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This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Here's some government waste

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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

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PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Uncertainty over the severity of federal spending cuts and tariffs has led to a sudden stop in decision-making, likely weighing materially on GDP growth in Q1.” 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

There is a wave of anger building across the entire country. People are already becoming fed up with Trump and Musk. These algorithms can try to hide it all they want, but they won’t be able to avoid reality for long.

submitted 1 day ago • 350 comments

Looks like the start of a major recession.

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Not surprising

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ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

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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 • 168 comments

DOGE is not about waste and fraud. This is about gutting government services without any evaluation of their need. Americans have decided to have and fund an effective National Park Service. Trump and Musk are trampling on democracy to do whatever the hell they want.

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 979 comments

Trump is the least popular President in American history

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“Washington today echoes with so many uncomfortable reminders of that transitional moment in Moscow—the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the President’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative.”

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

submitted 2 days ago • 483 comments

It's only been a month. That's half a billion dollars per year just to run DOGE. Maybe we should cut their jobs to save money?

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Reminds me of my dad musing about why so many people couldn't see that Nixon was lying.

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Wow.

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If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

JUST IN: 900+ former federal prosecutors sign open letter warning that Justice's Public Integrity Section could be eliminated and saluting DOJ lawyers for response to "ethical challenges." Among those signing on: former special counsel Jack Smith. Doc: www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 5 days ago • 605 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

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As I told The Guardian, multiple comments by Trump and allies targeting courts is a disturbing attack on the important role of the judiciary in our constitutional system as a check on other branches.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

@smbrnsn.bsky.social

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Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

submitted 5 days ago • 542 comments

Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.

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submitted 6 days ago • 78 comments

Republicans aren’t hiding anything. Their priorities are written in black and white: trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich, while making savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition and education. The reconciliation bill will make the rich even richer and the poor poorer.

submitted 6 days ago • 213 comments