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submitted 13 hours ago • 448 comments

So that means Rubio is now: - Secretary of State - Acting Archivist of the United States - Acting USAID Administrator - Acting National Security Advisor

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

The Supreme Court wouldnt let Biden forgive student debt but Trump is out here forgiving billions of debt of convicted fraudsters

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

submitted 2 days ago • 1816 comments

BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee. Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

submitted 2 days ago • 845 comments

Alright, Bluesky, do your thing! I need a part-time, DC-based operations manager to come work with me ASAP. Email [email protected].

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

What a disgrace that the courts have allowed Trump and Rubio to keep this student behind bars for nothing more than having exercised his constitutional rights. www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Looks like ICE is using the New England Patriot’s plane - which is available for charter in the off-season - to carry out their assholery.

submitted 4 days ago • 726 comments

Apropos of one of today’s discussions on here

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

The lack of universal healthcare in the US paved the way for so many “wellness” charlatans - when it’s hard or prohibitively expensive to access evidence based care, people will attempt to treat things in their own or believe those providing the care are getting rich off of their illness

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

This is in Mississippi—the state with the largest Black population by percent. Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day." Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.

submitted 10 days ago • 122 comments

It looks like Florida governor Ron DeSantis has funneled state money into his wife's charity. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

submitted 11 days ago • 2772 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 15 days ago • 119 comments

This, from today’s WSJ, would make a good economics exam question: “This idea that you can break trade, and not break the capital flow side, is a fantasy,” said Steven Blitz, chief U.S. economist at GlobalData TS Lombard.” #economy #markets #economics @wsj.com

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 13 days ago • 393 comments

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

submitted 14 days ago • 526 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 15 days ago • 340 comments

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 16 days ago • 147 comments

According to the Yale Budget Lab, 70% of the benefits from the Republican budget would go to the richest 5%. Meanwhile, the bottom 40% gets stuck with the bill. That's like taking your latest paycheck and dropping it off at the nearest McMansion #BillionaireTaxBailout

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 17 days ago • 590 comments

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 18 days ago • 193 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 19 days ago • 210 comments

It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 18 days ago • 392 comments

Per this Bloomberg chart for the DXY index, the trading week has started in Asia with renewed pressures on the US dollar. #economy #markets #dollar

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

Another example of Trump Fascism - Trump demanding Amazon remove books critical of Trump in order to continue to get government contracts. Included on the "removal" list are books from Dave Pakman, Brian Tyler Cohen & Mary Trump. youtu.be/GtEymx55dnU?...

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

They are officially not letting trans people in this country. FYI

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Looks like there is administrative fraud involving falsely deceased people, but it's the fascist government commiting the fraud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments