program.

submitted 17 days ago • 207 comments

Politico is one of countless outlets (CNN, NPR, CBS, Semafor, Washington Post, LA Times) that responded to authoritarianism by sucking up even harder to Republicans and once again this is your reward

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

submitted 18 days ago • 545 comments

This morning, I was honored to join CADCA’s National Leadership Forum to receive their Lifetime Achievement Award! I’m grateful to CADCA and to the coalition leaders across the nation who have joined in our efforts to prevent and reduce substance use in our communities.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 18 days ago • 1468 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 21 days ago • 3291 comments

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

submitted 21 days ago • 1039 comments

Wow, what an amazing result – kinda mad to say that Haaland's goal woke us up, but that's what happened. A superb performance from MLS, deserved his goal and fair play Havertz for producing after that 1st half miss. Nwaneri's goal the icing on a fucking delicious Arsenal cake today! #stayhumble

submitted 21 days ago • 55 comments

Stay humble eh @mancity.bsky.social ?!?! What an incredible performance by @arsenalfc.bsky.social!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

WHATEVER CEREAL THEY ARE FEEDING THE KIDS AT THE ARSENAL ACADEMY THEY NEED TO KEEP DOING IT

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 comments