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Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov", claims a former Soviet intelligence officer. uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...?

submitted 8 hours ago • 49 comments

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

Trump's attacks on the USPS aren't new. For decades, the GOP has been trying to privatize the Post Office and other crucial public services — all to pad the profits of their wealthy corporate donors.

submitted 7 hours ago • 90 comments

New — 20 House Democrats write to Trump this morning on USPS: “We urge you to immediately withdraw all plans to dismantle one of our nation’s most cherished public institutions and uphold the Postal Service’s independent status as required by law.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 15 hours ago • 179 comments

A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 476 comments

In addition to believing cranks and hooligans, we are bad at math too...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries. There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

submitted 1 day ago • 323 comments

Wise man…

submitted 19 hours ago • 546 comments

Donald Trump just fired a well-respected General who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And his Administration announced they’re replacing other officers, too. The purge of people of stature and independence goes on.

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

Government isn’t a business.

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, firefighters who just finished weeks of around-the-clock shifts fighting dangerous fires were given a note from their Commander in Chief: "Please quit." That’s a hell of a way to say thank you.

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

If you could use some amazing good news, here it is

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Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds

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"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Kash Patel can't do the job of FBI Director. He's patently unqualified. Those who vote for his confirmation will be accountable for the destruction he does to the nation's top law enforcement agency and to the rule of law.

submitted 2 days ago • 214 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

Mass layoffs of IRS agents who catch tax evaders. Once more, Elon Musk's very sincere crusade to cut "waste and fraud" out of the federal government just so happens to weaken government power over billionaires like him. What an incredible string of coincidences we've had here.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

When CA or any state struggles to respond to devastating wildfires this year: It won't be because "the spigots" are closed. There are no such spigots. But it just may be that when we needed help the most – firefighters' jobs got cut to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

Thanks to Donald Trump – it's a great day to be a billionaire in America. For the rest of us? Not so much.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

As expected paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-to-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4825 comments

“Church-state separation doesn’t just protect your right to believe as you choose, it also protects your freedom to live as your authentic self and have control over your body." We all have a stake in protecting religious freedom. baptistnews.com/article/show...

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Note to media Stop saying these are peace talks. Russia, a terrorist state, invaded sovereign Ukraine in 2014 w the intention as they stated to eliminate all Ukrainians & steal lead. They are committing genocide & can stop the war at any moment by getting the hell out of Ukraine

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

submitted 3 days ago • 604 comments

How long before they just start making up the numbers?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Good advice, but use Duck Duck Go instead of Google.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

submitted 4 days ago • 225 comments

“You should have never started it.” Such ignominious ignorance. Such betrayal of our ally. Such a cowardly surrender.

submitted 4 days ago • 897 comments

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

submitted 5 days ago • 696 comments

🚨OH HELL NO! ‘DOGE appears to have busted their way into the Social Security Administration, forcing the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King, when she resisted their demands to give DOGE access to Agency’s most sensitive government records’. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 5 days ago • 543 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8247 comments

#resist #poliart

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

submitted 5 days ago • 176 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

Thank you, Lilli Gruber, for having me on La7's Otto e Mezzo to talk about Trump, Europe and a lot more. www.la7.it/otto-e-mezzo...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

So, lemme 'splain why this is nonsense...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments