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President Donald Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry.

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Trump's executive order cutting funding to medical facilities that perform gender-affirming healthcare has been blocked in four states.

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What an absolute fucking embarrassment this whole discussion was. It’ll play great on Russian media and with the useful idiots on Twitter, though.

submitted 3 days ago • 217 comments

To be clear: Vance and Trump blew this up on purpose. Yet another gift to Putin. Pathetic.

submitted 3 days ago • 638 comments

"Hands off Social Security. Hands off Medicare. Hands off Medicaid." - Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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I recently did most of the navigating for my 85 year old uncle through what was already a "challenging" Social Security process to collect survivor benefits. I'm reading reports that up to 50% of the staff and that's just unacceptable.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Residents across Florida’s 1st District depend on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We can’t let them take these vital programs away to fund billionaire’s tax cuts. In Congress, I will fight for us. #VoteValimont 🍊 Special Election: April 1st, 2025 gayforcongress.com

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

We work our entire lives for our Social Security. Musk and Trump need to get their greedy hands off it. Tell Congress to not make ANY cuts to Social Security here: bit.ly/3EPDwi8 #ResistTrump

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

'Chaos and fear' as Trump and Musk make major moves on Social Security: report www.rawstory.com/trump-social...

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"The Trump administration is planning to cut the Social Security national workforce in half (losing 30,000 workers)." Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC

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MAGA: We want the Epstein list to hold pedos accountable! Trump: best I can do is give a binder to a bunch of influencers, direct AG Bondi to accuse the FBI of withholding Epstein information, and convince Romania to let the human traffickers who voted for me come to Florida.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court paused a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to release $2 billion in frozen USAID funds and handed Trump his first legal victory in his effort to consolidate power.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

After single-handedly undermining the security of every single government job, Musk has the gall to encourage retired air traffic controllers to return.

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Consumer confidence down. Unemployment up. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make 6 nuclear warheads. Are we great again yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 157 comments

What’s the purpose of this? There’s already very limited wiggle room in the turnaround from the meeting to vaccine production. If this isn’t rescheduled quickly, vaccines won’t be ready before peak flu season.

submitted 4 days ago • 269 comments

Elon Musk has been the face and sometimes even the voice of DOGE. The White House still won't say who is actually leading it.

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LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

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Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service claimed this week to have saved an estimated $55 billion through a combination of layoffs, canceled contracts, lease renegotiations and other actions. But a list that it posted of contracts and leases suggests that number is inflated.

submitted 9 days ago • 91 comments

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

So here’s what happens when they actually go after Social Security & Medicare: They officially PISS OFF approximately 73+ Million Voters, their Families & Friends, and their political lives END! Are you paying attention GOP? We’re watching very, very closely, we know who you are! CONSEQUENCES!

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Musk and DOGE are closing local Social Security offices, making it hard for people with disabilities to access help. Frank Bisignano, former FISERV CEO, is Trump’s nominee for commissioner of Social Security. He is likely to expand this. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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"Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner." wapo.st/41qBKwR

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President Trump has said Social Security “will not be touched.” But the DOGE team’s first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far — worries advocates about what might come next.

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The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 10 days ago • 367 comments

"Amateur hour in the federal government." "Really scary." "They’re throwing out the baby with the bathwater." This is how some experts feel about DOGE’s recent round of federal cost-cutting as some of Elon Musk’s promises of "trillion-dollar savings" are debunked.

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The special counsel alleged Trump broke the law that states the president can remove him from his five-year term “only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” via @ashleymurray.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

With four key deputy mayors saying they plan to step down, Mayor Eric Adams is facing growing questions about his ability to lead New York City.

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

Kinda weird that SecDef is announcing to the world that he has tax problems. Totally normal to blame Biden for your failure to pay taxes

submitted 13 days ago • 183 comments

To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it. Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

Anyone want to explain to me how it makes any sense that the US and Russia are trying to negotiate the end to the war in Ukraine without any sort of Ukrainian delegation?

submitted 13 days ago • 486 comments

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

submitted 14 days ago • 2601 comments

Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices

submitted 14 days ago • 82 comments

It's the second time "The Star-Spangled Banner" drew that reaction in two games the United States has played at the NHL-run international tournament.

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1. Yes, this is some weird shit. 2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.

submitted 16 days ago • 719 comments

Unreal. DOGE posted National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) headcounts. NRO budgets and headcounts are classified to prevent adversaries from using them to extrapolate our intelligence priorities. Stop giving kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing access to this shit.

submitted 16 days ago • 206 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Recipient of two bronze stars and a Chief Justice Roberts clerk.

submitted 17 days ago • 104 comments

The Trump administration is cutting funding for navigators, who help people sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage, by almost 90%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Friday.

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The USDA announced that a second strain of bird flu, identified as D1.1, has been detected in dairy cows for the first time. Previously found only in wild birds and poultry, this marks the strain's recent spread to cattle. Nevada confirmed its first human case of bird flu in a dairy farm worker.

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Earlier: Derek Maltz formerly worked at PenLink, a Nebraska-based tech firm that has sold software that can track phone locations without a warrant to agencies like ICE and Texas DPS.

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Boris Pistorius with the Weather Report on the chilly reception from Europe to Vance's lack of understanding of democracy.

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Vance, falsely, claims that German free speech laws are in danger. Nobody stops anyone from being a populist. But when they do the nazi shit, they go to jail for it, for obvious historical reasons. You know what, James, if you think this is a problem: Do the Hitler salute and see how that goes.

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

You should ask yourself why the GOP wants to impeach judges who rule against them but not Clarence Thomas, who failed to report millions of dollars in bribes, erm, “gifts” on his financial disclosures.

submitted 17 days ago • 149 comments