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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

NEWS Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child, has filed for sole custody in court. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social scoops Full Story: bit.ly/4gNSBhP

submitted 17 hours ago • 123 comments

Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

submitted 17 hours ago • 87 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 4 hours ago • 82 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 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 19 hours ago • 559 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1142 comments

If we have enough people with the knowledge and moral fortitude of Maine Governor Janet Mills, and the Associated Press- we might be able to save our Democracy

submitted 1 day ago • 559 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 944 comments

This is how dictators talk.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

“There’s too much going on. It’s overwhelming.” If that sounds familiar, this piece is for you. Jay Kuo breaks up Donald's latest power plays into three categories: bad, worse, and worst. It may sound heavy, but understanding them makes it easier to stay informed without feeling buried.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

The US State Department has ordered embassies around the world to cancel subscriptions to news outlets that they don't like. Free speech for me, but not for thee?

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

The key point that was made in this clip is that it happened organically. We don’t come from the consultant class, we get zero legacy media hype, we don’t get invited on shows & don’t want to be on TV, no big money donors writing checks. It all happened one person at a time. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

submitted 2 days ago • 369 comments

Absurd that all GOP senators but 2 voted to make a grifter/QAnonish conspiracy-theory-monger who was paid $25,000 by a Kremlin-funded propaganda operative to head the FBI. He also has helped Putin by repeatedly claiming Russia did not attack the 2016 election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1537 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1927 comments

WIRED: “The director of data science and engineering for USDS—which Musk rebranded as DOGE— resigned… ‘I do not believe DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS’… even DOGE employees don’t know who is legally running it…” 🤷🏻 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Oh no, Dems are breaking norms! Sorry for the rudeness, Susan!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

submitted 3 days ago • 1181 comments

Trump’s extended weekend included back-to-back days golfing after his trip to the Daytona 500

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 3 days ago • 1381 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 1155 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 3 days ago • 1469 comments

Elon Musk has now set his sights on the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, insisting on personally ensuring the gold remains intact. The vault was last opened to journalists and a congressional delegation in 1974.

submitted 3 days ago • 512 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

Unbelievable www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-...

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BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

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SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 4 days ago • 1335 comments

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered its entire investigations division — composed of 6,000 agents — to divert its focus from drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting people in the U.S. illegally.

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

Don’t like the direction of the country towards authoritarianism. Or, it’s embrace of neo- Nazi governments taking hold in Europe. Or the thought of your personal finances in the hands of Edolph Musk, you’re not alone. Remember, the midterms are coming and we need a Congress with balls #USDemocracy

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Apologies for posting so often but there's so much going on. The personal stories coming out are gut wrenching and deserve to be heard. Ranger Gibbs is one of them.

submitted 4 days ago • 104 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 5 days ago • 2292 comments

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

submitted 5 days ago • 1109 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 863 comments

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 5 days ago • 285 comments

Per @taracopp.bsky.social: “FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

Tim Kaine on Fox News Sunday: Why isn't Trump getting the Republican leaders down in the White House and saying, 'here's what we're gonna do'? He's making all these cuts without Congress because he doesn't even think the Republican leadership will go along with him

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Kaine: "Yesterday the DOGE guys post classified information on their website, and they had to realize, 'Oh, we didn't realize that agency was a classified agency.' You shouldn't let people rampage through offices that have classified information."

submitted 6 days ago • 298 comments

"There was also no opposition." Holy shit, read a book.

submitted 6 days ago • 101 comments

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

I'll set aside that he thinks chicken farms are going to build high tech security perimeters against geese. If he's talking about bio-sec and anti-virals, maybe not an ideal time to be firing everyone at USDA and CDC.

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments