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This started as a TikTok video or something but now it’s #1 on iTunes and I can’t stop listening to it open.spotify.com/track/1Ztfx8...

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WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

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Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 2 days ago • 276 comments

Down 21% in two days. $PLTR @cnbc.com

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Trump has made great progress converting the Republicans into a pro-Putin party, but not so much converting the American majority into a pro-Putin people. February 2025 Pew polling www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Trump now says Medicaid won't be "touched." That new commitment crashes right into the House budget plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

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Now this is something I can get behind. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... Newsrooms need to agree that "an attack on one is an attack on all." Yes. "What is surprising — and disappointing — is the lack of collective action and response on the part of the press itself," writes Jim Friedlich.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

Someone needs to get to the Wall Street analyst types and convince them that the dismantling of the federal government will be bad for business, I’m increasingly convinced this is our best shot at maintaining democracy

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Sir, another Elon kid dropped

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lol doge.gov still shows defaced pages doge.gov/workforce?or...

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OMB's Russell Vought wants to slash funding for NIH, which helped develop a "miracle drug" for cystic fibrosis that his daughter received. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's wife wrote in a 2021 post. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 327 comments

love this for harrison butker

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 18 days ago • 1757 comments

Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective.

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

On many topics, Jared Golden is a really good bellwether for how a lot of independents and moderates view the overall political climate — and here, it's pretty clear how Democrats are coalescing around Musk as the target guy (which makes a lot of sense!).

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Significant moral hazard here - why trade stuff to Trump in a negotiation if he'll just say "lol" and refuse to fulfill it?

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

Anti-vaccine leader Del Bigtree spotted at Kennedy's confirmation committee vote.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Not to worry as it’s only a tier 1 violation of the Constitution and, as everyone knows, it only really becomes a problem at tier 3 and above.

submitted 18 days ago • 221 comments

Foreign countries will snap up experts in government and affected science and medicine and green tech fields. Will be an incredible, self-inflicted brain drain.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

All true. Even were it not, one could argue that, given the authority Musk is exercising, and his lack of accountability to anyone (other than perhaps Trump), he is serving as a principal executive officer under the Appointments Clause, and is acting unlawfully unless confirmed by the Senate.

submitted 18 days ago • 398 comments

Anti-Musk action plan from legal scholar Peter Shane: “State attorneys general have standing to challenge the hostile takeover of government databases, thanks (ironically) to the Roberts Court’s generous grants of state standing to challenge federal policy.” /1 washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

As if Trump wasn't disruptive enough

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NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He does not, our sources say, have "read only" access, but high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code.

submitted 19 days ago • 519 comments

Trump White House “proof” of these expenditures are largely links to daily mail article 🤡 www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Potentially extraordinary resource for journos and litigators as well about where money is/isnt yet flowing. As with all data online, check the fine print. But at least a barometer that can start to help. Thank you.

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New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement. USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin... #EconSky

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

(Elon minions born after 2000 frantically googling “the bobs”)

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I have deleted Elon Musk. He's fired! A lunatic, that one, so he's gone. (I have as much authority to do that as anyone doing the department deleting, thought I'd give it a shot.)

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 19 days ago • 310 comments

This is a doubly bad sign about the havoc that appointees like Patel, Hegseth, and Vought could wreak. We were told Wiles was going to discipline and organize the second term Trump operation. Instead it's just maniacs running wild while grandpa signs things and watches television.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Almost six years later and this woman is now Meghan McCain’s best friend and the godmother of her child. It’s almost like she knows how to gather crucial information by building trust and creating a believable identity within her target environment.

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

submitted 19 days ago • 143 comments

russ vought is very plainly an enemy of the constitution open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

submitted 19 days ago • 81 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 19 days ago • 745 comments

Gavin Kliger, 26, authored the email announcing USAID HQ would close today. Here is Gavin in a Twitter Academy ad from 2021. He interned at old Twitter. Gavin is an avid Yelp reviewer, critiquing everything from Orange County Planet Fitnesses for being too loud to local Chinese restaurants/

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

The six young men raiding US personnel data for Elon Musk are now among the world’s biggest intelligence targets, yes. They have access to tons of sensitive info, and are in way over their heads. Safe to say plans to try hacking, bribes, blackmail, honey pots—you name it—are already in the works.

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year. A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

At home: racist rhetoric, statist economics, authoritarian politics. Abroad: predation, aggression, annexation. Has anyone ever tried the Trump policy mix before? How'd it go?

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments