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Insane.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s “energy emergency” is resulting is less American energy, not more. Because the real point is crushing American clean energy as oil and gas’ competition so they can keep gouging us.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

submitted 3 days ago • 1950 comments

@ericvannostrand.bsky.social & I are in @briefingbook.bsky.social on infrastructure. Last week, @jasonfurman.bsky.social argued that real US infrastructure investment has fallen since the pandemic. Eric & I find however that using BEA’s deflator, real highway spending is up 11% since 2019. 1/11

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Oklahoma has the 2nd most new clean energy jobs in rural areas of any state, more than $4.2 billion in private sector investments since 2022. And its governor is talking sense on repealing clean energy tax credits when companies are already building factories: Hard No.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The first and last lines of @nahaltoosi.bsky.social’s assessment of Marco Rubio are devastating. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

submitted 5 days ago • 1108 comments

Jamelle Bouie is correct here, in my view. Using the phrase “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” – the name first applied to that body of water in 1550 – has nothing to do with national pride or ideology and only to do with obedience to Tr•mp. #Obedience #Führerprinzip

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

"I didn't think Trump would do the things he promised he would" is such a common theme.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Exactly. Every agency actually already had a hyper-knowledgeable and very aggressive office dedicated to finding waste and abuse, confirmed by the Senate. Trump fired them en masse and replaced them with teenage minions who would declare anything he didn’t like “waste” and ignore his own corruption.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 2091 comments

Trump declared himself above the law today. Literally announced it. Pinned it to his feed for emphasis. The White House reposted it. All to underscore it’s not some passing thought, which would be bad enough. It’s not the top story on any news site that I can find. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 7 days ago • 104 comments

And the party Musk directs is about to pass a tax cut costing trillions of dollars that will give him billions. But keeping drinking water safe, researching cancer treatments, tracking bird flu, and Head Start aren’t “efficient.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's AI and crypto czar literally can't use Google

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

“What’s happening in New York is alarming. If you voted for Donald Trump because you wanted to ‘end the witch hunts’ and “restore the rule of law”—causes we passionately support—all of this should concern you.” —The Editors thefp.pub/4k1UtGC

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

None of Trump's other nominees "impulse-lied to senators’ faces while under oath in a confirmation hearing, as if they were a troublemaking toddler telling their parents they didn’t drop the cake, hoping no one noticed their face was covered in icing."

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

This is true.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The whole point was to swear in Tulsi Gabbard, but Trump totally forgot and just walked away without even acknowledging her. What a perfect metaphor for how the intelligence community will treat her and The US.

submitted 9 days ago • 138 comments

Sounds like “equity” to me, we’ll get the website scrubbers right on that.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This will cover about 1/100th of Elon’s personal tax cut from the GOP tax bill. Probably less.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

House Republicans want to take away food and health care to give tax cuts to the rich

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

All of the cuts from Elon’s slash & burn of programs for farmers, kids, seniors, and health care will add up to less than his personal tax cut from the GOP tax bill. And all of the layoffs won’t shrink the government, they’re making room for Project 2025 minions. All a fraud.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The GOP budget is out. Republicans recently promised to love and cherish Medicaid. Their actual plan is to destroy it.

submitted 9 days ago • 935 comments

Since Republicans have taken office: farmers are not getting paid, we have threatened trade wars, and have crippled OUR OWN government unsurprisingly, eggs, coffee, gas and overall cost of living is now rising. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

submitted 11 days ago • 637 comments

If you’re wondering why Trump would so openly disgrace himself by halting enforcement of a bribery law, I’ll give you 3 guesses which industry violates it most often.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The explicitly corrupt language here is startling. This memo flat-out says "This is a political favor and has nothing to do with the merits of the case." This is an administration untethered from shame and completely unafraid of potential consequences. They're behaving like it's all over.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

…he said this just before boarding a taxpayer funded flight to his home at Mar-a-Lago…

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Having worked 11 years in Democratic White Houses, it was a perennial guessing game on what GOP states would come up with as “harm” done by the policies they were suing to block, in order for them to have standing. Not exactly a challenge with Trump.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge McConnell in Rhode Island — who previously blocked the funding freeze in the states' challenge — issued a follow-up order at the states' request, including specifically restoring "appropriated funds" in the Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure act and resuming NIH funding.

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

Everyone’s feeling the heat–even the NFL. Temperatures in all major NFL cities have risen by at least 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit. time.com/7213399/how-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Press Release: Reps. Khanna And Beyer Reintroduce Legislation To Set Supreme Court Term Limits beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Given that one of DOGE’s first targets, before Trump was even inaugurated, was a loan to one of Musk’s EV competitors —safe to assume that the raid of Americans’ personal and taxpayer information is also (if not primarily) being used for Musk’s personal gain.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The list of reasons that confirming Kash Patel would be ridiculous and catastrophic is longer than my arm. And there is literally nothing on the “pro” side of the ledger — no qualifications, no experience, no indication that he values the rule of law at all.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The WSJ last April. The WSJ today. 🇺🇸

submitted 14 days ago • 107 comments

This is exactly right. The reason Republicans haven’t been able to dismantle USAID or CFPB in Congress is that the American people don’t want that. The CFPB was enacted after banks betrayed Americans with the Great Recession, the GOP barely fought it because they knew people wanted accountability.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Georgia’s economy has been on fire thanks to big investments in clean energy. In the last 24 hours, Georgia has lost a battery factory and there’s another billion in limbo to upgrade Georgia’s power grid.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Collins is going to be responsible for every horror Vought unleashes as she goes into what could be her toughest reelection yet.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6591 comments

life comes at you fast, especially for John Harris who wrote this piece of embarrassing fantasy less than a month ago. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

Trump finally taking action on the bird flu that is sending egg prices through the roof. WSJ: White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t look away.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is who they have always been. This is exactly what the fascist tech cohort has always been courting. May Ramaswamy be their only victim.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

An American Secretary of State boycotting South Africa because he violently opposes equality and solidarity is a uniquely grotesque irony. There’s a word in South Africa for systemic inequality and division. Ask your boss Elon about it, he might have fond memories.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has spent his career scamming people. His offer to pay workers at EPA and other agencies for their resignation is yet another scam—one that could leave hard-working civil servants with no money and no legal recourse. @whitehouse.senate.gov is demanding answers.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Remember how Trump’s whole answer on bringing down costs for energy and everything else was increased oil production? Here’s what ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said on his earnings call today when asked if they would increase production: “Not really.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

One of most important pieces I have written in a while: The Senate’s Dilemma: Kash Patel and the Purging of the FBI "Most significantly of all, in the questions for the record, Patel switched his line of answers away from the reassuring ones that he has 'no plans in going backwards' ..."

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments