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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 897 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2242 comments

Wonderful!

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

submitted 5 hours ago • 189 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 9 hours ago • 54 comments

Musk just amplified a leader of Germany’s far-right AfD, who called the country’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” demanded a “180-degree turn” in how Germany remembers Nazi crimes & was convicted for using a Nazi slogan Let’s hope the people of 🇩🇪will choose wisely in tomorrow’s election

submitted 8 hours ago • 112 comments

DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy. That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…

submitted 9 hours ago • 297 comments

Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 434 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 975 comments

Genuinely excellent piece by @mckaycoppins.bsky.social about (odious) Murdoch clan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... I reported a limited version on similar theme 20+ years ago. So am all the more impressed by this. Still not sure whether R Murdoch or Mitch M has done more damage overall.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it. Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

Anyone want to explain to me how it makes any sense that the US and Russia are trying to negotiate the end to the war in Ukraine without any sort of Ukrainian delegation?

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submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Mr. Cunha served Rhode Islanders honorably, and I am grateful for his principled dedication to the law.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

This administration will end up being the greatest counterintelligence threat we’ve ever faced.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Does everyone know how bad the AfD is? Have you read their “manifesto”? I have. I’m attaching a snippet about some AfD members from Brittanica.com This is a corrupt party that spoons with Russia & China and loves Nazis. This is who JD “colored beard” Vance met with. It’s time for a bar fight.

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Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 5 days ago • 637 comments

If I were the richest man in the world, this would not be the play

submitted 5 days ago • 314 comments

Who has really sacrificed most to help Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

This is the way.

submitted 7 days ago • 822 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 8 days ago • 262 comments

We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts: 1. Trump's base of support is a minority. 2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted. The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 8 days ago • 401 comments

The New Mexico Department of Health has declared a measles outbreak in Lea County. The decision came after two adults in the county tested positive for the disease, bringing this week’s total of unrelated cases up to three. The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…

submitted 8 days ago • 328 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 8 days ago • 452 comments

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

Hey MAGA, anyone want to explain to me why getting rid of the agency that has prevented another 2008-style financial crisis is a good thing?

submitted 12 days ago • 173 comments

UPDATE # 33,499: Elmo shared his hot take that “Tax reform is needed. Too many loopholes” so @darrigomelanie.bsky.social promptly shoved him right into a locker🍿🍿🍿

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

Trump is gonna lose his shit when he sees this

submitted 15 days ago • 257 comments

President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

submitted 17 days ago • 339 comments

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

submitted 18 days ago • 737 comments

BREAKING NEWS: In a massive lawsuit, the AFL-CIO has SUED the Treasury Department: “for their unlawful…disclosure of personal and financial information…to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).”

submitted 19 days ago • 462 comments

So with DOGE [sic] head Elon Musk shutting down Xitter accounts that discuss the boys Elon has installed at DOGE [sic], followed by threats from Acting US Attorney Ed Martin to prosecute them, have we gotten to the time to file a 1A suit? @stevevladeck.bsky.social @jameeljaffer.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 19 days ago • 425 comments

Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.

submitted 19 days ago • 140 comments

www.kmuw.org/2025-01-30/a...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Thank you Lawrence for the piece on Cecile Richards. I have the utmost respect and admiration for her dedication passion and hard work on women’s issues. Cecile was a powerhouse much like her beloved mom Gov. Ann Richards. Her passing leaves me 💔 My she Rest in Peace🙏🏽💙🕊️

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments