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Two stories from a USAID career crookedtimber.org/2025/02/18/n...

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This is purporting to punish not only a law firm that took clients and cases Trump didn’t like, but anyone doing business with them. Just undisguised gangsterism.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

submitted 4 days ago • 188 comments

really reassuring that the spaceX guy is taking over the FAA

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Fascists really hate when people laugh at them and make fun of them. They’re the most insecure, weak bunch of people walking around and the American Far Right in particular has 0 threshold for any kind of mocking. Their whole personalities are based off being mad because they are mocked.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

If the "law" does not "require" the government to pay the money it is contractually obligated to pay, the next Democratic administration should impound the salaries of Alito and his clerks

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

This is literally something a supervillain would say.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I wish I could by stunned by Alito's stupendously bad-faith hackery, but his lawlessness and shamelessness know no bounds. Alito and the other corrupt 3 Justices literally believe Trump is a tyrant-king who cannot be constrained by petty little things like laws or judges. Scary times.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work already done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments

We are up against an administration that daily announces or implements policies that are incredibly unjust and flagrantly unlawful. That is our reality, and we need to get used to saying it again and again. It’s exhausting but we have to do it or they win.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments

yep. and this is the basic problem with trump being psychologically incapable of perceiving a positive sum relationship. everything is a dominance game for him.

submitted 5 days ago • 132 comments

Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it. For once, Democrats' actions should match their words. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 6 days ago • 322 comments

this is stealing taxpayer money, it's just about the most straightforward federal crime that exists

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who teachers white collar crime classes, it is safe to say that there is no example of corporate crime by a government official more obscene in the modern history of the nation - and probably puts to shame even most famous examples like the Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier scandals

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Just learned that Dr. Seuss drew this in 1941 www.artsy.net/article/arts...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?

submitted 8 days ago • 683 comments

so far, the two outright abuses of prosecutorial power we know about (this + eric adams) have been extraordinarily clumsy

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.

submitted 9 days ago • 145 comments

The Epstein obsession is doubly weird because the political figure closest to Epstein is undoubtedly Donald Trump, who saw him regularly and spoke about their shared interest in "younger women." I can't even process the level of cognitive dissonance required to be a right-wing Epstein truther.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Christ. They're trying to kill us all, that's how they'll cut the federal budget. I wonder if the reason the Phase 1/2 data isn't public yet is because the Trump admin nuked all the meetings at which such data would be presented and discussed. Now they want to nuke the Phase 3 trial just for fun.

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

These idiot asshole MAGAts are trying to kill us. They're despicable murderers

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trump & Elon are fascists who don't believe rules, or court orders, apply to them. Very dark times

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Love to see the Supreme Court's corrupt conservatives making it even more difficult to protect people's rights.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

What a shithole country these MAGAts are creating. I'd really like to believe my food is safe, but those days are gone. Rampant corruption & cronyism. Thanks, all you fucking braindead Trump voters!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

submitted 12 days ago • 625 comments

Chief Justice Roberts once again fails to rise to the occasion, leaving what should be his job—defending judicial independence—to some generic bureaucratic response with a mere suggestion.

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

We're firmly into the "very not good!!" territory here.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When you fire a bunch of air traffic controllers, then you have a bunch of accidents: you are not saving US money When you fire a bunch of poultry inspectors, then you have a massive outbreak that wipes out chickens & eggs, leading to soaring scarcity & soaring prices: you are not saving US money

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

We now live in a gangster state, presided over by thugs who despise the rule of law & relish abusing their power to harass anyone who doesn't kiss the ring

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Why would we abandon the prosperous, democratic nations of Europe, our allies for one hundred years, to "partner" with weak, poor Russia, a longtime adversary and dictatorship currently in the middle of an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring state? Treason. It's treason

submitted 19 days ago • 358 comments

Yeah because they plan to sell them off to the billionaires and foreign powers so they can be turned into private enterprises or new developments.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

submitted 20 days ago • 301 comments

i also do not understand the democratic rhetorical thing of always asking questions. "we need more clarity on the faa firings" feels like weak sauce to me. "trump is gutting the faa so your plane crashes and your family dies" just make the accusation instead of trying to impress debate judges

submitted 20 days ago • 36 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 22 days ago • 5649 comments

The No. 1 issue on my mind right now is Donald Trump trying to let my crook mayor get away with stealing public money in exchange for the mayor letting Trump's immigration goon squad trample on the city

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 30 days ago • 199 comments

> the US destroying its own rule of law just to prevent an AIDS vaccine Genuinely demonic actions here

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Deport Musk.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

You won't encounter a less-political and more publicly beneficial organization than NOAA. It's filled with scientists, technicians, and analysts who entered their fields because they love what they do. The competence-to-fat ratio is probably higher at NOAA than anywhere. Destroying it is abhorrent.

submitted 32 days ago • 95 comments

Fun with acronyms but also strong on principle, we don't want government employees to run companies that have government contracts for obvious reasons

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 32 days ago • 1750 comments

What is it called when an erratic billionaire, whom nobody elected, rampages through the federal government, purging civil servants, seizing functional control over trillions of dollars, and attempting to destroy entire agencies—all in violation of the law? This is a coup. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments