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America is being destroyed by the arrogance of insecure mediocre white men. That’s pretty much it.

submitted 6 days ago • 199 comments

My true tariff story - I'm installing a fence for my 2 dogs. I priced out the rolls of fencing last week - 1 roll of 5', 50ft fencing, $55.95 at Home Depot, $55.98 at Amazon. I went to the Home Depot website yesterday, it's now $87.29 and Amazon is $102.98.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

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The Hill: Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.

submitted 5 days ago • 826 comments

There was a flurry of news about tariffs. It passed. The real consequences will hit US consumers around Memorial Day. Important then to remind everyone of cause and effect.

submitted 8 days ago • 268 comments

There’s an economic tsunami coming our way, and we aren’t prepared for it.

submitted 8 days ago • 247 comments

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

submitted 12 days ago • 1078 comments

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

submitted 12 days ago • 316 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 12 days ago • 922 comments

So, according to SCOTUS, the Trump admin can ship a person to a foreign gulag w/o due process of any kind, just so long as they have “access to due process” while detained in said foreign gulag, which of course they won’t. And MAGA actually thinks this shit will stop with people they don’t like?

submitted 29 days ago • 195 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 39 days ago • 2521 comments

According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 1321 comments

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

submitted 42 days ago • 834 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 42 days ago • 5485 comments

Russia presents its demands as concessions and then presses more demands and calls them guarantees of the first set. Ukraine understands this dynamic all too well. If Trump is Ru asset or an idiot, at least the free Western media can learn to cover things with their real names.

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments

Social security is a lifeline for seniors, disabled people, and millions of other Americans. Inability to access these services isn’t just annoying, it can be life-threatening. We must focus on strengthening the Social Security Admin, not dismantling it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

Meanwhile, just last month... "... commands that link the victim's phone to a new device—in this case, one in the hands of an eavesdropper who can then read every message the target sends or receives..." www.wired.com/story/russia...

submitted 42 days ago • 183 comments

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

submitted 43 days ago • 265 comments

I have an additional two sources who have shared the same.

submitted 43 days ago • 211 comments

You've got to wonder how many signal chats are going on in the Trump administration that they didn't accidentally include the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic in.

submitted 43 days ago • 263 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 43 days ago • 3675 comments

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 43 days ago • 1543 comments

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about "Need to know" means "need."

submitted 43 days ago • 488 comments

By tomorrow morning the MAGAs will all have their stories down pat. Tonight, enjoy the moment. youtu.be/5pPd6dHSNFM?...

submitted 43 days ago • 29 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 66 days ago • 715 comments

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

submitted 65 days ago • 305 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 65 days ago • 666 comments

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

submitted 65 days ago • 1141 comments

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

submitted 65 days ago • 2509 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 65 days ago • 3444 comments