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"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 661 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 • 1324 comments

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

submitted 2 days ago • 327 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 2 days ago • 1131 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

Exactly right

submitted 2 days ago • 753 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

I just wanna congratulate @meidastouch.com for beating Joe Rogan, and thank them for recommending my Substack. Indie media FTW! Check theirs out here: www.meidasplus.com

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 2 days ago • 355 comments

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 2 days ago • 5075 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 2 days ago • 1973 comments

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

submitted 2 days ago • 2116 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 5 days ago • 2337 comments

What has become completely clear is that Musk and the Nazi Youth Brigade have no idea what they’re cutting or its significance to the safety and security of the nation and its people. They are just swinging machetes at anything they guess could be “woke” or “wasteful” to look like they’re powerful.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 840 comments

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

submitted 5 days ago • 961 comments

Planes didn't crash when this guy ran things.

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 2074 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2690 comments

Again and again, these GOP senators are choosing to remain silent or outright enable the shredding of our Constitution and dismantling of our government because they care more about the billionaires who will benefit than they do about us. And all of these senators are facing re-election next year.

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

Lots of tragic stories and valiant humor on this thread. Also lots of illustrations of just how fucking ignorant Team Elon is.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 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

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 7 days ago • 1168 comments

There's a lot more to fatherhood than randomly flinging semen in every direction and opening a tab wherever it happens to land.

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

submitted 9 days ago • 619 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 9 days ago • 5021 comments

Darwin's Waiting Room starts to figure it out: www.al.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 days ago • 511 comments

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

submitted 14 days ago • 312 comments

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

submitted 14 days ago • 3063 comments

One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 121 comments

This is the essence of it. You can do any and all of this stuff by passing laws. They're not because they lack the votes. So all of this is illegitimate and frankly illegal. I'll go one step further and say there should not be a senate filibuster. You should be able to do any and all of this by ...

submitted 14 days ago • 49 comments

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but cutting funding for cancer research is not how you make America great. thehill.com/policy/healt...

submitted 14 days ago • 482 comments

Are you a scientist? 🧪 If so, here are great suggestions about how to inform folks about what we do and why it’s important #ScienceMatters

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman". Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

“If Trump’s goal is to destabilize, humiliate and embarrass the loyal people who have chosen to work for their country and federal government, he is succeeding.”

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

A reminder that while Democracy Docket was warning that Pam Bondi was an election denier who would do Trump's bidding, the Washington Post was giving her a literal thumbs up. Support independent media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 14 days ago • 314 comments

Call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for a dude who accepted 25K to participate in a Kremlin produced anti-FBI propaganda film to lead that very same FBI. I’d wager wecould probably find a better candidate, no? But hey, that’s just me… www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

This is part of the poison fed into people's brain by Reagan, federal employees are evil greedy people in shadowy buildings in DC, not "real Americans" and that has always been dumb. Now it's tragic.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 17 days ago • 1278 comments

An important historical note — that USAID helped end Apartheid — sheds new light on Elon’s relentless and soulless attack on USAID. During Apartheid, Black South Africans were robbed of human rights and political power. 1/2 www.thealtmedia.com/p/musks-sout...

submitted 17 days ago • 174 comments

the Federalist papers describe at length the Founders’ efforts to avoid what’s literally happening right now

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

This is 💯 correct, and everyone should read it— including and especially everyone in new and legacy media.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 19 days ago • 1693 comments

I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 18 days ago • 145 comments

"Trump is acting like a king because he's too weak to govern like a President." - @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social on Trump 47 so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims Elon Musk is a "special govt employee" but here's what we know: 1) Leavitt lies. A lot. 2) There is no evidence Musk was appointed as an SGE. 3) SGEs are not allowed to wield presidential authority the way Musk has done. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments