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The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 995 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2441 comments

It sounds like Trump is defying the courts. Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 11 hours ago • 72 comments

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[Putin] said officials who took part in the talks described the U.S. delegation to him as ‘completely different people who were open to the negotiation process without any bias, without any condemnation of what was done in the past’ …” TRAITORS!!!

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Trump has made a slew of rapid changes since he took office. So I ask you, ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR WEEKS AGO?

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All you need to know.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

At some point MAGA folks will be devastated economically and will turn on Trump. It will surprise them when their Republican elected officials don’t speak up for them. At that moment they’ll realize they were played, that those elected officials were never afraid of Trump. They were 100% behind him.

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NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 174 comments

Newly confirmed OMB Director Russell Vought has strongly implied that his strategy “is to instill fear in the Supreme Court that the presidency is prepared to resort to outright defiance of its decisions.” executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 15 days ago • 438 comments

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

submitted 16 days ago • 140 comments

“People will get sick. And, especially in cases like congenital syphilis where you cannot lose a day to treat, babies will die.” The appalling human cost of this insane exercise in gender censorship mustn’t be forgotten. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...

submitted 16 days ago • 81 comments

Without treatment, millions of people with H.I.V. would be at risk of severe illness and premature death. The loss of treatment also threatens the emergence of drug-resistant strains of H.I.V.; both outcomes could have a global impact, including in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

What does “memorialize” mean?? Don’t believe anything the Trump Administration tells you. It’s all lies.

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Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 17 days ago • 923 comments

Why are we not hearing outcries from Federal workers who are Republicans? Why aren’t they organizing and mobilizing?

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Elon Musk is attacking Lutheran Social Services and its programs. So faiths (i.e., churches) are now money laundering organizations?

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 19 days ago • 357 comments

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

Nothing could please America’s enemies more than the ongoing destruction of the federal government.

submitted 20 days ago • 106 comments

It's a tragedy.

submitted 21 days ago • 1146 comments

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

This is terrifying and horrendously cruel. And right in my back yard. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments