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A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

submitted 2 days ago • 727 comments

a side issue that struck me while reporting on Indiana banning student IDs for voting: how freaking strict Indiana is in tossing ballots when you make an error! at the sole polling place on campus at IU Bloomington, 300 people cast provisional ballots in November... & every single one was rejected!

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 4 days ago • 291 comments

“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees within another agency." Judge Alsup may have had enough.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 5 days ago • 481 comments

Thread: A viral clip of Donald Trump Jr saying on his Triggered podcast that "the US should have been sending weapons to Russia" instead of Ukraine is AI-generated and fake. Worryingly, the fake AI audio sounds near identical to Don Jr's real voice. Let's see how we can verify that it's fake.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

The reckless Republican budget will be debated on the House floor today. It represents the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. Children, families, seniors, hospitals and nursing homes will be devastated. House Democrats are a Hard NO.

submitted 7 days ago • 915 comments

DOGE’s Latest Cut: Glenn Youngkin’s Balls www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-lates...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 14 days ago • 8253 comments

The Oval Office meeting convened by President Trump sought to eliminate roadblocks to the planned merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. His participation was a brazen conflict of interest, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say — one of a series in recent weeks. nyti.ms/4gQPXaS

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

Let's hope Brasil can finish what we failed to do in USA with Trump.

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submitted 15 days ago • 780 comments

Wow. Clerked for both Kavanaugh and Roberts. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to be me.” Honor and admiration.

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

If only there was some type of confirmation hearing led by Roger Wicker where he could have reviewed all the many, many things Pete Hegseth has said, wrote, and done.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

Reminder: supporting the war in Ukraine is literally the most cost effective project the US military has ever undertaken. For a something like eight percent of the Pentagon’s annual budget, we have reduced the Russian military by something like half, a decades-long setback. Don’t let Russia win now.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Are we just going to pretend Trumps face is normal? Are we REALLY going to pretend this dude is “manly.” Makeup is so tough bro

submitted 22 days ago • 1474 comments

The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month. Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either. And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.

submitted 22 days ago • 342 comments

From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.

submitted 23 days ago • 484 comments

ust reviewed the coverage of Carl Nichols' decision enjoining Trump's shutdown of USAID. Only Politico (and my own post) note that Nichols specifically said that DOJ presented no evidence of fraud or corruption. EVERY OUTLET should emphasize this. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Wheeee! Snow always brings out the kid in me 😊☃️

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 202 comments

NEW: The Department of Government Efficiency has built a “firewall” separating Elon Musk’s team from the 200 or so legacy United States Digital Service workers, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 25 days ago • 94 comments

Imagine any prior moment in the history of the U.S. where a president whose family is in business with LIV GOLF via hosting tournaments four years in a row would convene a White House meeting involving LIV Golf and its potential merger partner PGA. This is a conflict of interest. Plain and simple.

submitted 25 days ago • 51 comments

This guy is completely unhinged. The DC US Attorney is now Elon Musk’s law firm.

submitted 25 days ago • 619 comments

You are the company you keep.

submitted 25 days ago • 377 comments

New York Times headlines are so sanitized of value judgments. This one says, basically: Is Ethnic Cleansing Practical?

submitted 27 days ago • 266 comments

1/ ❗Really chilling. Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge. -Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ -Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes

submitted 27 days ago • 487 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 27 days ago • 1419 comments

There is still beauty in this world

submitted 28 days ago • 1446 comments

Peanut Butter from Kentucky, Whiskey from Tennessee, Orange Juice from Florida…. This is what we call “getting what you voted for”.

submitted 30 days ago • 464 comments

"A letter submitted to the Senate sent by 'physicians' in support of Kennedy's nomination includes names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, the AP has found..." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 30 days ago • 567 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 30 days ago • 591 comments

Please kill me

submitted 31 days ago • 351 comments

Senate needs to respond to mass firings of Jan 6 attack prosecutors by rejecting Trump nominees. Have a spine and stand up to this autocratic effort to rewrite history and embolden political violence. Block Bondi and Patel.

submitted 31 days ago • 242 comments

How could this not possibly violate a slew of federal laws?

submitted 31 days ago • 1631 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 31 days ago • 186 comments

Purges and loyalty tests in the security services. Right out of the authoritarian playbook

submitted 31 days ago • 30 comments

The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building): OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost

submitted 31 days ago • 113 comments

BREAKING Dozens of FBI agents who worked on the January 6 and Trump investigations, along with some of their supervisors, are expected to be fired today. Full Story: https://bit.ly/4huIb7s

submitted 31 days ago • 48 comments

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

submitted 31 days ago • 324 comments

Every single fucking state government run by a Democrat should do this. Fight the fuck back already.

submitted 32 days ago • 49 comments

It turns out when you lie under oath to the Senate to distance yourself from an antisemitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist podcaster so you can get confirmed as FBI director, the bigot in question might get upset and reveal you’re lying & you used to regularly text his personal cell phone.

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

scoop w/@dmccabe: The F.C.C.'s commissioner, Brendan Carr, has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS stations www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 33 days ago • 137 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 33 days ago • 1411 comments