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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

I want everyone to just take FIVE MINUTES, and take a look at this extremely well put together project 2025 tracker. www.project2025.observer We're less than a month in.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Truth Social lost OVER $400 MILLION last year in $3.6 million in revenue www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

submitted 5 days ago • 497 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

So, let's go over this whole $9 million Reuters thing: -- it was first awarded UNDER TRUMP -- it wasn't paid to the news agency but rather an entirely different Reuters division that does data analysis -- it was to help PREVENT phishing and cyber attacks www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Tiny flakes swirling for the last 15 min in NE PDX #pdxtst #pdx #pdxbst

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Great summary of republicans in Oregon. These are ones that whine about not being listened to and then stage walkouts to avoid the will of the majority. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/12/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Tiny flakes East #pdx heading East on Sandy #pdxtst

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It’s in Article III, Section 2: “The judicial Power shall extend … to Controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

submitted 12 days ago • 86 comments

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

submitted 13 days ago • 108 comments

That “HE GETS US” ad is funded by an extreme right wing org. Using Johnny Cash’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” - a scathing critique of right-wing televangelists preying on the unwary - is a spectacular self-own.

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 205 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 13 days ago • 197 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 16 days ago • 2172 comments

In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation. www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...

submitted 16 days ago • 305 comments

Mixed tiny flakes in NE PDX right now #tstpdx #pdx

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm, if DOGE is "rapidly shutting down" authorized government payments (to Lutheran charities, no less), it sure sounds like they might be in contempt of Judge McConnell's order. Let's see Musk hauled into court on a contempt charge

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

Was on NPR's onthemedia.bsky.social with Brooke Gladstone talking about generative AI. I believe I am the first person to refer to Sam Altman as a nasty little man on the radio podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

When the Justice Dept wrote rules to keep the President out of merger decisions this was why www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: OPM, basically the government's HR, now includes people with backgrounds at Musk's companies at its highest levels. And while the takeover of USDS as DOGE has gotten a lot of scrutiny, the changes at OPM have been much much quieter. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 92 comments

Also if you're someone at a tech company or within the government and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at velliott88.18

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

This is truely some unhinged shit from Nichole Shanahan x.com/NicoleShanah...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

a lot of shit happened to musk last week, but knowing him, this is likely the main thing to bruise his ego www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

Congrats. You played yourself.

submitted 28 days ago • 492 comments

“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”

submitted 28 days ago • 492 comments

Celebrities with a history of domestic violence might want to avoid using domestic violence as a metaphor for something they see as positive, I’m just saying

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments

“One of the unwritten rules of American politics is that it’s OK to sneer at and smear our big cities and the people who live in them, while it’s an outrageous act of disrespect to suggest that there’s anything wrong with the Heartland.” - @pkrugman.bsky.social writing brilliantly in defense of CA

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that illegal border crossings have been plummeting. In December 2024 they were lower than they were when Trump left office last time. This is largely b/c about a year ago, Mexico devoted more resources to halting migrants before they reached the US border (turns out, diplomacy matters!)

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

So stunned you don't want to believe Musk did a Nazi salute? Watch this shokcing side by side down by TrumpsFeverDream.com and you'll have no doubts.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Next time someone tells you Elon's salute wasn't a nazi one, show them this.

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

Pam Hemphill, a J6er who has since expressed serious regret for what she did, says she will not accept a pardon from President Trump. “I committed a crime.”

submitted 32 days ago • 288 comments

Here's the J6 pardon / commutation order, which deserves enduring infamy. The thugs who broke cops' skulls, the creeps who used bear spray against the Republic's defenders, above all the organizers who planned and executed it all -- they're all walking free because they did it for Trump.

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

"The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. as well as Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they fought for the former U.S.-backed Afghan government." Wonder if GOP critics of Biden admin's Afghanistan withdrawal have thoughts on this.

submitted 33 days ago • 36 comments

The #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost still haven't reported on the Nazi invited to Trump's inauguration but--bless them--the Guardian has. Giorgia Meloni among far-right figures to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments