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Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./ Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 4 days ago • 1751 comments

Dear President Zelenskyy, Thank you for your courage and strength. Putin has attacked your contry, and as you can see, he has attacked our country using a different method. You are clearly more likely to be able to fight him off than our President is. You are admired and loved, Sir.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. Read more: theatln.tc/SowY3Uin

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

submitted 13 days ago • 278 comments

The United States, reflecting the extraordinary turnaround under President Donald Trump, joined Russia in voting against a Europe-backed Ukrainian resolution. The U.S. then abstained from voting on its own resolution after Europeans succeeded in amending it. www.npr.org/2025/02/24/g...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 23 days ago • 89 comments

None of this is about "efficiency." Mass firings occurred at the CFPB this week — one of the most efficient federal agencies. The goal here is to gut the government entirely and remove any obstacles to the continued consolidation of wealth and power by the oligarchs.

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

The Army Corps of Engineers is declining to test soil in LA areas devastated by wildfire, a break from past practices. Surely, this has nothing to do with the new administration in power. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

submitted 25 days ago • 726 comments

Come hear me, scholar/writer Lan Duong & memoirist Mai Elliott talk about the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Viet Nam, especially in terms of a future of liberation. Plus artist Ann Le & a preview of the landmark anthology "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora.” Link below.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

For every “screw you, you America-hating swine” I’ve received the past few days, I’ve received 100x thanks and kindness. So thank you to everyone who’s shared @wired.com’s journalism and blessed us with kind words. We appreciate you endlessly. Anyway, back to work!

submitted 34 days ago • 334 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 36 days ago • 813 comments

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

submitted 44 days ago • 886 comments

We’re all living in his Kafkaesque world, but remember that these tactics are deployed first against the most vulnerable, including refugees, migrants, and prisoners, from domestic prisons to Guantanamo, as well as those subject to war and genocide in the name of freedom and democracy.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to “immediately pause” the spending of money from the Inflation Reduction Act, former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law that provided hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to clean energy and other climate initiatives.

submitted 47 days ago • 75 comments