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Take several seats to the ones playing dumb about the military firings! She was clear and with clarity! Sit down and don’t come unless called for. 🪑 🪑 youtube.com/shorts/BEU0x...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

In other words: if you participated in the insurrection, you now get a pass on your other crimes that were discovered while you were being investigated for insurrection. For immigrants, the law. For my supporters, everything. apple.news/ATiXJFDLmQlm...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 2597 comments

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

submitted 2 days ago • 151 comments

Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

"Shutting down operations results in children out of school, going hungry, and not getting medical attention. What does it say to host countries when we don’t honor our commitments? And you’d better believe the Chinese and other actors are ready to fill the void." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-human-...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 479 comments

Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

submitted 2 days ago • 529 comments

"Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create." Not for the first time, I emphatically agree with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Important @asharangappa.bsky.social piece on unique danger of Kash Patel as FBI Director. The FBI can cause great harm acting lawfully. DOJ rules limiting its behavior can easily be changed or ignored. Please circulate and maybe we can get to 51 nos! 1/2 www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The Trump administration is trying to remake the foundations of the administrative state & democratic practice at home (through authoritarian rule) while simultaneously antagonizing its historic allies, embracing key adversaries like Russia, & disavowing its orientation to more open markets.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

It’s another sign that, as the Trump-Musk assault on the state generates specific awful outcomes, it will reveal how thin the justificatory fictions the duo are spinning truly are—and grow harder and harder for Republicans to defend.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

@hickenlooper.bsky.social @michaelbennet.bsky.social

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Republican Senator just back from 🇺🇦 disagrees with Trump’s capitulation to Putin👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

Anna you obviously have DOGE Derangement Syndrome (DDS) smh

submitted 3 days ago • 231 comments

Dear @nytimes.com: If you yourselves know that what Trump is saying is nonsense, put that in the headline.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Dynamic to watch: Republicans who can't bear what Trump is doing to their constituents but who are too scared to speak up against it.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

@nicollewallace.bsky.social @nytimes.com @npr.org

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

submitted 4 days ago • 400 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1064 comments

If you wanna read a thing that just published that might make your piss boil, this new @rollingstone.com item from @andrewperez.bsky.social with an assist from me, might do the trick sadly: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 6 days ago • 674 comments

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

submitted 6 days ago • 370 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

Think. About. This.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Hey Cornyn, Cruz and Van Duyne, It's Musk Or Us. Whose side are you on? @indivisibletx-24.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"Pressure is building for Democrats to embrace a more timely, cohesive and yes, more aggressive response to the Trump/ Musk incursion. The blue state Governors’ COVID briefings offer the perfect model." Jennifer Schulze (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) calls for daily Dem counter-narrative briefings.

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

1/ Was fortunate enough to join @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social this morning. Was asked what I thought elected Democrats should be doing right now. My answer was: Show up. Not at locked buildings in DC, but places around the country already experiencing the harms of Trump admin actions.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo: employees threatened with firing if they talk to media about how aid shutdown is hurting millions around the world newrepublic.com/article/1915... via @newrepublic.com

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 7 days ago • 1695 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

What the hell is happening this past week? And, where is the political resistance in Washington? @djrothkopf.bsky.social and @normornstein.bsky.social break all of this down on DSR Word's Matter and why Washington needs a Democrat who is willing to say “f*ck you.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 days ago • 105 comments

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

submitted 9 days ago • 613 comments

8. Use your town square Every one of us has a town square. It may include our social media accounts, our local book club or dinner table. Use your town square to speak out in favor of democracy and against what Republicans are doing. Do not shy away from difficult conversations; seek them out.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 10 days ago • 1751 comments

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 626 comments