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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 327 comments

I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

submitted 21 hours ago • 22 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 21 hours ago • 514 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 21 hours ago • 1937 comments

Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

Yes, exactly!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: @wired.com can confirm that two DOGE members—Edward "Big Balls" Coristine and Kyle Schutt—are now listed as staff at CISA, the agency tasked with protecting US cybersecurity and keeping hackers out of critical infrastructure. @kimzetter.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 992 comments

Every accusation is a confession.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

submitted 3 days ago • 210 comments

The official White House account just referred to Trump as a “king” and posted an image with a crown on his head. They’re not even hiding it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1183 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2673 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 998 comments

So it basically took a month for the U.S. to go from guardian of the western world to the guy you wouldn’t trust to cat-sit Impressive

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

Price of Eggs ⬆️ Price of Groceries ⬆️ Price of Gas ⬆️ Measles Cases ⬆️ Fed Employees Without Jobs ⬆️ Anti-American Sentiment ⬆️ American Planes ↘️

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Can we get NY's @aoc.bsky.social or @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co to do a media appearance with this now-unemployed veteran?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The employee is Gavin Kliger. He’s been named by multiple large news orgs. Not sure why NBC won’t.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Most Looney Tunes characters are effectively indestructible but I don’t think that’s true for Pepe Le Pew. I bet if you ran him over with a car he’d just die.

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8251 comments

This is absolutely chilling. A glimpse of the totalitarian state to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

DOGE is about to receive full access to IRS taxpayer data. On its own, that’s horrific. But it gets worse. The guy with access reposted content by Nick Fuentes (who advocates killing Jews) & says he was inspired to join DOGE by Ron Unz (an antisemitic Holocaust denier). This is beyond dangerous.

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage. Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …

submitted 6 days ago • 246 comments

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

submitted 6 days ago • 762 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

submitted 6 days ago • 415 comments

So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

submitted 8 days ago • 296 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 7 days ago • 834 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 8 days ago • 545 comments

The resignation letter by the 38-year-old lead federal prosecutor in the Eric Adams corruption case, and who he is. We are in a character-testing time. Hagan Scotten just passed his with high honors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Two of the USAID officials strangling the agency have a long history of boosting Jan 6. The new person in charge of humanitarian assistance, for example, posted in 2023 that a rioter's sentence for pepper spraying Brian Sicknick was "unbelievably disgusting" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/two-jan...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Hell. Yeah.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 8 days ago • 467 comments

Congratulations to Pam Bondi, who in her first week as Attorney General has managed to pull off the second biggest and most corrupt Justice Department scandal in 100 years.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Just have to say that it's an absolute disgrace that we're abandoning Europe to Putin. The cost of this is both our dignity and authority but also massive amounts of lives and treasure that will have to be spent to rein in the horror of this authoritarian tide eventually. And that's if we're lucky.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 9 days ago • 246 comments