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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

It is so weird living in a new reality that most people can't even see. Million of people think they're still living in a world that no longer exists. Wildly disconcerting times.

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Watching the 4 Nations final and it seems surreal that not a single one of the anchors or announcers has dared to mention the reeking orange gorilla in the room and how the president’s insults to Canada have tainted any win the USA might obtain. Go Canada.

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Imagine, if you will, a religion dedicated to the spread of disease

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Tonight I’m pulling an all nighter in what's called a "vote-a-rama" with my colleagues to amend and reduce the harm to Michiganders in the Republican-led budget proposal. www.youtube.com/shorts/-QBvs...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

The next step in the Russian autocratization playbook is to sell government holdings off to cronies

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 687 comments

ICYMI: I’m leading a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United. After an election where a billionaire bought a seat as Shadow President, we must ensure our democracy is truly of, by, and for the people — not corporations and billionaire donors. truthout.org/articles/jay...

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The strikes have upended the lives of prison inmates and their families, who have been denied access to everything from lawyer to family visits to religious services, parole hearings and medical treatment

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"About two-thirds of Colorado land is managed by the federal government. And there are a lot fewer federal workers managing those acres as of this week."

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

submitted 3 days ago • 222 comments

Trump on DOGE: We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox. You know about that? We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. But we’re going to go to Fort Knox and make sure the gold is still there.

submitted 2 days ago • 1198 comments

This may be overthinking it but I think these are two sides of the same coin. They know their budget math is insane and DOGE is an attempt to create fake cover for it. They’re gonna say “DOGE saved 2 trillion dollars now the budget math works!”

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Part 1 of a series about exactly what has happened over the past month, how it’s happening, and what is likely to happen next This one's about the actual structure of DOGE, which is not an ad-hoc agency overstepping its mandate but a carefully-crafted weapon intended to unmake the government 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Really don’t know what to tell people as someone who has written and spoken about the far right and authoritarianism and is in the academic side of this that we crossed the rubicon tonight when Trump declared he and the AG are the sole arbitrators of law. This is it. It’s here there is no going back

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Not the first or the last to point this out but making the end of a Phillip K Dick novel government policy is way too on the nose.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

FDA Food chief on his decision to leave FDA: “The secretary’s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone." Jim Jones had just hired food-chemical safety staff, who were laid off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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I wish that anyone had taken introductory macroeconomics because I could have sworn that government spending is part of the equation for GDP

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Here’s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories within their jurisdiction, b) give them a blistering statement, c) blast it out on all channels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to stability

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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Cribbed from LinkedIn.

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Where is AARP?????? Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2289 comments

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

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Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

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