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DOGE isn't saving us money. DOGE is forcing us to DIY society--to manage all the costs, risks, and problems that government is best poised to solve.

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

ballsack sports broke character

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

I told OPM what I did last week

submitted 23 hours ago • 72 comments

Chicago today. Thank you for standing with #Ukraine! 📷:@AnnoyedUke

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

“Don’t criticize my friends” is the weakest argument for the poor state of American journalism

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

"Trump lies" was the story that needed to be written a decade ago. Now he does not merely "drive change;" he destroys democracy. #BrokenTimes In Trump’s Alternative Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

This tweet from my former boss is one of the most rage inducing things I've ever read. Tina freely allows the bosses in HER office to get away with terrible behavior and does nothing. It's a huge reason why I quit. And she doesn't support billionaires? She's posting on his platform!

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 1 day ago • 613 comments

Some people read this and think this is all fantasy. Like a novel. It could literally happen tomorrow. There is zero mechanical reasons it could not. It just takes people like @smith.senate.gov growing a spine and not caving to fascists.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

This is just awful. I’m trying to be patient but holy shit Democrats, what are you even doing? I got a fundraiser today from the DGA about how PBS is under attack. Are you fucking kidding me? Fire all of the consultants you have. Start over. DM me.

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These are the moments in history that matter folks. We can either accept our fate as slaves to the most evil people to ever rule our republic OR we can rise up and demand we be heard.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 123 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 1 day ago • 912 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2069 comments

The recent culling of the Joint Chiefs reveals what Trump means by being against DEI. It means that the one woman and the one non-white man, have been removed and replaced by exclusively white men. That's what he wants for America. It's not anti-DEI, it's just racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1869 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 2 days ago • 74 comments

The speed with which institutions are capitulating suggests that they were looking for reasons to do things like this beforehand. Remember who acts quickly and treat them accordingly when the pendulum swings back.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

For a US government that hates DEI, it's curious that the Secretary of State is Cuban, the FBI director is Indian, the DNI head is Samoan-Indian, and the President is South African.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Come knock doors with us in Milwaukee to help our friends in Wisconsin elect Susan Crawford in the critical April 1 state Supreme Court race. Crawford faces a right-wing opponent funded by the likes of Elon Musk. From Feb 22 all the way through March, we're canvassing every Saturday. INFO/SIGN-UP:

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.

submitted 2 days ago • 398 comments

it’s comforting to imagine that nothing could’ve been done to prevent our current disaster, or at least that nobody could’ve known. but the truth is, since jan 7th, 2021, many people have been loudly yelling that we could end up right where we are now if the people in power didn’t change course

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

It is so weird living in a new reality that most people can't even see. Million of people think they're still living in a world that no longer exists. Wildly disconcerting times.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1026 comments

Abrogate your MLATs now. It's all downhill from here.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hahaha looks like the Senate finally worked a Friday. Adjourned at 4:50 in the morning but I'll give them 1/1000th credit.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Are you accidentally saying stuff like this while doing literally nothing too you fucking coward? You are literally just like them.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

They destroyed a Black college president's career because she didn't properly format a footnote last century but they won't even Google a Black Republican.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 3 days ago • 5082 comments

can someone let the senile president’s eldest son know that his father’s chief vizier wants to impregnate his teen daughter

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Happy Black History Month

submitted 3 days ago • 534 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

If you aren't already a paid subscriber to The Handbasket, now is a great time.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you ever wondered how a civilized modern country like Germany could have gone so completely and violently insane, you're looking right at it. Shoulda shown up.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

submitted 3 days ago • 578 comments

This is not good.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

State governments should cut off all state and local cooperation with the FBI, and they should do it immediately. No law requires it, the Constitution fully empowers you to not even return their calls. But there is no legitimate purpose now in treating them as an acceptable partner for anything.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Kash Patel's "enemies list" includes Republicans. He's the new head of the FBI thanks to Republicans who voted to confirm him. Destroying yourself to own the libs. Good luck.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

If Gov. Pritzker has his eye on a White House run, I'll just say that I'm not at all opposed.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Anyway, you should probably all start using Signal

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

McConnell announces he will not run for re-election and voting to make Kash Patel as FBI Director feels so poetic.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Kash Patel was just confirmed 51-49 to head the FBI. Feeling very sad for my former colleagues today.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

internet edgelords only held back in their ripping the copper out of the walls of government by antiquated programming languages it's a real 4chan vs Fortran situation

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

it’s great that we have a significant constituency now that denies the existence of infectious disease

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

This is really one for the "hE's diStRacTing yOu" hall of fame, normally it's "oh he's renaming the gulf to distract you from his attacks on immigrants" like it's at least plausible but wrong. This is just "he's declaring himself a king to distract you from his ruling us like a king" like what

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments