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“Let’s be clear: DOGE is not about saving money. It’s about weakening public services to justify privatization.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

submitted 1 day ago • 1133 comments

If you’re into seeing Elon & DOGE get called out for their lies about savings — this account is doing a very nice job of it: x.com/electricfutu...

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

I have reached out to my physician, since I never got the MMR vaccine as a child. I'll be curious what she says.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

submitted 2 days ago • 462 comments

Conflicts of interest. And scary, given the number of SpaceX crashes.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Overturning Roe was never just about sending abortion back to the states. It was a necessary step on the path to allowing pre-existing state bans to take effect, and to banning abortion nationwide." - @susanrinkunas.com

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

🚨 🚨 NEW WHITEBOARD How a bill in the House (the “SAVE” Act) Kneecaps Democracy A 🧵 “How bad can it be?” you ask. Truly terrible. Please share this 🧵 so people know. Then take action. ☎️ 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

So, the House Republicans published their official budget resolution today, which, as expected, calls for gutting Medicaid/CHIP. As a reminder, nearly 80 million Americans rely on Medicaid/CHIP for their healthcare coverage...nearly half of whom are children. acasignups.net/25/01/30/psy...

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 862 comments

Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

These are talking points straight from the Kremlin. It is clear that Trump’s plan to “end the war” is to remove Zelenskyy, replace him with a Putin stooge, and then let Putin take over Ukraine.

submitted 8 days ago • 778 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 8 days ago • 1221 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 9 days ago • 1064 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 10 days ago • 2291 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 11 days ago • 480 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 11 days ago • 494 comments

This is probably the most insightful commentary I've heard about Musk. Kara Swisher has the goods.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“Diversity is better for the bottom line,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said. “In a global economy, those who reject the multicultural nature of consumerism and business will be left in the past they are living in.” #DEI apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 13 days ago • 136 comments

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website “People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

It's time to choose sides.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 14 days ago • 422 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing. youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

There is no clearer voice on democratic erosion than Steven Levitsky. This piece is perfect. It will help clarify the worried thoughts of those who already know things are bad, but it also explains what is happening to those who don't yet know. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge issues blistering order saying that Trump administration has violated his prior order re funding freeze. If admin. continues to disobey, next logical step would be contempt and a potential constitutional crisis. Visit Democracy Docket for updates. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 17 days ago • 806 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 18 days ago • 381 comments