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Has an US press covered this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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South Africa has officially banned all American businesses from operating within its borders and halted mineral exports to the U.S. 🇿🇦✂🇺🇸 This decision comes just days after Donald Trump announced a complete withdrawal of U.S. funding and USAID support to South Africa. 🥶

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Note: In 2024 alone, Musk’s enterprises were awarded approximately $3 billion across nearly 100 federal contracts, averaging about $8 million per day.

submitted 9 days ago • 145 comments

Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.

submitted 9 days ago • 415 comments

Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOO

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

submitted 12 days ago • 223 comments

On the ground local reporting is doing its job. www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Riviera of the Middle East.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Well, well, well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 1280 comments

Trump issued a memorandum invalidating government labor contracts finalized in the 30 days before his presidential inauguration. This action is not legal and will not hold up in court.

submitted 21 days ago • 88 comments

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

submitted 21 days ago • 337 comments

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

submitted 21 days ago • 172 comments

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

submitted 21 days ago • 169 comments

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

submitted 20 days ago • 407 comments

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

submitted 20 days ago • 490 comments

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

submitted 20 days ago • 275 comments

I do just want to quickly confirm for everyone as a bestselling Trump biographer that he is getting substantially more orange It is not your television

submitted 23 days ago • 85 comments

A good idea

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The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...