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This is like telling an abuse victim that they deserved to be beaten because they attempted to protect themselves and pissed off the abuser in the process.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The first loyalty test: Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? Second (newer) loyalty test: Did Russia invade Ukraine/Is Putin responsible for the war?

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 10 hours ago • 474 comments

I see it. That’s not the only location that needs to hang a distress signal.

submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 11 hours ago • 3462 comments

This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 22 hours ago • 220 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1558 comments

Investigate your bio, bro

submitted 21 hours ago • 66 comments

Wonderful!

submitted 21 hours ago • 61 comments

Elon doesn't seem to understand how the federal government works.

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

Decades of sacrifice and work by generations of men and women across the globe up in smoke. Truly tragic. Tens of millions of American voters squandered the legacy of their parents and grandparents for the thrill of racism and “owning the libs.”

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

The party of absolute trash.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Consider... tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people are losing their government jobs. Jobs that may have taken up to a year to secure. They bought homes, cars, started families. No income now to make payments or feed babies. How does that help our economy?

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Here it is! Our full 25 minute interview with former NFL punter Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social about his decision to tell off his MAGA city council - mic drop after mic dop - and then get arrested following an an act of civil disobedience. youtu.be/Pprrm6TYmZU

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 2 days ago • 2871 comments

The most notable thing about this clip from the president's address to the governors is the way Maine Gov. Janet Mills stood up to Trump. And the second most notable thing is the absolute stone-faced silence from the other governors in the room. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 2 days ago • 2180 comments

The US Justice Department has determined that multiple layers of removal restrictions shielding administrative law judges are unconstitutional and will no longer defend them in court, top officials said reut.rs/437W3AI

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COLLINS: You wrote in fall 2023 that "Putin is to blame like Al-Qaeda was to blame for 9/11." Do you still feel that way or do you share the president's assessment as he says Ukraine is to blame? WALTZ: Well it shouldn't surprise you that I share the president's assessment on all kinds of issues

submitted 3 days ago • 384 comments

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Just spent the last few hours writing another big catch-up on what's happening behind the scenes at the NIH and CDC. It'll be in the AM Inside Medicine. Subscribe for free if you'd like to receive it! open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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A memo to the Education department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding race, gender complaints will continue to sit idle. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

provocative gesture that resembled a different provocative gesture is about as cowardly a construction you could cough up to avoid sounding . . . provocative

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“If FBI agents who are just doing their jobs aren’t free of the risk of political prosecution, then who is? In a country run by a president who has accumulated all power into his own hands, you never know who might run afoul of the leader’s good graces.” joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

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Ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe was arrested during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting after protesting a proposed 'MAGA plaque' outside the city library. Kluwe approached the dais to "engage in the … tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." He was then arrested. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

you could screen Idiocracy every single day in this WH and they would still experience it as a tribute concert

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Defending Trump’s power grab with the “unitary executive theory” is just a fancy way of claiming the president can rule the executive branch like a monarch. This argument has no basis in history or the Constitution.

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DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Elon Musk's AI has been altered so it now does a "both sides" if you ask it about climate change

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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move upends trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

This morning AG Bondi fired ATF’s Chief Counsel, Pamela Hicks. Within an hour, Hicks was given the memo from the AG, computer access was terminated, and she was escorted out of the building. Hicks was an exceptional and highly ethical chief counsel. Trump’s purge continues

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The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it believed President Trump had the constitutional power to summarily fire administrative law judges at will, despite a statute that protects such officials from being removed without a cause like misconduct.

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

“There’s the America I know and love—and then there’s Trump’s America. I will keep looking for signs of opposition, from wherever in the world there are pro-democracy humans who see and reject what’s happening here.” www.americaamerica.news/p/rooting-ag...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Usually, it's fine to skip the House budget resolution. But not this year. Here's a guide to the budget that kicks off the Republicans' one-big-bill strategy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aliciaparlap.bsky.social

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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