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This was three months ago.

submitted 48 days ago • 841 comments

I understand why folks are reacting like this. But again, this is a temporary pause from a Court that doesn't like having a matter of hours to decide even disputes that we might all think are entirely obvious, and in a context in which it doesn't want to give Trump any excuse to not comply.

submitted 52 days ago • 158 comments

Just as people’s retirement is being gutted, Social Security agency is being hollowed out, putting delivery of benefits at risk. It is really really really reckless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3

submitted 53 days ago • 167 comments

Credit where due, CNN is not weaseling around with “…1000s of protests” and “…tens of thousands of people”, like so many of their media peers had this morning.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Q for Lutnick: Find a single iPhone factory where "millions of human beings are screwing in little screws" I've been inside a lot of these places. He is now proving that he never has. Even 5 years ago you'd see people monitoring robots, and doing quality-check. not the little screws

submitted 53 days ago • 87 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 54 days ago • 2156 comments

The scope, intent and rate of the project reported here is utterly horrifying. Dumping time-honed, compartmentalized security for a single…cloud API? Tears , Ending In. More incredible reporting from Wired

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Not a single person saying this is going to work one of these jobs, nor have they likely ever worked these jobs in the past. But also, what made these jobs bearable was they were well-paying union jobs where you traded monotony, physical toil for a good middle-class life. They aren’t offering that.

submitted 54 days ago • 138 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 55 days ago • 193 comments

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

submitted 62 days ago • 894 comments

We knew this was coming but just look at the toxic hubris here. All of the EXISTING modernizing planning -years worth- apparently to be thrown away in favor of manic-paced yolo AI. And that side note about purging of web pages on Admiral Grace Hopper (COBOL pioneer) : just staggeringly horrible.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich

submitted 64 days ago • 83 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 65 days ago • 1139 comments

SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to eliminate an entire team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology responsible for publishing critical data that underpins advanced scientific research around the world. from me and @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/nist-d...

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 73 days ago • 226 comments

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

submitted 74 days ago • 100 comments

There is pretty soon - maybe even this week - going to be contempt judgments against the govt, and we need a new Senate Minority Leader in place before that happens. Schumer cannot be on watch when it does. Because it's huge and he'll miss it. He'll just call it a Tuesday and rant a bit about eggs.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 75 days ago • 2105 comments

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

submitted 75 days ago • 427 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 75 days ago • 734 comments

Evergreen reminder: Executive orders are not laws. Do not act like or presume what's in them can automatically be done, or can be legally done. And always fight Trumpist/Muskist efforts to carry them out, politically and in the courts. And probably without the help of the Senate Dems, bc they suck

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.

submitted 75 days ago • 29 comments

If there are Democratic Senators who plan on voting for the GOP budget, other than Fetterman and Schumer, they should say so now and articulate their reasoning. Elected officials should not hide their intentions from their own constituents.

submitted 76 days ago • 124 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 76 days ago • 2308 comments

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

submitted 76 days ago • 188 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 76 days ago • 5152 comments

FWIW I think the backlash has been intense enough that there’s an above zero percent chance senators reverse course here I think it’s probably still ~5% or so, but keep calling and keep yelling I really don’t think they anticipated this, which is another indictment of their political instincts

submitted 76 days ago • 63 comments

I do want to shoutout the many Dem senators that are fighting so hard on social media right now!! They’re getting out GOOD content, and it’s why so many people agree that Trump is screwing up our economy! The PUBLIC is with US, so there shouldn’t be any caving to Trump’s defunding the gov attempt!

submitted 76 days ago • 14 comments

I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective

submitted 76 days ago • 67 comments

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

submitted 76 days ago • 1273 comments

This is the key takeaway I think. If we are gonna slide into authoritarian rule, I would have preferred someone to have taken a swing on the way down at least.

submitted 76 days ago • 13 comments

I tried to fact check this bizarre answer on @maddow.msnbc.com by trying to get in contact with DOGE. There’s no phone number or email publicly available. If a Member of Congress couldn’t get in touch with DOGE how do they expect anyone else to? www.thedailybeast.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 76 days ago • 81 comments

I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill

submitted 77 days ago • 1238 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 77 days ago • 1483 comments

1. Impoundment is illegal 2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?

submitted 77 days ago • 198 comments

if Trump and his cronies are able to veto appropriations made by Congress, then we've already moved into a dictatorial system of government. Why would Democrats waste time negotiating spending deals if Trump can just rip them up after he signs them?

submitted 77 days ago • 281 comments

so some predictions on the way I think it's going to play out from here: 1) the House CR will not pass as it is, which means we'll have at least a brief shutdown this weekend

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

The entire first Trump presidency was like a giant Y2K problem, where concerted and consistent behind the scenes efforts prevented the worst of the catastrophe, so people figured it couldn’t have been that bad. Now people are shocked to see what happens without those safeguards

submitted 77 days ago • 17 comments

NEW from me - Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

submitted 77 days ago • 361 comments

I've been out so didn't know we had this piece coming. But our new write-up explains how this switcheroo will work. Dems give up 60 vote threshold in exchange for being allowed to offer amendments that will fail. That's what they're doing. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-h...

submitted 78 days ago • 258 comments