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like they're clearly worried about being blamed for a government shutdown but dawg the government shutdown is already here, they're illegally ripping the guts out of department after department

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

listen, the tennessee man was no angel

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

It is honestly wild to me that Republicans cooked up a bill that would prohibit D.C. from spending more than $1 billion of its own budget, devastating our city services out of pure spite, and Senate Democrats might actually vote for it. Utterly appalling. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 52 comments

DOGE is again moving faster than the courts. While emergency lawsuits are pending over DOGE detailees to govt agencies, the Trump administration abruptly ended the details. Now they say there's no need for discovery bc there are no more detailees. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

look at this bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

of late, i fear my relationship to vegan rob is getting to that systemic, entrenched, and destructive liz lemon + "sabor de soledad" place.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

SSA is in complete chaos. Buried in this article is a service worker noting that "the phone never stops ringing" and retirement claims aren't being processed. Hard to overstate the significance of that. End goal is to privatize the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

aren't americans sensitive to being scammed, duped, cheated, taken for fools? wouldn't yelling grift constantly at least topple the doge cover story, which gets repeated constantly with apparent credulity in ledes and on local tv news? who is out there advising dems against doing this?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

lol for $20,000/month you could get half a dozen actual PhDs on 24-hour retainer

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Cellebrite, the ubiquitous company that cops use to unlock phones and copy evidence, is now offering cops AI to summarize chat logs, audio messages, more. Civil liberties experts already concerned about AI hallucinating for cops www.404media.co/cellebrite-i...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨 RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice. Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org #PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 11 days ago • 160 comments

Putting both hands on the third rail now.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 15 days ago • 611 comments

wouldn't you think this cold hard truth would at least make an appearance in dem messaging right now? on the theory of congressional republicans, there is no point in having a budget or appropriating funds, as is clear by their failure to stop doge. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social that one's for free

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

@hiphination.bsky.social got to attend most of your talk today, and am excited for the book and very proud of you dude.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

It turns out that structuring all of our political incentives around serving the rich, and establishing dynastic clans of third and fourth generation political nepo babies, may have had the unintended consequence of producing a leadership generation of moral and physical cowards

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

silently counting out fourteen-ish months

submitted 26 days ago • 106 comments

NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 124 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 28 days ago • 72 comments

This should be treated as a crisis

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.

submitted 33 days ago • 58 comments

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

submitted 35 days ago • 175 comments

Unnoticed, as far as I can tell, amidst the other madness news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/bo...

submitted 35 days ago • 121 comments

I wrote these letter templates for your congresspeople. All you have to do is copy this text, fill in the name and address, print, sign and send them. SENATE: docs.google.com/document/d/1... HOUSE: docs.google.com/document/d/1... You're not getting another shot at this if Congress blows its chance

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

this ep is about fascism — and it is mostly about silicon valley, algorithms, and AI destroying the web and our ability to think. and for whatever it's worth, we got some feedback in 2018 that it seemed strange in our fascism episode we weren't talking more directly about authoritarian politics.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 35 days ago • 523 comments

We're rallying at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk's billionaire takeover. Join us TODAY at 5 PM ‼️ MoveOn.org/NobodyElectedElon

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

So it’s already unlawful, and we’re gonna try to pass another law against it?

submitted 36 days ago • 203 comments

are there workers at the GSA, OPM, and/or treasury who still have building access and can, as a drove, just follow these tiny assholes around? have musk's goons threatened force? do they command any security personnel? do they themselves carry weapons? I want self-appointed internal watchdog cadres

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If you are in a government labor union, you should invoke your Weingarten rights to have a union steward present before being in one of these meetings

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments