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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 1 day ago • 493 comments

The last WI Supreme Court election saw the end of gerrymandering and hope for reproductive rights. All that could be reversed. This will be the first big race since the Presidential election. A progressive win will show the broligarchy is not inevitable.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Biden called him a dictator. Obama said he was a regional power and a quote jackass. That Mike Waltz can't call Putin a Dictator? If a Democrat was soft on Russia, we would be all over them. It's just an amazing data point in their transitioning. Disgraceful.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 3 days ago • 5079 comments

Be clear about what’s happening: Trump and his administration, and thus America, is siding with Putin and Russia against a United States ally.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Donald Trump just slapped a major tax on every person and business in America. Families will pay hundreds more at the grocery store and the gas pump. Everything from cars to kitchen appliances will skyrocket in price. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 21 days ago • 57 comments

“Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

submitted 25 days ago • 190 comments

"Malicious compliance" isn't the problem. Malicious orders are. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

NEW: In an interview with The Bulwark, @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social says Dems should be prepared to leverage the debt ceiling in order to undo Trump's federal spending freeze. www.thebulwark.com/p/rep-brenda...

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

This isn’t what the email offers in any case. It’s not severance. You have to stay on staff until your resignation date in 7 months—if you leave earlier you don’t get the pay—and there’s no guarantee even in the text that they’ll put you on paid leave during that time.

submitted 25 days ago • 47 comments

Leopards, faces, etc. etc.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Just got off the phone with a medical provider who accepts Medicaid. Because they are shut out from the Medicaid portal, they might not be able to make payroll. They exclusively serve low-income Floridians.

submitted 26 days ago • 672 comments

Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”

submitted 25 days ago • 293 comments

Karoline Leavitt’s first White House press briefing reaffirmed a truism about the Trump White House: His aides perform for an "audience of one." My latest: www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/m...

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Wait till all the Trumpers call for their social security/medicaid/farm subsidy/veterans benefit checks and there’s no one there to answer the phone. Forget the price of eggs; these morons are tap-dancing barefoot on the third rail of American politics ….

submitted 25 days ago • 263 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 26 days ago • 3342 comments

Dear Congress, There's this thing I think you need to refresh your memory of. Don't worry, it's short, so it won't take you much time, but I advise that you read it enough times that it's really internalized. It's Article I of the Constitution.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

Trump sows chaos in federal workforce then says “resign within a week and I’ll give you 7 months severance.” Don’t fall for it! Trump told innumerable contractors he’d pay—then stiffed them. He has no authority to promise severance pay. Wait him out! apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 25 days ago • 305 comments

Bullshit. The public backlash is just too much to handle. Some might be asking if they are either liars or incompetent. They are both.

submitted 25 days ago • 400 comments

I appear on @CNN often. And if saying this means my days at CNN are over, then fuck it. CNN, removing @Acosta.bsky.social from his am show is cowardly bullshit. Acosta is an independent, unafraid host. To demote him to appease the crybaby in the White House is pathetic. Shame on u CNN. Don’t do it.

submitted 30 days ago • 1670 comments

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

submitted 31 days ago • 742 comments

Ok, MAGA, here’s what you voted for: No more FEDERAL disaster relief. Every state is on its own. CA takes care of only CA, and AL takes care of only AL. And folks in CA no longer pay taxes to help folks in AL, and vice versa. Every state is on its own. Cool? www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 30 days ago • 61 comments

Gee, I can't believe all the things voters were told would happen are happening.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Over on the blue bird app, they are so embarrassed that Trump cancelled the inauguration and screwed them out of money, that they are making up reasons like assasination attempts etc. It’s going to be a big letdown for them these four years when they realize how weak Trump really is

submitted 35 days ago • 794 comments

It’s really been something to watch MAGA first fall in love with Putin and now the CCP. Nice work guys. Bang up job.

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

Honest. Decent. Principled. A Lifetime of Selfless Service. #ThankYouJimmyCarter 🙏

submitted 55 days ago • 1135 comments

Twitter isn’t the voice of the people and Musk’s suggestion it is is little different than Trump’s false claims of a historic mandate. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 65 days ago • 24 comments

Sound about right.

submitted 65 days ago • 749 comments

It's unsurprising that there is reporting about Trump changing his tune on Project 2025 & supporting parts of it. Last August when he said he'd never read it, I did a little research & wrote about the connectivity. joycevance.substack.com/p/more-lies-...

submitted 70 days ago • 118 comments

I'm trying to put my finger on what's happening with this great capitulation to Trump -- ABC News, Chris Wray, the Democrats signing up to work with DOGE, Mark Benioff, etc. It's like you can feel the air going out of an entire social order.

submitted 70 days ago • 412 comments

From the timing (a judge had ordered Trump to sit for deposition next week), it seems ABC News didn't even bother to depose Trump, much less file for summary judgment, and instead paid a $15m bribe to a slush fund Presidential "foundation" not yet established. It's obscene.

submitted 70 days ago • 109 comments