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DOJ’s Public Integrity Section leads cases of corruption by government officials, especially in smaller districts that lack resources and specialized expertise. Dismantling it is one more signal of open season for corruption.

submitted 9 hours ago • 45 comments

“.. a lot of what has been broken in the last six to eight weeks is not repairable,” said Dr. Judd Walson, who chairs the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s department of international health ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Truth Social stock also in the tank. Lost $400 million last year. Read this from @russchoma.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

Financial Times points out that something has recently gone very wrong and it's only going wrong in the US. People are underestimating the economic damage happening right now. We've not begun to feel the worst of it, which will be entrenched, resistant, and measure in years, not quarters.

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

"Vote for the bill so that the president can refuse to spend the money you just voted for" is whole other level of saying the quiet part out loud.

submitted 20 hours ago • 87 comments

I cannot believe how many Dem leaders are failing the “It is wrong to kidnap people for exercising free speech” test.

submitted 13 hours ago • 107 comments

How much longer til America is great?

submitted 10 hours ago • 1078 comments

Quick check to see who our allies are now: if 9/11 happened today, who would actually help us find who did it? Canada? No. The EU? No. We are alone except for Israel and maybe Russia, which is too preoccupied to help, and whose “help” would be bad. We are so incredibly unsafe and effectively fucked.

submitted 12 hours ago • 306 comments

Exactly

submitted 22 hours ago • 208 comments

Today, the White House was turned into a car dealer to help the billionaire friend of Trump while our investments are catering like a Spaxe X rocket. Just a thought, if in the market for an electric car, buy anything but a Tesla and post it here.

submitted 10 hours ago • 60 comments

They absolutely could not possibly be clearer that they are going to try to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

submitted 13 hours ago • 669 comments

Most Americans can’t survive the kind of lifestyle bc term losses Trump & Elon are imposing on us. They’re not worried about you because they can ride it out.

submitted 21 hours ago • 98 comments

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

submitted 15 hours ago • 389 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 11 hours ago • 611 comments

So Newsom's podcast is basically a tour de transphobia, huh? Guess he took the "become a podcast bro" to heart. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

submitted 19 hours ago • 148 comments

This is the damning chart. Sheesh.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

More of this!

submitted 12 hours ago • 1077 comments

One of these things is not like the other.

submitted 10 hours ago • 332 comments

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

submitted 19 hours ago • 1496 comments

Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico now number over 250, with two deaths being linked to the outbreak. (For comparison, the US had 285 cases of measles in all of 2024). Measles isn't just a rash. For @wired.com, I wrote about why the disease can be so deadly: www.wired.com/story/this-i...

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

This is the language I speak and font I use

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

submitted 18 hours ago • 692 comments

NEW: CISA, the federal agency responsible for the nation’s cybersecurity, officially cut funding to support state and local election offices. A CISA spokesperson told Democracy Docket the slashed program "no longer effectuates department priorities.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 77 comments

"Ontario Premier Doug Ford and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Tuesday that Canada will suspend its new 25% surcharge on electricity exports..."

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

submitted 16 hours ago • 164 comments

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

submitted 21 hours ago • 342 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 15 hours ago • 270 comments

Here's the full email about the classified and personnel records destruction, which just hit the public record in labor groups' litigation against the Trump admin. The groups say: "Defendants are, as this motion is being filed, destroying documents with potential pertinence to this litigation."

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil! Pass it on.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Dear Democrats: 📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED. 📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

From Krugman: The Economic Excuse Industry is Booming paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

When Musk said he loved Trump “as much as a straight man can love another”, the emetic effect was widespread. Trump is one of the few left who likes having Musk around. Yet having given him such unprecedented power, Trump is watching his benefactor turn into an albatross. www.ft.com/content/ea5b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

From today’s Prof G Markets. If this trend continues, it could be the end of Musk in politics. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6m66...

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

I don't take a back seat to anyone on the subject of anti-semitism. Jews are being used here as a fig leaf to advance a broader attack on universities and higher learning. Trump wants to bring Universities to heel and obedience. Jews are just a convenient cudgel here and just as disposable.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

It’s nuts to waste a pardon on restoring the right to have a gun to someone who battered his girlfriend, just because he’s a Hollywood name. It’s government by grift. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

“What explains Trump’s approach to Ukraine and disdain for NATO? Trump does not have a philosophy or a national-security grand strategy ... His approach is personal ... centering on one question: What benefits Donald Trump?” John Bolton writes: