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This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 10 hours ago • 227 comments

Many people are saying that they’ve never seen federal spending as tremendously efficient and not wasteful as it is today.

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Trump says that RFK Jr and Dr Oz are working together to solve autism

submitted 7 hours ago • 788 comments

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 10 hours ago • 218 comments

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 61 comments

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 7 hours ago • 133 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 8 hours ago • 214 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 6 hours ago • 525 comments

Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 9 hours ago • 257 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 8 hours ago • 929 comments

In my worst moments, I see things like Bernie decrying the cutting of Medicaid and think, “What are you even talking about? Yes of course you’re right but we’re in the middle of a coup. Let’s rank order our list here, yeah?”

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I checked into it and the last paragraph is apparently accurate. Trump brought this lower-level white guy Caine out of retirement to replace the black and eminently-qualified Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he just fired. I know I’ve been banging the drum but do you yet see the coup?

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 22 hours ago • 119 comments

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 1 day ago • 104 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

Trump is nominating a retired Air National Guard 3-star to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Highest major command was Deputy Commander, CENTSOC www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 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

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 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 • 1076 comments

This is literally extortion

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They are trying to extort the beautiful people of Ukraine, fighting for their right to exist, for their mineral rights. This is the policy of the United States. In my name. In yours. In name of all the dead soldiers who died for this country. I hate the Republican Party for what they are allowing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

What a petty little bitch. It must be a requirement for the Trump DoJ.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

One thing this little bleat from Chad “Damp Little Britches” Mizelle demonstrates is the duality of Trumpism: it’s about simultaneously being (1) a tough truth-telling masculine elbow-thrower and (2) as fragile as a porcelain goose. Bullies who can dish, but weep at the slightest pushback. Losers.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Trump has fired the chairman of the joint chiefs, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., five months into a four year term, per WSJ. Brown was the first black officer to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

When American "conservatism" has become too toxic for the European far right.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

after i called out the @nytimes.com on bluesky and in my story for @dailykos.com the ny times has FINALLY added a correction. we caught them in the act. they tried to hide it. then we exposed them more. and now they've reacted again.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

dumb for democratic governors to go to the white house today imo

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A memo to the Education department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding race, gender complaints will continue to sit idle. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly."

submitted 1 day ago • 979 comments

A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

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

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cc @nytimes.com "Presenting the views of a partisan operative—particularly one who is Black—without context helps to give Trump a permission slip to further erode [civil rights] gains." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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Trump: "If you notice, every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem. They execute drug dealers. And when you think about it, it's very humane, because every drug dealer on average they say kills at least 500 people ... I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it."

submitted 1 day ago • 766 comments

Carefully done study clearly shows X and TikTok pushing pro-AfD content to Germans whose own selections of who to follow are neutral. In other words, heavy pro-AfD thumb on the scale by Elon Musk and CCP. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/in-g...

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