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submitted 1 day ago • 329 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 801 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1323 comments

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

It’s nothing but betrayal and blackmailing. Disgusting.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

PURE ABUSE OF POWER & EXTORTION: Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1088 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

While the governor of Oklahoma is on right-wing media every day glazing DOGE, domestic violence homicides in his state have hit a record high. Between all the pronoun-bashing and diversity-slashing Kevin Stitt does on TV, when does he have any time to address this crisis?

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

submitted 1 day ago • 522 comments

Just told a heartbreaking story of a foster parent who took in a 16 year old girl whose parents got taken away. The ice agents gave her the choice of going with her parents or going into foster care. Her parents begged her to stay for her safety. And they said goodbye to her.

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Oh wow, what a crazy random happenstance.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 1 day ago • 719 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1856 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

This is real

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

Dolly Parton is also mega rich but instead of buying Twitter or buying all the politicians, she put 150 million books into the hands of children. Be like Dolly. 📚 #USDemocracy

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

"one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd, a senior executive official and the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the" Department of Energy www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This will go down as the real end.

submitted 2 days ago • 1027 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1544 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 855 comments

idle thought - is there a story around Musk using his ultra-wealth to intimidate the entire GOP into silence, even as he destroys our constitutional system? Did (eg) the GOP create its own trap by gutting campaign finance laws? Let me explain... (1/x)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Get me your supervisor. Sorry, we don’t know who our supervisor is.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Trump: "Lee Zeldin. Head of the environment. Environmental ... ah ... the environmental group. Various groups."

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

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submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1215 comments

Because they'll miss their shift at the meat packing factory

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Since Trump's re-election, new ventures, including an Amazon documentary deal for Melania, lawsuit settlements, and other deals have netted members of the family and his presidential library about $80 million — already greater than their haul during Trump's first term. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Moving fast and breaking things: The Department of Agriculture said that it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. It is now trying “to quickly reverse the firings.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

President Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that seeks greater authority over regulatory agencies that Congress established as independent from direct White House control, part of a broader bid to centralize a president’s power over the government www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

This article adds a really important piece of the puzzle in light of changes to Delaware law. The proposed changes to Delaware law represent a hard swing allocating power away from shareholders (as litigants and information seekers) to corporate insiders. www.reuters.com/business/tru...

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submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

The last, best description of Trump from British writer Nate White.

submitted 101 days ago • 34 comments

Attacking CPFB just so happens to clear the way for X payments www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments