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submitted 9 minutes ago • 0 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 3 hours ago • 1023 comments

Scaring people into quitting didn’t work, so now it’s a new game. X isn’t for gov’t business, and not replying to an email isn’t a legal resignation. We could’ve had housing help, tax breaks for workers, and better healthcare. Instead, we’re stuck with this.

submitted 1 hour ago • 39 comments

This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

submitted 39 minutes ago • 2 comments

Poor bastards on nuclear subs will surface in a month and find they’ve been fired.

submitted 53 minutes ago • 24 comments

DOGE has been sending their mass emails from a misconfigured server, causing DOGE emails to fail SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation. This means that agencies are probably marking DOGE emails as spam.

submitted 55 minutes ago • 29 comments

Maybe Musk's baby mamas, the ones whose public pleas he's been ignoring, can get a response from him via that opm.gov address.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 0 comments

Beyond stupid, they are also incompetent.

submitted 34 minutes ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder that Covid is real

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

Short 🧵

submitted 33 minutes ago • 0 comments

If all it took was trans people being themselves to turn you into a Nazi, you were always a Nazi.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

"They are laying the groundwork for denying benefits to anyone they want to punish or deem unworthy—or indeed, any one of us." - Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

submitted 2 hours ago • 216 comments

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

submitted 2 hours ago • 251 comments

The real “Gulf of America” is between the people who believe every word Musk & Trump are saying and the people who know how incredibly full of shit they are.

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 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 1 hour ago • 9 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1114 comments

These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 103 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 1 hour ago • 28 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 4 hours ago • 153 comments

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 2 hours ago • 121 comments

Two weeks from now the crew of a nuclear submarine are going to see this email and the subsequent one firing them all.

submitted 2 hours ago • 34 comments

DOGE has also canceled leases for ten Social Security offices, a vast majority of which are in states Trump carried. Really screwing over Trump’s own voters. Green Bay WI White Plains NY Logan WV Carlsbad CA Batesville AR Columbus OH Okemos MI Nacogdoches TX Las Vegas NV Roanoke Rapids NC

submitted 6 hours ago • 53 comments

To summarize, the hidden procedure is vast amounts of lying.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Not fresh observation but the idea that “government should be run like a business” is an exceedingly stupid one that fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a functioning democratic government. Redundancies in the event of any problem occurring are the point, not a failure or “bloat”

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

Last week: Correspondent @stevanzetti.bsky.social identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media, and courtroom observation.

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

New: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

"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...

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

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submitted 6 hours ago • 777 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/

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

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."

submitted 6 hours ago • 262 comments

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 8 hours ago • 24 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 8 hours ago • 26 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 7 hours ago • 215 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 8 hours ago • 106 comments

This is an excellent template and should be disseminated widely

submitted 2 days 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 1 day ago • 35 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!

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 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 9 hours ago • 1115 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 8 hours ago • 68 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 21 hours ago • 147 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 417 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 22 hours ago • 45 comments