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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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submitted 29 minutes ago • 238 comments

George Conway is right. Yes, the military purges are racist, but they are also treasonous. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was not fired just for being Black. He was fired for being honorable. That's why his replacement is not just White, but also under-qualified and on the Trump family payroll. 1/

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Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

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NEW: Trump's military purge likely isn't over A draft list of other officers who might be fired circulated this week on Capitol Hill, and it had a focus on Black and female officers The list isn’t final and is subject to the whims of POTUS and SecDef www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 hour ago • 22 comments

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands. 👇

submitted 1 hour ago • 124 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 70 comments

This is an excellent template and should be disseminated widely

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

🟠 is a deeply stupid person. He has been told why this is a terrible idea, but he's too feebleminded to retain the information!

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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 3 hours ago • 728 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 2 hours ago • 50 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 138 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 362 comments

it is really notable the extent to which state Dems have been significantly better than federal Dems at telling Trump to go fuck himself

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments

"Other than a dateline reading 'Updated Feb. 21, 2025, 10:37 a.m. ET,' the story does not indicate what was changed. There is no correction notice. The Times’ stealth edit significantly alters the impact of the section on Evans and calls into question the article’s overall credibility."

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Asshole never heard of carrying kitty litter, ffs??

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

seeing a lot of this type of thing — and then if there are court cases and such that render those edicts toothless, they never get the same coverage. it's teaching me not to freak out too much when news first drops.

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

submitted 15 hours ago • 519 comments

It feels hard, because it is hard. But we have to do what we can, anyway.

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DID TRUMP STEAL THE 2024 ELECTIONS ? Glad a lot of Podcasters are now bringing Greg Palast to explain how people of colour were surgically removed from electoral rolls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PM...

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If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 14 hours ago • 83 comments

Maybe just make it harder to post/repost anything that doesn't have alt-text? (Like, 3 screens worth of "are you sure?" prompts.)

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Payback, e.g. "Retribution."

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Donald Trump — The House resolution "implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it." The House plan slashes $880 billion from Medicaid—TRUMP OWNS THIS!!! Democrats need to speak out now—LOUDLY. Don’t Cut My Medicaid 📢

submitted 15 hours ago • 161 comments

Wow, another DEI hire who just has decades of experience and more medals than I can count. Good riddance! www.navy.mil/Leadership/F...

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

They also selected a photograph that makes him look much darker-skinned than most other photos do... wasn't this a RW playbook trick used on Obama, too?

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So they've reached down and gotten someone who has never been a service chief or a combatant commander. And who comes out of the special ops which is full of cowboys.

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NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

submitted 17 hours ago • 236 comments

DOGE puts a $1 limit on government credit cards. Every single federal employee should order one $.96 Pentel ballpoint pen www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 1 day ago • 451 comments

Trump Fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs The nominee to replace Gen. CQ Brown, the first black officer, to serve as the Pentagon’s senior military post, is a retired Air Force general... NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COLIN POWELL. This is the frigging WSj

submitted 15 hours ago • 32 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 17 hours ago • 1188 comments

The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 16 hours ago • 19 comments

Someone should lock all of them inside and keep them there.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 20 hours ago • 61 comments

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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An 83-year-old retiree with student loan debt joins a lawsuit to protect the CFPB after its shutdown left consumers vulnerable. The lawsuit challenges the agency’s forced closure. Read More at: www.washingtoninformer.com/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-operations

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Relax, our financial institutions are in good hands One of the thugs behind Trump's attempt to overturn the election is now his top person at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The fact that his crimes got him disbarred makes him all the more qualified talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

This is a drug addict who can barely put together a sentence.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1265 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 124 comments

Looks like this is where most of the current "Dem Leadership" also belongs!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Awesome thread, thanks! (And women have been raiding menswear, for at least all of my lifetime....)

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