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So true!

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We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country www.404media.co/french-unive...

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Jeff Bezos recently said the Washington Post would only publish op-eds supporting "personal liberties" & "the free market." In response, I submitted a letter asking Mr. Bezos to define his terms. I'm releasing the letter in light of WaPo’s refusal to respond. After all, democracy dies in darkness.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

This spells out what was wrong with that Oval Office display, and how both Trump and Vance are weak leaders.

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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 9 days ago • 3215 comments

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

submitted 20 days ago • 1107 comments

The Telegraph has got its hands on a copy of the contract that the US tried to make Zelenskyy sign last week. Here are the terms that were proposed. They amounted to US economic colonisation of Ukraine. ⬇️

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

submitted 26 days ago • 90 comments

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative State”: judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac... I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the real executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does. Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does: (1/14)

submitted 28 days ago • 218 comments

Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 29 days ago • 222 comments

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 33 days ago • 920 comments

NEW: Marko Elez, Musk operative at Treasury, not only isn't limited to read only access (has admin privileges) but has already made extensive code changes to the Treasury Dept payment system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 33 days ago • 116 comments

Musk thinks he’s king of America and it’s a crime to even name his employees who are currently destroying the federal government.

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?

submitted 35 days ago • 604 comments

If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.” But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.

submitted 35 days ago • 81 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 36 days ago • 969 comments

I could try to explain part of the response and why I think this is wrong but people would just get mad and ratio it so I do not think I will

submitted 36 days ago • 137 comments

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

submitted 38 days ago • 230 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 38 days ago • 327 comments

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

submitted 38 days ago • 324 comments

Revoke constitutional citizenship, invoke wartime military power to suspend laws, flout Senate confirmation, nuke Intel Cmte., stifle dissent w/ retaliation, launch a political purge of the civil service and armed forces, threaten to invade and annex other countries, and usurp power of the purse.

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 41 days ago • 179 comments

Turns out they only cared about the whites.

submitted 45 days ago • 17 comments

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this which WAS NOT ZUCK.

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Friday night Tequila Tweet: An unprecedented natural disaster. And while the fires were raging and people were fleeing & dying, the IMMEDIATE responses from Trump & others were political attacks. Fuck them. While people were fleeing & the fires were raging, Trump & others got political. Fuck them.

submitted 58 days ago • 39 comments

how is letting yourself get bullied by Trump masculine or aggressive lol bsky.app/profile/carl...

submitted 58 days ago • 114 comments

One of my first years teaching in a juvenile detention center, I had a bizarre experience that taught me a valuable lesson people like Hakeem Jeffries need to learn YESTERDAY. 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

The recognition was so universal the nation was effectively governed for two weeks by a de facto triumvirate of the Vice President, Speaker of the House, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and everyone just went along with it.

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

I’m assuming Matt Gaetz disclosed his illegal drug use on his application to purchase firearms, right? If not, hear the Republicans think that’s a serious crime that deserves serious consequences.

submitted 75 days ago • 129 comments

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

submitted 78 days ago • 292 comments

Jeffries: It's been interesting to me that for decades the Republican party has lectured America about fiscal responsibility, about the debt and the deficit. It's always been phony. This bill proves it.

submitted 80 days ago • 66 comments

So like…

submitted 87 days ago • 670 comments

We’re about to be disappointed by lots of people who we will soon find out are more interested in proximity to power rather than doing the right thing.

submitted 87 days ago • 267 comments

Let’s talk about Donald Trump and his new Attorney General pick Pam Bondi, because boy do we have a story to tell

submitted 108 days ago • 34 comments

This makes a good point — more than half of the fed workforce is in defense, homeland security, or the VA, which means there is no universe the Trump administration would ever cut it by half. But it misses what Vivek and Musk are really talking about.

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments