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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

submitted 22 hours ago • 224 comments

Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.

submitted 1 day ago • 209 comments

DOGE keeps cutting agencies and funding and personnel, but no one I know has saved a dime on taxes. It’s almost like they are stripping the public good of resources to send that money to the oligarchs in tax cuts…

submitted 1 day ago • 453 comments

Some things are worth repeating: Social Security is an EARNED benefit that WE, the American people, pay into. It should not be a political punching bag. Hands all the way off.

submitted 1 day ago • 229 comments

took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

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If Karoline Leavitt or anyone in this administration has receipts showing that Mr. Garcia is a member of MS-13, or engaged in human trafficking, they’d be presenting them in a power point presentation every single day.

submitted 22 hours ago • 404 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 15 hours ago • 244 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 22 hours ago • 1150 comments

I don't care how many junior staffs Hegseth or others throw under the bus. Hegseth HIMSELF was on the Signal group chat. He used his fingers to enter the sensitive military info into the chat. He bears 100% full responsibility for that -- no matter how many scapegoats he finds.

submitted 19 hours ago • 339 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1749 comments

Remember: nearly every single one of these "cuts" by the White House is actually money that was budgeted by Congress for every university, organization, etc. This funding was part of ongoing operations and planning. The federal government is essentially breaking contracts with every "cut."

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

Trump is doing this right now btw

submitted 2 days ago • 1033 comments

Donald Trump is deporting legal US residents to a foreign gulag, and he has stated publicly that he is moving on to citizens next. This is a Constitutional crisis. Will a single Republican stand up for our Constitution?

submitted 1 day ago • 636 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

Again, if the idea is that when someone in custody leaves the nation’s airspace there’s no way for a court to compel the state to return them—or exert any jurisdiction at all—then you’re simply saying whoever’s in power can fly people 100 miles offshore and push them out of helicopters into the sea.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

submitted 2 days ago • 1905 comments

“If we normalize this, there’s no end.” This is what @schumer.senate.gov said he was waiting for. Defying court orders. We are there. Now what?

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 3 days ago • 1180 comments

“They’ve been relentlessly dismantling every single civil rights agency in the federal government, and this could be the last one standing.” Garza added that she is “prepared to challenge any attempt to illegally remove me as chairwoman.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

submitted 4 days ago • 291 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 4 days ago • 875 comments

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 359 comments

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

submitted 4 days ago • 409 comments

This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

submitted 5 days ago • 690 comments

If I dangle you over the edge of a building and then pull you back up, I didn’t save your life. I almost killed you. And that is what Trump just did to the economy.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 7 days ago • 2274 comments

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

submitted 4 days ago • 1128 comments

In Houston 20 children attacked 3 Afghan Muslim girls wearing hijab, ripping their hijabs off, pulling their hair, and beating them unresponsive: www.youtube.com/shorts/FVDVs... National Corp media is ignoring this story. I will continue to report on it. Subscribe at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

submitted 5 days ago • 162 comments

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

submitted 4 days ago • 809 comments

Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app. Pure corruption.

submitted 4 days ago • 524 comments

Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics — and Bondi Might Do It nymag.com/intelligence... @eliehonig.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Indiana Republicans are advancing a ban on using student IDs for voting. The move would make it even harder for young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout. boltsmag.org/indiana...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

submitted 4 days ago • 1072 comments

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

submitted 4 days ago • 1559 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 4 days ago • 856 comments

Since ARKANSAS Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is who came to help push Gov. Lee’s voucher scam — let’s see how things are going with their program… 🤔 arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

submitted 4 days ago • 249 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 4 days ago • 495 comments

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 6 days ago • 324 comments

Great news, everyone. A surveillance company started by Peter Thiel is part of the hackathon playing with our data at IRS. www.wired.com/story/palant...

submitted 4 days ago • 223 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 4 days ago • 305 comments

I'd say this is a pretty important story. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

submitted 5 days ago • 1228 comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1247 comments

Trump administration invalidates Social Security numbers of immigrants www.cbsnews.com/news/social-...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments