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submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 491 comments

'where Steve Bannon tossed off a Nazi salute and Musk appeared in a “Dark MAGA” baseball cap sporting a chainsaw and basking in the adulation of the MAGA/CPAC faithful awash in the joy a certain kind of individual derives from destruction and pain.'

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

We’re THIS CLOSE to another Elon-submarine-pedophile moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In a feat of impeccable timing, the wonderful editors at the Lewis & Clark Law Review have finished their work on my article, "Is Originalism Bullshit?" The final version is now online at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Layoffs and contract cancellations sweeping the Social Security Administration. I've been told that following data programs have been canceled: *National Beneficiary Survey (NBS): Provides SSA, Congress w/ info about factors that can help SSI/SSDI recipients find employment

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

🔥🔥🔥 Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested for civil disobedience after speaking against a MAGA display that the city council of Huntington Beach agreed to put up at the public library…..that’s what’s up….every word👇

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

Trump is surrendering America. Trump is the opposite of strong. He is a tiny, weak, small, scared, trembling, sissy, husk of a man. There is nothing manly about his fat, sweaty, smelly, gross, makeup'ed self An absolute joke

submitted 3 days ago • 1333 comments

America can't be trusted to keep our word anymore. We are the bad guys now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1217 comments

Interesting speech by Vince Gilligan, who is clearly chagrined over the bad-fan response to Walter White: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

So, we are shipping migrants to Panama, where they will be housed in a camp in the jungle.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

provided guidelines: “do not mention trans ppl in your summaries”

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 727 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 451 comments

Well I guess we don't have to worry about how much they COST any more

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Yeah, that's exactly what this anti DEI purge is all about. Censoring minorities and expelling trans people out of public life.

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

submitted 6 days ago • 667 comments

At least 7 plane crashes since Trump and Musk destroyed aviation safety in the United States. That's an average of 1 plane crash every 3 days. 1/29 – Washington, D.C. 1/31 – Pennsylvania 2/5 – Washington 2/6 – Alaska 2/10 – Arizona 2/12 – California 2/16 – Georgia

submitted 6 days ago • 237 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Good for you ProPublica! Stand Strong! @propublica.org

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

And so it begins

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

I’ve been sitting here for ten minutes trying to articulate my rage at this. One word: eugenics. Our kids. Our wonderful, worthy kids.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

submitted 7 days ago • 512 comments

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments