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Viral posts that claim the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis who deliberately caused the incident are false and baseless. Jo Ellis has posted on Facebook to confirm she's alive, and not the Black Hawk pilot.

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems. David A. Lebryk has served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 267 comments

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 27 days ago • 302 comments

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

submitted 34 days ago • 545 comments

Republicans played a very aggressive long game and won. Democrats are still playing by the standard rules of a genteel game of croquet when they're actually at a fight with opponents wielding knives and chains.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

He's changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America? He's going to need a lot more Sharpies!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: AG Garland has not decided yet to release Jack Smith's final reports on Trump's crimes and treason. Whatever is in these reports has Trump shook. His lawyers are trying to block them. (202) 224-3121. Call your reps and DEMAND the release of the full, unredacted Jack Smith reports.

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

submitted 47 days ago • 2895 comments

One of Trump's biggest promises was to address the rising cost of living. But will he do anything to challenge the main source of high prices — corporations who have gobbled up their competitors and now have enough market power to keep prices high even as their costs have dropped? Of course not.

submitted 101 days ago • 129 comments