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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

submitted 22 hours ago • 273 comments

The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 1 day ago • 422 comments

Front page of CNN One constituent asked, “How can we be represented by you if you don’t have a voice in Congress?” "Two Republican Wisconsin congressmen received tough questions...from their constituents during town halls this week, adding to recent pushback from voters against...Trump’s actions"

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

What the fuck does this even mean? They are just terrorizing millions of hard working Americans for sport. Trump and Musk are the most anti-worker public leaders America may have ever produced.

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

The President who was doing flyovers at Daytona and golfing through his presidency wants an accounting of every federal employee’s work week or they will be fired. This while Elon Musk won’t account for any of his time to Congress.

submitted 22 hours ago • 122 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 1 day ago • 1272 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.

submitted 23 hours ago • 109 comments

Elon Musk fancies himself some kind of maverick technologist superhero. But he’s no Tony Stark. He’s PHONY Stark. He’s the one the Avengers defeat at the end of the movie.

submitted 1 day ago • 526 comments

Pope Francis is in critical condition after respiratory crisis but "continues to be alert," the Vatican says www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican...

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Judge Trevor McFadden has called a 3pm hearing Monday on the AP’s motion for a restraining order against the Trump White House over its handling of the press.

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

1/ Town halls continue to go badly for GOP congresspeople, an ongoing thread: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2Pc7F6y/

submitted 23 hours ago • 112 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 239 comments

TRO hearing set on AP’s lawsuit against the Trump White House for Monday afternoon.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 23 hours ago • 31 comments

Really interesting that this (more sparsely attended) event focused on Trump's sell-out to Russia. I expect fury abt the DOGE cuts. But this is a bit of a surprise.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2793 comments

“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 76 comments

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 23 hours ago • 149 comments

Nearly all the career officials who attended the Justice Department’s daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.

submitted 10 days ago • 158 comments

BREAKING: Acting Deputy Attorney General Bove, who seeks to round up the folks at the DOJ/FBI who participated in the "grave national injustice" of working on J6 investigations is now reported to have himself worked on those cases. There is a word for this.

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

🚨 Prosecutors Quit Over Trump DOJ Directive To Dismiss Mayor Adams Case Emil Bove, Trump’s acting Deputy Attorney General of the DOJ, had issued a directive to the federal prosecutors in SDNY to dismiss the NYC Mayor Eric Adams criminal case. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/weissman... #BreakingNews

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 12 days ago • 569 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 1393 comments

Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal.

submitted 12 days ago • 186 comments

Sigh.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The 19-year-old Musk crony known online as “Big Balls” has taken a role at the State Department, raising concerns over potential access to sensitive information. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 145 comments

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

submitted 12 days ago • 476 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 530 comments

It’s McCarthyism via executive fiat, directed by the world’s richest and most online man who thinks a thing called “the woke mind virus” has infected many parts of the federal government and will destroy “western civilization” if not ripped out root and branch. It’s John Bircher anti-communism, 2.0.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

It's really appalling that things are happening -- like firing career Department of Education officials because they attended a diversity conference -- that remind me of what I've read about Mao's mid-1960s Cultural Revolution in China, a humanitarian disaster we don't talk about nearly enough

submitted 19 days ago • 153 comments

Elon Musk isn’t just a tech mogul—he’s a case study in unchecked wealth, influence, and ego. What happens when one man thinks he’s above it all? More in my latest: www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/the-rise-o...

submitted 19 days ago • 37 comments

Literal whitewashing.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

So, what holy of the holies would hostile foreign governments want access to here in the US? Nuclear codes? Control of the Treasury payment systems? Aren't we kind of a worst case national security breach right now?

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Anyone notice how our new “working class” President is treating the workers who work for him? bsky.app/profile/simo...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

From Hopium: - Ds should make criminal referrals to DOJ/FBI for Elon. He's on a crime spree and needs to be stopped. - Leaders Schumer/Jeffries - millions of us want to help you. You need to give us things to do. - Keep making your calls everyone! 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/time-for-c...

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

submitted 22 days ago • 658 comments

NBC News and the New York Times are being evicted from their Pentagon offices; the Department of Defense says One America News Network and the New York Post will move into those spaces later this month.

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

A two-fer post today! Happy Saturday!

submitted 21 days ago • 91 comments

This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.

submitted 21 days ago • 76 comments