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This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 22 hours ago • 39 comments

Leland Dudek, a mid-level employee at the Social Security Admin, shared on LinkedIn that he was put on leave for aiding Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative. Days later, tRump swoops in, and suddenly Leland’s the acting commissioner. Nothing like the stench of tRump’s corruption. www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

This is Musk's work and he should be explaining it to all of us. Or better yet, just shutting everything down and getting out of DC. What a wonderful silence that would bring.

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

Remember, Russell Vought said he wanted to "traumatize" federal civil servants.

submitted 1 hour ago • 55 comments

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 3 hours ago • 305 comments

Not a charge anyone should deploy lightly, but what the ADL is doing right now is kapo shit

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

I googled. He's real. In certain special cases, I feel a new pope should forgo taking a new papal name and stick with his own, most excellent, one.

submitted 2 hours ago • 29 comments

Seems to me that this is exactly correct – and exactly consistent with MLK’s 1967 comments re “unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1184 comments

David's right: Dump your damn tesla "We can boycott the companies of Musk & his fellow anti-democratic, anti-free speech, anti-US, anti-Western, billionaires. We can stop...stop right now...supporting them. We can encourage everyone we know to do the same." Read @djrothkopf.bsky.social ⤵️

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 138 comments

@djrothkopf.bsky.social - completely agree with your article about consumers and users using what voice we have left (as diminished as it is after Citizen’s United) to disempower Trump and the broligarchs. Stop buying and using Musk/Trump (&Bezos/Zuck) products asap! 👇🏻

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

What @djrothkopf.bsky.social said. ⬇️

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Joni Ernst cast one of two pivotal votes to let this happen.

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I have heard it said that when speaking of bird flu one should refer to it not as bird flu but as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza as the HP in HPAI makes the danger clearer, and while on that topic it is worth remembering that the S in SARS-CoV-2 stands for “Severe.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A source recently pointed out to me that for people who have a double-digit number of billions of dollars, economic crashes are great. Limited impact on their life, and they buy up assets at a discount.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

🚨 JOB ALERT: Research Director, Center for Science & Democracy at @ucsusa.bsky.social. The work of this role in this moment where science is under attack is so important right now!

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

Keep defending your public services!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

submitted 1 day ago • 1712 comments

John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:

submitted 1 day ago • 1102 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

Citigroup caves. Pepsi too.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Constitution is not an abstraction: it was written to protect the freedoms of real, everyday people. Our liberties, our security, the dignity we afford our fellow Americans are what make the Constitution. WE are our Constitution. An assault on the Constitution is an assault on who we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hmmm the new FBI chief wrote a whole book about 'government gangsters'. Sure he'll look into this right away

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1543 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 1526 comments

Kash Patel has made it clear: he wants to gut the FBI’s ability to stop domestic terrorism and weaken gun safety laws. Now, thanks to the Senate’s reckless confirmation, our country is less safe. We cannot stand by—we must fight for every safeguard Patel tries to dismantle.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"Presidents only get so much political capital. Trump has decided to invest his finite capital into supporting Putin's authoritarian regime in Moscow..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 499 comments

I know it was hard to tell at the time and hindsight is 20 20 but one early sign that maybe these Dems shouldn’t have voted to confirm someone who Trump 2.0 picked for a cabinet level post is that Trump had picked them for a cabinet level post www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

They’re all getting in. All the moles and monsters. We can’t depend on Congress to save us. We can’t rely on “normal Republicans” to defend us—they no longer exist. It is, and always has been, down to us to resist and persist in any way we can.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

COOL JOB ALERT: We're looking for a senior leader to take on Indivisible's media operations, particularly with experience in the non-mainstream media space (influencers, podcasts, etc). Only downside is you have to work with me. Please apply or tell people to apply! jobs.lever.co/indivisible/...

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments