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Principles First: Chris Cillizza.

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They're gonna feed this into an LLM and then ask the LLM who to fire based on the answers. Answer accordingly!

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It's not just one instance of a billion being only a million: "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes," a team of New York Times reporters found. The figures are "full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 948 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

submitted 20 hours ago • 259 comments

The DOE Warned Us Last Year Of Utility Bills TRIPLING Due To LNG Exports. @lisaremillard.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @carlquintanilla.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @svdate.bsky.social @huffpost.com @forbes.com youtu.be/qi7RcY194vI?...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (155.60172, 3.99735). 39 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.🔭

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: President Donald Trump terminated Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the country’s highest-ranking military officer, from his position.

submitted 21 hours ago • 154 comments

Jack Posobiec told CPAC that Trump is not violating the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

America is Healing 🇺🇸😄💯

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter.

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

Musk is not my, nor your, Master! He has no right to access your, nor my, personal information.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

What kinda jokes, JD? WHAT KINDA JOKES 🦢🔪

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Congressman Marc Veasey in Dallas has publicly demanded for ICE to provide answers regarding my recent investigative report that identified an ICE prosecutor as the operator of a white supremacist X account.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I am so fucking furious right now over everything that is happening, but can we all pause and just acknowledge how cruel and self destructive all this shit is?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases. Visit Democracy Docket for more info. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

We are watching the literal death of expertise

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 1403 comments

Breaking (ABC News): Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering firing or removing generals and senior officers as early as this week, according to multiple U.S. and congressional officials.

submitted 3 days ago • 387 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 3 days ago • 2367 comments

How do you link a government official to an anonymous social media account that asserts, among other things, that "America is a White nation?" Like this. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Well, it seems as if someone has hacked into my dormant X account. And I can’t seem to close it. So if anything appears there, it’s not me

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

The solution here is to just continue doing congestion pricing anyway

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Trump: "We have effectively eliminated the US Agency for International Development ... we virtually shut down the out of control CFPB." (This is illegal)

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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.88 (lookback time 7.43 billion years) with coordinates (149.80888, 2.77625). 59 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

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Former US Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) seeing part of his legacy torn apart. Blunt could've helped save us all from his by voting to convict in Trump's 2nd impeachment. Here's what I wrote about Blunt's failure in 2021: www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Spent ~four hours in different briefings/discussions of how my institution is/can respond to the assault on science not ripping through the US. Enlightening, exhausting, depressing with a couple of tiny slivers of hope. And completely destructive of the goal of getting any writing done today.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This would reduce US defense spending to ~2% of GDP. The irony, of course, is that this comes as the US is demanding that its European NATO allies increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Without seeing the underlying data, this is entirely suspect. Calculating dates & ages in older systems can be very complex.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trickle down fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

What a double standard.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Air Alert in Ukraine 🇺🇦🚨

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Trump calls himself “THE KING”

submitted 3 days ago • 1602 comments

Oh man, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social nails it today. "This mythic nature of these notions makes the liberal attempts to fact-check or dispute their contents piecemeal a futile exercise." Yes!

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

"This is in violation of a presidential executive order. It needs to stop" -- Elon Musk, on Hannity's show, makes clear he has no idea how the American government works by asserting that Trump can use executive orders to unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress

submitted 3 days ago • 457 comments

For far too many years, Susan Collins expresses dismay and concern about Trump’s extremism, knowing that it doesn’t reflect the views of the majority of her state. But her ACTIONS show that she goes along with that extremism EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. A complete phony.

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Ordnance disposal experts in Germany defused and removed a World War II explosive found near the tracks at Kaiserslautern's main train station during excavation work early Tuesday morning.

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One distinctly perverse thing about fascism in the age of social media is authoritarian regimes used to go to great lengths to keep disturbing images of their depravity out of public view. Now our tinpot despots gloat about them proudly and have a million braying jackasses cheering them on.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments