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In the week since Trump's hostile takeover of The Kennedy Center, ticket sales dropped by roughly 50 percent compared to the previous week, a "stunning aberration," according to staff members, per WAPO.

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 10 hours ago • 568 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 19 hours ago • 564 comments

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I've posted this numerous times. The "carbon credits" which have not been proven to have true impact & being sold as a 'get out of climate change free' card. They resell them to other companies boosting their profit, but it isn't the cars that make them money.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If protests keep getting larger, and they will, we’re quickly approaching the point at which Trump tells Hegseth to order the military to fire on protesters. Trump yearns for this. The question is if the soldiers under Hegseth will carry out these illegal orders. I don’t think the answer is clear.

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

"why can't you feel the way I am feeling right now" is the stuff of tantrums in the sugary snacks aisle

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

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 5 days ago • 2292 comments

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 5 days ago • 869 comments

@nytimes.com what’s your job?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

ZELENSKYY: The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent WELKER: If the US pulls out of NATO, Russia will occupy Europe? ZELENSKYY: Yes

submitted 6 days ago • 811 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5670 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 8 days ago • 224 comments

Flooding the zone with the rule of law. More of this please.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Another cold day for biking in Minneapolis. Starting at -10F.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

REPORTER: What were the terms of this deal? TRUMP: Very fair. Very very fair. Very reasonable. Not like deals you've seen over the years. REPORTER: What were they? TRUMP: And somebody else is being released tomorrow

submitted 10 days ago • 232 comments

@smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“Trump Pauses Enforcement of Law Banning Foreign Bribery” electionlawblog.org?p=148577

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Trump, Musk, and the GOP aim not just to destroy public education, but also to destroy our ability to measure the impact on kids of their destruction

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

Wait a second. Booz Allen Hamilton is also involved here, to wit removing the subcontractor who warned of the DOGE "insider threat" at Treasury? I'm gonna need this unpacked more. What is Booz Allen's official role at Treasury? And what is it doing now? www.yahoo.com/news/treasur...

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

This is supremely fucked up. I mean, I read about this earlier, but to see it in writing is devastating.

submitted 15 days ago • 700 comments

This.

submitted 16 days ago • 138 comments

This destroyed me.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab

submitted 18 days ago • 298 comments

The last time America increased tariffs like this, it was 1930 — and it triggered the Great Depression.

submitted 19 days ago • 129 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @amyklobuchar.com @join1440.bsky.social @npr.org

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 311 comments

🗣️📢

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

submitted 20 days ago • 107 comments

@smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Is there a podcast that’s just fifty minutes of weeping?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 21 days ago • 797 comments

Two days after the first commercial airline disaster in 16 years, Donald Trump has taken down the FAA.gov website. They are breaking things on purpose. People are going to keep dying because of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Problem, meet nutshell

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

It will *be a payoff. We’ve got to start using the actual words for what’s happening.

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments