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"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 20 hours ago • 405 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 12 hours ago • 743 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 22 hours ago • 426 comments

What an inspiring thread.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Anyone else getting heart palpitations with every news alert, thinking ' oh God, what has he done now?'

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

submitted 6 days ago • 659 comments

Essentially, to use a corporate analogy, Musk has become the chief operating officer of the United States.

submitted 10 days ago • 170 comments

Elon Musk has ZERO receipts for his claims of “fraud” in government agencies. But there seem to be a LOT of receipts showing that those same government agencies were investigating or regulating Musk and his companies.

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Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???

submitted 13 days ago • 260 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 14 days ago • 3258 comments

I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government? If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 89 comments

Crisis. "effectively nullified laws" "in defiance of legal rules" "naked defiance of statutes Congress enacted" "challenged the rule of law" "will do whatever he wants despite any legal impediments" Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

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Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.

submitted 17 days ago • 145 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

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