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#TeaPartyToo

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I'm bracing for this in the next electoral cycle---Meta, Google, Sinclair broadcasting, etc. simply refusing to show or burying paid ads supporting Democrats or critical of Trump.

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Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 hours ago • 41 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1074 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Yeah I think if a Dem Tea Party happens it's not gonna be about ideology, it'll be about temperament

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

Wow. h/t to @polpsychjoe.bsky.social, without whom I wouldn't have seen this. The NSF didn't have to fire its experts in various disciplines. The Trump-Vance administration didn't ask for that to be done, actually. The NSF's leadership chose to do this.

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It's not his flag. Cult of personality.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Hostage taking and threats. You don't go along with me or you lose all federal funding because "We are the federal law." Happening right in front of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"...Sheahan is 27 years old and has seemingly zero experience in immigration policy or even law enforcement in general..."

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"The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 64.7 in January, a decline of 10% and a steeper drop than expected as consumers feared higher inflation ahead. The 5-year inflation outlook in the survey was 3.5%, the highest since 1995." www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/s... Oof.

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You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

The story rightly focuses on threats of political violence, but Members of Congress take an oath to, "defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." If they're unwilling to do so, they have an obligation to stand down. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

New on MSNBC: Pete Hegseth is considering firing a slate of military generals and flag officers as early as this week, according to two defense officials and three congressional officials.

submitted 3 days ago • 899 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 994 comments

I've been at this a while.

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President Truman on US responses to Soviet aggression and America's role protecting "free countries" around the world. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...

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Why in the world would Trump and Musk want to shut down the JFK library? www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...

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Why in the world would Trump and Musk want to shut down the JFK library? www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...

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This database would give Musk detailed technical specifications of every system, detailed pricing and delivery schedules, and information on any confidential government investigations into every other U.S. defense firms. Conflict of interest does not get bigger than this.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

All that, plus, who's going to believe the March jobs report with Musk et al pulling strings at the BLS? It's not just uncertainty, it's uncertainty about the uncertainty.

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Since it's still President's Day, a gratuitous Abraham Lincoln reference: When the 16th president referred to the "Confederacy" or the "Confederate states," he prefixed it with "so-called"

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

We are very here for Phil pressing Tennessee Republicans on if they’re ok with Elon/Trump cutting billions in medical research that will impact Tennessee 👀👇🏽 More of this. Context: www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

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Lavrov-Rubio is starting to look like the 21st century Molotov-Ribbentrop. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is an awesome thing to read just prior to boarding my flight this morning.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

If you’re fired from your job “for cause” That can jeopardize your ability to obtain unemployment benefits

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Stepping back from the crumbling Republic... The real world is pushing a Conover and Feldman/Mettler/Kinder and Sanders fusion project very hard.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Deputy White House Chief of Staff specifically admits the administration is trying to strong-arm the press into covering news on terms more to their liking.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Damn this statement is amazing. Crystal clear, no-holds-barred, and so incredibly well delivered. This is the messaging that Dems should be out there hammering consistently every single day: "There is an ongoing coup against the Constitution of the United States happening as we speak."

submitted 6 days ago • 0 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 6 days ago • 481 comments

Look, economic voting is real, but, historically, high inflation pushes public mood in a conservative direction. I'm not a politician or a professional operative, but "Donald Trump is a crook who's tearing up our Constitution and laws, feeding your private data into Elon Musk's...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Federalism is an obstacle to advancing authoritarianism, but nothing is foolproof. A few state governments in the wrong hands could effectively cancel out free and fair elections in the rest of the country for determining control of Congress or tipping the Electoral College.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

He doesn’t care about anyone.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 8 days ago • 231 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 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

My critique of the Randy Barnett/Ilan Wurman constitutional rationale for Trump's order on birthright citizenship: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Ilya is as decent as he is smart, so he treats the Barnett-Wurman dreck with far more respect than it deserves. But this is a thorough clocking.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Can just one of these Democratic Senators take to a podium in Munich and speak with urgency about the fact that President Trump is in violation of our constitution for impounding funds and ignoring court orders. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments