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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 8 hours ago • 692 comments

Per @phildstewart.bsky.social: “U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Saturday Feb. 22, at 2:00 pm here in D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial, there's a rally for Ukraine, organized by United Help Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine, and others. Trump may have switched sides. America needn't. unitedhelpukraine.org/events/3-yea...

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🚨 We are mobilizing for a NEW national day of protest— March 4th Against Monarchy! Find organizing resources and more at linktr.ee/fiftyfiftyon.... @polrev.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #NoKings #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne

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NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

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"The Trump administration has all but undone the extended deterrence strategies in place since 1945. Our Asian allies—not just Japan but South Korea and Australia—will face a similar dilemma. Geopolitical fragmentation is an incentive to nuclear proliferation." www.thebulwark.com/p/european-d...

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Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general sued Elon Musk and President Trump on Thursday to challenge Musk’s "unchecked power." The lawsuit came on the same day that Musk and his team were sued by government employees represented by the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit watchdog.

submitted 8 days ago • 108 comments

youtu.be/_3oXl_-viAg

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Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 5 days ago • 370 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2292 comments

🔹Please share widely🔹 Tomorrow, February 17th, peaceful protests are planned at all 50 state capitals and in DC. #DemocracyNotDictatorship www.fiftyfifty.one

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

The Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges from already-backlogged courts without explanation, a union official said Saturday.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

The Trump administration’s actions toward federal employees may be part of an effort to “resurrect a government-wide political-patronage system, something the First Amendment forbids,” write John Langford and Erica Newland:

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Do not pass go

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REPORTER: Would you direct agencies to study the impact tariffs would have on prices in the US? TRUMP: No. There's nothing to study. It's gonna go well.

submitted 9 days ago • 481 comments

Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee votes 12-10 to advance Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director to the Senate floor.

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

This is for a 10 year term.

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House Republicans unveil blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling apnews.com/article/hous...

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What do we do when working within the system no longer works? This is the great and for many, unaskable, question looming above Washington on this dark, cold February night. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

Please share this link for Rep Jamie Raskin’s webinar, created to assist federal workers fight the assault on their employment rights by Regime 2.0. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZnn...

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"Trump Does Not See Palestinians as Human Beings": Plan for U.S. to "Take Over" Gaza Faces Outcry

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BREAKING In response to Hamas’ announcement that it is suspending hostage release, President Trump says if all the hostages aren’t released by Saturday, the ceasefire should be canceled and “let all hell will break loose.”

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

NYT 5:26 pm Worries yet? The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by declaring the documents it produces and receives presidential records.

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Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from Trump that his federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 13 days ago • 368 comments

WASH POST: “Private-sector and nonprofits starting to lay off workers from Trump’s sweeping cuts and funding freezes, unleashing a wave of job losses economists say could pick up steam… 7.5 million work in jobs connected to the federal government…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"The budget for 2025 for CFPB is $823 million. Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has returned $20.7 billion to consumers." www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 15 days ago • 777 comments

True.

submitted 15 days ago • 2036 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 15 days ago • 1529 comments

www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/the-purge-...

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Constitution? What constitution?

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

This.

submitted 16 days ago • 138 comments

@djrothkopf.bsky.social with an important read. And subscribe! davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Every. Word. Of. THIS. Do everything- pick one action and do it-every day. Echoes of the wrong incentives to be in elected office ring loudly in the piece. May the interests of the people prevail.

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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 17 days ago • 2610 comments

July 2024

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has returned from a trip to El Salvador where he secured an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality — including American citizens — offering to hold them in the country's sprawling maximum-security facility…

submitted 18 days ago • 880 comments

March 2024 What a grift www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social Tmobile is in beta stage to offer Starlink to its customers. I contacted TMobile and told them if they didn't cancel the contract with starlink, I would move my mobile service to another carrier. You can contact them through their app & the CEO is on Twitter @mikesievert.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

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