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As I have noted previously, lack of candor (under oath, no less!), is per se disqualifying for any leadership position, but ESPECIALLY the FBI. A liar as director will impact the FBI’s credibility in every case where any agent takes the stand or swears to a judge. He has to go

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Kristi Noem’s week: • Sent 400 ICE agents to Colorado and made ONE arrest. • Got the Acting Director fired. • Played dress-up cosplay. • Cheated with Corey Lewandowski. • Wacked more puppies and goats.

submitted 8 days ago • 925 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 8 days ago • 234 comments

This is fun

submitted 6 days ago • 219 comments

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

submitted 22 hours ago • 159 comments

Mike Johnson and Elon Musk are gathering up your personal information to sell overseas while blaming you for fraud against social security.

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Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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These are factual & legal lies Trump staff are saying. He never declassified docs & would have been convicted had case gone to trial. Of course, now as president he can do with them as he wishes. We've #FOIA'd them, incl govt summaries to make sure ppl know the damage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

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🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

submitted 2 days ago • 704 comments

I love this for him.

submitted 2 days ago • 815 comments

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

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U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

submitted 2 days ago • 1009 comments

Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 4561 comments

NEW: Sources tell me that US Attorney for DC Ed Martin just demoted multiple senior attorneys who oversaw the January 6th prosecutions. The lawyers were told they would now handle low-level crime cases usually given to junior AUSAs. Martin sent the demotion email himself, per a msg I saw. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Russian state media was in the Oval Office when Trump viciously attacked Zelenskyy but not American media outlets like the AP.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Great piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social comparing the burgeoning anti-Tesla/Musk movement with the anti-apartheid movement of the 70s/80s. And not just because of Musk's South African roots. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

submitted 3 days ago • 305 comments

The Republican Party is the party of insurrectionists. At least 39 Capitol Rioters attended CPAC, including several members of far right extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Also, at least 6 Capitol Rioters have been invited to speak or participate in local GOP events. Details below ⬇️

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NEW: Who’s guiding Elon Musk as he navigates life in DC—and uses DOGE to dismantle key parts of the government? Stephen and Katie Miller, multiple sources tell WIRED. An inside look into the couple who have become integral to the world’s richest man and his ambitions in Washington.

submitted 3 days ago • 141 comments

Just some general guidance here. We don't know all the details. But this presages taking a real hatchet to the whole social security system. Whether it's 20% of the staff or 50% who knows. But basically unsustainable cuts for a program anyway we've known it.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

I know there’s a phrase that perfectly describes what’s going on here but gosh darn it I’m blanking on it Maybe we can crowdsource this. The best I can come up with is I think it may rhyme with or sound something like “anti-magnetic lyco-bath.” Can anyone help?

submitted 3 days ago • 819 comments

Under Trump's leadership, the US took Russia's side at the UN, opposing a resolution acknowledging Russia’s responsibility for the war. @gallego.senate.gov and I rushed to the floor to force the Senate to condemn this betrayal of our ally. Republicans blocked us. youtu.be/Wtazkuq1JhU?...

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

Just a reminder that Trump’s DOJ just dropped a criminal fraud investigation into Ogles, including allegations that he used a photo of his stillborn child to raise tens of thousands of dollars for a burial garden for children that was never built. He has never accounted for that money.

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Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’ Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism.

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

SoCal man pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets for Chinese company @hillelaron.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/socal-man-pl...

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36% of all banned books contain a character or a real person of color. But sure, this is about protecting the children. people.com/sex-claims-e...

submitted 4 days ago • 184 comments

A trifecta.

submitted 4 days ago • 919 comments

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

DOGE is canceling government contracts that help veterans. Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors, and provide burial services to veterans.

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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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🎯

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SDVOSB’s don’t have lobbyists and can’t funnel millions into PACs and all the other grifts being used to curry favor with Dear Leader. Every big network and newspaper should be falling over each other to report their stories. (instead of just beltway trades)

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Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

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Oh cool it’s almost as if “cutting waste” wasn’t the point at all and the point is to gut then privatize the entire government

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Lift em up!

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

My latest: MSNBC just went full Jim Crow and the Resistance is DONE with them

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JUST IN: Judge McFadden has denied the AP’s emergency motion to restore its access to WH press pool events but has ordered expedited consideration of the matter given the weighty issues at the heart of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Knight Institute asks Judge Cannon to make public Jack Smith's report on the Trump classified documents case, saying it is a judicial record so there is a 1st Amendment right of access. (American Oversight & the NYT are separately pursuing FOIA lawsuits for it.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

This looks like the battle is joined. Republicans are on course to shut down the govt because of their extremist wing. They're asking Dems for help. Dems are saying bill has to have agreement that Prez can't unconstitutionally "impound" appropriated money - i.e., allow Elon's crime spree.

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 238 comments

This is a truly outrageous story that shows how Trump has destroyed the independence of the U.S. Justice Department.

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BOOM: After getting rocked at anti-DOGE townhall last week Georgia Republican loses faith in Lord Elon. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/goper...

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Why do i get the feeling that Trump is going to hang Musk out to dry? www.reuters.com/world/us/som...

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: All HHS employees just received this email informing them that they no longer have to comply with Elon Musk’s 5 bullet point email, but if they do, they should “assume that what [they] write will be read by malign foreign actors . . .”

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

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