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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 3 days ago • 5081 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 967 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 4 days ago • 2187 comments

You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

submitted 3 days ago • 333 comments

Kind of wild that the airlines were against Biden, Buttigieg and Lina Kahn for things like "refund passengers immediately for cancellations" or "let families sit together" when this administration is intent on killing their customers.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

DEMOCRATS, THIS IS HOW YOU TALK

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 4 days ago • 1111 comments

What a profound newsletter to read this morning from @marcelias.bsky.social. It reignites my determination to persevere through the challenges of this administration and its lasting effects. From his open letter to Elon Musk:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Thousands of protesters opposing President Trump’s agenda took to the streets on Monday across the U.S., derisively calling him a “king” on Presidents’ Day for his efforts to terminate thousands of federal workers and to fire prosecutors and independent watchdogs. nyti.ms/3CQA2LX

submitted 6 days ago • 284 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 509 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5664 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 8 days ago • 290 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 7 days ago • 477 comments

Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

submitted 10 days ago • 267 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 10 days ago • 5020 comments

This level of conflict of interest and lack of transparency is unprecedented and rife with opportunity for self-enrichment. This is unacceptable.

submitted 11 days ago • 341 comments

Call me crazy but I don’t support $400 million in Tesla trucks for the State Department while also entertaining cutting the entire Medicaid budget.

submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

new video up about our constitutional crisis youtu.be/aBVGmDaQRbE

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 605 comments

Trump and Elon Musk keep making things up. 🚫 $3B for a football stadium? False. 🚫 40% pay raise for Congress? False. 🚫$50M for Hamas condoms? False. Not even on the right continent. This isn’t just ignorance—it’s reckless disinformation, and they're using it to justify tearing our government down.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Reminder that activism doesn’t work. Until it does.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Look, I'm beginning to have doubts whether Musk really is that big of a genius.

submitted 11 days ago • 111 comments

2. Help Democrats The success of any opposition rests on the opposing party taking power. Next time you want to attack a Democrat for being too much of this or too little of that, realize that you are only helping the GOP. Instead, find a Democrat you support and volunteer for their campaign.

submitted 11 days ago • 212 comments

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REPORTER: Rand Paul says DOGE cuts will ultimately need a vote in Congress. Do you agree with that? TRUMP: I really don't know

submitted 12 days ago • 206 comments

“Are you policing yourself? What are the checks and balances?” Musk basically says it’s all good because they’re tweeting

submitted 12 days ago • 142 comments

So now that the Pope has uniquely called out the admin for their dystopian anti-immigration policies…. What say you freshly Catholic JD Vance?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

submitted 12 days ago • 1024 comments

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

submitted 12 days ago • 3200 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 12 days ago • 935 comments

I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments