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jfbeacom.bsky.social
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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2144 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 14 hours ago • 402 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 hours ago • 285 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 147 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 12 hours ago • 125 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 12 hours ago • 173 comments

"Remember that Republicans can only lose literally a couple votes to pass anything through this House. That reminds you of the instability of this juggernaut and the power in Democrats hands. If the likes of Malliotakis [hard MAGA district] are getting spooked she’s far from the only one."

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 1 day ago • 545 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 1 day ago • 1911 comments

Such a good connection here about how gullible audiences mean a ready source of income, and implications thereof. (Especially, we need to figure out a way to fund the “left Joe Rogans” who have the skills but can’t afford to do it. @akilah.bsky.social has talked about this too.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

The way to understand the hysteria over "woke" is through the lens of Ignazio Silone's famous description of fascism as "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." Reactionary forces always begin by conjuring a looming leftist threat. threadreaderapp.com/thread/16865...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 172 comments

YES THIS ALL DAY GAHHHHHH

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 2 days ago • 1741 comments

It's just one poll but in a new Gallup poll Trump is 45-51 (-6) approve/disapprove, and -12 on the economy. - 6 recent polls have Trump underwater - 538 average has dropped 6 pts in past month - Highest disapproval of any President at this point in their Presidency #notwinning

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

DOGE is the “sorry, sorry, I’m trying to delete it, sorry” tweet come to life

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

A telling data point… saw my first example of a fash-apologist tech CEO who couldn’t ignore the obvious bullshitting of the Musk crew lying about the fake “fraud” they’ve been finding (because there are still tech founders who know how basic spreadsheets work) and is starting to question DOGE.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

submitted 4 days ago • 1223 comments

A week ago, Musk refers to DOGE as "we"

submitted 4 days ago • 353 comments