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Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 14 hours ago • 488 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 15 hours ago • 283 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 16 hours ago • 132 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 18 hours ago • 163 comments

The last failsafe of any republican form of government is that the military is loyal to the constitution and rule of law over a particular leader. Cross that line, and you get Venezuela today and every dictatorship in history.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

“Mr. Mills won re-election in November. He previously made headlines in 2023 when he handed out an unusual welcome gift to colleagues in the House of Representatives: inert grenades with a letter inviting them to “come together.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 18 hours ago • 171 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 18 hours ago • 438 comments

“This is effin’ crazy,” he said. “Pam and I were just talking in the back, and we were like, ‘Do you believe this?’ We were on the campaign trail together. … Now, we’re here. She’s the attorney general. I’m the director of the FBI. This is insane.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Musk and the broligarchy should be worried about this trend. Suspect in Insurance C.E.O. Killing Creates Website as Support Floods In www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

submitted 1 day ago • 463 comments

New: Trump and those around him aren't acting like they're testing the boundaries of criminal law. They seem to be crossing them whimsically. What do you suppose people like that will do if and when they start to think their impunity might be at risk?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

An FCC probe of an SF radio station over a story it didn't like. A judge-ordered takedown of a newspaper editorial. We are watching the 1st Amendment die rapidly, inspired by a president who declares himself a king How can the media fight back? My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Kilmeade: “But that’s all Russia’s fault, Mr. President. Russia did the inv…” Trump: (ignores Kilmeade’s remark) Kilmeade: “But Mr. President, that’s all Vladimir Putin’s fault. Don’t you agree?” Trump: (ignores Kilmeade’s question) “And then Zelenskyy complains that he’s not in a meeting…”

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

“The designation of cartels and criminal organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations frees up more tools to disrupt and counter the financing and operations of these groups and may signal coming escalation.” —Lucas Webber, a senior threat intelligence analyst

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Leader of France’s far-right party abruptly cancels his scheduled CPAC speech after Steve Bannon’s Nazi salute. www.barrons.com/articles/fra...

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1679 comments

“Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration along with at least 3 other federal agencies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

So, ridicule Americans who want to flee abroad all you want. But remember, there’s a reason why Germany produced the most Nobel laureates before World War II, but the U.S. took the lead afterward.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 982 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

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chairman of the foreign relations committee in german parliament michael roth saying trump admin’s new foreign policy tone is “worst-case scenario,” "transatlantic relations are over.”

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 1 day ago • 5065 comments

Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 921 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

The Senate has taken the incredible/inevitable decision to confirm Kash "Qanon" Patel as director of the FBI The Deep State must be shaking in their boots www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

This will go down as the real end.

submitted 1 day ago • 1026 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

I know it was hard to tell at the time and hindsight is 20 20 but one early sign that maybe these Dems shouldn’t have voted to confirm someone who Trump 2.0 picked for a cabinet level post is that Trump had picked them for a cabinet level post www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments