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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

How does this keep America safe? Nebraska's Representative Bacon is a retired USAF Brigadier General and should hear from all #NE02 constituents to take up authority as co-equal branch of government: ☎️ Rep. Don Bacon 202-225-4155

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 20 hours ago • 136 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 20 hours ago • 198 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 22 hours ago • 148 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Maga bad vibes cost us that game. #USA

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listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2938 comments

Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

i am beyond delighted to announce to the bluesky world in general (and to unicam heads in particular) that i have located the long-lost gif of ernie chambers elbowing chris beutler off his microphone in the #neleg

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NEW --There's this guy in the executive branch who in less than a month has already spent NEARLY 11 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money playing golf. Yet the whole thing has flown under the radar of the crack waste/fraud/abuse squad over at DOGE somehow. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 806 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

Take all the money spent on AI and use it to figure out a way to get trash to the curb when it’s snowy and 0 degrees at 10PM without me doing it.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

Republicans were never pro-life.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

Republicans are pro-cancer.

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5669 comments

Greg Sharpe, the beloved Voice of the Huskers and former Voice of the Wildcats, died Friday after a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61.

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You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 8 days ago • 3236 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 8 days ago • 488 comments

Emil Bove is Stringer Bell

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments