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“Tesla has now plummeted more than 40% since its December 18th all-time high.” @barchart.com $TSLA

submitted 58 minutes ago • 55 comments

Not holding townhalls because constituents are pissed off is the civic equivalent and stopping testing because that way the COVID numbers can't go up.

submitted 56 minutes ago • 32 comments

“.. when Trump spoke, he uttered a phrase that will no doubt stand tall among quotes from great American leaders past: ‘This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting.’” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 55 minutes ago • 82 comments

There are about 67m Social Security beneficiaries, receiving about $1.3 trillion in benefits. About 60,000 people work for SSA, mostly in field offices and call centers to help seniors. They earn about $7 billion, or 0.5% of benefits. They've cut their admin costs in half since 2006. Efficiency!

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

submitted 1 hour ago • 403 comments

Is it bad if only 78 percent of Trump-loyal Republicans view democracy positively but 55 percent view an unchecked strongman positively? Asking for a fairly large nation. Gift link: wapo.st/4hLudP3

submitted 8 hours ago • 64 comments

The Social Security Administration just put everybody who manages its agency website on administrative leave. "If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it." It also shuttered its civil rights office. www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

Here's a free link to a piece published today in which I look at Republicans support for/indifference to Trump destroying democracy. wapo.st/4hLudP3

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

HUD memo says a LinkedIn profile with the wrong language might be enough to get your contract terminated. New from @joshkovensky.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ci...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Cc; house and senate republicans

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So now Fox Business is preparing their viewers for "a bit of temporary pain" amid Trump-Musk's DOGE cuts, saying that "people forget that when [Ronald Reagan] came into office in 1981, he slashed federal head count and put the economy back into the double dip recession of 1980 and 1981."

submitted 1 hour ago • 176 comments

Important to note here that the SSA is already in a staffing crisis that goes back years and has built under D and R admins. The idea you're taking a breaking point situation and cutting staff in half ... is, well, you might as well just light it on fire.

submitted 1 hour ago • 27 comments

Not a bad idea -- if House Republicans refuse to hold town halls in their congressional districts, local Democrats should set one of their own up.

submitted 6 hours ago • 81 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 5 hours ago • 202 comments

This is disgusting. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 1 hour ago • 191 comments

As Trump promised, the Alien Enemies Act will be invoked. The law is a wartime authority that can be only used against any noncitizen from a country at war with the United States, regardless of whether they are in the country legally or not. Its use for immigration enforcement purposes is unlawful.

submitted 2 hours ago • 46 comments

"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

The word "fraud" is doing a whole lot of work in Trump's second administration.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Many of DOGE’s “wall of savings” and canceled contracts include many eye-popping “receipts.” There’s just one problem, @janetimm.bsky.social writes: Many of the so-called receipts aren’t receipts. They’re negotiated agreements with known government contractors, who might provide future services.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

WhiteHouse/OMB out this afternoon with guidence on RIFs, this is the more formal and legal (when not violating the constitution) way of doing large scale government layoffs. Big new stage of the process. chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

A president sitting and listening while his unelected rich friend chairs a Cabinet meeting is, among other things, incredibly weak. Another for the "how are you not more embarrassed — this looks so bad, even on your own terms" list.

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

The old American creed: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The new American creed: If some "very high-level people" want to pony up $5 million for a "Trump Gold Card," the White House will open the door to them. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Can’t wait

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NEW: Indiana already has stringent voter ID rules... & the GOP is advancing a bill right now to strip university IDs from the list of options you can use. This would make it much harder for students to vote. At polling site at IU Bloomington, 2/3rds of voters in November used their student IDs.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

This should prove to be real popular with seniors

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“’Not touching Social Security’ is not the reality of this administration,” said a source familiar with the discussions at SSA in a message obtained by the Prospect. “Looking for government to fail and be replaced by private industry appears to be the goal.” prospect.org/health/socia...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

A tale of two sex scandals involving U.S. representatives named Mills www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

We live in the dumbest of times.

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

Following my reporting in @texasobserver.org linking an ICE prosecutor to a racist X account that posted apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, three Congressmen have demanded accountability, while the ICE prosecutor still appeared on an ICE court schedule this week. www.texasobserver.org/investigatio...

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

“This is not about personal liberties or free markets. It’s about making the Post more amenable to the Trump administration so that Jeff Bezos’s businesses will not be punished.” @jvl.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 37 comments

I just have no words for this. It’s catastrophic. The first phase is an enormous RIF, and then the second phase is to relocate the offices of those who are left so most of them don’t follow. It’s the complete implosion of the government.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

And lots of Botox

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Don't worry. James Carville says that Democrats should shut up and do nothing and everything will turn out great.

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 4 hours ago • 115 comments

Well, that was fucking crazy. Congrats America.

submitted 50 days ago • 209 comments

Confirmed to be an unvaxxed child. We have to talk about the foreign influence campaigns around vaccines. Hostile intelligence agencies — and their useful idiots in the US — are convincing the “do your own research” crowd to kill their children to own the libs.

submitted 5 hours ago • 131 comments

Trump announces plans to cut 65% of staff from Environmental Protection Agency. 65%.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Lol

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"The 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans, according to internal VA documents." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk just acknowledged that his USAID shutdown hit the Ebola prevention program. But he claims it was quickly restored and there was no interruption in service. If anyone knows this not to be true, give me a shout on Signal: DavidCorn.99

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Just wait for the howling that will come from the "meritocracy" crowd because their arbitrary terminations did not follow the longstanding merit selection rules codified by Congress.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

Source: Big Balls to lead revamped Washington Post editorial page.

submitted 6 hours ago • 42 comments

REPORTER: Can you talk about what type of security guarantees you're willing to make to Ukraine? TRUMP: Well I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We're gonna have Europe do that.