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the quickest route to ending this would be for a consortium of states that value their sovereignty to team up use state power against Musk's various commercial properties

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 235 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 21 hours ago • 124 comments

If your worldview is such that you take it as a given that rich Silicon Valley people are intelligent, then... try for a new worldview, please.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

there's simultaneously two major trendlines occurring with this administration 1. laying waste to a lot of what keeps government/society stable in a really reckless way 2. loudly telegraphing that they see themselves as above accountability ("what are you gonna do?")

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Even if it was real, there’s literally nothing the “woke agenda” could do to our government that is half as harmful as conducting massive barely-coordinated purges of longtime federal employees working on critical matters of state

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

there are so many things like this that will leave a scar forever even if everything ends happy

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The very basics of constitutional protections in the US are crumbling fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

if you're scared get a dog

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

When a man with a gun jokes, you pay attention to the gun and not the joke

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This should go without saying, but none of this is about efficiency; it’s about breaking the wills of anyone earnest enough to view public service as a worthy calling and, by extension, to undercut the draw of service for a generation.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1214 comments

Red Dawn led me to believe the Russian attack on the United States would be much more dramatic than a slow, methodical propaganda effort.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

submitted 3 days ago • 699 comments

This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 759 comments

1-2 The Chairman of Denmark's Defence Committee, Rasmus Jarlov: "America has taken no casualties in Ukraine. They have paid 4% of the US defence budget for one year and that was too much for them. So now they will surrender to Russia."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social said: Mike Johnson leads an NPC — Non Player Congress

submitted 4 days ago • 1268 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists. Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Hi! I’m Ken White. Welcome to Law Talk, @politico.com’s new legal newsletter. Today we’re talking about the APA, the Administrative Procedures Act, which is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychologists in the United States.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 4 days ago • 1335 comments

Hey, I know her! Time to dig out this old meme I made as advice to lawyers about social media.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

everyone is so dumb about most things, including me this is just what it’s like to live in a massively complicated technocapitalist society in which we’ve taught sand to do math and all good policy flies in the face of our Paleolithic instincts in an age like this, the real sin is overconfidence

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The thing about this is it is completely factual to say that people who know have been saying for years the US aviation system has been stretched to the breaking point, and while there's myriad contributing factors, the root cause is an underfunding of necessary institutions by the Republican Party

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

By rights, this would be another enormous DOJ scandal www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 4 days ago • 280 comments

If Trump said he was reinstituting chattel slavery these guys would write an op ed explaining why the 13 amendment allows it. The entire conservative legal movement is nothing but stooping lickspittles bsky.app/profile/anth...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Not all that familiar with the New Testament, so perhaps some of the good Christians who serve in the Trump administration could explain how this gibes with their deeply held beliefs. Remarkable reporting via a 5-person NYT team. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

"The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by Trump-appointed officials to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze." via @Reuters.com

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

The Baltic states are that one corner of Europe doomed to scream “we fuckin warned you” for eternity

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

🤯 “one of the purged publications is "OSHA Best Practices for Protecting EMS Responders During Treatment and Transport of Victims of Hazardous Substance Releases… there is a "diversity of state-specific certification, training, and regulatory requirements" for EMS” open.substack.com/pub/populari...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments