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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 20 hours ago • 411 comments

Maybe it's me, but it seems like "How will this affect our military's ability to function?" is the first question a competent administration would ask before making any troop cuts.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 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 21 hours ago • 147 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 20 hours ago • 449 comments

There were a few Halloweens growing up when my parents couldn't afford costumes and would encourage my sister and I to get creative. Our neighbors would open the door to see us dressed like Elon Musk at CPAC and would be too kind to even ask what we were supposed to be.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The 'find out' phase is here.

submitted 1 day ago • 672 comments

'Whether or not a few more blacks are admitted to elite universities or the boardroom matters less than ensuring that everyone has access to safe housing, sufficient food, and dignified work' | Vincent Lloyd

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There’s a measles outbreak in W Texas where 18% of kindergartners have a vaccine exemption (c/w 3% nationally). This will get much worse with RFK Jr. Wondering if Sen Collins will be very concerned when people start to die from preventable illnesses. t.co/K9is8GHlte

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Coal would have died so long ago - to the benefit of our environment and our wallets - if energy regulators didn't keep forcing taxpayers and ratepayers to prop up their failures. Mediocre companies fear competitive markets but if you let them work consumers win. www.cleveland.com/open/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

If you are a federal employee in one of our scientific agencies who has been fired, please consider filling out this form. The House GOP may not give a damn about the the Enlightenment, objective truth or the Constitution but we do. democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The only absolute requirements to serve in the Trump WH is that you must be LESS courageous than Mike Pence, LESS principled than Jeff Sessions and LESS qualified than Rick Perry. And the only requirement to be a GOP Senator in good standing is to confirm all those incompetent milquetoasts.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

A US diplomat who can't reassure our ALLIES that we are on their side is bad at diplomacy. Whether he's incompetent or just afraid to put the US interests ahead of Trump's is moot. The Secretary of State is a job that demands more talent than he possesses. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Elon floating a $5,000 check to taxpayers really tells you how much they’ve given up on fighting inflation. ~160 million households file their taxes every year, that comes out an $800 billion stimulus. DOGE has maybe saved $50 billion, projecting out a decade.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 573 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

Trump's billionaire donors already pay a lower effective tax rate than the rest of us. Now they want to take away our healthcare to fund their tax cuts? Fuck that BS! Hands off our Medicaid!

submitted 13 days ago • 109 comments

Had to give this a quick search to make sure it wasn’t satire. Sadly, it is not. #notmypresident

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk just opened a giant battery-making factory in China, investing $200 million and creating thousands of overseas jobs. Meanwhile, Trump has stopped investments in American battery manufacturing in NC, LA, SC and elsewhere. Make WHO Great Again? 🤔 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

From "On Tryanny" by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

1943, USA.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

“It’s what President Trump has asked for." Republicans are gearing up to adopt a budget that would statutorily increase the debt. But they say that’s fine as long as it’s for tax cuts.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

This.

submitted 1 day ago • 368 comments

Pulling out the same type of device on a traffic stop that was used to beat police officers on Jan 6 is probably not the best plan.

submitted 2 days ago • 1684 comments

Outside federal court earlier today in New York City, heading into the hearing on our lawsuit to protect all of us from Elon Musk’s DOGE and his wannabe stormtroopers.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Trump and Musk are harming our veterans by firing workers at an already understaffed VA. We need to support our veterans, not leave them behind.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

These headlines certainly tell a story...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Congress must immediately demand all emails sent between Elon Musk and any agency or department leaders regarding personnel decisions. The White House said in court that Musk has “no actual or formal authority” over any gov’t body, so let’s make sure he hasn’t been illegally exercising any.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I have not seen any other credible theory. They are deliberately inflicting pain and misery.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1927 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 6 days ago • 230 comments

Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

submitted 5 days ago • 349 comments

Build the wall! Around DOGE!

submitted 5 days ago • 410 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 403 comments