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A friend in need is a friend indeed.. 🐢

submitted 2 days ago • 402 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 1 day ago • 1494 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

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And now this: “Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called “indiscriminate” layoffs that would make it “fruitless for him to continue.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

BREAKING: Denise Cheung, head of the criminal division in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, resigned after refusing a Justice Department order to freeze $20 billion in climate funds. In her resignation letter, she revealed that Trump officials had pressured her to launch a baseless criminal probe

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

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 • 380 comments

Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

submitted 4 days ago • 659 comments

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Please share with your followers. open.substack.com/pub/quartzev...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

At the behest of Wall Street donors, Congressional Republicans are trying to overturn the CFPB's new rule against predatory overdraft fees. The rule would have capped overdraft charges at $5, saving consumers $5B annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

Jessica: You need to talk about the 3,400 people who were fired from the fire service. Trump was out in California talking about how we need more people working on this, we need to be raking the leaves… 57% of the land there is run by the Federal Government

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

submitted 5 days ago • 257 comments

President, Professional Aviation Safety Specialists Union David Spero on FAA layoffs: “Friday, about 300 folks, 400 people got the axe… We not didn't get any notice from the FAA… It could be way more than 350… All we’re getting is our members reaching out and saying ‘I lost my job.’”

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Build the wall! Around DOGE!

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Should of never been hired🙄💥

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

On day 23 of the Coup keeps Churning.... Fotus, and his right hand nazi have decided America and those who call this country home should not be as secure as other countries. While also slaying election integrity and security. #SheShed #Voices4Victory abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

We’re done here. Right?

submitted 11 days ago • 3519 comments

For those keeping score at home…

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

The fact that an Oligarch is standing in the Oval Office, speaking to the press about gutting government funding that he finds wasteful, without any congressional oversight, should be a huge fucking red flag.

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

A little-known office in the FAA safeguards the public during commercial rocket launches. Elon Musk says it works too slow. Now he’s in a position to change that. New: www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 13 days ago • 384 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

New acting CFPB director Russell Vought sends a directive to Bureau staff telling them to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement," per a source familiar

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments

"And then we'll have a white guy with a shaved head wearing a brown shirt block the way..." "Come on, Bob, no one will believe that part of the script. Dial it down."

submitted 15 days ago • 243 comments

Trump during the election: No new wars! Trump after inauguration: We’re going to send the U.S. military in to conquer Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the Panama Canal!

submitted 18 days ago • 554 comments

President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

submitted 17 days ago • 339 comments

Schiff: Why is this firing of FBI agents such an important piece of this whole effort by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their enablers? Because .. if they're going to raid the treasury... They don't want an FBI that's going to examine anything they're doing.

submitted 16 days ago • 152 comments

Yes coz when all the kids have polio, you won't care about the autism...

submitted 18 days ago • 1653 comments

During Trump's first term, some EPA scientists said managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. In some cases, they said, the managers deleted the information themselves. (Published Sept. 2024)

submitted 19 days ago • 60 comments

"...we have a thug in charge of the United States and if we don't wake up, we may not have a United States" Preach, Jasmine.

submitted 20 days ago • 199 comments

Correct. It’s really more of a hijacking than a coup.

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