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Please don't let the reporting about the Pentagon purge focus solely on DEI/Joint Chiefs. Firing the service TJAGs - the top lawyers for Army, Navy, USAF/Space Force - is incredibly consequential. A little context🧵on why.

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Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 19 hours ago • 105 comments

Yes, the fucking White House really did post this. You can be a Trump supporter or you can support American democracy. You can't do both

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FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

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Looking forward to upcoming travel 😩😩😩

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If Trump is not planning to comply with the law and send appropriated money to blue states, I don't see any reason people in blue states should have to continue paying taxes to the federal government

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$5k checks to all Americans would cost $1.65 trillion. So far, "DOGE" has saved the value of a bag of Chick-fil-A. No, they aren't saving us money. No, they aren't balancing the budget, shrinking the deficit, or eliminating the debt. They're trying to buy your silence.

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COLLINS: You are a coequal branch of government BERNIE SANDERS: Are we?! I kinda thought so, but you'll have to explain that to the president

submitted 4 days ago • 340 comments

This is a coup.

submitted 3 days ago • 352 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1218 comments

US Senator Roger Wicker, head of the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, commented on the talks with Putin: "No, Putin cannot be trusted. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed."

submitted 4 days ago • 620 comments

The coup continues

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Hey gmail - Some insane portion of my day is devoted to trying to whittle my inbox down to a manageable size. Do I want you to add, without asking, a new "feature" that randomly PUTS THINGS I HAVE ALREADY DISPOSED OF BACK IN MY INBOX on the theory that I might want to "follow up"? No. No, I do not

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

POTUS abolishes the independence of all independent agencies. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Was watching star wars (Empire) with kids. Daughter asked if America is "joining the dark side"

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Imagine having one of the cushiest jobs in the world where you get paid to write and teach about your scholarly pet projects with zero oversight and you use it to churn out half-baked thought pieces in NYT on why people you don't like shouldn't have rights.

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A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

United States and Israel in 2025: sigh

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Measles was the leading cause of blindness & deafness in the USA & short of that starts a process of long-term damage that only shows up decades later--https://www.aao.org/salud-ocular/consejos/six-ways-measles-can-affect-eyes-2 & newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/e...

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NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 632 comments

Trump is making me agree with Andrew Coyne, ffs. Grim times.

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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... Unfortunately I fear this is exactly correct. The United States is not the good guy, and they are no longer your friend

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

If you needed another reason to move to signal, this is it.

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The judge said five to ten and I said double that again I'm not working for the clampdown No one born with a living soul could work for the clampdown

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X is banning links to Signal. Because private means of communication are anathema to fascists www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

A reminder that the once-great Washington Post is fully in the hands of the fascists now. Top reporters are leaving, and so should you thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Let’s at least be clear about Musk’s endgame: Massive profits for Musk and whoever he chooses to provide AI to replace humans. That’s his interest. The rest of us are useless unless we give him money. Trump’s goal is to stay out of jail, but we knew that when we elected him.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 317 comments

There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 485 comments

It will always be surreal to see Russian assets in our government.

submitted 6 days ago • 1092 comments