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submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

All night on the Senate floor: Democrats are putting up AMENDMENT AFTER AMENDMENT to fight back against the Senate Republican budget resolution Because the Republicans, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk are trying to give huge tax breaks to their billionaire buddies paid for by YOU

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

The US was actually already going to get priority status to Ukraine's rare earth mineral mine contracts, but the master negotiator Trump completely burnt that bridge.

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 5 days ago • 285 comments

The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.

submitted 5 days ago • 2926 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1253 comments

Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID "The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people." Well done.

submitted 5 days ago • 314 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 6 days ago • 2927 comments

Country music star Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla and will donate her funds to NPR “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.” 📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the... #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests

submitted 6 days ago • 235 comments

Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

i am sooooooo glad it's someone else's job to feel bad for them

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

After Trump’s 2018 steel tariffs, sales at Mid-Continent Steel fell more than 50%, prompting 80 layoffs. Ford: tariffs took $750 million off its bottom line; cutting workers' profit-sharing by $750 each. GM: tariffs cost $1 billion, enough to pay more than 10,000 employees. (WSJ)

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks.

submitted 10 days ago • 316 comments

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

submitted 10 days ago • 266 comments

Mistakenly? Oh come on.

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. https://buff.ly/42ReSrr

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

What will Starbucks pay for? 🤔 ✅~$8 million Super Bowl commercial ✅$800k a day for CEO Brian Niccol ✅Private jet for their CEO to commute from CA to Seattle ✅Advertising on X & Meta ❌Barista raises that match inflation/cost of living ❌Staffing stores properly ❌Accessible healthcare for partners

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

As someone who grew up in a family with one of those infamous exploding Pintos, I find this story to be notable.

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

We're holding the Senate floor all night to fight back against Trump’s nomination of Russell Vought. America saw how bad OMB’s illegal, incompetent funding freeze was. We want Americans to hear EVERY HOUR how bad the dangers are that he poses to their daily lives as OMB head.

submitted 16 days ago • 326 comments

This is the energy we expect in ALL Democrats. Thank you @repjasmine.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

How to avoid a trade war? "Mate, the easy way to avert a global trade war is to wake up and... do nothing."

submitted 18 days ago • 22 comments

Not only did Trump not release more water that would be useful to firefighters in LA, the water he did release was actually reserved for central valley farmers (who mostly voted for Trump) and will now go to waste instead of their farms.

submitted 19 days ago • 155 comments

Liberal Canadians and Americans are in this together now. We have two shared goals: resist and oppose actively Trumpism and prevent Pierre Poilievre from winning the #CanadianElections

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

In this piece I highlight just one example of one of the main (anonymous!) accounts that Elon is taking instructions from, claiming that Bill Kristol is funded by USAID... based on a total misunderstanding of what a donor approved fund is. There are so many examples like this.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

submitted 20 days ago • 2172 comments

Starbucks paid their new CEO Brian Niccol $96 million in just 4 MONTHS on the job. Meanwhile, baristas were offered their lowest annual raise in years- just ~$0.30/hour. Starbucks can afford to invest in baristas & offer our union a viable economic package - but they haven’t.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Hakeem Jeffries calls all hands on deck. Will force votes on everything, basically shutting Congress down until Republicans move to check the Trump Regime's insane illegal attempt to dissolve the American government.

submitted 24 days ago • 657 comments

Canada's foreign minister confirms Canada is coordinating with the EU and UK on a tariff response and retaliation on the Trump led US tariff attacks on the world.

submitted 25 days ago • 216 comments

If you know you know

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Colombia President Gustavo Petro says he will impose a reciprocal 50% tariffs on US goods: “I resisted torture, and I resist you”

submitted 27 days ago • 907 comments

BRENNAN: In August, you told us big tech needs to be broken up. They donated to the Trump inauguration. Are you still gonna break 'em up? VANCE: You know who else was at the inauguration was my mom B: They gave $1m each VANCE: There were a lot of people who didn't give who were on that stage

submitted 27 days ago • 608 comments

Musk and the LA fires: “Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation — every single thing on this list he shared is misleading or flat-out wrong.” jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-is...

submitted 44 days ago • 49 comments