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Several politicians just bought shares of Palantir, a data analytics firms with ties to Trump and Musk that specializes in defense and surveillance. The company is poised to benefit from outsourcing and privatizing the federal government. From @sludge.bsky.social: readsludge.com/2025/03/18/l....

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I think it’s fair to assert that no Congress before the Trump era would have failed to investigate such cartoonish corruption.

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 13 hours ago • 450 comments

who cares? only old people use phones anymore

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump has shown a clear pattern of freeing white criminals while imprisoning or deporting non-white people who have not been charged with crimes. We'd call this racist, but that would upset right-wing birthers who don't read our paper, so we'll call this "an unusual pattern."

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

the answer to "why is Trump's approval still so high, even if it's going down" is pretty simple, imo his biggest political appeal to his base has always been lib-owning, and right now the libs are the most owned they've been since he entered politics with everyone else, he's dropping, and fast

submitted 16 hours ago • 103 comments

Two days after Lee Zeldin announced he was gutting the EPA.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1853 comments

Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices. Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work. They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

submitted 16 hours ago • 152 comments

Oh!! Pick me! I know!! I know!! Pick me!!

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

We are heartbroken that the U.S. embassies hosting air quality monitors have been ordered by the U.S. State Department to stop sharing the data they collect. See our blog on this myopic move. link.openaq.org/embassy-data...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

See, this is the sort of thing that leads me to the conclusion that Trump and company are intending to lock their control in for decades. Nobody does this if they think it will someday be turned around on them. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 22 hours ago • 43 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

submitted 19 days ago • 132 comments

Does Donald Trump have to follow judges' rulings. This Federalist Society judge doesn't think so.

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

Soon enough it's going to be ignoring the judges orders to stop purging voter rolls. The ignoring orders to open polling places. Then ignoring orders to count and recount votes.

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Opinion | Europe is a failed civilization. Here’s why we are begging Finland for eggs. by JD Vance

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Opinion | It's time to deport all the convicted felons who have led violent protests against the United States. by Donald Trump

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

We are live! RestoredCDC is a group of public health professionals, Web developers, and coders working to create a replica of CDC's January 20, 2025 Web site, before important public health data and information started to be removed from the site. www.restoredcdc.org

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Not to be biased, but I’d say I’m one of the best volcanoes

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submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is why the people who want raw milk are dumb ass rich people who have never been in the same zip code as a farm.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

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Methane (CH₄) is a potent greenhouse gas. Here are the latest monthly observations... 🧪⚒️ November 2024 - 1940.75 ppb November 2023 - 1931.75 ppb + Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_... + More info on trends: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Voice of America is silent. I remember in the Cold War when the Soviet Union wanted nothing more than to silence the Voice of America. Today's the day it happened.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

They lost their savings investing in Trump’s meme coin, and their Medicaid benefits will be slashed in Trump’s new budget. Now they’re in a financial hole, and there’s only one person they trust to get them out: Donald Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

all of this has to be understood in context of collective unwillingness to say emperor is mad

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

I can't bring myself to make flippant remarks about getting what you voted for and dismantling of NOAA. Tornados are terrifying. Hurricanes that spin up from a Cat 1 to a 5 in 2 hours are nightmares. We need to be able to accurately predict these. We need to talk about why they're getting worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.

submitted 2 days ago • 414 comments

Had strong sense at least the timing of Trump's illegal shuttering of Voice of America was triggered by his annoyance at a question from a VOA journo. Source flags to me that the EO was so hastily put together they literally forgot to complete the last sentence. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

Democrats just got absolutely and completely rolled. Never once in my time in congress did we ever give up like this

submitted 3 days ago • 967 comments

The UN charter was drafted in 1945, by people who learned from the mistakes that were made in the 1920s –1930s, that inadvertently led to a global depression. Article one of the UN charter states that threats of annexation are ILLEGAL. Also, unilateral tariffs are in breach of the trade agreement.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

That was one costly salute. 🇩🇪 @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 359 comments

Los Angeles pre-EPA and Los Angeles post-EPA.

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Trump can call me names but the truth remains. He is an unhinged wanna be dictator who is angry that I beat him in court and won't cower in fear. Now he is weaponizing the federal government against his political opponents. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 3 days ago • 1460 comments

Elon Musk Creates Federal Employee Revenge Porn Database theonion.com/elon-mu...

submitted 7 days ago • 105 comments

It’s awesome that Senate Democrats are voting to pass Trump’s budget while he’s at the DOJ calling them a bunch of criminals and saying newspapers and MSNBC should be illegal. That’s great, good job guys.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

AHHHHHHHH what are we doinggggggggggggg

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

AOC: "There is a deep sense of outrage … There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts … walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people … To see some Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk, I think it is a huge slap in the face."

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 5 days ago • 466 comments

BREAKING: Judge in mass firing case orders the Trump administration to reinstate probationary federal workers across multiple agencies.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

The girl was 12 years old. He's one of Trump's biggest promoters and legitimizers. He's prayed over Trump in the White House. Trump's been to his church. Greg Abbott tapped him on the anti-trans bathroom bills. Now he faces 100+ years in prison. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/megachurch...

submitted 5 days ago • 200 comments

Musk is unilaterally wrecking the government from within and lining his own pockets. Get him out, terminate his access to all government systems. If you can't rally the public against a cartoonishly corrupt bond villain who's stealing from them in plain sight then get out of politics

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

So I’m assuming the name of Gavin Newsom’s podcast is “I Don’t Want To Be President”

submitted 5 days ago • 660 comments