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My least favorite decade is the past month

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Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

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10 yrs of school & unsafe work conditions? Attack was part of wave of gun violence in US hospitals/medical centers. healthcare is one of nation’s most violent fields. workers suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than any other profession, per CDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is DEI hire. Caine’s military service … doesn’t include key assignments identified as prerequisites for the job… 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act required previous service as the vice-chair, a combatant commander or a service chief … President waived requirement.

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A good thing to do if you are flailing a bit right now (as who is not??) is to get in touch with your own values, the things that you find life affirming and necessary in the world. Read some inspiring works about things you value - labor solidarity, scientific achievement, social justice.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

Ducks and geese enjoying peas, in case you need a break from everything.

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YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

submitted 24 days ago • 202 comments

Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.

submitted 24 days ago • 265 comments

at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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😬

submitted 26 days ago • 68 comments

Don’t worry about the FBI purge. The FBI focuses on terrorism & white collar crime. Who cares about those things?

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tom from myspace never would’ve participated in an oligarchy

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A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

submitted 28 days ago • 230 comments

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

submitted 28 days ago • 2851 comments

Today, we are as far from WWII as WWII was from the Civil War I’ll just let that sit with y’all

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

A large emergency response has been dispatched to Reagan National Airport for reports of an aircraft crash Video from the Kennedy Center webcam appears to show the collision and crash www.arlnow.com/2025/01/29/b...

submitted 29 days ago • 163 comments

As a free market conservative, I want the federal government run like a business. A shitty, money-losing social media business plagued by hate speech and spam bots.

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

Remember when satire was distinguishable from reality? Me either

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SCOOP: The email Andrew Kloster, the Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel and self described "raging misogynist," used to sign up for his X/Twitter account appears in a leak for an escort service website. The IP address for the escort service website account is in Washington D.C.

submitted 29 days ago • 127 comments

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

submitted 30 days ago • 386 comments

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

submitted 31 days ago • 220 comments

when you graduate from hitler youth to the SS you don't get to have your name withheld because you're just a lil guy with glasses and it's your birthday

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

I think about this quote a lot. He told everyone in 2014 what the plan was. Now Democratic leadership seem hellbent on allowing him to do it. The "chuckles" part chills to the bone.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I don't know who in the Trump Admin came up with the name "Stargate" for their AI project, but I'm assuming it was Trump hoping it will transport his approval rankings to another dimension.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Wait Is Caroline Kennedy saying that RFK, Jr Put LIVE ANIMALS in a blender-and killed them?!? “His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks”

submitted 30 days ago • 222 comments

Can Trump do what he is doing without violating federal law and the Constitution? We asked a member of Congress, who apparently is the person least likely to know anything. #Satire

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Boy, there is probably something to be said about how Trump is governing according to the actual campaign and platform he ran on and not the fantasy economic populist bullshit much of the commentariat spent November through January insisting he ran on.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 30 days ago • 3338 comments

Going to be a bit harder to get folks to pay real attention to that OPM letter because (a) its harms are more abstract and (b) folks are going to waste time debating whether its legal, but in all seriousness it is imo the single most severe and most dangerous act they've taken so far.

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

The democrats knew all of this would happen to Americans and still risked it all to fund Israel’s genocide.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration. Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.

submitted 33 days ago • 317 comments

I’ll say this for the disagreement bots: at least they read the whole post before they reply

submitted 32 days ago • 21 comments

It is too late man All the nazi salutes in the world won't get the gamers back on your side Not this time

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Trump tells Jordan to make room for a million Palestinians; Israel declares ceasefire broken & stops return. In age of fascism and genocide, that’s “international cooperation.”

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"Ali...was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be police, but refused to identify themselves, when he was walking on the streets of Zurich this afternoon. " This is fucked up.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

My wife & I choose our kids' names based on what's popular at the time. Like our daughter Alanis and our son Iraq War

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No Imam?

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Argument styles: 1. Arguing to "win" the argument 2. Trying to reach a consensus 3. Burning it all down and saying things you can't take back I find #3 the most effective and efficient.

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