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Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 21 hours ago • 70 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 21 hours ago • 114 comments

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

I’m not on substack and I’m not a journalist or a politician with OpEd space in WaPo, but if ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE who have a REAL PLATFORM that’s not a 20+ year old blog want to give boosting such stories a shot, here’s what my version of that looks like: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I voted NO to confirm Kelly Loeffler to run the Small Business Administration. Just last week, Elon fired 720 employees at SBA, including those focused on disaster recovery efforts. Not a peep from Loeffler. Elon & Trump are NOT looking out for small businesses—just themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 542 comments

Everybody understands that this is entirely about slave labor for farms to replace the immigrants being deported right?

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

New—An amended lawsuit has been filed in DC District Court seeking to block imminent mass-firing of most CFPB employees. It seeks temporary restraining order against OMB/Vought from any action to terminate. I’d heard firing was in the works, but now it’s confirmed. www.nteu.org/~/media//Fil...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

The people didn't vote for you to cut off cancer research funding.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

Elon Musk is actively causing a constitutional crisis by subverting Congress and the funds it specifically appropriated. Musk is not a forensic accountant. He and his team have not passed sufficient security checks. They should not have access to our data.

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

decisions like this are constantly being announced and reversed, resulting in international decision fatigue, energy vampirism, and a lot of businesses unnecessarily scrambling on a daily basis: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 1314 comments

This is why it’s useful to put DOJ lawyers in front of a judge on these things, because there are penalties if they lie

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

Trump is already in the process of illegally abolishing the Department of Education and Department of Labor so the useless Democratic strategists advising us to keep our powder dry on USAID should just go away forever. Either you fight for the principle and all the agencies, or none of them

submitted 17 days ago • 39 comments

WHERE ARE THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT (yes I know they don’t have the votes, House Democrats should still introduce them anyway)

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This interview with Marc Andreesen is incredibly revealing as to his insane tech oligarchical worldview of politics. So this is why they got us to where we are!

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is the whole thing. If you’re staying to prevent being replaced by somebody worse but you’re not empowered to act on the ways you’re better, and you have to act like the worse person to keep from being replaced by them, you are the worse person. That’s all there is to it

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 18 days ago • 2652 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 19 days ago • 1568 comments

This is a great thread, especially about how reframing helps when communicating with our reps

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

this administrative coup is moving at the speed of minutes to hours. Federal courts respond at the speed of days, at best, for an emergency injunction or administrative stay, and months for ordinary business.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

True

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

No time like tomorrow to confront an emergency crisis happening yesterday

submitted 19 days ago • 59 comments

I agree with this. But we all have seen how vanishingly tiny their sense of self, much less their ability to stand up to Trump is.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Crockett: "There is no reason for any political appointee, if you can even call [Musk] that, to have this kind of access. There's none."

submitted 20 days ago • 362 comments

Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth, is rooting around in Social Security and Medicare payment systems. He’s reaching his hands into our pockets and firing anyone who tries to stop him. This reeks of corruption — it must stop. www.salon.com/2025/01/31/m...

submitted 22 days ago • 134 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 20 days ago • 593 comments