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Accurate.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Literally the reason the ACA is such a weak law compared to what it was envisioned as is because of this. We could have had universal healthcare if the Republicans rolled over the same way the Democrats are.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

Trump is trying to single handedly save Russia from certain collapse

submitted 5 days ago • 706 comments

An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 5 days ago • 633 comments

Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2292 comments

these are segregationists.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

But then they won’t be able to see themselves on the teevee! With the words “White House Correspondent” on the chryon and everything!

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 9 days ago • 247 comments

NY State AG Letitia James ought to issue a warrant for Elon Musk and his incel clown posse for wire fraud and grand larceny. They took $80 million of federally allocated funds from a bank account that wasn't theirs. Indict them, issue warrants, and arrest them now. End this madness.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Literally all they’re doing is a private equity play. They need these offices so they’ll have to rent them back putting further strain on the budget and justifying further cuts (while their friends make money on the deal)

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

In the three weeks Elon Musk has been in charge of unilaterally slashing government spending, the U.S. government has paid one of his companies, SpaceX, more than $43 million.

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

submitted 10 days ago • 146 comments

the Soy Right: "right-wingers who have adopted the sensitive, aggrieved victimhood pose and corny rhetorical and personal style that they have spent the last 10 years attributing to liberals" maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

House Republicans just released their budget resolution - which keys up their reconciliation bills, which can avoid a filibuster and be passed with a simple majority. This is VERY real. They are calling to cut Medicaid by AT LEAST $880 billion, and to cut SNAP by AT LEAST 20%.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

The House GOP plan calls cut taxes by $4.5 trillion - partially offset by more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid & SNAP So they wanna do a giant tax cut that disproportionately helps the rich while taking away people's health insurance and food while still adding trillions to the debt.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

The Claremont Institute's financials are wild. Their "Review of Books" costs $1.8 million and brings in $225k. They pay a political theorist at Claremont McKenna $250k annually and also $250k in consulting fees. Amazing what you can build when conservative donors don't care if you're fleecing them.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Casar: "You know what Elon Musk doesn't seem to be looking into? His own contracts."

submitted 10 days ago • 278 comments

I'm not being my usual wacky conspiracy self here am I - these guys getting into all the computer systems are really sketch and totally unvetted - the chances that one of them is actually, not joking or exaggerating, a foreign spy - they're not so small are they? like at least 15%?

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

the CFPB that Musk wants to shut down has won $21 billion for Americans from predatory financial institutions and big banks quick, does anyone know if $21 billion is more than $711 million

submitted 11 days ago • 84 comments

Just gonna leave this here.

submitted 12 days ago • 3322 comments

one of the things that drive me crazy about the defense of impoundment is that it is in such obvious bad faith. like, of course congressional appropriations are directives! why would congress have oversight powers if the constitutional expectation was that appropriations were advisory?

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

This is a good way of putting it. Democracy requires bureaucracy and fixed rules; since collective decisions can be made only occasionally, the system has to be on autopilot most of the time. A system based on personal hierarchy and domination can rely more on command and less on administration.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

submitted 12 days ago • 434 comments