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Think about how ludicrously dishonest the Republicans are - apparently immigration is out of control and there are too many immigrants but suddenly we can handle an influx of 10 MILLION foreigners, as long as they’re rich.

submitted 5 hours ago • 96 comments

(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

submitted 9 hours ago • 238 comments

This tweet from Elon Musk is, of course, false. The first known victim of DOGE died around February 2 after the refugee hospital that was giving her oxygen shut down. But the tweet will be useful as there's abundant proof he's lying (or ill-informed) about Ebola & restarting payments.

submitted 11 hours ago • 75 comments

Tuberville: "Zelenskyy's gonna play hardball, but you know what? He's not even in the game. It's gonna be Putin and President Trump and the people on our side that will end up making this decision for the future of Ukraine."

submitted 12 hours ago • 1491 comments

There it is. Literally saying the US and Russia are working together to take away the independence of another country. I'm wondering if any of our press is gonna pick this one up? Seems like headline material?

submitted 12 hours ago • 162 comments

Doocy: "I have been told by a senior official here that nothing is gonna happen with this minerals deal until Zelenskyy goes in front of cameras and makes an explicit public apology for the way he behaved in the Oval Office with that meeting."

submitted 13 hours ago • 2676 comments

Ben Meiselas lists the five things that Donald Trump did last week…

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has already destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

submitted 16 hours ago • 226 comments

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 15 hours ago • 205 comments

L - Eric Trump tells people to “buy the dips” on crypto. R - A couple days later, Trump makes his crypto announcement. How much time did the media spend on Hunter Biden? I read more articles about Biden’s shoes than this blatant and obvious corruption.

submitted 14 hours ago • 116 comments

🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄

submitted 1 day ago • 1308 comments

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

submitted 19 hours ago • 634 comments

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

submitted 3 days ago • 398 comments

Breaking NYT: Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia. The instructions have not been publicly explained. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One. Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump's Florida home in 2022.

submitted 3 days ago • 414 comments

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

Russell Vought sent an OMB memo that directs federal agencies to plan for mass firings and screen new hires. This aligns with Project 2025's plan to replace civil servants with loyalists. This isn't about efficiency. It's about control.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This man is the leader of the free world.

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

And just like that, the Epstein files were forgotten.

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

The Trump administration is demanding the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally from the IRS. The IRS is resisting this request, as complying would directly violate federal tax privacy laws.

submitted 3 days ago • 196 comments

Trump: You don’t have the cards Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards Trump: You’re playing cards Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?

submitted 3 days ago • 437 comments

Their next move to cover up their failures, from Republicans in Congress and the Trump Admin, is to try and change the way that things are measured. Watch.

submitted 2 days ago • 422 comments

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

submitted 3 days ago • 4375 comments

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

submitted 3 days ago • 1234 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

open.substack.com/pub/stevebro... @brodner.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 4 days ago • 713 comments

FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

submitted 6 days ago • 522 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 5 days ago • 409 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 5 days ago • 989 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 6 days ago • 9624 comments

Claiming that billions of congressionally approved funds were fraud to justify your existence is textbook fraud. Claiming fraud while targeting agencies investigating yourself is fraud. DOGE is the fraud, and it needs prosecution when adults take over. www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-th...

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

The aggressiveness of the foreshadowing by both Musk and Trump on Fort Knox makes me thing there is some sort of crypto-for-gold scheme in the offing.

submitted 7 days ago • 291 comments

Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?

submitted 7 days ago • 322 comments

"The goalposts for DOGE have silently moved from finding fraud and corruption to simply pointing out and cancelling government programs that Trump and Republicans simply don’t support." -- @justinglawe.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 501 comments

The Department of Health and Human Services sent agency employees an email Monday afternoon warning them that any responses to Elon Musk's demand that they share their accomplishments from the past week might "be read by malign foreign actors." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including: “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”

submitted 7 days ago • 303 comments

A brief timeline of the 5 bullets email: Saturday: -Musk tweets about it -OPM sends it to all feds -Panic/chaos ensue Sunday: -Agencies scramble to verify, start sending conflicting advice Monday: -Most agencies told to respond -Later guidance is revised—response voluntary, jobs not threatened

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGhQXKM...

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

submitted 6 days ago • 327 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 769 comments

Coinbase was being investigated by the SEC so they: - gave $75M a to pro-Trump PAC - gave $1M to Trump’s inauguration - sponsored an inaugural party - hired Trump’s campaign manager - listed Trump’s meme coin And now the investigation is closed. These are called bribes.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk’s DOGE are expected to produce no savings @apnews.com apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

submitted 6 days ago • 604 comments