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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 18 hours ago • 99 comments

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 23 hours ago • 616 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1077 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1226 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Over 70 cases have been filed against the Trump Administration’s executive orders or agency actions. Here’s what’s happening in the courts:

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Here’s how many billions Elon Musk’s companies are making from U.S. taxpayers

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she is tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

Uhm, guys. Last night on Jesse Waters show Howard Lutnick, Trump's top economic adviser said: "Think about it,we have almost $4 trillion of entitlements and no one has looked at it before. You know social security is wrong, you know medicaid and medicare are wrong so he's going to cut one trillion…"

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

New — Social Security Administration (SSA) probationary employees were told today that they have eight hours to agree to be reassigned to a field office, tele-service center or payment center and waive all rights to appeal reassignment, or they will be fired, agency source tells me.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Using Twitter regularly is highly unethical, and a significant personal failing for people that do.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

people don't understand how dangerous this could be - a license for tightly controlled corporations to loot them from within from their stockholders (i.e. your pension, 401k etc which hold them in index funds)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 2 days ago • 204 comments

it appears Delaware Dems and the (also Dem) governor are attempting to rip up Delaware corporate law so they can give 55 billion dollars to Elon Musk, with a bill written by Elon's own lawyers www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

This is a good reminder that anytime you try to find some kind of 4D chess reason for what Musk does, the reality is much likelier that he is a complete idiot who has no idea how the world works, yet he is powerful and rich and wields near complete loyalty from others so he gets what he wants.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

This isn’t access. It’s proximity.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

8 Republicans are calling on Speaker Johnson not to target Medicaid. One short of the number it would take to oust Johnson.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 570 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

The game is this. They're going to make the largest cuts to Medicaid ever. They're going to uninsure millions if not 10s of millions and they're going to say they're just adding work requirements. They'll kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, with paperwork. punchbowl.news/archive/2202...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

X is holding a merger hostage - unless there is more ad spending on X. This is naked corruption. [Gift article] www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If you live in LA go to Union Station at 9AM to protest this criminal administration

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: Another win for the lawyers protecting birthright citizenship. A 9th Cir. panel -- the first circuit to weigh-in in these cases -- denies the Trump admin's emergency request to let the EO rescinding birthright citizenship go into effect, saying the admin is unlikely to win on the merits🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

our election security agency is now open to a teenager who was verifiably part of a CSAM extortion ring

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

There's a few interesting numbers in this poll, but the headline is job approval of Congressional Dems is 49 disapprove, 40 approve among Democrats. If you're still pitching the "Bluesky isn't real life, Normal Democrats aren't mad at leadership," it may be time to reassess.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments