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The targeted word lists the MAGAs are circulating are very clear indicators of who they’re going after (and it’s everyone who’s not a white, cis, straight, non-disabled Christian man)

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 12 hours ago • 220 comments

"Among accomplished researchers, the fear is that this coming generation of scientists will look overseas or leave their fields entirely, endangering America’s multigenerational standard as the leader in scientific research." ICYMI @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

Oh, look, more republicans getting their faces eaten by the leopard they voted for

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

This reminds me of "Alone in Berlin," one of the best fictional accounts of resistance to the Nazis. Highly recommended if you haven't read it yet. www.penguin.co.uk/books/57572/...

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Literally have no clue how the media isn't covering this story 24/7 when its tailormade for ratings too given how TMZ'd people are with everything. This is one of the worst human beings in the country and he's co-president and the press just refuses to cover it in any meaningful way.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & @wnober.bsky.social) When gov't engineers retire, projects take longer & costs (& cost overruns) go up. It’s harder to manage projects well w/ reduced staffing. Important to remember as DOGE cuts: reduced staffing can actually hurt efficiency. Paper: tinyurl.com/yvy2jt93

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Nobody has ever done something like this before, because it would have been instant impeachment. If we are a liberal democracy in 2030, we will have a very different constitution than in 2024.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

YOU LOOK ANGRY I AM ANGRY

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Trump take insulin

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

We're doing it, folks

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

It’s amazing that LLMs independently converge on the political opinions of a resist lib, even if you specifically try to engineer them to be anti-woke or whatever. Maybe they should be in charge after all!

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Eggs too expensive now. Use 🍅

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 2 days ago • 287 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 • 2595 comments

I'm less struck by the caught off guard vibe than the WTF are you talking about jackass, the "cuts" are literally illegal. You're in Congress?

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

in case anyone's unfamiliar with the different types of "on drugs", this is 3+ days awake on meth or a similar stimulant. it is a very specific pattern of behavior

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

What an absolute garbage human being.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

We're the Axis now

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

this almost certainly costs more money than it saves since i expect they have commitments with the card providers for a certain amount of spend

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Cutting federal health programs COSTS us money, not “just” in worsened health outcomes. The chart shows return on investment for numerous programs. Ex. Flu vaccines for seniors returns $60 in reduced costs per every $1 invested in the program. Poor health is expensive!

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“.. The first time one NATO member thinks the others won’t defend it, that’s the beginning of the end.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The Trump administration has ordered the creation of 500K more illegal immigrants by stripping temporary protected status from Haitians. Vance said he didn't care they were here legally he would still call them illegal aliens. Now Trump gets to make the law match his rhetoric.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

No woke, go broke!

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My only litmus test for a 2028 Democratic candidate is a willingness to ruthlessly extirpate every trace of the Musk financial empire, pour encourager les autres.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3430 comments

This is one of many ways that Musk is making policy changes that align with his business interests

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Good

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The House budget plan would increase already huge 10-year deficits by 16%. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Stealing the infrastructure we paid for. They're treating blue states and cities like we're conquered territory to be plundered.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Yeah I just can't overstate how much this is obviously them responding to the bottom starting to fall out of the popularity of what they're doing.

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The Judge said NIH grants for medical research had to be unfrozen; the White House found a way to refreeze it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

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Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 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

And a good reminder that free people don’t beg. Begging is only necessary here because they have already decided to accept Trumps spree of criminal conduct.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Thing is, Rs will try all these stupid and lawless ideas; none of them will work. Then they'll pivot to some other targets for two or three generations. Rinse, repeat

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Trump announcing that he's going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on anti-drug ads shows me once again that Trump firmly believes its 1987.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

And there it is: Pay or else www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

DEUTSCHE: “.. Inauguration day was exactly a month ago .. no signs yet that fiscal outlays have fallen in the first few weeks of the administration.”

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Remember when people took this guy at his word about Kamala Harris throwing unions under the bus?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #230644: At the heart of plot is tension management: knowing where to introduce it, and also when to relax it before approaching the next moment of tension. 99% of structural problems are resolved by bearing this in mind.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments