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WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

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Few publications have risen to the moment like Wired. Kudos to them for courageous, quality coverage of our current national crises.

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"Russian attacks in Europe quadrupled from 2022 to 2023 and then tripled again from 2023 to 2024..." "Going after companies, assassination plots against officials, threatening critical infrastructure...” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

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This is not rocket science, Dems. Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told.

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A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration. Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits. Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:

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Letting Musk this deep into the government of the richest country in human history is what people centuries from now will study, there will be chapters in Jared Diamond-esque books explaining a civilization’s collapse about 22-year-olds somehow gaining access to nuclear security systems

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So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

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Schumer said we had to keep the government open so Trump and Musk couldn’t shut down agencies

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they look at russia — a stagnant backwater — with envy

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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

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BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

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Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

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If the Senate Democrats do this, yes, it’s a massive betrayal of their base and an unconscionable abdication of their duty. Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.

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THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: How about if all places of worship, schools and other public spaces put up signs by their entrances with this simple statement of the law? (This one’s from a Minnesota church). Suggesting it to my temple today. Will report back.

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 7 days ago • 527 comments

Trump and Musk's SSA cuts will mean longer wait times for beneficiaries, worse customer service, and fewer people receiving their earned benefits. Make no mistake: this is an attack on Social Security itself.

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Federal workers and diplomats' unions sued to stop Trump administration officials from destroying classified USAID documents.

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They absolutely could not possibly be clearer that they are going to try to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

submitted 7 days ago • 762 comments

The damage being done to American science, particularly in the area of medical research will cost countless lives and take decades to repair. This is truly a catastrophe.

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They’re really trying to force this lie and news anchors have a responsibility to refute it with the facts every single time. And you know, maybe they could stop giving habitual liars air time? I’m just spitballing here, but that seems like the bare minimum for a “news network”

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NEW: In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

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Trump Republicans hate the Department of Ed for the same reasons they hate education. They view education as a waste of funds since it exposes their fraud and prevents their abuse of American minds through their outlets of disinformation. Trump Republicans want a country of believers, not thinkers.

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A diseased population is easier to control and further hurts the economy, benefitting China and Russia.

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While working families struggle, Trump and his billionaire cronies are cashing in big time… hartmannreport.com/p/stock-mark...

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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

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Lol. This is what the swasticar was missing. The Hitler endorsement.

submitted 8 days ago • 639 comments

The USPS is the nation’s lifeline, ensuring delivery to every corner of the country. We cannot allow it to be dismantled, sold off, and handed over to Wall Street billionaires for profit. Privatization would increase costs, reduce access, and be an utter disaster.

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It sure does take a lot of cops to protect Elon's feelings.

submitted 10 days ago • 911 comments

It's a cult. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 11 days ago • 450 comments

Developing: Trump has suspended new tariffs on Mexico...not Canada...for the moment. We are watching a masterclass on how he ran 6 of his businesses into the ground.

submitted 13 days ago • 393 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 13 days ago • 2061 comments

Just a couple of sociopaths justifying their cruelty.

submitted 13 days ago • 460 comments

Personalist regime watch. Everyone begs for relief. Trump gets leverage, extracts concessions. Repeat.

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"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

Damn. Not wrong. But damn.

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Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.

submitted 14 days ago • 496 comments

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

submitted 14 days ago • 247 comments

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

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Right, it’s totally fine that Dems want to talk about eggs a little. But what we’re seeing instead is the collapse of America into authoritarianism, while Democrats… obsess over the most mundane issue imaginable, because in their heads it checks all the boxes that make it safe to care about

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 15 days ago • 1201 comments

1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

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“This is treason adjacent. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is very busy firing black people and women, so he’s not focused on the actual target here, which is Vladimir Putin.” @therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.

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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

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