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I'd like to invite you to imagine how much revenue each of the individuals cut in this latest purge would have brought in for the US this year alone, and then tell me again how this is about "efficiency"

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This isn't funny. It's children playing with a loaded gun.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 7 days ago • 148 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

News is overwhelming. People offline don't understand what's happening. Their rights are being pulled out from under them. Print out these flyers and take it to the streets. Featuring a QR cosd that links to explainer and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/t...

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

People like to compare deficit spending to “eating your seed corn” but that phrase applies much better to cutting investments that will have long term returns

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 12 days ago • 1141 comments

“Who the guys with guns listen to is always the last line in state politics.” www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

"It's scary that the government has your social security number" is how dumb Musk thinks we are.

submitted 14 days ago • 194 comments

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 18 days ago • 134 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 19 days ago • 212 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 21 days ago • 730 comments

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.

submitted 21 days ago • 3503 comments

all this website scrubbing from an administration that claims [without evidence] commitment to freedom of speech, as if access to information isn't a thing. it's censorship at scale.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 23 days ago • 476 comments

Pretty simple to say that Musk purchased the Presidency and is acting accordingly. It happens to also have the benefit of being true.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 24 days ago • 2306 comments

“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...

submitted 24 days ago • 113 comments

“an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent” is a weird way of saying “illegal” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 41 comments

Read, share, act.

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

It’s almost like “we want to roll back the entire civil rights era” is a profoundly extremist message that swiftly provokes backlash

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

submitted 26 days ago • 111 comments

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

submitted 26 days ago • 178 comments

I suppose my question is: if you set fire to one end of the rube goldberg machine that is the government, how long does it take for the average person to notice that the other end of the machine is no longer producing widgets?

submitted 26 days ago • 68 comments

The US President is currently blocking our infectious disease early warning system by cutting off communication between the CDC and the WHO—communication that is essential to the health and wellbeing of the country he purports to govern. He is putting every American at risk.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

Department of Education slowly culling their website of resources for families with disabled kids...

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

The Department of Labor is ending all investigations and enforcement related to discrimination in the workplace. This doesn’t promote merit-based work. It promotes and protects bigotry.

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 109 comments

This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.

submitted 30 days ago • 235 comments

Conspiracy theories about Covid, Fauci, vaccines, and the like have enabled the destruction of scientific research in the United States. Presidents used to pride themselves on expanding scientific research and funding; Trump is attempting to set it back decades in his first week in office.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

This is completely insane.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going. It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

submitted 32 days ago • 22 comments

Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.

submitted 32 days ago • 39 comments

A set of contradictory steps that has one thing in common: direct handouts to fossil interests, at the cost of almost everything else — people, planet, logic www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/c...

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

It’s worked really really well!

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Hard to explain how unwelcome is this little note that pops up now when I open a blank Word document.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Nothing screams "we believe in limited government" like giving schools the authority to question your child's genitalia.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

submitted 41 days ago • 117 comments