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UPDATE: The judge who blocked Trump's spending freeze accused the administration of being "disingenuous" about its intentions and attempting to skirt legal review by rescinding — but still implementing — the OMB spending freeze memo. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

How sweep it is. #PrideOnIce〽️🏒

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Re-doubling my efforts to be less online and focus on getting news from the sources I trust (Guardian, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, some others). Trying to focus on the wins and not let myself be overwhelmed. Help the people that I can help.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Learn, celebrate, honor, respect.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Pahlsson to Snuggerud #Gophers

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

just lol at people ready to accept defeat at the hands of the biggest losers in history and give up. have some self-respect. sandal would never. nothing's over yet. nothing is decided. get the hell up.

submitted 23 days ago • 104 comments

Twitter was a social media website employing 7500 people. The federal government employees ~3 million people and touches every part of your day—roads, planes, schools, healthcare, food safety, Social Security and on and on. We’re going to learn the hard way that we’ve been taking it for granted

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

One problem with the democratic social media presence is every post feels like it was scheduled via HootSuite 48 hours ago

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Serious Mad King territory. Trump orders Army Corps of Engineers to drain CA reservoirs storing water for summer-fall use onto already flooded Central Valley farms nowhere near LA, tweets that if only people had listened to him when he wanted to do this last time, no fires

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

ICE Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents Begging Him Not To Take Their Child theonion.com/ice-age...

submitted 23 days ago • 319 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 23 days ago • 94 comments

Musk, who is not a government employee, is committing a shitload of crimes. State AGs need to act. He’s not immune.

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

On #FBI #Purge Important guidance @justsecurity.org just so happened to publish today: "Probationary employees may appeal their removal ... if they allege it was based on partisan political reasons." Resource for employees, public, and reporters covering the issues. via expert Suzanne Summerlin

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 23 days ago • 278 comments

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

BREAKING WAPO: Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years. Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 891 comments

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 23 days ago • 797 comments

it is worse.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

every institution or political figure with any power to try and stop the collapse of the US government:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 659 comments

No mystery what we're seeing here: -Illegally withholding spending/nullifying contracts -Purges of law enforcement and prosecutors -Taking bribes for lenient treatment while threatening enemies with persecution -Pardoning violent/paramilitary allies -Granting vast powers to an unelected billionaire

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Allegedly there is another plane crash #Philadelphia #planecrash

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

submitted 23 days ago • 200 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Rhode Island formall blocks the Trump spending freeze, saying the actions likely "violate the Constitution and statutes of the United states." Judge cites @PressSec statement as primary cause for concern: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 23 days ago • 68 comments

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

submitted 23 days ago • 510 comments

With everything else going on, I realize this may slip through unnoticed by the mass public, but the Trump administration is deleting wide swaths of survey and medical research because it is about disfavored groups such as LGBT people and women.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: We urge the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold a ruling that blocking military service members’ expedited path to citizenship is unlawful. Congress has allowed non-citizens serving during armed conflict to naturalize during basic training for over a century.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

They’re trying to throw doctors in jail for prescribing medication abortion.

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

I don’t care if they’re fresh out of high school, publish the names.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

He also then said he won’t be disciplined… how is that buried in the tweet and headline?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 23 days ago • 476 comments

INTEL: I've now heard from 2 sources that Trump is preparing an EO to shut down the Department of Education. It would be blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. I'll believe it when I see it, and we'll fight it if it comes. Stay tuned.

submitted 23 days ago • 159 comments

We're just going to leave this here…

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

So basically the same people who say racism no longer exists in america did this thing where they started using dei as a euphemism so they can get black people fired from jobs

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

again, every Democrat in the U.S. Senate voted for this.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

the new york times saying that trump is ignoring "legal niceties" is this theory in action: trump has declared that he will violate the law, which means that the New York Times must report that it is no longer the law

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments