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This hits hard.

submitted 14 hours ago • 390 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 979 comments

A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 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

Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Updated: The DOGE Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/20/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

The Great Lakes states have, for years, been fighting an invasion of lamprey eels, which were devastating the fish stocks in the lakes. Trump fired the people who've almost succeeded in doing that. www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

At the very least keep harping on the fact that Trump fired the people who were finding fraud in his COVID programs, to the tune of $100s of Billions. And DOGE's receipts page is near-fraudulent itself.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

It’ll be interesting to see if DOJ will be in as much of a hurry to take this case up to #SCOTUS as it was the Dellinger case. My own bet is “probably not,” especially given the loss here was before a pretty friendly panel—and Judge Forrest’s (IMHO, unanswerable) points about “irreparable” harm.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is @murray.senate.gov's effort to track what Trump has cut. I'd love to crowdsource a way to make this a point of exchange, to collect info from contractors who've gotten cut off, and match it to what she's learning as Appropriations Ranking. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

These are the excuses Pete Marocco is using to cut virtually all foreign aid. We don't DO democracy anymore, peeps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

The Regime keeps yammering about alleged conflicts of interest in science. Yet RFK Jr. not only has a financial conflict related to vaccines, but perhaps more powerfully, he has a self-image conflict. He. will. not. accept. any. result. that. does. not. prove. him. right.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

… “only the President or the Attorney General can speak for the United States when stating an opinion as to what the law is.” That is a LIE.

submitted 4 days ago • 276 comments

Read this. It'll inspire you.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

This is reportedly grant Emil Bove ordered DC USAO to seize funds on. The story explains why there's no legal reason to do that. Even more, he claims the problem is insufficient oversight and transparency. Meanwhile, OPM's entire FOIA department got shut down and DOGE won't tell us who runs DOGE.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

A Missouri Representative has filed a bill to track pregnancies in the state. HB 807 will: "Maintain a central registry of each expectant mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion of her unborn child and make the same available to a prospective adoptive parent who has completed screenings."

submitted 4 days ago • 1094 comments

NEW VIDEO: A new blockbuster lawsuit by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro may be part of the key to unlock trillions of dollars of funds being unlawfully held by the Trump administration. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa6t...

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

MAGA would hate it if you RP this podcast. Just sayin' This is America Episode 5: Napoleon Dynamite open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Senator @johnfetterman.com , please explain your vote to confirm Pam Bondi as US Attorney General. Last year, you warned us about the dangers of Project 2025—but you just enabled it!

submitted 9 days ago • 449 comments

I am so sick of hearing any Democrat saying they are willing to be “bipartisan” or “reach across the aisle.” Just stop that stupidity. If these fascists want to work with you let them come. Stop acting weak.

submitted 5 days ago • 402 comments

One particularly sadistic aspect of Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s rampage through our government is that they’re cutting programs that are popular. This is not a misstep, rather it's exactly the point. newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

I thought for certain I'd see more outrage with the Manhattan DA for letting Bannon off the hook. Or with the Fulton County DA for empaneling a special grand jury when one wasn't necessary. Or the AZ AG for telling the grand jury NOT to indict Trump. But there's only outrage at Biden's DoJ. 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ DSW "We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day." The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

submitted 5 days ago • 253 comments

I’m begging Democrats to stop talking about tax breaks for billionaires and the price of eggs! They are firing Air Traffic Controllers, stranding Americans in hostile countries, and getting ready to download our data from the IRS. No one is sitting around thinking “I’m worried about the deficit!”

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submitted 5 days ago • 2074 comments

Via @capitolhunters.bsky.social, here's the Social Security IG report that explains the discrepancy Musk has been claiming to have found (which Karoline Leavitt parroted). It clarifies these people are not being paid. oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploa...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

From earlier, on the problems DOGE2025 is having turning back on things they dangerously turn off. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/d...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Transportation Department workers with 'exceptional' reviews were told they were fired for 'performance' issues: "These letters that we're sending these employees, I feel so bad because they’re lying." "All of them, pretty much, were exceptional performers." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

We need more of these op-eds in purple and red state local newspapers. Right wing MoC are getting their understanding of cuts from Xitter and Fox. They don't realize how many programs they favor are being cut, some irreparably.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Truth Social lost OVER $400 MILLION last year in $3.6 million in revenue www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

submitted 6 days ago • 496 comments

Literally for the next two (four) years every Democrat can begin their sentences with, “The richest man in the world decided…” The question is, will they? 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

UPDATE: We’re t-minus 30 minutes to midnight and the DOGE team has yet to bring the receipts.

submitted 6 days ago • 184 comments

Meanwhile, US is quietly providing Ru with cash

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Ohio officials were caught VIOLATING Ohio law to deprive Ohioans of benefits to which they were legally entitled. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, denied thousands of dollars. Each. Here’s the story: open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It would seem prudent--perhaps even a brilliant business move--for billionaires like @mcuban.bsky.social and Bill Gates to set up an institute for preserving scientific expertise and then hire up all the talent being released now. Maybe locate it in Switzerland.

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

We need to make #CourageIsContagious a trending hashtag and amplify these acts of integrity, bravery, and fidelity to the rule of law. Thank you, SDNY attorneys, for leading by example

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

This is why the Thursday afternoon massacre will not have any lasting impact unless it breaks out of the real news vacuum. It literally does not exist for right wingers.

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

NEW: Good trouble: Trump's VA secretary takes aim at Pride flags in VA facilities. Let's make sure they remove all MAGA flags as well. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/good-troub...

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments