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Rep. Nick Begich (R-Alaska) told constituents that there was nothing he could do to stop DOGE layoffs affecting people in his state. Says said he found out about budget cuts impacting Alaska "on Twitter" and "had no idea these things were going on" in advance. popular.info/p/freshman-c...

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Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

submitted 17 hours ago • 401 comments

Dear OPM, here’s 5 things I did last week: - Made 3 rings for the eleven kings under the sky - Made 9 for mortal men doomed to die - Made 7 for the dwarf lords in their house of stone - Made 1 ring to rule them all - Went TDY to Mordor where the shadows lie

submitted 7 hours ago • 27 comments

This is probably best understood in the context of Hegseth going to bat for American service members accused of war crimes.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

I’d say it is impossible to explain. No almost about it

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

Unfortunately I won’t be to DC in time, but this rally for Ukraine is happening in Lincoln memorial. Attend if you can and Slava Ukrainii!

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

This. Let’s be done with the whole “run government like a business” bs, shall we?

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Crazy how one guy can pretty much blow an entire nation’s post-WWII national standing and what was left of its good will

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

One of my good friends from childhood is teaching high school lit in Texas and looking for donations to help teach the Holocaust and needs money for books - anything you can give would go a long way to help create a better future www.donorschoose.org/project/holo...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

No words…

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

submitted 4 days ago • 716 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 5 days ago • 790 comments

The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

Includes phone numbers and participation in government programs such as Medicaid. A potential end goal here is data matching across different systems to chase after fraud. Sounds good on paper, but the risk of false positives is very high (see election administration efforts in this area).

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Inspector General audit: From 2015 to 2022, Social Security sent out $71.8 billion "in improper payments, most of which were overpayments" — out of $8.6 trillion in benefits, an error rate of 0.84%.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Abso-bleepin’-lutely not

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The Nationals are doing some infield drills on two fields right now. On the one I’m watching: 1B: Lowe, Bell 2B: García Jr, Wallace SS: Abrams, Rosario 3B: Tena, DeJong

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Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Think. About. This.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

The Dodgers’ dominance of offseason and baseball discourse is unprecedented. But no one knows better how little that guarantees in October (see bullpen game with their season on the line). Have they finally built a machine too deep to fail? www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

submitted 7 days ago • 667 comments

True.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

When you don't know what you're talking about except in broad strokes and everything has just kind of worked out for you no matter how much of a brat or a pissant you were, you begin acting in ways that actively work against your best interests, inevitably ruining your life and those around you

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

The Boston Red Sox… had a good offseason? That and more winners and losers from an offseason that, as pitchers and catchers from the last few teams officially report today, is now behind us. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Knowing Rendon, I think it’s fair to wonder if he ever plays again.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Spoke to a friend at CISA yesterday who reminded me how young CISA is — both as an agency and in terms of its workforce. Expect all people who have been there less than two years to be fired, and all of the best remaining people — who will have better-paying options in the private sector — to quit.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

If only someone had warned them www.wsj.com/business/dea...

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

I mean, this is just dumb. Yes, the GOP is opposed to tax enforcement, but this is gonna blow a huge hole in their already huge unfunded budget plan.

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

I’m sure this is fine. No big deal.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

We talk about values because it’s why we shoot.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

After this tweet I couldn't get it out of my head and had to make it

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

“By the Armistice on 11 November…the disdainful Prussian officers had been humbled by the unlikely coalition of immigrant kids from the Bronx and Philadelphia, from farmers around St. Paul and Des Moines, and from Lakota and Navajo from reservations.”

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I don't think it's obvious because of the overwhelming amount of chaos in the news, but this is the biggest shift in American foreign policy since 1945. This is a titanic shift, and I'm not sure anyone knows what the result is going to be.

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The Small Business Administration sent employees a letter saying that they had been fired. Then it sent them an email saying that the email was a mistake. Then it sent some of them another email saying actually they were fired www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

There is no content on that website—nothing. White House reporters just get herded from room to room and lied to in each one.

submitted 12 days ago • 87 comments

Pleased to host this opinion piece by @dixondaver.bsky.social - Did You Mean It angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/10/d...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

the whole "ban on words" thing is awful and dystopian but I also cannot get over how stupid it is, I'm sorry you can't say "privilege escalation" in the fucking NSA because it would hurt Trump's feelings? are you serious? any self-respecting writer would reject this for being too ham-handed

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

Your periodic reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Here’s what we are reading today: Trump said that he has spoken with Putin about ending the war in Ukraine. This comes before the U.S. leader meets with Zelenskyy next week. When asked how many times Trump had spoken to Putin, Trump said he had "better not say."

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

🇱🇹Lithuania, 🇱🇻Latvia and 🇪🇪Estonia have officially disconnected from Russia’s power grid.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

One of the weirdest things about top Trump appointees — like Pompeo and now Hegseth — is how they believe they’re entitled to government housing. That’s not how our country operates.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

“If they had the votes they’d be voting” Exactly that

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Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

submitted 15 days ago • 522 comments