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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1343 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 5 hours ago • 198 comments

27.06 mi/43.6km - Zwifting in Watopia this morning. 2nd Photo - My road bike that I use with Zwift. I bought this bike 2 years ago today. Benelli Road Bike R22 4.0 PRO CARB DISK - Carbon Fiber, 105 Shimano #Zwift #Cycling #@zwiftrides.bsky.social

submitted 57 minutes ago • 0 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 148 comments

More of this

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

"The solution...will require more forceful measures: lawsuits & journalistic solidarity that might include a widespread boycotting of White House press briefings." "The free press may be going down, but if so, we should go down swinging." @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

President Trump has ousted Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown and says he is replacing him with Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine. A retired four-star general expressed serious dismay over this move to me tonight, calling it "sadly political and tragic for our nation."

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

FLASH: Trump fires Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, other senior officers www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

SENT VIA HAND DELIVERY

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

I've spent a lot of time rambling around Oregon's second district, which takes up two thirds of our state and is as rural and Republican as it gets... if they're shouting "tax the rich" and "tax Elon" in LaGrande, something is definitely happening here.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Interesting. Politico Nightly just out now has a piece which is directionally identical albeit perhaps tonally different from my piece this morning about the beginning of the anti-Elon backlash www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2491 comments

NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Name your own gulf 🤣 boingboing.net/2025/02/20/m...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

ICE attorney in Dallas accused in complaint of allegedly making "racist, bigoted, xenophobic, hateful" posts on X www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-att...

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

BREAKING via WSJ “The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, was removed from his post, administration officials and other people familiar with the matter said, amid frustration in the Trump administration that deportations haven’t accelerated faster.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 22 hours ago • 71 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2165 comments

Tropical Flowers #photography #flowers #macro #ecuador #nature

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, freshly pardoned from his 22-year Jan. 6 sentence, was arrested near the U.S. Capitol today on a charge of simple assault. I happened to be standing about 2 feet away when it happened. Story here: www.wusa9.com/article/news...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2505 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

submitted 1 day ago • 415 comments

NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments