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Stars.. they're just like us!

submitted 88 days ago • 12 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 20 hours ago • 816 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 22 hours ago • 418 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1968 comments

Russia invaded Ukraine. This is Putin’s war. If Trump won’t say it, the Senate damn well should. And we will have the chance tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

The Cincinnati Kid & The Thomas Crown Affair as a double bill. Terrific movies! :)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1253 comments

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

The human cost of these massive layoffs are coming into view

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 6 days ago • 2768 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

wapo.st/41fU9MT

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 7 days ago • 536 comments

Informative article. wapo.st/4gJwGID

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sheryl Crow: “My parents always said you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”

submitted 7 days ago • 357 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 7 days ago • 1614 comments

Blue Painting by Vasily Kandinsky, 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137152

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

submitted 9 days ago • 293 comments

With Bork, the AG and DAG had all agreed he needed to fire Cox. Here that hasn't happened and they have to continue to go down the line to find someone. Whoever accepts the order will be considered the ultimate quisling. And that alone won't do it, b/c will need to go before Judge Ho. NOT GOING AWAY

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews W/ @reporterev.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 1394 comments

Your reminder that fame is not wealth and America is broken. Mainstream people know him as the cabbie from SCROOGED, but he’s a prolific musician and entertainer who has been at the heart of music since the late ‘70s. variety.com/2025/music/n...

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 11 days ago • 492 comments

Wonderful Clip! Rick Moranis and everyone at SCTV was fabulous!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

For the love of country, this should be a concern regardless of party. Cost-cutting at DoD. Fine. Needed. But not this way. As President Trump says he is going to dispatch Musk to the Pentagon Recent Bloomberg News: "Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets"

submitted 13 days ago • 190 comments

Strategic ideas from JVL at The Bulwark. How to Win the USAID Fight www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

1972. The “I love you” at the end gets me every time…

submitted 14 days ago • 148 comments

A pair of comedies directed by Peter Bogdanovich! WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972) & NOISES OFF (1992) screen in 35mm next weekend, February 14th - 16th. Tickets: buff.ly/3xXcQDx

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

submitted 14 days ago • 312 comments