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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1086 comments

Heinous. Disgusting. No words are enough. Coming from this shit Hegseth, questioning literally anyone’s qualifications to do anything? He is a N🅰️zi, a 3K member, worse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Honest question: Why are people obeying DOGE?

submitted 2 days ago • 636 comments

DOGE recommended firing staff at USDA who were working on the nation's response to bird flu and hundreds of employees working at the National Nuclear Security Administration overseeing our nuclear stockpile. Now the Trump admin is scrambling to hire them back. "Efficiency."

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

Lawyers, this is what it looks like to honor your oath as a lawyer and as a prosecutor. I want to lift up Denise Cheung, one of a growing group of senior DOJ lawyers who have put the rule of law ahead of politics & short-term career advancement. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Horrific

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

Food safety chief at the FDA quits saying Trump's mass layoffs make his job "fruitless" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Free elections are the baseline for representative democracy. If Jefferson Griffin and NCGOP are successful in overturning the NC Supreme Court race next month, authoritarianism will be the rule in NC going forward.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.

submitted 5 days ago • 360 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

Where tf are the Dems? Use every legal option there is. Dem lawyers in Congress need to step up and stop with the performative hand wringing

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 8 days ago • 1271 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 11 days ago • 1185 comments

We need cybersecurity experts now

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who will happily and enthusiastically be reminding trump voters of ALL his broken promises because he's too busy golfing, grifting, tweeting, and being an overall tyrannical shithead. My field of "I Told You So's" is full.

submitted 13 days ago • 328 comments

Eagles. That is all.

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 13 days ago • 1234 comments

Whoa! So all those religious groups that were intent on electing Trump so that they could control women's bodies are now upset that Trump is now controlling said religious groups? Let me see if I can find a tear to shed. Gifted article wapo.st/4gBaDDR

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

wapo.st/3Q9DrIH Gifted article

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“...'the most consequential security breach' in American history." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 340 comments

Democrats in Congress need to be working on a cybersecurity force - brilliant engineers who can stop this

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 14 days ago • 791 comments

A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:

submitted 15 days ago • 1692 comments

The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $7.41 billion in weapons sales to Israel. $6.75 billion in bombs & weapons guidance kits $660 million in Hellfire Missiles "This sale will increase interoperability with U.S. forces," the administration writes.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social Trump is using Musk to infiltrate every government computer system. This is a cyber coup. We will not save our government solely by informing the public. We must save it with expert computer engineers who can stop the hacking. Or Musk will just flip all the votes

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

#ReidOutBlog: Kash Patel received a massive gift from Trump's media company before his hearing The man Donald Trump nominated to be FBI director just received hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock from Trump Media.

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

I’m old enough to remember how Cambridge Analytica helped Thom Tillis with his initial election campaign in NC. And how he scrubbed his website of any mention of it when the 💩 hit the fan.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

submitted 17 days ago • 83 comments

Republican leaders in North Carolina's state legislature have announced that one of their top priorities this year will be abolishing the state's permit requirement for carrying a concealed handgun. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

The NFL literally erasing its "End Racism" slogan in anticipation of Trump attending the Super Bowl is... quite something. www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

submitted 18 days ago • 176 comments

@rbreich.bsky.social Trump is using Musk to infiltrate every government computer system. This is a cyber coup. We will not save our government with lawsuits. We must save it with expert computer engineers who can stop the hacking. Or Musk will just flip all the votes. Trump admitted it in PA

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

With all of the Trump/Musk mayhem, don't ignore the GOP's continued assault on free and fair elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 17 days ago • 176 comments