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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

submitted 12 hours ago • 343 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 23 hours ago • 1386 comments

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 12 hours ago • 87 comments

Daniel Penny just got a cushy job at Andreessen Horowitz specifically because he murdered a homeless man on the subway

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Elon Musk threatens FBI agents and air traffic controllers with forced resignation if they do not respond to an email (sound familiar?) www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 13 hours ago • 51 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 • 1858 comments

Someone should ask them what that means. Precisely. Define it. They won’t be able to because it’s a deliberately meaningless buzzword for hate.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments Analysis by Professor Nicholas Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) Bottom line up front: The threat of termination by implied resignation is legally invalid.

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1798 comments

illegally suspending PEPFAR may actually kill more people than the Holocaust

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 122 comments

I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the return and actions of wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the coup by Musk if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here's the story the US should be writing this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

"tread lightly" lmao go fuck yourself.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

I told OPM what I did last week

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 11 hours ago • 148 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 13 hours ago • 75 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 14 hours ago • 319 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 22 hours ago • 74 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 12 hours ago • 762 comments

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

Yes, I think this is also the logic of tariffs. We are not going to have across the board 25% tariffs or whatever. We may get a situation where generally low tariffs are maintained only through case by case concessions and quid pro quos.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It’s getting insulting how much they’re talking about this. Everyone can read the budgets they’re proposing, they increase deficits

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Reiterating that this would be one of the largest tariff hikes in modern US history—could affect >$300B in US imports, mostly from close allies like 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷, & if targeting vehicle parts would drive up prices for US carmakers in conjunction with existing steel/aluminum tariffs

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

If you are someone who has written critically about "the professional managerial class" in the past, I think you owe it to yourself and your readers to think about whether this is an outcome you are pleased about.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

submitted 15 hours ago • 21 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 12 hours ago • 75 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

“Unlike the Tea Party of 2010, this is not an issue that breaks down cleanly along ideological lines. An insurgency isn’t necessarily going to pull Dems to the left, especially because Dem voters can’t really agree on which ideological direction to take their party.” split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

It’s a death cult. They worship the loss of life, and take joy in forcing more death on anyone they can.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The Republican Party has been the motivating force behind most visceral patriotism in my life, because their efforts to destroy the cosmopolitan liberal democracy in which I was born have made me realize that I am in fact quite attached to it, and willing to countenance a lot in it’s defense.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I'm really nervous about this. A lot of cities never dug themselves out of the COVID-19 housing shortage, and now tariffs and labor shortages are about to make it a lot harder to build. We need massive zoning/fee relief and streamlining, yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

PORTLAND: Tesla will be exhibiting vehicles at the Oregon International Auto Show, starting today and running through the end of the weekend. People use this event to survey the market for new vehicles ahead of purchasing, so it's an ideal place to interrupt potential new Tesla sales. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

“.. wiping out almost all of its gains since President Trump took office last month ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The most notable thing about this clip from the president's address to the governors is the way Maine Gov. Janet Mills stood up to Trump. And the second most notable thing is the absolute stone-faced silence from the other governors in the room. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Future reform: Ban all judges, fed employees, and other officials from owning shares of individual public companies. Ban lawmakers, WH and cabinet officials or their spouses from owning stakes in private companies. Enforce via both criminal and civil penalties so pardons can’t short-circuit.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Will be curious to see what happens to US auto prices this year, considering: 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico ("paused" until March 4); 25% tariffs on global steel/aluminum (effective March 12); *25% tariffs on all foreign cars (maybe effective April 2)

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

That would be, of course, illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1995 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 546 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 1 day ago • 186 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2835 comments