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NBC News confirms: In the unsecured Signal group chat, national security advisor Michael Waltz referred to a Houthi militant targeted in U.S. air strike. Israel provided the sensitive intelligence on that Houthi militant, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. @msnbc.com

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In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients. By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate. Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 22 hours ago • 975 comments

Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day.

submitted 1 day ago • 541 comments

When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

submitted 1 day ago • 374 comments

This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election. Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.

submitted 23 hours ago • 321 comments

I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states. Their finances will be turned upside

submitted 1 day ago • 4478 comments

YouGov poll: 74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Well would you look at that...

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This. Absolutely, unequivocally, this.

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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

submitted 2 days ago • 1951 comments

everyone needs to understand this

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 4 days ago • 860 comments

Hear, Hear! @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social lay out the hypocrisy, stupidity, and criminality:

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

I'm a lowly assistant nurse manager. If I used an unsecured, unauthorized messaging platform to send protected patient info I'd be fired, fined up to $50k, and face a year in prison. Everyone on this thread should be censured at a bare minimum. Hegseth should be removed. Period.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 4 days ago • 375 comments

asked about texting war plans to a Signal group, Pete Hegseth deflects by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg as a "discredited so-called journalist." (MAGA's only plays are whataboutism and attacking the messenger. Every. Time.)

submitted 4 days ago • 610 comments

I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.

submitted 7 days ago • 1099 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 7 days ago • 592 comments

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

submitted 7 days ago • 759 comments

$13 t-shirts that tell people to F off? Yes, please.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks @effinbirds.com Now I have an appropriate response to people who support the Trump administration 😊

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

submitted 9 days ago • 1462 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 9 days ago • 966 comments

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

submitted 9 days ago • 227 comments

SCOOP: Before the IRS fired nearly 7,000 probationary employees, a senior lawyer raised the alarm that: - the terminations contained "false" information - they amounted to a "fraud" on the US judicial system Don't miss this @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: A federal judge denied the Trump administration's request to dismiss Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil's challenge to his arrest by immigration authorities and agreed his case should be moved to New Jersey.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Every day and in every way, Trump and his cohorts take another shit on the Constitution they have promised to revere and defend.

submitted 10 days ago • 902 comments

The constitutional order is collapsing but that's because the it's been cracking since the 80's. Weve been acting like a shitty landlord and just painting over the wall cracks for decades. Now we're surprised the wall is falling over.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Every day we need to remind ourselves none of this is normal, we are living in an America dangerously close to a slide into tyranny. Destroying the rule of law & the independence of the judiciary is always a first step for would-be dictators. Trump is no different. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 10 days ago • 154 comments

This is just proof that DOGE has nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with dismantling our government.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know why Americans are angry? Over the last 50 years, real weekly wages have been stagnant. At the same time, there was a $79 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the to the top 1%. We need an economy that works for all, not just billionaires.

submitted 10 days ago • 328 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 10 days ago • 1709 comments

Prominent supporters of President Trump — led by Ben Shapiro — are fueling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

Last night I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Fran Lebowitz speak at Mass MOCA. Even she roasted @schumer.senate.gov You know he's awful when a 74 year old Jewish lady from NYC asserts that @aoc.bsky.social is the leader we need right now instead of Spineless Chuck. Also, Fran is a goddess.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons. But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off. Cowards to the back.

submitted 14 days ago • 123 comments

Now that Dems have rolled over, just remember that everything from here on out is a failure of Trump and the Republicans. They own it all. Planes crash? Stocks crash? Eggs cost $12/doz? Gas is $5/gal? WWIII? It's all on the Rs. They own every bit of the outcome.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

submitted 14 days ago • 1052 comments

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered" ~George Orwell, 1984

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 14 days ago • 6032 comments