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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

If Pete Buttigieg is so powerful that him taking a shit job as a “shadow press secretary” can save our democracy, then all the people calling for that should be completely fine with him instead running for office and giving daily speeches/rallies in that role, right?

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Like everyone recognizes we have this problem with democrats sidelining their best younger people, and at the same time big posters on this site are insisting we sideline one of democrats’ best younger people into a congressional mouthpiece role? Make it make sense.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Real “if you can keep it” vibes today

submitted 22 days ago • 220 comments

Even with a fairly good memory of just how stupid 2016-2020 was, I had forgotten just how viscerally stupid it is to have this man as president.

submitted 33 days ago • 50 comments

I love all that is good in my country, and I don't want to see it destroyed by a bunch of fascists and grifters who love nothing but money and power. It's as simple-and as painful-as that.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

OMG-I sarcastically suggested this to someone the other day, but I didn't think he'd actually do it. Tacky ass grifter.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad. We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity. The America I know and love will never be the same. I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.

submitted 39 days ago • 2542 comments

It’s also just an absolute logistical nightmare. Most people have some way of proving where they were born. How many people have readily available documentary proof of their parents’ citizenship status?

submitted 77 days ago • 53 comments

“Five years on from an epidemic that has traumatised a generation, Samoan health officials are among those sounding alarm over the nomination of Kennedy as US health secretary. “We cannot and should not stay silent. We know what this appointment means… It must be treated as a threat to our health”

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I had previously considered the high-water mark for a country deciding to commit national suicide to be Brexit. This feels orders of magnitude worse. "A republic, if you can keep it" indeed.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

submitted 101 days ago • 152 comments

The RFK has Health Secretary is fucking insane. He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy the NIH and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.

submitted 101 days ago • 46 comments

This one scares me almost more than any of the others. It has the (very high) potential to actually kill people.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I will never forgive the people who caused this. Never ever ever.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments