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“We are transmogrifying from a great power — with “great” implying core moral values and nobility of purpose — into a Big Power, relying on nothing but size to impose our will. In the long term, it will greatly damage our actual power…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Here’s my prediction for DOGE: Whatever minimal amount of money it may possibly save in the short term will be far exceeded by the ultimate cost of fixing all of the problems it creates. It’s already an epic failure.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 1 day ago • 1306 comments

Look closely and the headlines will tell you everything you need to know. 🎼 🎶 "Ohhhhhhhh... One of these things is not like the others..." 🎶 #RESIST #PERSIST And meanwhile... What's happening to the Kennedy Center is an absolute travesty: www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Trump officials launch ICE effort to deport unaccompanied migrant children. ICE memo outlines new effort to deport unaccompanied minors categorized in three categories and fingerprinting children. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

Note, it's true that Vought has gotten the trauma he wants. But bureaucrats are NOT being perceived as the villain here.

submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

Organize. Participate. Resist. #boycott

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

Next big protest from #50501 et al is on March 4

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Gen. C.Q. Brown was at the U.S.-Mexico border when he was fired. Gen. Brown was fired as he was evaluating the military’s role in supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). Fired as he was tending to one of Trump’s top priorities — border security.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Republicans are coming after Medicaid in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires. www.wvxu.org/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

An FBI Director is supposed to be nonpartisan. Kash Patel wrote not one, not two, but THREE books for children with Trump as a king.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Tesla is involved in several housing communities in Austin, Texas, including a subdivision, a solar neighborhood, and a planned community for employees. Muskrat has already been building his "Freedom City"

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

This is high-energy fascist propaganda. They're cutting programs & firing people without evaluating them. This is not about waste. It's about destroying government as a counterbalance to corp. power—getting rid of CFPB, USAID, folks at NIH/CDC, FAA, EPA, nuclear weapons security personnel, etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 5 days ago • 1261 comments

The United States is joining an international fascist network before our very eyes.

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 5 days ago • 1227 comments

"Trump (with his inability to nominate anyone competent) owns this. Elon (with his insistence on gutting the government of talent) owns this. And all of those spineless Republicans Senators (who greenlit Sean Duffy for fear of asserting their autonomy as a co-equal branch of government) own this."

submitted 5 days ago • 162 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 6 days ago • 5973 comments

Last week, Elon Musk appeared alongside Trump in the Oval to defend the work of DOGE. Looking directly at Musk, Trump asked; “Could you mention some of the things your team has found?” Tonight, the government claimed that Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE & isn’t a DOGE employee.

submitted 6 days ago • 175 comments

Elon Musk is coming after Signal. All the more reason to jettison X, Musks little Nazi playground. #DemVoice1 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2UWYa9a/

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 6 days ago • 217 comments

The United States government has been turned into a subsidiary of Elon Musk's companies.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Good one to keep above the fold

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Trump’s FEMA administrator just sent out an email ordering all employees to stop sending things to the media without prior authorization. It was immediately sent to me by a FEMA employee without prior authorization to share with you.

submitted 6 days ago • 386 comments

In the span of a day, Trump's "immigration czar" called for a criminal investigation of a member of Congress for informing immigrants of their rights, while Trump's co-president called for the imprisonment of journalists for basic video editing.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2402 comments

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 6 days ago • 362 comments

Former Presidents and leaders from both parties should be sounding the alarm and urging Americans to protest the destruction of democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

The uncertainty caused by Trump’s funding and hiring freezes has limited training, postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation in areas vulnerable to wildfire and left some firefighters with little choice but to leave the force.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

youtu.be/LtzTO4a83NY?... I love that Brian Tyler Cohen went to Washington to interview Senators and Representatives in person.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

Tillis knew Hegseth was a horrific choice at DOD. He brought in testimony to try to scuttle his nomination and flip other GOP. In the end, he chose his job over his country. When he finishes his second term, he will be 66. He would have a government pension. Not enough.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 6 days ago • 449 comments

Tax the rich and then eat them

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Are people finally waking up? The real fight isn’t about bathrooms or drag queens—it’s about who holds power & at whose expense. Culture war is just a distraction, keeping working people too busy fighting each other rather than noticing who’s actually robbing us blind: billionaires—not each other!

submitted 7 days ago • 298 comments

AMERICA 🇺🇸 LET’S TAKE OUR POWER BACK! KINDLY REPOST, FAR AND WIDE! THANK YOU!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

During the campaign our criminal president repeatedly said he intends to prosecute his political opponents. “No one is off the table”

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

AND ALSO THERE'S A COUP

submitted 7 days ago • 1001 comments

warner is the richest democrat in congress. his seat is up in 2026.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

It’s working. This is the way.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

The Dep't of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies, including the FDA and CDC. Those laid off included people who evaluate the safety of medical devices. @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @bloomberg.com Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ DSW "We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day." The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

submitted 6 days ago • 253 comments

Less than a month since a crash that took 67 lives, Trump is firing hundreds of federal employees who inspect and maintain air traffic control communications, radio and computer systems. This is extremely dangerous and could have deadly consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...