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Elon Musk has repeatedly misled the public about federal spending while playing a leading role in President Donald Trump’s effort to cut that spending | Fact Check

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They learned something from their first term. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles. So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

submitted 4 hours ago • 169 comments

Every time I see stories about IQ, I think about Walter O'Brien, who claimed to be the 4th smartest man in the world based on IQ, which was absolute bullshit. But the media ran with it. CBS gave him a TV show. www.techdirt.com/2014/10/06/m...

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

I am proud that my law firm is currently litigation 48 voting and election cases in 18 states.

submitted 6 hours ago • 913 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 5 hours ago • 104 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1895 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1621 comments

How many Park Ranger salaries could this have paid for? lhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

. General Mark Milley was right . . . ... and he's still right ! 💠 👊 💠

submitted 1 day ago • 333 comments

Infuriating! 😡 Don’t Cut My Medicaid! The majority of my son’s medical team are in Austin (1.5 hr drive), some in Houston (3 hrs), one in Dallas (5 hrs). Telehealth appts are needed & necessary! My son has extreme car anxiety, not to mention wear and tear on our car, gas! 🤬 And we’re not alone!

submitted 1 day ago • 602 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 1 day ago • 791 comments

Federal workers are getting emails asking them to explain the work they did last week. Elon Musk says not responding "will be taken as a resignation."

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If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 1 day ago • 2467 comments

Slow your complaints about Zelensky's signing the mineral deal. As with many things, there are more nuances than binary good or bad. I trust Zekensky to understand. I do think you have to stop, pause and consider actions vs rhetoric.

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Remember this one....

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If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Found some peace in this.

submitted 2 days ago • 153 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 1 day ago • 723 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 1 day ago • 452 comments

This is really something

submitted 2 days ago • 1775 comments

In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.

submitted 1 day ago • 255 comments

U.S., Ukraine near deal to grant mineral rights to Washington - The Washington Post search.app/XnWv3UQC5uVD...

submitted 1 day ago • 1925 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1232 comments

Real people. Real stories. Real impacts.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 855 comments

Nailed it!!

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Watch this. Trust me. #NO #Wethepeople #resist

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We refuse to let the oligarchs win and control us, and I feel a sea change (link to full video in reply)

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it struggles with growing manpower issues, according to videos and testimony obtained by CNN: bit.ly/3Xg5Fp1

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Unfortunately I won’t be to DC in time, but this rally for Ukraine is happening in Lincoln memorial. Attend if you can and Slava Ukrainii!

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

submitted 1 day ago • 422 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 3 days ago • 2878 comments

Hey. You should text/call/voice-note some friends just because. Don't just DM silly videos. Check in with them. We all need some genuine connection right now!

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 859 comments

Some of us called this out a few weeks ago... www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The saber rattling.....

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Simplify the arguments. Say things need oversight to ensure legality. Protect our courts from endless future lawsuits. Trump understands that strategy.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 702 comments

Hey everyone! I did an emergency live over on Substack, reminding us all that we will win this thing! Take a look! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 2 days ago • 877 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 • 5081 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 8 days ago • 2047 comments

A federal appeals court allowed the head of a government ethics watchdog agency, whom President Donald Trump fired last week, to stay on the job. It’s a decision that will likely tee up the fight over similar dismissals for the Supreme Court: cnn.it/3Qlfyhm

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

During segregation Black and white men couldn't even swim together. But, at 1:23 a.m. on Sept. 5, 1942, French was one of a few uninjured Sailors that found themselves floating on makeshift rafts when the Japanese ships turned their guns from the crippled ships to the crew floating in the water.

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