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The last thing King Donold wants is for millions of Americans to protest in Washington DC and just not leave.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

A pretty sunrise this morning, after a long stretch of gray.

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Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 1403 comments

A former commander of an International Space Station mission counters Elon Musk’s misinformation about the current ISS mission. Musk lashes out and calls him “fully retarded” and an “idiot.”

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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

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Punchbowl News reporting that Trump and Hegseth plan to start firing top generals, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was overwhelmingly Senate-approved for a 4-year term back in 2023. No one can say they weren’t warned.

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

Keep in mind that the probationary federal employees who are now being fired are NOT just newly hired ones. If a long-term employee is promoted to a higher-level position, such as a supervisory or managerial role, then the employee may be subject to a probationary period for that new position.

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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"Should the court grant the motion, it would be the first lawsuit against DOGE where the plaintiffs are able to obtain evidence, albeit limited, on how Elon Musk’s faux agency is operating within the federal government." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

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Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them. Check out the tracker here, updated by @annahickey.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

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🚨JUST IN: The Pentagon has circulated to congressional Republicans a list of generals Pete Hegseth is interested in firing or replacing, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr Brown was confirmed by the Senate in 2023 to a four-year term.

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Trump is a pathological liar, example #8567. Yesterday on Air Force One, Trump claimed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was treated “rudely” in Kyiv and that Zelensky was “unavailable to meet him.” One problem: they met. It’s on video. WATCH.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

There's already a tension in the administration between the people who realize (at least to some basic degree) that certain positions can't just be cut without seriously endangering Americans, and those who don't care and just blindly keep swinging the sledgehammers.

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Congress is filled with spineless morons like Begich, who don’t understand (or care) about their duties under the Constitution. They are failing all of us.

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The plaintiffs in the case need to put this in front of the judge, stat

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Trump’s honeymoon may be wearing off. New polls show a majority of Americans say he has overstepped his presidential authority — and hasn’t done enough to address high prices.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 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 3 days ago • 175 comments

If only @democrats.org could use this message.

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ICYMI — “Elon Musk reposted an image from an account claiming to show ‘migrants storming a Birmingham hospital’, but people have pointed out it was actually just a scene from a Batman film.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/elon-mu...

submitted 3 days ago • 175 comments

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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How long until he tries to assert control over those independent groups?

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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

submitted 3 days ago • 717 comments

Vibe shift getting spicy. 🌶️ #CPI

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Federal funding cuts have forced wildland firefighters to cancel prescribed burns, which help prevent wildfires. “We will be more vulnerable to a catastrophic fire in the future as a result,” one firefighter said.

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Trump wants Congress to pass the House GOP's version of a budget reconciliation bill that includes massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The House is on recess, so now would be a great time to call your rep and share your thoughts. (202) 224-3121

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This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Speaking of complacency, conservatives, Republicans are not weak, feckless, afraid. They're anti-democracy fascists. They revel in Lord Dampnut's corruption and criminality. They applaud his efforts to dismantle democracy, terminate the US Constitution, spread contempt for US law, cozy up to Putin.

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Well, that was last night....

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"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

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"I want to tell you two stories about Kevin Hassett, one tiny and one large, to illustrate what a silly man he is....to demonstrate how bankrupt the conservative intellectual world has become." Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-kevin...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

A true leader does this 👇rather than appear at @NASCAR news.caloes.ca.gov/governor-new...

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These are the GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee--THEY'RE some of the people hiding while DOGE disrupts Medicare/Medicaid and NIH funding. If they are YOUR representative, consider a visit to their LOCAL OFFICE this week, while they're home, to explain why they need to oversee DOGE.

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Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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