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NEW: Musk is presiding over DOGE from the Secretary of War's suite in the Eisenhower Building, using a gaming computer (plugged into a power strip in middle of the room) and keyboard with rainbow LEDs. Wifi settings were tweaked to accommodate personal devices www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

submitted 12 days ago • 720 comments

I need this to be on everyone’s front page today

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no. So sad.

submitted 12 days ago • 130 comments

It must be wild to be a private equity guy. One day you wake up and are like “today we’re taking out our worst enemy: yarn.”

submitted 12 days ago • 58 comments

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 13 days ago • 249 comments

File it under “things you couldn’t waterboard out of me”

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Well there it is for anybody who might want to run an ad, or that sort of thing.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 96 comments

It's a horrendous flu season. It's killing kids, it's killing adults. It's killing people who were perfectly healthy before and people who, like most Americans, have chronic illness. It costs NOTHING to keep existing resources available. Our government is spending money to make Americans sicker.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 25 days ago • 382 comments

Now there’s a top of the front page Monday morning headline.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Feels like this is going to be the first Super Bowl to end by mercy rule.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

submitted 27 days ago • 83 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 30 days ago • 1707 comments

@wyden.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov Any of you interested in actually doing something about the ongoing crisis in your country or would it disrupt your weekend plans

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Lee Atwater had a pungent and famous quote about how once conservatives could no longer use the n-word they used things like “states’ rights” to invoke the same spirit. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration any more — if it ever was — to say they use DEI as the n-word.

submitted 37 days ago • 107 comments

It's easy to hate "the government" but the government is thousands of programs that help millions of people in critical ways

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

I have allotted myself 10 minutes per day for news and news like substance due to waves arms and my ongoing stress levels. What I didn’t think about it the impact on my overall social media consumption.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 39 days ago • 882 comments

NEW: Confusion and concern in Kentucky over Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans. Kentucky is heavily reliant on federal funding, receiving nearly $23 billion of federal grants in the last fiscal year.

submitted 39 days ago • 21 comments

Hot take: the whole "my learned colleague may be arguing for the disenfranchisement of Indigenous people but we should assume the argument is in good faith and debate it thoroughly as is legal practice" bullshit, is why we need fewer lawyers in politics.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

submitted 43 days ago • 483 comments

I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet

submitted 45 days ago • 178 comments

What if there’s a public health emergency? Or a drug recall? We won’t hear from agencies we pay for, which Congress created to protect the public, because the Trump White House needs time to conduct a political purge.

submitted 45 days ago • 41 comments

I'm going to repeat this because it's getting lost in the more popular clip being the salute. ELON REFERENCED THE 14 WORDS AFTER HE DID IT. "It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured" is an allusion to the 14 words. There is ZERO debate about his intentions. He said it himself.

submitted 46 days ago • 23 comments

This bit gives me some hope. Congress generally doesn't like it when the Executive Branch meddles with their power. A turf war about who gets to decide whether or not we stick with the WHO may be enough to get a few Republican votes to overturn/override the Executive Order.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The dread I am feeling seems more than existential.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

worries me a bit that we can’t get beyond arguing the semiotics of a gesture anyone can see, done by a guy who spent billions on bringing the nazis back to twitter, who endorsed the AfD, etc etc

submitted 47 days ago • 83 comments

By “free speech” they meant “make it illegal to dislike me”

submitted 52 days ago • 514 comments

there are so many things we could be investing in instead of the pit of gen ai. vaccines! healthcare! public transport! community services! disaster management! UBI! archives! nature conservation! but of course then we'd be distributing all the money instead of giving it to like two or three guys

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

How do I, a woman with broken executive functioning teach my daughter with ADHD how to people?

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

One of the greatest weapons the GOP wields is that enormous numbers of Americans have no clue how our civil government functions. It lets them to turn the partisan gridlock that they create into a narrative about how Democrats, when they hold the White House, are responsible for every bad outcome.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Morning Bluesky. Trump would have been convicted if he hadn’t been re-elected. Why the election was do or die for him.

submitted 54 days ago • 53 comments

It's here! Let’s Go! See you at 8:30 eastern for a (partial) dramatic reading of Volume 1 of the Final Report of the Special Counsel’s Investigations and Prosecutions aka Donald Trump’s election interference crime report. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIlH...

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

lawyers fact checkers and carefully carefully treading on other people's trauma. gaiman is a rich man and a lot of his weapons are lawyers. i'm glad this was reported, but something like this is a huge endeavor that takes a big, resourced and courageous team.

submitted 54 days ago • 27 comments