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submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

DOGE is inflating its savings claims. DOGE counts fully paid contracts as “savings.” Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service says it has saved $55 billion by cutting jobs, canceling contracts, and renegotiating leases. But a closer look suggests that number is misleading.

submitted 3 hours ago • 118 comments

1) Every Republican district has been hit hard by Trump's actions, but THIS is their focus? 2) There are no transgender K-12 athletes in MN. ZERO! 3) They have to lie to vilify. 4) There will be GOP forced genital inspections of girls. This is ONLY about hate. www.startribune.com/bill-at-legi...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle

submitted 4 days ago • 553 comments

Wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs is on the version of hitting $8, per USDA data.

submitted 4 days ago • 348 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1943 comments

James Rodden should be disbarred. The proceedings to do so should begin immediately. There is absolutely no excuse for doing otherwise. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 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 6 days ago • 104 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 6 days ago • 454 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

submitted 6 days ago • 139 comments

Congrats to everyone who insisted they were better off four years ago -- you made it right back to the safety and security of "early COVID pandemic"

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

If you’re white and male and you’ve been surpassed by a woman or a minority, it’s probably not DEI, much as you’d like to believe it is. It’s most likely your own mediocrity. So enough of the damn whining.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Alabama residents in Limestone County and Madison County received an extra $100 on their electric bill thanks to an Executive Order signed by Trump that rescinded funding for a grant. 2024 Alabama election results by county... Limestone: 71.3% Trump Madison: 53.7% Trump

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 13 days ago • 121 comments

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

submitted 13 days ago • 306 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

submitted 16 days ago • 175 comments

Pretty much how they spin it!

submitted 19 days ago • 129 comments

These people are either public employees whose identity is a public record or they are privately employed people committing countless felonies via their unauthorized access to government assets. Pick one.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Very important from @alisonmgill.bsky.social: All federal employees need to understand the grievance process if you’re placed on administrative leave other otherwise targeted by the administration. There is a limited window for you to act, so please read this great guidance about how to proceed.

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

FDIC has yanked job offers to more than 200 new examiners, the front-line employees who closely monitor banks to ensure they operate safely and adhere to an extensive rule book. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 75 comments

So what have the recently pardoned J6ers been up to? Here's two examples just from the past few days. In North Carolina, a man recently pardoned for Jan. 6 also charged with child pornography, exploitation myfox8.com/news/north-c...

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 27 days ago • 938 comments

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 232 comments

Breaking: Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by thousands of drug dealers and others to conduct illicit sales using bitcoin. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 33 days ago • 64 comments

Trump pardons “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise” who oversaw digital marketplace for money laundering and murder for hire. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

submitted 33 days ago • 98 comments

If you do a Nazi salute to own the libs or to troll or to generate discussion or to make a point you are still doing a Nazi salute.

submitted 34 days ago • 116 comments

Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 51 days ago • 191 comments

FAFO time.

submitted 81 days ago • 182 comments

Oh, that’s just too good.

submitted 81 days ago • 88 comments

Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies

submitted 81 days ago • 569 comments

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

submitted 82 days ago • 280 comments

I got you, introverts

submitted 93 days ago • 76 comments

Here's a mental check-in for everyone. Always remember there's a clear line between narcissism and self-worth. Care for yourself but also care for others.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

No one cares about the economy in good faith: bad-faith-times.ghost.io/no-one-cares...

submitted 95 days ago • 16 comments

I just wanna point out that the existence of the NLRB and labor unions is the “moderate compromise” option and prior to that things like “running gun battles in the street” and “burning the boss’s house down with everyone in it” were on the table as negotiating tactics

submitted 97 days ago • 53 comments

While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.

submitted 97 days ago • 163 comments

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

submitted 99 days ago • 663 comments

There it is

submitted 101 days ago • 451 comments

Welcome to the Age of FAFO.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

TRIVIA: If confirmed as Trump’s attorney general, Matt Gaetz would make history as the first-ever Cabinet secretary to lead a department that previously investigated him for sex trafficking

submitted 102 days ago • 89 comments

Remember when Fox News revved up the faux outrage and wrote an article complaining about the revolving door between MSNBC and the Biden admin? Can’t wait to see the follow-up about their very own Pete Hegseth.

submitted 103 days ago • 92 comments

Another reason to turn away from those who voted for Trump is because of the people of Ukraine. Trump voters sentenced so many of them to be ground beneath Putin’s boot. It’s unforgivable.

submitted 103 days ago • 66 comments