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This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 15 days ago • 2925 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 17 days ago • 861 comments

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

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The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status.

submitted 17 days ago • 137 comments

The Trump admin says ICE has custody of migrants sent to Guantanamo, but it's DOD guards in Camp 6, a war-on-terror prison. It won't say who is being held incommunicado there, but we are publishing a list of 53 men in Camp 6. w/ @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us

submitted 19 days ago • 1027 comments

JUST IN: Judge Amy Berman Jackson becomes the 5th judge today to block an aspect of Trump's early-term orders, this time the firing of ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger. And night isn't over. yet ...

submitted 20 days ago • 60 comments

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

submitted 20 days ago • 3195 comments

Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson Feb 09, 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-9...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 22 days ago • 3216 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 22 days ago • 701 comments

I was just outside the Treasury Department where Elon Musk has launched a full scale authoritarian takeover. My message to Musk is simple: get your hands off our money and get the hell out.

submitted 26 days ago • 843 comments

The parasites at the top have carved out their own nation separate from ours. Untouchable. Unchecked. They share nothing with us. No struggle, no hardship, no humanity. Every division they manufacture, every lie they feed us, is just a desperate attempt to keep us from realizing our true potential.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

If you ever wondered what a jellyfish with NO testicular fortitude looks like, this is it👇Senator Cassidy (R-LA) folded like a cheap suit and voted to advance RFK Jr out of committee today, totally defying his Hippocratic oath. MAGA Republicans will never put country over party! Shameful!

submitted 27 days ago • 312 comments

Hey @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @senatedemocrats.bsky.social, as Rick says, it’s time for some tough love. See below.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump standing next to Netanyahu: "I also believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades ... it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people."

submitted 26 days ago • 201 comments

Trump is rambling. Netanyahu is smirking. In his head, are visions of a two-state solution never being broached again. In Trump's head, is a hotel tower and Trump Gaza golf course.

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 1780 comments

Trump: "The US will take over the Gaza Strip."

submitted 26 days ago • 1085 comments

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe: 100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

submitted 29 days ago • 1625 comments

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 29 days ago • 962 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 29 days ago • 615 comments

BREAKING: KRISTI NOEM REFUSES TO RULE OUT DETAINING WOMEN, CHILDREN AT GUANTANAMO BAY AS PART OF DEPORTATION SWEEP — MEET THE PRESS

submitted 29 days ago • 1888 comments

The Trump trade war targets two of our closest allies, Canada and Mexico, but plays nice with China, a notorious trade cheat and driver of fentanyl. President Trump owns the economic and national security fallout.

submitted 29 days ago • 565 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 29 days ago • 3287 comments

BREAKING: I’m hearing from several VA employees that they have been locked out of VATAS - thats how employees request leave - like administrative leave to file EEO complaints. It also shows your work schedule and OT. If this has happened to you, please reach out using the contact info in my bio.

submitted 29 days ago • 343 comments

Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

submitted 29 days ago • 1102 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 29 days ago • 4017 comments

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

submitted 29 days ago • 2784 comments

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

submitted 30 days ago • 386 comments

This guy is now responsible for the safety of our planes

submitted 30 days ago • 288 comments

These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk: Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly King (Independent) Peters Shaheen Slotkin Warner

submitted 29 days ago • 2349 comments

Judge Paul Friedman on Trump proclamation Jan 6 prosecutions were grave injustice: “There has been no 'grave national injustice.' And just because the proclamation was signed by the President does not transform up into down or down into up as if peering through the glass in 'Alice in Wonderland.'"

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

“government gangsters” speaks volumes about this administration. It’s like they see Nicky Barnes as a role model.

submitted 30 days ago • 613 comments

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

submitted 30 days ago • 930 comments

Remember we were so worried about TikTok getting our data that we banned it? Then we gave Elon Musk and his cronies access to Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds, federal salaries, and other sensitive information.

submitted 29 days ago • 267 comments

The universe speaks in mysterious ways.

submitted 29 days ago • 1507 comments

The real story after the tariffs are imposed is to watch who Trump gives waivers to, and what they did to get them.

submitted 30 days ago • 450 comments

Holy shit! Democrats, if you’re looking for a fighter, you found one— @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social for DNC Vice Chair.

submitted 30 days ago • 1146 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 30 days ago • 6191 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 30 days ago • 816 comments

This is a national emergency:

submitted 30 days ago • 2188 comments

It's a tragedy.

submitted 30 days ago • 1146 comments

Yes, we are also paying attention to the deafening silence of the MSNBC contributors and frequent guests to this. Will be noted and not forgotten. www.meidasplus.com/p/goodbye-mo...

submitted 105 days ago • 1635 comments

Here @washingtonpost.com we fixed your headline “Trump’s advisers & congressional Republicans discussing significant changes (cuts) to Medicaid, food stamps & safety net programs to offset enormous cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts (for the rich)…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments