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WASH POST: “Musk’s DOGE claims to have saved an estimated $55 billion through a combination of layoffs, canceled contracts, lease renegotiations and other actions. But a list that it posted of contracts and leases suggests that number is inflated.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 3 hours ago • 145 comments

More good reporting like this, please, cutting through the lies and bullshit of Musk et al. This is the #GoodTimes DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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DID YOU GUYS KNOW Jeff Bezos’ Amazon gets even more gov’t subsidies than Elon Musk? For what? The utter gall of these tech oligarchs. Workers need to be fired, and your grandma needs to be kicked off Social Security! Stop sending these bastards your money! #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWaPo #BoycottTesla

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I gifted this so you can read it. DOGE is an absolute joke! If these kinds of mistakes were made in corporate America, or even by real government employees, they would all be fired. The incompetence is simply spectacular! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 9 hours ago • 47 comments

The TruMusk administration has suffered a lot of court losses this week. Republicans are getting scathing feedback & starting to balk. The corporations who threw money at Trump and scraped DEI are all suffering huge losses from boycotts. Our efforts are working. Keep calling, have heart, be strong.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 5 hours ago • 226 comments

"See, this is why we don't ask you to go out anymore, Gary"🔊🆙 📹: Edinburgh Zoo

submitted 23 hours ago • 41 comments

A very useful resource www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

DOGE's "savings" is like saying, "I've saved hundreds of dollars by never changing the oil or replacing the brakes in my old car."

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

When the stupid reveals itself..once again.. We don’t do kings, no matter how hard you try, asshole 🖕🏻 #SheShed

submitted 7 hours ago • 836 comments

As historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes, authoritarians normalize cruelty to divide and conquer. “Freeing people from the idea that they should respect others as individuals with dignity and autonomy is part of the agenda.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1094 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 135 comments

I have decided to call @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social EVERY DAY to tell him to fight harder. The days of being cautious and timid have led us to fascism. I will remind him he works for us and that he needs to ramp it up. I called and left a message today. Please join me. His number: 202-225-5936

submitted 23 hours ago • 207 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 8 hours ago • 36 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 104 comments

AOC: “Elon Musk is not going after efficiency — he is trying to gut everything good in 🇺🇸 for his own private profit… America is not for sale.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGXObpu...

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 226 comments

I just deactiviated my AirBnb Account--whose co founder Joe Gebbia is now helping ruin America-- and later today I will go to the Lincoln Memorial to support Ukraine. Take every step that you can, my friends. Build resilience as much as you build resistance. #StandWithUkraine.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 21 hours ago • 69 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 9 hours ago • 52 comments

🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.

submitted 13 hours ago • 513 comments

Snickers the kindest dog I've ever met. Her gifts landed her a home. This is a behind the scenes look at what we do on the streets of Thailand youtu.be/9DFHn4q0_Yg?...

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 18 hours ago • 134 comments

Elon has intervened in two legal requests in the US: one for Trump, and another for likely suspect leakers. A description of his efforts to stall the Trump warrant is in the Jack Smith report that Aileen Cannon is refusing to release.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Food for thought

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PORTLAND: Tesla will be exhibiting vehicles at the Oregon International Auto Show, starting today and running through the end of the weekend. People use this event to survey the market for new vehicles ahead of purchasing, so it's an ideal place to interrupt potential new Tesla sales. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 23 hours ago • 81 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 23 hours ago • 495 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 944 comments

Womp womp

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1276 comments

Urgent appeal for a lawyer for Buster. He's in big trouble and has been falsely accused

submitted 15 hours ago • 70 comments

One other brilliant aspect of Judge Ho appointing Scalia clerk Paul Clement as his amicus: It'll make it FAR HARDER for Emil Bove to conduct his "weaponization" witchunt targeting (among others) Scalia clerk Danielle Sassoon.

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Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Since I'm already thinking of spring and gardening here is some information for you. #nativeplants #garden #gardening #environment

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Foster desperately needed for senior cat thrown from a car (rescued by truck driver behind). He's only 4 pounds, FIV+, blind, has gingivitis, toenails grown into paw pads. He's in Gaston County, NC Medical bills covered. He's very friendly. Foster App: www.shelterluv.com/matchme/fost...

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