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I think about this headline all of the time.

submitted 1 hour ago • 80 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 5 days ago • 1088 comments

wait til i tell you that that was me paraphrasing because his actual wording was way funnier

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

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 5 days ago • 491 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 5 days ago • 957 comments

Random event from last year that I think now may be a metaphor

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Dawg, we have a fifth-place government now.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

To the extent that Musk has a super-power it is that he is an obscenely rich person who is willing to confidently say (and get many people to accept) completely untrue things that (coincidentally) always serve his own interests. He's an ignorant person's idea of what an informed person sounds like.

submitted 8 days ago • 70 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 8 days ago • 538 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 10 days ago • 117 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 9 days ago • 8255 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Guys real quick remind me did anything notable happen to the markets in 2008 or 2020

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

Homan on CNN suggests AOC is committing a crime by informing people about their constitutional rights

submitted 11 days ago • 543 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

"Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired" Emerging 4th world country in North America! www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 226 comments

Although early reporting suggested the SEC would likely look to “potentially freeze some litigation that does not involve allegations of fraud”, the first case the SEC has proposed freezing is SEC v. Binance: a case alleging serious fraud and knowing violation of US securities laws.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 16 days ago • 490 comments

Free speech baby

submitted 17 days ago • 427 comments

Visit me in the camps

submitted 18 days ago • 1682 comments

There are some infosec folks who are playing semantics or splitting hairs or saying ‘let’s wait and see’ in defense of what the DOGE workers are doing. If they witnessed such sloppy cybersecurity in any corporate environment, they would be screaming bloody murder. Why the double standard? Why?

submitted 18 days ago • 119 comments

"When scientists develop arguments, they don’t say, 'Because I said so.' They say, 'The evidence shows ... ' Authoritarians don’t do that. They come up with lots of different strategies to prevent you from asking questions. They don’t give responses that answer them."

submitted 20 days ago • 209 comments

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

submitted 22 days ago • 51 comments

I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 22 days ago • 145 comments

i’m beginning to think putting the billionaires in charge of the news media was the wrong idea

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Just posting before it gets deleted

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

submitted 24 days ago • 459 comments

MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts. Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.

submitted 24 days ago • 84 comments

Elon Musk, who has taken control of the US Treasury and is bragging about unilaterally cutting off payments to disfavored populations worldwide in defiance of Congress and the American people, is nowhere to be found on the homepage of the New York Times. @nytimes.com, this is pathetic.

submitted 25 days ago • 99 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 27 days ago • 510 comments

Nauseating to read this stuff after a campaign where elite outlets worked overtime to sanewash Trump as a rational choice for voters who were mildly inconvenienced by egg prices

submitted 27 days ago • 123 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 30 days ago • 3338 comments

Still thinking about that dude that tweeted "do not commit the sin of empathy" without a hint of irony or self awareness. Like, that is the most ludicrously over the top hacky supervillain shit ever.

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.

submitted 40 days ago • 55 comments

This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

submitted 40 days ago • 22 comments

Criswell: Firefighter for 12 years, Desert Storm veteran, head of NYC emergency management, confirmed to lead FEMA unanimously Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.

submitted 45 days ago • 92 comments

Get used to this playbook again, America 1) Trump says something outrageous/stupid/dangerous 2) Dems say, "Geez that thing Trump said was outrageous/stupid/dangerous" 3) Fox News hits Dems for "melting down" while minimizing the outrageous/stupid/dangerous thing Trump said

submitted 49 days ago • 586 comments