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NEW: A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it?

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2394 comments

Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

submitted 1 day ago • 2100 comments

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

submitted 1 day ago • 283 comments

Eggs are now so expensive they’re smuggling them like fentanyl.

submitted 1 day ago • 805 comments

Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, challenged President Trump during a White House meeting on Friday. The fight has thrust Mills onto the national stage, making her a folk hero to her party and a political target. Here's what to know.

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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 1 day ago • 811 comments

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

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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

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🚨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 2 days ago • 988 comments

He nails it.

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Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 2 days ago • 289 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

submitted 2 days ago • 221 comments

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

submitted 2 days ago • 675 comments

Remember boys and girls, The majority NFL talent are BLACK. The Super Bowl Halftime Show was unapologetically BLACK (finally) The haters are crying because their team was soundly beaten by the DEI team. The halftime show was the final straw for them LOLLLLLLLL

submitted 7 days ago • 143 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 8 days ago • 303 comments

It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

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Trump bans AP and words he doesn't like. 'Free speech' was never about First Amendment. | Opinion

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BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 9 days ago • 865 comments

This letter is almost psychotic.

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We were told this was, like, the most dangerous app in the world and a national security threat like no other. And now everyone is like "eh, it's fine"

submitted 10 days ago • 144 comments

In 2011 researchers In England did something that had never been done before. They compared rates of autism in children to adults. They concluded that the rates were similar. If the reported rise in autism was actually real this would not be possible.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.

submitted 12 days ago • 3948 comments

Eagles star Saquon Barkley shows support for Taylor Swift in his latest interview: “I remember that they showed her on the Jumbotron and she got booed. I don't get why she was getting hate there, she is there supporting her significant other and made the game bigger.”

submitted 11 days ago • 482 comments

We are sorry, Ukraine. The Russians have broken us. Keep fighting the good fight. Slava Ukraini. Sincerely, America

submitted 11 days ago • 240 comments

Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

submitted 12 days ago • 4033 comments

If it broke through to CNN, it’s effective messaging. (It also has the added value of being true.)

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 12 days ago • 672 comments

In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.

submitted 12 days ago • 122 comments

NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

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BREAKING: The Trump Administration just uncovered a shockingly corrupt rule instituted by President Biden that allows American businesses to bribe foreign officials!!!! LOL, just kidding -- trump wants to change the law to ALLOW bribery of foreign officials. Corrupt to the fucking bone.

submitted 12 days ago • 186 comments

Gulf of Mexico

submitted 13 days ago • 214 comments

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

submitted 12 days ago • 2427 comments

Bless "THE Philadelphia Eagles plan to snub an invitation to the White House after winning the Super Bowl, The U.S. Sun has learned."

submitted 13 days ago • 876 comments

Wait, I thought Trump could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.

submitted 12 days ago • 953 comments

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

submitted 12 days ago • 1905 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1253 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=TP3m.... Feels like a scene that a lot of federal workers should watch again. Like right now!

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