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Hegseth using “she/they” as an insult just boosts Judge Reyes’ conclusion that the transgender ban is based on animus, not a genuine concern for military preparedness.

submitted 7 hours ago • 303 comments

“George Conway, a frequent Trump critic and a former partner at a major law firm, told NBC News that firms need to look beyond the bottom line: “‘They have a moral duty to defend the very system that has allowed them to make the kind of money that they make. … (1/2)

submitted 10 hours ago • 262 comments

I have begun the blocking of the sexy chick bots, the OnlyFans stans, and the crypto nuts. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

They're terrorizing our federal employees in real ways and the impact is devastating for all of us. I spoke to a VA employee and FBI Agent about what they're experiencing and it will shock you. This is the most important thing I've written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 12 hours ago • 510 comments

Liz Cheney's successor Harriet Hageman to raucus overflow 500 person town hall crowd: “It’s so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government .... You guys are going to have a heart attack if you don’t calm down. I’m sorry, you’re hysterical.”

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 12 hours ago • 933 comments

Ummm… /imagine what Trump’s response would have been if Biden had seemingly forgotten that he had signed an executive order.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

submitted 13 hours ago • 597 comments

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

submitted 1 day ago • 604 comments

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2355 comments

Rep. Dale Strong’s constituents are demanding a response as the politician faces backlash to DOGE cutbacks in a district awash with federal money.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

That "considerable overlap" phrase is absolutely horrifying.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

A federal judge vowed to keep investigating if Trump administration officials disobeyed a court order halting deportations under an 18th century wartime law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

literally no one has ever cooked harder

submitted 17 hours ago • 68 comments

Exclusive: Senior tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue collected this spring, as an increasing number of individuals and businesses spurn filing their taxes or attempt to skip paying balances owed to the Internal Revenue Service.

submitted 12 hours ago • 44 comments

Weingarten: We didn't vote for Elon Musk to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. We didn’t vote for Howard Lutnick to say, oh don't worry, no elderly people, including my mother, would care if they don’t get their checks from Social Security.

submitted 13 hours ago • 92 comments

By summer it’ll probably be a good idea to have enough money at hand outside of your bank to survive for an extended period, have your passports or travel docs in order, identify your nearest border crossing, and make arrangements for extended outdoor living situations. #3E

submitted 15 hours ago • 355 comments

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

submitted 1 day ago • 255 comments

Trump on MSNBC and CNN: "I think they're gonna be turned off."

submitted 1 day ago • 605 comments

"I looted French tableware in this house, I'll be honest with you." Russian-occupied left bank of the Kherson region. A Russian soldier shows destroyed mansions and tells how well people lived there, peacefully, minding their own business, until people like him came.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Trump: "People are coming to me and talking about tariffs. And a lot of people are asking me if they could have exceptions." (this sort of patronage system is the point of Trump's tariffs)

submitted 1 day ago • 493 comments

UN says: "Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world ... as current 'unprecedented' rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences." Seems bad? Also kind of counter to "abundance."

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Massive Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia. At least one person killed, at least five more people injured. Rescue services at work. Russian terror on Ukrainian civilians continues.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

it's interesting that while Team Autocracy is in the saddle here in the US there are major protests and unrest across most of the home ballparks of Team Autocracy

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means. He’s lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education. This is eugenics.

submitted 1 day ago • 283 comments

European leaders must state that Ukraine should win the war, and they must also state what that means: 1. Russia pushed out of Ukraine 2. Russia paying reparations to Ukraine 3. All deported Ukrainians, POWs, brought back to Ukraine 4. All Russian war criminals handed over to justice etc.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

Canada‘s new immigration minister says Trump presidency is creating an “incredible opportunity” for Canada to attract the best and brightest from around the world – including talented people currently living in the United States. #cdnpoli

submitted 21 hours ago • 314 comments

Well, I’m sure completely capitulating to the fascist goons will be the end of this story. They certainly won’t be back with additional demands.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.

submitted 2 days ago • 275 comments

I was interviewed this week for a major US news show. My interviewer asked me why so few of my colleagues are willing to talk. It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society. That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This is the "Flawed Solution Implementation" stage, for those keeping track.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Steve Witkoff told Tucker Carlson that four Ukrainian regions (which Russia partially or fully controls at the moment) should become Russian because there were "referendums" where "overwhelming majority of the people" voted to be under the Russian rule. This is not true.

submitted 19 hours ago • 397 comments

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

submitted 22 hours ago • 254 comments

Books

submitted 22 hours ago • 507 comments

We simply cannot forget this guy was a mid-level stooge just a few weeks ago who was promoted to the top after he helped DOGE and bragged about it in one of the most deranged LinkedIn posts ever written.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

🔥BREAKING: A FEDERAL JUDGE JUST CLARIFIED THAT ELON MUSK, DOGE AND ACTING SOCIAL SECURITY COMMISSIONER LELAND DUDEK ARE SPREADING MISINFORMATION ABOUT HER RULING ON OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY! AMAZING!

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

News: Suspended journalists sue Kari Lake and Trump administration over shutting down Voice of America My story for NPR www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

To recap: Trump admin is firing Social Security employees; requiring beneficiaries to visit field offices in person instead of calling; and then saying any beneficiaries whose checks don’t come, and who therefore can’t pay the rent, must be fraudsters. Insane. And not what Americans voted for.

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

Oy

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.

submitted 1 day ago • 461 comments

Nothing to see here—just the President of the United States suggesting that Americans who vandalized the cars of the company owned by his biggest political donor should be sent to a notorious prison in another country. This is insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

Lutnick should just keep talking, as often as possible.

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

I got to get in touch with this Soros guy, because he owes me a lot of back pay based on this.

submitted 1 day ago • 1375 comments