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DOGE is inflating its savings claims. DOGE counts fully paid contracts as “savings.” Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service says it has saved $55 billion by cutting jobs, canceling contracts, and renegotiating leases. But a closer look suggests that number is misleading.

submitted 19 hours ago • 195 comments

An absurd and unserious mockery of a government.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor: "The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Trump's Washington was no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow." #GermanElections #CDU

submitted 1 day ago • 174 comments

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Kathy Hochul is the one person whose political instincts never seem right.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

This guy is too much of a chicken to stand up publicly to a guy who he privately described as a "moral disaster" or to defend his own wife's honor from a punk who works for Elon and said we should "normalize Indian hate". Obsequious, snivelling, Vancely cowardice is the opposite of masculinity.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be terminated as soon as this week are raising concerns with their superiors that the summary firings could break the law and potentially harm US military readiness, a senior defense official told CNN.

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

Sonia Sotomayor frantically texting the Supreme Court group chat tonight: “Remember? I told you this would happen”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

Shout out to SCOTUS

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This weasel actually insists it’s a “longstanding norm” that only the president or his attorney general can say “what the law is” which is, of course, absolute garbage.

submitted 6 days ago • 227 comments

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 6 days ago • 454 comments

Oh, I remember that, too. How dare Secretary Pete bring his husband along! The GOP and its mouthpiece are hypocritical bigots.

submitted 6 days ago • 212 comments

What this shows is that Trump is, as promised, using the DOJ to go after political enemies to the point that senior prosecutors are quitting.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Parker Posey is absolutely perfect in the new season of White Lotus. You cannot convince me otherwise.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Federal judges ask a government attorney to tell you who is in charge of DOGE on the record challenge

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?

submitted 7 days ago • 635 comments

can't decide if they are knowingly trying to reduce US influence abroad or if they're just so averse to academic language that they can't read between the lines of the program titles. are they confused that they don't see programs titled like "spies" & "bribes" & so on lol

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

Jessica: Maybe we’ll find out it’s as true as the condoms to Gaza Watters: I made that up.

submitted 7 days ago • 109 comments

Jessica: You need to talk about the 3,400 people who were fired from the fire service. Trump was out in California talking about how we need more people working on this, we need to be raking the leaves… 57% of the land there is run by the Federal Government

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

I refuse to send people to LinkedIn, but you need to read this, so read it here archive.is/XuVl6 h/t @hacks4pancakes.com

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Times like these prove we’d be better served celebrating Constitution Day.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

the gulf of america thing is a litmus test. it was not a conservative cause-celebre ever, to rename the gulf of mexico. nobody cared. the mad king simply pronounced it one day, and now everybody who is attempting to curry favor with the mad king has to pretend that it's a completely reasonable thing

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Exactly this. And the clowns at Google readily said "how high" without even being ordered to jump. Break out the f*cking guillotines. They're calling your bluff.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

submitted 11 days ago • 188 comments

I can't stop thinking about this, read the entire thread and understand the gravity of this. I said months ago that this would happen and that Musk would do everything in his power to seize control of the information space, and this is a big part of that plan. The implications are huge 😡

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Oligarch Musk and Trump are planning to embezzle $400 million in US taxpayer money through the State Department in a plot to needlessly purchase Tesla Cybertrucks. #SpookyConnections

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

this seems both very good and very bad

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Cut all the government spending, literally kill people by cutting humanitarian aid, but spending $400 million on Teslas is fine 😡 "The department’s procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles." - Jack Ewing, NYT

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

The United States State Department is now planning to spend $400 million in taxpayer money to buy Tesla Cybertrucks.

submitted 12 days ago • 717 comments

DOGE is NOT about efficiency, fraud, or waste. It’s a mechanism to consolidate power in the executive branch by removing neutral or oppositional civil servants and subvert the policymaking apparatus outlined in the Constitution.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: A military fighter jet has crashed into San Diego Bay. This is the 6th plane collision (and 2nd military collision) since Trump took office.

submitted 12 days ago • 454 comments

“When I started my job at OPM, I swore an oath to the Constitution, and to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic, making it especially awful that the threat to our government is coming from inside my own office building.” #OPM #Fork #DOGE

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A federal judge in Boston is hearing arguments Monday over whether the Trump administration's "Fork in the Road" offer to federal employees can continue. Unions want a temporary restraining order.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

TIL Coristine's dad owns LesserEvil popcorn which was originally started by Jim Cramer Gene Hackman and Michael Sands

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor” Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 70 comments

The offers of an alleged deferred resignation were made across the board without consideration for mission needs or appropriate staffing levels and threaten the Federal government’s ability to provide necessary services to residents. They go so far as to threaten our security.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 15 days ago • 221 comments

Swift is mad.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry Dawn. You don’t get the WBB game today, but hopefully you’ll get the FB game tonight! #HookEm 🤘🏼

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments