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A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump

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Donald Trump replacing a black four-star general with a white three-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is everything MAGA claims they hate about DEI: giving a less qualified person the job based on their race, not their resume.

submitted 8 hours ago • 146 comments

Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

submitted 15 hours ago • 305 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 15 hours ago • 363 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 9 hours ago • 719 comments

More & more headlines like this emerging here in Germany. “Without America?” The tie between the USA & Europe is loosening & it could scarcely be nicer for Putin. What does it mean for Germany & its neighbours?”

submitted 19 hours ago • 87 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

So, out of the eight military Joint Chiefs, six were White men, the other two, a woman and a Black man. You know which two were fired, right? www.militarytimes.com/pentagon/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

'Many factual errors': School district hits back at Fox News report on DOGE allegations: Officials at a school district in Utah say they were stunned to find themselves at the center of a Fox News report accusing the district of fraudulently spending $86,000 in COVID-19 relief money on hotel rooms…

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 1 day ago • 546 comments

Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

submitted 1 day ago • 1212 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 1714 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1158 comments

If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

submitted 1 day ago • 568 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 2 days ago • 1068 comments

Trump is shutting down at midnight tonight the federal website for ordering free COVID tests (four per order). I just ordered four—can’t be easier. Last call. covidtests.gov Please share 👍🏾

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: Minnesota was just ranked a top state both to retire and to raise a family. By investing in the things that matter – economic opportunity, health and safety, and strong communities – we’re building the best state for all Minnesotans from childhood through retirement.

submitted 2 days ago • 814 comments

HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Donald Trump is a Russian asset; it no longer matters if it’s witting or unwitting. He routinely spreads disinformation that originates in the Kremlin and the FSB, and does it to hurt America and our friends. If you support Trump, you have—morally speaking—betrayed your country.

submitted 3 days ago • 243 comments

I hate to ask this but i have to, are we now the bad guys? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/are-we-now...

submitted 3 days ago • 5046 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4563 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 3307 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1212 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 3 days ago • 2366 comments

One Internal Revenue Service employee said the administration’s reported plan to lay off probationary employees could lead to a yearslong mess for processing tax returns. “It’s skilled, technical work and it takes months and months, even years to become proficient,” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 5 days ago • 359 comments

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Well, isn’t this just a bunch of lies? The White House moved to clarify Musk’s role within the DOGE after a court filing this morning stated that the tech billionaire is neither an employee nor an administrator of the commission and has “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions.”

submitted 4 days ago • 379 comments

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

submitted 4 days ago • 168 comments

Steve Bannon unloads on Elon Musk: "Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant. He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values, or traditions.” Let them fight.

submitted 4 days ago • 323 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 5 days ago • 2337 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 5 days ago • 605 comments

The Trump administration right-wing social engineers are not allowing VA professionals to even acknowledge that the victims of sexual assault are more often women, and if an attendee asks about gay or lesbian people, workers are to pretend that's not a real thing.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

For 16 years, U.S. aviation had a perfect record—ZERO major commercial plane crashes. Then Trump returned and in just 29 days the USA has had seven crashes, 15 aviation disasters, and 85 dead, on pace for this over 1,000 dead this year via plane crash.

submitted 4 days ago • 231 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.

submitted 5 days ago • 654 comments

Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The most glaring conflict of interest of all is that Elon is a government contractor himself, who collects billions of dollars from the US government... And like all authoritarian and fascist movements around the world in history, corruption is at the heart of it."

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

Actual headlines in the past week.

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

How do we even know that Elon's DOGE hackers aren't using their computer skills to peel money off of everyone's Social Security accounts? WE DON'T KNOW. There is no transparency. All we know is Elon's goal was to find 2 trillion dollars without touching Social Security, and that's impossible.

submitted 4 days ago • 386 comments

☑️ Sunday: Drove around the track at Daytona. ☑️ Monday: Went Golfing ☑️ Tuesday: Golfing Again

submitted 4 days ago • 864 comments

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

submitted 4 days ago • 990 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 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

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 627 comments

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

submitted 4 days ago • 1141 comments