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Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

The thing about Elon Musk's Mars aspirations is that he's never even landed anything on Mars. Musk claims that SpaceX's Mars missions will start in two years. Does Musk look like someone focused on getting to Mars? The dude is a huckster.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

Idiocracy was a documentary

submitted 1 day ago • 606 comments

NEW from @crew.bsky.social: President Trump is poised to interfere in DC's local governance, making it clear why statehood for DC isn't just an issue of fairness. It's the clearest way to protect the 700,000 people of DC from federal overreach. www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysi...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Should have asked more questions about what Trump meant by “taking care of our vets” bsky.app/profile/josh...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1908 comments

Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1520 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1064 comments

"There is overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal, NATO is critical to European and global security, and the United States has led the common defense." They all knew Trump was running against that.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 634 comments

Have the @DOGE folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

1 thing is clear after VP Vance’s outrageous speech this weekend, our allies & others are finally calling a thing, a thing. Putting ur head in the sand & acting like the GOP have not become full-blown fascists is a fools errand. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 5 days ago • 217 comments

We remember Alexey Navalny on the one year anniversary of his “death“. This patriot has given us a peak into America’s possible future if we don’t take things into our own hands- Before it’s too late. #LetFreedomRing 🇺🇸

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Unacceptable!!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

As you know,I'm a senior,80. I live in a HUD facility for seniors & seniors w disabilities who live below the poverty level. There are 75 apts in this blding. Every one of them is filled w ppl who are scared to death they're going to lose their housing & their Soc Sec. It didn't hav to be this way.🇺🇸

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: “At the Munich Security Conference this week, instead of talking about the war in Ukraine, Vance decided to admonish our European allies for not opening their arms to far-right movements… Putin could not have scripted that speech, or this entire week, any better if he tried.”

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

We shouldn’t have patience for Dems who refuse to hold the line. We’re the opposition party—everything should be about obstruction unless it benefits us. No more tolerance for those who won’t get on board. We tried that, it got us nowhere. “Don’t upset Joe Manchin, we need his vote. Same w/Sinema.”

submitted 6 days ago • 663 comments

Trump’s defiance of court orders and assault on constitutional checks mark a perilous slide into authoritarianism. When a president mocks judicial authority and flouts the law, democracy is not on trial; it has already collapsed into dictatorship.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities” electionlawblog.org?p=148644

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities. 14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers. More info here:

submitted 7 days ago • 217 comments

I find it bizarre that we managed to go through 44 Presidents in over 200 years without hearing the term "quid pro quo" related to them, and now we've had it at least twice with the same crooked fucking asshole. So tired of this shit.

submitted 8 days ago • 278 comments

It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

From Bondi to Bove to Blanche to Sauer, this DOJ is literally (not figuratively) just Trump’s law firm—all top positions are held by his personal lawyers, and he’s asserted the “right” to corruptly plot cases with them—and not a whit more Any American who accepts this will understand what’s coming

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

Thank goodness for pro-democracy groups that aren’t just standing by during this hostile takeover of America.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 11 days ago • 390 comments

We’re done here. Right?

submitted 11 days ago • 3518 comments

WATCH: Senator Chris Van Hollen reveals DOGE: 1 - They IMMEDIATELY fired all Inspector Generals at each Government Agency. They protect against fraud, waste & abuse. 2. Fire merit based employees and bring in political CRONIES. 3. Takeover ALL agencies to work for the RICH! WE MUST ALL SPEAK UP!

submitted 12 days ago • 183 comments

It's important to remember that any principled effort to remove fraud from America's public life would start with an all-out push to prosecute and imprison Elon Musk. There is no bigger fraudster alive today.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

submitted 13 days ago • 356 comments

Amidst the mass of accusations of corruption and crime from Trump and Musk they have not presented one single piece of evidence. These characters are inveterate liars. Treat them as such! Never believe any of the nonsense Trump and Musk spread!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Don't make us tap the sign. 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

If your chosen role in defending against oligarchy and genocide is to sit online and tell people that their protests will never work and that they are fools for trying to resist, you are carrying water for tyrants and will be treated accordingly. Muted and blocked. #3E

submitted 14 days ago • 132 comments

Based on what we’re hearing about the process, it sounds like any hacker or spy who wants access to a federal facility just needs to toss a cheap ill-fitting suit on a nearby teenager and have them show up claiming to be the new DoGE auditors.

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments