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submitted 5 hours ago • 121 comments

Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands. 👇

submitted 14 hours ago • 247 comments

“Actually come to space, pussy” is a pretty funny dunk on Elon Musk, gotta admit

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

We've got ourselves an old fashioned Friday news dump. What's happened over the past few hours:

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

WHY IS THIS NOT HEADLINE NEWS?!! Well done!

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

My new favorite drug is Republican members of Congress getting yelled at in their districts by constituents who hate Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 562 comments

EXCLUSIVE: While Department Of Justice Attorneys Claim Elon Musk Does Not Lead DOGE, Republicans Tell Their Constituents Otherwise Republican members of Congress are actively contradicting the Justice Department.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

i am going to fucking lose my mind, this is not an actual proposal, it’s brain poisoned nonsense drawn up by some musk toady on twitter, it assumes savings that are totally implausible and being contested in federal court, stop responding as if they’re real

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

State governments should cut off all state and local cooperation with the FBI, and they should do it immediately. No law requires it, the Constitution fully empowers you to not even return their calls. But there is no legitimate purpose now in treating them as an acceptable partner for anything.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This is interesting because the question is less what they will do as legislators and more what they will do as politicians. AOC is a member of the House minority, but she’s doing a lot of politics about all of this anyway.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

It’s amazing how many Republican politicians, Fox hosts, & commentators have come out to strongly disagree with Trump’s statements about Ukraine while none of them even mentioned his name while doing so. Their level of fear and terror of Trump is something to watch.

submitted 2 days ago • 224 comments

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 997 comments

The one thing I wish every kid knew is that you absolutely are going to have to totally start over in life, probably a couple of times. Your career, your marriage, your social circle, your sense of identity - at least one of them is going be like a sand castle hit by a wave.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

🚨 NEW bills not in this Weekly! These are NOT vetoable. Use #RTS to OPPOSE by Thurs AM 👇 HCR2025 requires a 60% supermajority vote on citizen's initiatives that amend the Constitution HCR2057 forces initiatives to have signatures from 10-15% of voters in each of 30 AZ districts

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It starts! Anyone from DHS who wants help with their polygraph examinations, just reach out. I have 25+ years experience representing both polygraphers & polygraphees. And if you want to be a #whistleblower, we're here for you too! @wbaidlaw.bsky.social news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 4 days ago • 247 comments

URGENT: The folks at Americans for Financial Reform are looking for stories from people who’ve been helped by CFPB. Please read this call to action and share far and wide! 🚨 Let’s save CFPB 🚨 Pass it on.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

This is a bit wonky because it's a law review written for lawyers, but it explains why this Supreme Court case is so important. Independent agencies provide stability and oversight. Stability is the basis for our freedom and economy. It's why we believe we can do business. It's the social contract.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Mattis did white papers on this and told Trump to go fuck himself when he tried to ban transgender troops via tweet.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

Imagine if this were your pie-in-the-sky utopian vision for the community of the future. Rich people are deranged!!

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘 We hope you all hear those three little words from someone special today, Days Gone Remastered.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 8 days ago • 520 comments

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 1065 comments

Are we just a window "accident" away from becoming as corrupt as Russia?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

The DOGE website is reportedly hosted on non-government servers, not secured against database attacks and can be easily defaced, 404 reports www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 144 comments

The small city of Reading in central Pennsylvania is around 70 percent Latino. In 2024, it shifted toward Trump by a staggering net 16 points. I spent some time trying to figure out why that happened. The result is this piece. I hope you'll check it out: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

submitted 8 days ago • 189 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

I really wish rather than saying, "Kash Patel is bad," Dems would say, "If Kash Patel kills investigations into corruption, right wing terrorism, and Russian spying, you will be responsible."

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

Dems are pretty moderate already, but I think most voters don't know that because Dems are associated with the most unpopular beliefs on the left while voters simply will not believe republicans are extreme even when they hire outright white supremacists bsky.app/profile/sema...

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

5calls.org Just 5 minutes. Even if you think your rep won't listen, call. Trust me, they are listening.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, if you're outraged about this, make a call. If you have a GOPer on House or Senate FRC, call them, and read them some of these stories. foreignaffairs.house.gov/subcommittee... www.foreign.senate.gov/about/member... Otherwise, try to share w/local news.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The Trump administration has slammed the door shut on refugees from all over the world, but there is one particular group he is welcoming. I bet you can guess why. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

A long time ago I wrote a short #sci-fi #fiction for school that my classmates said was unrealistic because the villain - a billionaire technocrat - was breaking the law with impunity and no one would do anything about it. Just thinking about that today for no particular reason… #memories

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I won’t stop posting this.

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments