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The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 1 hour ago • 98 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 806 comments

Seriously people. Bondi is a skilled agent of corruption. Don't let her blonde hair distract from her considerable skillset.

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

In the darkest times, a Ukrainian author’s words endured. As Russian forces seized his village, Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his manuscript before being killed. His unearthed story is part of Ukraine’s literary revival. Author & reporter @yarotrof.bsky.social joins @11aET #VelshiBannedBookClub #Velshi

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 14 hours ago • 106 comments

NEW: They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Gen-X knows 🤣

submitted 12 hours ago • 1128 comments

Not feeling great about this turn of events. Military leadership and the top military lawyers, all removed on a Friday evening.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

alright, for the evening crowd, i've got a rhythm worked out and have already had the opportunity to talk to a few of you. if you're interested in participating, read the write-up here and then holler at me using the instructions and we can figure out a time that works.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 16 hours ago • 55 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 16 hours ago • 95 comments

They are gearing up to do war crimes and don't want any JAGs doing their sworn duty of talking back when the war crimes are proposed.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Firing the senior JAGs. Christ.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

There’s only one reason to fire and replace the JAGs and it ain’t a good one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 143 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 371 comments

Well that escalated quickly. @space.bsky.social @breakingdefense.com breakingdefense.com/2025/02/salt...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

www.usnews.com/news/health-... As Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fires 5,200 Probationary Employees, the US still has a measles outbreak in TX, TB is in IN, OH and KS, and H5N1 is widespread! The flu is EVERYWHERE!...Also Covid and RSV are still with us!...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 16 hours ago • 67 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 17 hours ago • 872 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 17 hours ago • 161 comments

Yay baby! Go go Gadget Constitution!

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump's desired new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs John D. Caine is getting paid by Kushner and does not meet the legal prerequisites for the position (Congress would have to grant a waiver). According to Trump he's pledged "I love you, sir. I think you're great, sir. I'll kill for you, sir."

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

The leader of the opposition. Why is no one else able to meet this moment?

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

This can’t be what they all decided was the best answer. What is this?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This is an “initial” purge. Reports suggest this could expand to “tens of thousands” over the coming weeks. Shock and awe now hitting the Pentagon

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

A judge ordered foreign aid to resume. Aid groups say it’s not happening. Instead, more than 200+ groups had their contracts terminated. Food is now rotting near starving people; some aid warehouses left unguarded. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The consequences of the illegal shutdown of USAID:

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

They are trying to give more red meat to the base because know about the growing anger.

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments