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

submitted 10 hours ago • 3424 comments

Never trust anyone who uses “high-IQ” as a descriptor.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 1 day ago • 200 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 • 251 comments

Wrote a few modest suggestions for how to improve DOGE: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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Wrote a few modest suggestions for how to improve DOGE: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

Lots of conservatives axiomatically believe that the federal bureaucracy is unnecessary. Core worldview stuff. Really hard for them to grapple with evidence that it’s mostly good/useful.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

More Supreme Court rulings expected on Tuesday. New two-week oral argument session kicks off on Monday as well.

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BREAKING: In a 5-4 win for unemployed workers, the Supreme Court allows their lawsuit to proceed alleging that Alabama is illegally delaying their benefits. Kavanaugh writes the majority, joined by the Dem appointees and Chief Justice. Thomas writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Vibe shift.

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another one

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Holy moly what a goal

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I’ve never seen a letter from a federal prosecutor like this before.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I regret to report that Ilan Wurman has filed a brief telling our SCt that there's "abundant historical support" for nondelegation doctrine in the 18c materials. I confess to having have some follow-up Qs. But for calibration, I'd like to start w/evidence cited in the brief. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada and I have family up there. These people are seriously underestimating Canadians’ willingness to conduct a multi-decade insurgency.

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One reason I found their argument so contemptible is that they treat birthright citizenship as an interesting puzzle to solve, and all of their methodological errors flow from there.

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This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Neat things happening in the Adams dismissal hearing:

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Some thoughts on that birthright citizenship op-ed: newrepublic.com/article/1916...

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

submitted 4 days ago • 257 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 5 days ago • 627 comments

Interesting. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

A few days late to this but CFPB now has a tip line (on X, of course) for people to complain if agency employees are still doing their jobs. HuffPost confirmed it was legit.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

rogan speaking to the issues that matter to the forgotten working class: killing wolves to make life easier for pretend ranchers who live outside of expensive resort towns

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

So, uh, who is the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator?

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

it is just grotesque how many Americans totally take for granted what good fortune it has been to have incredibly good relations with a rich power neighbor sharing the worlds longest land border

submitted 6 days ago • 78 comments

In Unusual Delay, Wallet Inspector Still Hasn’t Returned

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

submitted 6 days ago • 163 comments

That got me.

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

Wow, they bleeped Word Association.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

My favorite is the one where he says AI would have stopped a restaurant from making him eat outside in a rainstorm, something that has never happened in the history of commercial dining.

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By trading Luka Doncic to the Lakers, the Mavericks front office broke an unspoken promise forged in the futility of the '90s. I was there: The Mavs were bad in pretty much every way. Now, history seems like it could repeat itself—and fans are revolting as a result. www.theringer.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

So I assume that is SNL admitting Sinead O’Connor actually had a valid political point?

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 7 days ago • 289 comments

Who was the other SNL host who committed murder besides OJ?

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments