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I think we should all do our patriotic duty and tell them what we’ve been up to for the past week.

submitted 19 minutes ago • 14 comments

Here’s the email everyone is getting from OPM. Embarrassing stuff.

submitted 2 hours ago • 246 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 239 comments

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

Literally have no clue how the media isn't covering this story 24/7 when its tailormade for ratings too given how TMZ'd people are with everything. This is one of the worst human beings in the country and he's co-president and the press just refuses to cover it in any meaningful way.

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 21 hours ago • 133 comments

Well, this advice didn’t seem to take root. But I tried. My biggest concern is the firing of the CJCS, the CNO and the service JAGs. No mystery there.

submitted 20 hours ago • 36 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 20 hours ago • 200 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 22 hours ago • 1943 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 21 hours ago • 156 comments

Could totally be a coincidence that the blatantly racist and misogynistic President and SecDef did this

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 199 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 21 hours ago • 132 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 21 hours ago • 115 comments

WTF??

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

submitted 1 day ago • 599 comments

Musk shadowbanned her.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Beginnings

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

submitted 1 day ago • 453 comments

"The Postal Service ultimately delivered 97.9 percent of ballots from voters to election officials within three days [in 2020, despite Trump blocking funds]. The successful delivery of ballots turned Trump’s opinion of DeJoy, The Post has previously reported."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

You know it’s bad when literally half of us are so happy we just lost to Canada. 🍁 🇨🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Being a man doesn’t equal treating women like trash.

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

Can we have one good thing please? This sucks.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

This is horrific.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

DOD 40% BUDGET CUT, process thoughts: Telling the Services to plan a massive cut in one week with neither one's Pentagon strategy & budget appointees in place nor detailed planning guidance out (I assume) is not setting up for success, and more likely to facilitate Service preferences 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Seems ripe for an evidentiary hearing.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Scoop: The IRS is preparing to conduct mass firings of 6,700 employees beginning Thursday. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

Is there a single thing we slammed Trump for during the campaign that he hasn't done in his first month? I guess he probably hasn't sexually assaulted anyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

"We will protect DOGE." This morning, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin — a "stop the steal" organizer and Jan. 6 defendant advocate — sent an email titled "Operation Whirlwind" in which he said he's personally launched an investigation into Sen. Chuck Schumer. The text:

submitted 3 days ago • 348 comments

Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments