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BREAKING from @ddayen.bsky.social: Trump's acting head of the Social Security Administration told staff in a meeting he is looking to fire 50 percent (!) of the agency's workforce. prospect.org/health/socia...

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Lots of stuff like this going on. Because they've managed to install a Trump/Elon super fan as head of SSA. I don't know the details here. But I do know that DOGE micro-bros have been canceling SSA office leases like crazy. Usually without the staff knowing. So this seems inevitable.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

This is LITERALLY what USAID does!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

I think what this shows is that most people aren't actually anti-vax, they're just extremely obstinate about being asked to do anything even slightly inconvenient when they don't see an immediate benefit for themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

This is a terrible thing, it didn’t have to happen, and it is profoundly sad that we are going to see more of it.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The thing about billionaires that people too often forget is that they lie, literally all the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

This Onion headline haunts my dreams

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

The University of Alaska's Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has (seemingly) scrubbed most instances of "Alaska Native" on its website. This coincides with the UA Board of Regents voting to get rid of DEI-related language. (Left image is Wayback machine from Jan. 15)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

what the actual fuck

submitted 1 day ago • 635 comments

HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order.

submitted 2 days ago • 470 comments

"President Trumps' lawyers"

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BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked Donald Trump's executive order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program saying it appeared to "cross the line" into "nullification of congressional will."

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

when you're so pro-Putin that you've lost Maria Bartiromo ...

submitted 8 days ago • 201 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 4824 comments

Wyden: "Nobody should lose sight of what happened this morning. Trump endorsed the House budget resolution. This resolution mandates that $880b in cuts come from the House Energy & Commerce Committee ... there is no plausible way to hit that target without hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 8 days ago • 175 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 8 days ago • 1466 comments

Trump: "We have effectively eliminated the US Agency for International Development ... we virtually shut down the out of control CFPB." (This is illegal)

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

Trump: "Show up to work in person like the rest of us ... they're not working. They're playing tennis, they're playing golf. (Trump has been at his house and golfing all week.)

submitted 8 days ago • 207 comments

Trump: "Lee Zeldin. Head of the environment. Environmental ... ah ... the environmental group. Various groups."

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

john roberts u up (to defend the entire federal judicial project)

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

A minor

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is” (This is not how the Constitution works)

submitted 9 days ago • 756 comments

how many fucking times do these brainless dipshits have to do this before they stop slamming the country’s collective dick in a car door

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 9 days ago • 1055 comments

A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

worth stressing, again, that this was not actually the project 2025 plan, the plan was to take an entire term and the actions were to be taken more carefully precisely to avoid the kinds of legal and logistical challenges they’re setting up

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

the DOGE decision to fire everyone for “performance” regardless of their record of performance is going to bite them in the ass

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors

submitted 10 days ago • 252 comments

entitlement to rape is the central ideological pillar of trumpism

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 630 comments

God why can't men just be fucking normal.

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 10 days ago • 860 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 10 days ago • 2090 comments

everything is a conspiracy if, like david sacks, you are a fucking idiot

submitted 12 days ago • 285 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 13 days ago • 452 comments

Many Americans fundamentally believe that truly horrendous things can't happen here, and work backwards from there.

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

ok! www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 13 days ago • 1010 comments

we might get a bonus march situation soon enough

submitted 14 days ago • 240 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 14 days ago • 464 comments