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Over 150 people in #PA11 were so fed up with their GOP Rep. Lloyd Smucker’s lack of a town hall that they held one instead. Smucker won his district with 63% of the vote in November and now his constituents are holding mock town halls. Something is happening. lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

While the United States spent less than $100 billion in military, economic, and humanitarian support for Ukraine over 3 years, US arms sales across the globe have skyrocketed directly as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an increase of $300 billion just in 2023/2024.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1169 comments

It's very important to understand that Musk's script kiddies are _not_ tech geniuses or even tech-competent. They're there because they were the only ones in Musk's orbit willing to commit major federal crimes on his behalf. The actual tech being deployed is ... shudderingly amateurish and unsafe.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

There are employees who work a 4x10 schedule with regular days off (RDO) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and others with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday who will not get this email or have the opportunity to respond during working hours. There are others who do not access .gov email b/c they don't use computers.

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

So is it just my weird ND pattern-matching that looks at Trump firing all of the Judge Advocate Generals (who determine whether or not orders are legal), remembers Trump asking why they can't just shoot protesters (recounted by Esper in 2022), and jumps immediately to the Kent State Massacre?

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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments

The Republican Party is betraying the country. It's outright treason. They're watching and cheering as a mad king dismantles American power in ways that we will never, ever return from. They are traitors.

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I assume it’s gonna be Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and that pillow guy with the concerning twitch

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 476 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1549 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1179 comments

Seems pretty obvious to me that Trump wants to install sycophantic yes-men into those top ranks so that any military command he gives will go through unquestioned. The next question should be: where is the enemy Trump wants to attack? Greenland? Panama? Canada? California?

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In a shocking display of incompetence, tRump fired General CQ Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. This reckless decision is a blatant attack on military integrity, leaving a power vacuum that could jeopardize national security. www.axios.com/2025/02/22/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

“Destruction for the ill-conceived notion of cutting costs didn’t put an American on the moon, and it didn’t wipe smallpox from the face of the Earth" - Sudip Parikh, CEO of AAAS, on Science Friday today www.sciencefriday.com/segments/aaa... #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1494 comments

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 6 days ago • 609 comments

President Musk reposted an image of "migrants storming a Birmingham hospital." it turns out the image was FROM A BATMAN MOVIE! 🤪

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 2 days ago • 1126 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

every single Republican should be asked on camera “do you agree with your boss that he is a king?”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Looking forward to speaking with you all tomorrow! If you'd like to be added to our call list for an opportunity to ask a question live, please pre-register here - tinyurl.com/sethmoultont... - or you may submit a question during the Town Hall at moulton.house.gov/live Thank you!

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Republicans’ budget proposal is a betrayal of American families - slashing Medicaid, Medicare, & Social Security to finance $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires. Budgets reflect values – and theirs puts working people last. Read more here: tonko.house.gov/news/email/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Can you imagine FDR saying to Churchill? This is exactly what tRump’s doing… Thanks, @reallyamerican.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war

submitted 4 days ago • 783 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

Los Angeles is bracing for a colossal ICE raid, but immigrants are ready to push back. They’re organizing to encircle the agents, demonstrating their strength and unity against this oppressive force. en.as.com/latest_news/...

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

this is the kind of thing that makes you really wish for a well-timed lightning strike, because this guy does not have the personality to hold the cult of personality together if he were to abruptly ascend to the big chair

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1053 comments

❗️Putin is a war criminal. Russia attacked Ukraine. Ukraine did not provoke Russia. Ukraine is defending herself from genocide and destruction by Russia.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

The two men cutting flight safety never fly commercial.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

submitted 4 days ago • 630 comments

This is only the beginning. Follow us and join the movement! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #NoKingsDay @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

All of this — per @ioponomarenko.bsky.social:

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

Of course they do. Because authoritarian, cultish hypocrisy knows no bounds.

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I'll admit, when I bought a cutter mattock I was not expecting to be using it to chisel loose ice on my front walk. Bonus to living in New England, yay? 😅

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