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Coinbase was being investigated by the SEC so they: - gave $75M a to pro-Trump PAC - gave $1M to Trump’s inauguration - sponsored an inaugural party - hired Trump’s campaign manager - listed Trump’s meme coin And now the investigation is closed. These are called bribes.

submitted 84 days ago • 69 comments

The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.

submitted 85 days ago • 26 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 85 days ago • 88 comments

1/2 An important victory for federal probationary workers. This one not in the courts. Office of Special Counsel: "The probationary terminations at issue in this matter appear to have been effectuated in a manner inconsistent with federal personnel laws."

submitted 85 days ago • 14 comments

Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.

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In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

submitted 95 days ago • 103 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 95 days ago • 492 comments

Reading through Judge Bates' decision granting the TRO against HHS, CDC, and FDA for removing public data + web sites. Here are some thoughts from someone who has spent too much time studying government information practices. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The defining joke of our time: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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It feels really festive that a Black church took away the Proud Boys control over their own name for Black History Month.

submitted 105 days ago • 150 comments

oh my god im sick of looking something up and everything is a video. i dont want to watch a 10 minute video i want to read the two sentence answer in 10 seconds.

submitted 111 days ago • 187 comments

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

submitted 111 days ago • 577 comments

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

submitted 119 days ago • 320 comments

Incredible discovery while riding an NYC ferry just now: there is a trash barge called BARGEY MCBARGEFACE (see name in paint on the side)

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Good overview on the FBI check thing. Not that they're tougher or weaker, or not essentially that. But in the old days the NOMINATOR wanted to know if there were problems. If it's the reverse, that changes things pretty dramatically. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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READ THIS. THEN READ IT AGAIN.

submitted 127 days ago • 1690 comments

Firefighting crews from Mexico, Canada, South Africa’s, the Navajo Nation, etc all rushing to LA to help…remember this against the backdrop of hate and division being spread by Trump, Musk and their lackeys

submitted 128 days ago • 11 comments

STOP CALLING IT “DOGE.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 128 days ago • 72 comments

Predictably ghoulish. “The MAGA cohort reportedly rounded up homeless people from the area—including one person from under a bridge—promising them a meal at the Hotel Hans Egede in exchange for their participation in the pro-Trump photo circuit.” newrepublic.com/post/190070/...

submitted 130 days ago • 5 comments

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

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Relatives Gather From Across The Country To Stare Into Screens Together theonion.com/relatives-ga...

submitted 147 days ago • 101 comments

🤣😂.... c'mon! Cheers 💙

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😂😂😂

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It is disheartening that a complete hoax study by a British fraudster from 1998, fully retracted by the outlet that published it 15 years ago, actually influenced a presidential election in 2024. The staying power of this hoax isn’t just potentially hazardous to public health, by influencing…

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments

The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

1. I obtained the new middle school sex education curriculum that was just approved by the Florida Department of Education. It excludes almost all information about sex. Follow this thread for details.

submitted 161 days ago • 375 comments

DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at

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What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...

submitted 166 days ago • 49 comments

current mood eight thousand fucks might not be enough

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