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Musk threatens to fire federal workers who don't respond to an email. Makes no legal sense. Like Trump, he seems to be doing it for shock and awe. Even if it makes no sense. How could the government even read and respond to all these?

submitted 15 hours ago • 39 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 339 comments

This is why he is such a unique liar - he repeats the lie that has been repeatedly debunked and discredited, even in front of him (as it was in the Oval Office the other day).

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

This sort of gives away the "liberal deep state" nonsense. There has never been a Director of the FBI who was a Democrat. The Republican Directors were not targeting conservatives, if the word "conservative" has any meaning.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

I’m gonna log off but like as a journalist you need to push back on this framing, even in a promo post, you can not say this without indicating that it’s a falsehood meant to justify a power grab.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Jumping over a 20 dollar bill to run into the street and pick up a penny.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape. Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

is it good if over half of americans think we currently don’t live in a legitimate state?

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

The other website is pretty much done

submitted 4 days ago • 713 comments

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million. The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. Aatish Bhatia,Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer nyti.ms/4hVfn8w

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

submitted 4 days ago • 1012 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

The short, medium, and long term consequences of what Trump and Musk have done will be devastating. Families will be ripped apart, careers destroyed, and the US will be totally unable to respond to whatever political or financial crisis inevitably results from Trump's cruelty and incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

submitted 5 days ago • 3747 comments

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

Kevin Hassett’s COVID model, which he was in no way qualified to create, predicted that American COVID deaths would be at ~zero by May 2020

submitted 6 days ago • 170 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

They’re marinating in right-wing paranoia there. No matter how savvy or smart they imagine themselves to be, prolonged contact with that kind of crazy will absolutely warp their understanding of what “normal people” think

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

when I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, instead of snow days we had smog days where we weren't allowed to go to school.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

Yikes. I hadn't seen this video yet, only read about it. It's legitimately the two of them laughing on the most watched cable TV news channel as Homan directly calls out the "agreement" they came to, even as the DOJ is inisting there's no agreement. This should be filed in court...

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

The SUV one is sending me www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

Every Atlantic feature on totalitarian Bard sophomores should have been about America's Elite Backbone Crisis

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

American insurance companies — quietly, and with little government pushback — have assumed an outsize role in mental health care. People in pain are paying the price. On Feb. 20, join us for a virtual discussion about how insurers interfere with mental health care. RSVP:

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

submitted 9 days ago • 992 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 9 days ago • 247 comments

coming soon to a rural police department near you

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

A billionaire who has attached himself to the federal government while sucking massive amounts of money from it thinks other people are “parasites”

submitted 9 days ago • 202 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 10 days ago • 1457 comments

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

submitted 10 days ago • 486 comments

The problem with scouring Medicare and Social Security for "waste" is that they inherently don't provide a return on investment. They exist to help people who need help and often can't help themselves. To much of the far right, this in and of itself constitutes "waste."

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

MAGA rn: Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!” Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”

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submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

MAJOR EFFICIENCY WIN: the CFPB that’s returned over $21,000,000,000.00 to scammed americans now being dissolved to save every american $2.00 annually

submitted 11 days ago • 99 comments

I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.

submitted 11 days ago • 891 comments

of all of NYC's corrupt mayors, Eric Adams may be the most corrupt but corruption pays off under Trump

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

"This woke has cost us a fortune and cost us our reputation." What the hell does that even mean? His mind is just a soiled diaper filled with grievances and gutter gossip.

submitted 12 days ago • 180 comments

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 12 days ago • 1059 comments

the “lawless decision” here is “the president does not have the power of the purse and cannot unilaterally cut or dismantle agencies established by congress”

submitted 12 days ago • 348 comments

THEY'RE FLYING OVER A DOMED STADIUM

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

NEW: The Trump administration is not backing down in its effort to slash spending and reshape the federal government, despite multiple court orders explicitly restraining the president’s sweeping actions. By Jake Pearson and @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

Framing cutting CFPB as a taxpayer benefit just so corporations can get back to freely ripping people off. Meanwhile, $19.7 billion in consumer relief.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments