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He can only hold two concepts in his mind at once, and they appear to be tarrifs and "transgender surgeries." Somthats what you hear about--one, the other, or both--no matter where the conversation started or what the actual question was.

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

Very interesting reporting here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 5 hours ago • 136 comments

Very interesting context on whether feds are required to reply to the OPM email:

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Like we forgot this: thehill.com/blogs/blog-b...

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

Daniel Penny just got a cushy job at Andreessen Horowitz specifically because he murdered a homeless man on the subway

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 7 hours ago • 63 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 6 hours ago • 633 comments

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

The way other female conservative influencers are turning on Ashley St. Clair, leaking her texts, and smearing her should be a sign to any conservative woman that a movement built on misogyny will not protect you. That your female peers will weaponize misogyny against you, too.

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

it sounds funny and ridiculous because it is, but this is about as explicit as "scapegoating a minority group for the nation's economic decline" gets

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Lee appears to be only candidate telling the truth about police staffing. There's no way to get anywhere near the numbers some of these grifters are touting. 850 is not feasible, but it's at least in the realm of the conceivable. Good for her and more of this. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 269 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 8 hours ago • 193 comments

movies you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump and Musk are effectively cutting Social Security payments by closing local offices A single SSA office closure leads to a 16 percent fall in the number of disability insurance recipients in a local area

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 15 hours ago • 99 comments

I think it’s a mistake to think of the pro-natalist polygamy of Elon Musk as a departure from the “traditional” sexual conservatism. The tradition, really, is not primarily about male monogamy so much as male domination; the collection of multiple women affirms this, rather than subverting it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk is paid TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be the CEO of Tesla. What did Elon get done last week for Tesla?

submitted 8 hours ago • 161 comments

How many Park Ranger salaries could this have paid for? lhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

submitted 8 hours ago • 103 comments

Every Federal civil servant should reply to that batshit “accomplishments” email with their oath of office. Fuck Elon, fuck DOGE and fuck this clown show of an administration

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A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Second week in a row where England’s opponents have lost the game rather than England winning it. But somehow everything is fine cuz Fin Smith is at 10?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 12 hours ago • 248 comments

From a purely economics standpoint, if we funded 99 useless studies on catheter infections and 1 good study that improved prevention / treatment, it'd still be totally worth it. ... but instead everything's frozen, and they won't even say why. They hate science and they resent scientists.

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 181 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 11 hours ago • 74 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 11 hours ago • 137 comments

“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” said Sen. Ron Wyden about Schuler’s appointment. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

truly wild how quickly DOGE transformed from something being described as a "nongovernmental panel" that would "issue recommendations" into...this

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If people were really just dying from chronic diseases then how come they weren’t dying from their chronic diseases until after March, 2020?

submitted 12 hours ago • 80 comments

i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 11 hours ago • 98 comments

That disallowed try in the Wales game… one of the worst decisions I’ve seen in rugby. You cannot overturn that if you’ve given it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

England beat Scotland at Rugby for the first time since Trump was last in power. Truly, the forces of evil are winning on all fronts.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Taulupe Faletau in full flight on a rugby pitch is a one of the most beautiful sights in sport.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

For how much attention Musk is getting, for how much money he is putting into this race, and for how unpopular he and DOGE largely are, is it possible this race ends up a referendum on Musk? www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

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Irresponsible Assholes Like Irresponsible Asshole

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

submitted 1 day ago • 375 comments

DOGE is not about waste and fraud. This is about gutting government services without any evaluation of their need. Americans have decided to have and fund an effective National Park Service. Trump and Musk are trampling on democracy to do whatever the hell they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

This is as bad as it gets

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Went on Ticketmaster to try to get All Blacks v Ireland tickets in Chicago for the first day of general on sale, and somehow all the tickets available were resale for like 5 or 10 times the face value. How is that possible? So now this rugby fan can’t go. Super fucked up. Ticketmaster is a joke

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

We're gonna look back on this era and be so baffled and infuriated about how much time the media spent complaining about DEI trainings. Yes some of them are silly but overall, companies recruiting minorities and trying to create less hostile workplaces is good!

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments