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“Business acumen.” Hahahahahahaha!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 3 hours ago • 65 comments

Posted by @warmonitor3.bsky.social on another platform: “Massive military aid package being sent by Europe to Ukraine in the next couple days. And I mean massive.”

submitted 3 hours ago • 81 comments

Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 4 hours ago • 130 comments

This vibe reminds me of a Tea Party town hall I attended on Long Island a dozen years ago.

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.

submitted 4 hours ago • 232 comments

Nonprofits that target online extremism and authoritarian propaganda are slashing operations and laying off employees after DOGE’s cost-cutting push halted vital US support.

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

🚨 🚨 As you find yourself appalled, day after day, by what is happening, never let the far right convince you that you are somehow in the minority. Most Americans agree with you. They do not like what they’re seeing either. 1/

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

Not to alarm anyone but the stooge currently serving as acting head of the Social Security Administration, you know, the one w/access to all your personal info, was, as recently as two weeks ago on paid leave b/c career folks thought he was violating multiple privacy and tax laws

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 123 comments

Nurses rely on sound science and evidence based practice. On March 7th, nurses can stand up for our research and healthcare institutions. Find your local rally information here standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Per @juliadavisnews.bsky.social: “The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange. Some of the terms appear even worse than in a previous draft.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 95 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

submitted 5 hours ago • 93 comments

FUN FACT: Consumer sentiment has already declined by nearly 10% in the one month since Trump took office.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s "central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender.” Call it the “Great Resegregation."

submitted 5 hours ago • 28 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” she said.

submitted 5 hours ago • 140 comments

Consumer sentiment declined nearly 10% from January. Donald Trump's tariffs and trade wars are spiking consumers' anxiety.

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 5 hours ago • 31 comments

NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

submitted 6 hours ago • 132 comments

Per @cturnbull1968.bsky.social: “Dear DNC, if you don’t run political ads with Elon holding a chainsaw, combined with video of a chainsaw cutting Grandma’s social security benefits and healthcare, I’m going to file a suit against you for gross negligence.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 66 comments

Kanye West, who recently launched a swastika shirt, calls Steve Bannon’s “Roman salute” fun

submitted 17 hours ago • 160 comments

NEW: Trump's military purge likely isn't over A draft list of other officers who might be fired circulated this week on Capitol Hill, and it had a focus on Black and female officers The list isn’t final and is subject to the whims of POTUS and SecDef www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Nailed it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 139 comments

Okay, enough is enough — it’s time to impeach the MF! 🇺🇸

submitted 16 hours ago • 93 comments

Call today to let your Congressman know what you think about Elon Musk’s DOGE and its slash-and-burn cuts to the federal workforce and vital government programs. Leave a message if necessary. YOUR CALLS REALLY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ☎️

submitted 5 hours ago • 54 comments

Trump and Musk are a living monument to the worst excesses of human nature—an exhausting blend of arrogance, ignorance, greed, selfishness, narcissism, and the kind of misplaced confidence that has already fueled a thousand horrible decisions that will ultimately hurt millions of everyday Americans.

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It gets more disturbing by the hour www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

submitted 6 hours ago • 161 comments

The US demanded that Ukraine withdraw the UN resolution condemning Russia for the invasion, Ukraine refused, — Washington Post

submitted 7 hours ago • 52 comments

STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

Love to see it!

submitted 6 hours ago • 302 comments

I'm dumb. I can't figure out how to end world hunger. But I do promise that I will continue to change healthcare in this country and make it more affordable, possibly setting a path towards Universal Healthcare.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1929 comments

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

submitted 7 hours ago • 197 comments

Analysis: Red states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana could be hurt the most by Trump's spending cuts

submitted 7 hours ago • 152 comments

We're going to wake up one day soon to learn that tRump has sold Alaska to Putin. Watch. And if you think that sounds utterly ridiculous, you haven't been paying attention.

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 10 hours ago • 223 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 20 hours ago • 799 comments

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

submitted 11 hours ago • 67 comments

Trump’s every act demonstrates his belief that power is vested in him personally, and affirms that he is bent on amassing more. The new cover of The Economist.

submitted 7 hours ago • 109 comments

Per @scaramucci.bsky.social: “He just fired the Joint Chief of Staff. Wants to install a puppet. For those who think that he is contemplating leaving, they don’t understand what happened on January 6.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

"Piece Plan"

submitted 7 hours ago • 98 comments

House Republicans who were willing to hold town halls back home this week got an earful. At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, many of them faced hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts & mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Musk’s DOGE is carrying out.

submitted 16 hours ago • 198 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 20 hours ago • 248 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 20 hours ago • 193 comments

INDISPUTABLE FACTS: •Russia invaded Ukraine. •Ukraine bears no responsibility for Russia’s invasion. •Russian aggression is a threat to the entire world. •We stand with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We stand w/all the people of Ukraine. Follow all: WE ARE THE OPPOSITION. go.bsky.app/AMZH6uh

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 19 hours ago • 709 comments

NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

submitted 23 hours ago • 263 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 769 comments