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submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 3 days ago • 236 comments

Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

submitted 3 days ago • 209 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 5 days ago • 637 comments

We need to start calling them what they really are. It’s simpler and more accurate—Nazis: www.thehandbasket.co/p/nazis-musk...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’m at the capitol protesting Trump and Musk. Not enough people here. This makes me want to cry. There should be thousands of people, only a few hundred people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics. “American institutions [including science institutions] continue to underreact” to what is happening. Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

"After Russia had invaded a European country and called in forces from North Korea to help it do it, after all that blather about taking on China, the baldly-stated truth was that what really moves the radical right is hatred of the liberal enemy within." open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 166 comments

February 28 is blackout day. But nothing that day. Let’s see what we can do together.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Elon Musk is the new sheriff of Nottingham and Trump is King John. Who will be our Robin Hood?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.

submitted 15 days ago • 166 comments

“The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over. Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than [before Trump] took office.” www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman". Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1225 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.