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This, for the love of Pete

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

If you can’t speak the truth about the nature of an illegal war of aggression, you have no business in a senior job in the department of defense Russia invaded Ukraine Twice Thank you @duckworth.senate.gov

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Nothing about kids dying from measles is normal. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and the Republicans who enable them are responsible for every single one of these deaths.

submitted 1 day ago • 452 comments

Far be it from me to assess the entire federal workforce’s performance, but what I can say with no doubt is they are subject to the most oversight and accountability of any workforce in the country.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 2 days ago • 604 comments

The only immigrant taking jobs from Americans is Elon Musk.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Former Capitol police officer Michael Fanone when confronting Proud Boys insurrectionist Enrique Tarrio: “You are a traitor to this country.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone!

submitted 4 days ago • 545 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 3 days ago • 2158 comments

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

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It’s actually a moral imperative. If you can run for office, you must. Women only hold 25 percent of the 500,000 elected positions in America. Because we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu. emergeamerica.org

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

Dear Germany (and every other country). If Viktor Orbán likes a political party, you’re 100% guaranteed that it will be awful for you. If Elon Musk likes the same party, you’re 200% guaranteed.

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 5 days ago • 1482 comments

Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

submitted 5 days ago • 216 comments

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

A quick review of Hassett's prediction record: – 1999: The Dow should soon hit "36,000." – 2004: "I don't think a [housing] catastrophe is very likely." – 2020: Covid deaths will peak in mid-April, then drop off. And no, he never raised any concerns about trillions in covid aid under Trump.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

The single biggest mistake anti-Trumpers are making in resisting DOGE is the desperation to accede to the need for reform of government. MUSK'S OWN COMPANIES are hellholes ridden with corruption and waste and violations of the law. People should be on the ATTACK against private sector misconduct.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 8 days ago • 838 comments

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 761 comments

A reminder that the catastrophic Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 didn’t start in Spain. It’s called the Spanish Flu because the Spaniards were honest enough to report it. The first recorded case was actually in Kansas, USA.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Governments have attempted something like DOGE, albeit more thoughtfully, in the recent past. It was called austerity. The results were disastrous then, and are sure to be at least as disastrous now.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Black History Month Stories. Today being President's Day, it's a perfect time to talk about a Black woman who suffered horribly under slavery but went on to become a friend to the first family. Today's story is Elizabeth Keckley. CW: the story contains discussion of physical and sexual violence.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Summarizing Elon Musk's government takeover thus far in under 60 seconds:

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submitted 11 days ago • 274 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 11 days ago • 2976 comments

Yes, the Price of Eggs Matters: Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

The best messaging is to state what everyone knows to be the truth in the simplest and clearest way possible. So it’s hard to imagine more effective messaging than this.

submitted 14 days ago • 587 comments

Trump appears to be seeking a deal over the head of Ukraine & Europe. This is the moment for Europeans to seize the frozen Russian assets and use them to give Ukraine leverage; leverage to shape a deal & to walk away from a rotten one if necessary. www.hoover.org/research/fre...

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

I’d rather lose a primary than live with an intelligence failure that resulted in dead Americans on my conscience, but I guess that’s why I’m not a GOP senator. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to believe that America has been without lead in its gasoline for the past three decades.

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If you constantly use your indispensability as a cudgel against others, eventually you will become dispensable.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I managed to de-Google from most things (Gmail, news, search) about 5 years ago, but remained hopelessly addicted to Google Maps because I like all the info it gave on businesses (open hours, how busy, etc). Just deleted it from my phone today.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Had to see it for myself. What a bunch of spineless cretins lead our industries. I am a step closer to understand how democracies die.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

A beach vacation to the Gulf of Mexico sounds much nicer than a beach vacation to the Gulf of America.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

George Orwell has got to be spinning in his fucking grave.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 16 days ago • 402 comments

I'd love to hear any of my Army aviation buddies who happed to be Trump-supporting or ambivalent make this make sense.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments