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Spending isn't a “conspiracy” just because Musk doesn’t know how to read usaspending.gov. A program isn't waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It isn't fraud just because he doesn’t like it. A law is not illegal just because he disagrees with it.

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

💥💥💥WATCH THIS! “Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and health care for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs …” — @jbpritzker.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

This may be overthinking it but I think these are two sides of the same coin. They know their budget math is insane and DOGE is an attempt to create fake cover for it. They’re gonna say “DOGE saved 2 trillion dollars now the budget math works!”

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Interesting read - 'Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality' www.thetimes.com/article/b3bb...

submitted 3 days ago • 598 comments

This is amazing.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Under President Biden’s leadership, inflation was decreasing. Under Trump's economic malpractice, it's increasing. This isn't rocket science.

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

submitted 4 days ago • 864 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1217 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 5 days ago • 1092 comments

True words.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

Oh my fucking God.

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People are so stupid right now. www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/...

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Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.

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BREAKING - Elon Musk slated to win $400 MILLION govt contract to make "armored Tesla" -- after $38 MILLION SpaceX contract yesterday Musk's plan: -- Shut down parts of the govt investigating him -- Claim that he's stopping government spending -- Give himself all the money

submitted 10 days ago • 177 comments

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

Did Little X tell Trump to shush his mouth?

submitted 10 days ago • 498 comments

Who could have imagined that dismantling and defunding Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cause inflation to rise?

submitted 10 days ago • 267 comments

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

submitted 10 days ago • 838 comments

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 11 days ago • 400 comments

Trump’s trade war has officially begun—and U.S. drivers are about to pay the price. 25% tariffs (aka taxes) on all steel & aluminum imports coming into the U.S. are going to SPIKE the cost of cars and car parts—not just for American manufacturers, but for buyers too.

submitted 11 days ago • 126 comments

Small Trump-loving state projected to lose $12 million a year in federal research funding: West Virginia University expects to lose about $12 million per year in funding to support cancer and vascular research and more if the Trump administration goes through with changes to the way the National…

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

I believe!

submitted 13 days ago • 348 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 13 days ago • 912 comments

Soooo… proof he has no idea of the impacts of his actions.

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This. These are the people I’m dealing with. Ugh.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve heard plenty about what Trump, Musk and their marauding henchmen want to destroy. But have you heard anything about what they want to build or in any way make lives better?

submitted 15 days ago • 155 comments

So it turns out when you DON'T go woke, you go broke. Trump's New DEI? Dying Economy and Inflation. It's only two weeks in and Trump is Making America Broke Again! www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

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I’m excited for fake agency DOGE to get to the Space X and Tesla contracts worth billions. That will save a ton!

submitted 16 days ago • 607 comments

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

submitted 16 days ago • 1099 comments

Been there, lived this. It sucks.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The next Democratic President (if we survive) is gonna have to spend their entire first term just trying to rebuild the federal government — and voters are gonna hate them for it.

submitted 17 days ago • 416 comments

2 insurrections, same President.

submitted 18 days ago • 880 comments

Does anyone in the @GOP have the balls to do what’s right here, or nah?

submitted 18 days ago • 3037 comments

I really miss when I only had George W. Bush levels of constant anxiety

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

submitted 19 days ago • 1114 comments

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

submitted 21 days ago • 196 comments

The silence of most Republican members of Congress on the Trump tariffs tells you two things: 1. They know it is a terrible idea. 2. They are so afraid of Trump that they won’t say anything even though they know how much it is going to hurt their constituents and the country.

submitted 21 days ago • 1082 comments

“the collapse of twitter, but make it the US government” was supposed to be a warning not a playbook

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.