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Quite a moment when top military commanders are reacting to Elon's latest manic weekend email outburst as though it's a provocation from a rival state power

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

a lot of people rn are like "I voted for the You're Fired guy and then he fired me, what the hell!"

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

Pretty sure it means “We’re breaking contracts, illegally freezing payments. If anyone complains, we’ll point to this, and when we get sued, we’ll show it to a judge, who should laugh it out of court, but by then you’ll be out of work and burdened by legal fees, and we’ll ignore rulings anyway.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

The stage of capitalism where companies advertise on a Nazi porn site for fear of government reprisal. gizmodo.com/it-sure-look...

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

So Mad King Elon posted this about two hours ago and I've now seen one of the actual emails. Not going to mention the agency my source works out. But suffice it to say it's entirely shuttered. So everyone there was forced to stop working more than a week ago. The actual email is one is that in ...

submitted 12 hours ago • 124 comments

Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.

submitted 12 hours ago • 705 comments

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

submitted 14 hours ago • 296 comments

He nails it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1424 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

I know it’s been treated as a sideshow but Musk’s insane breeding fetish, the high likelihood that his actual number of children is far, far higher than known, and the fact he has effectively abandoned almost all of them is actually one of the most damning things people can learn about the man

submitted 20 hours ago • 57 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 18 hours ago • 586 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 114 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

The Joint Chiefs don't change with a new president. Supposed to be impartial, nonpartisan. Until now. Trump fired the Chair, Gen. Charles Brown (because he's Black), Navy chief Lisa Franchetti (for being a woman), and the 3 top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers (because they say follow the law).

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 21 hours ago • 184 comments

what would a foreign adversary do differently as part of a coordinated attack

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 657 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

I remember when people said trying to rationalize away Musk's Nazi salute would just result in it creeping further into acceptability and here we are at the biggest gathering of what we used to call conservatives. www.thedailybeast.com/bannon-does-...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1228 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 755 comments

This is really something

submitted 1 day ago • 1774 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1908 comments

This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape. Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.

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Having to do this in a reply to Elon bullshitting about the latest update to his anti-woke chatbot… bleak

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

AMERICAN DREAM, 1776: I hope our new nation can someday fulfill the promise of true democracy for, of, and by the people AMERICAN DREAM, 2025: I hope the unelected billionaire Nazi fries his brain on Ketamine so someone can stop his broccoli-headed teen soldiers from crashing planes

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

It really fucking burns me that Hoffman, Joplin, Ledger, Belushi, Hendrix, and all those folks die of drug overdoses but this freak keeps on chugging.

submitted 2 days ago • 156 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2944 comments

Bannon: "They stole it. The system is so big, so corrupt, so powerful ... fix bayonets, we're charging again. That is why Kash Patel is director of the FBI! That is why Bobby Kennedy is the head of HHS! That is why Tulsi Gabbard is at DNI! That is why Pete Hegseth is in the Pentagon! Fix bayonets!"

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

Seconds ago, the Senate voted to confirm the nomination of this guy to be FBI director. www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

“He texted me and said: ‘Jesse, this is not good. I’m really sad. I’m upset.’ This guy is not a DEI consultant. He is not a climate consultant."

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Trump proposes something idiotic/racist/illegal and op ed writers in once respected publications get to work trying to make it sound less idiotic/racist/illegal, and fail.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

submitted 2 days ago • 432 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Did Panama agree to build and run Trump’s concentration camps so he’d stop talking about seizing the canal?

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

New York Governor Kathy Hochul responds to Trump and says he is no king and that she’ll see him in court.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4825 comments

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is” (This is not how the Constitution works)

submitted 4 days ago • 764 comments

it’s so cool that we are at the whims of this reactionary force of groypers that don’t understand anything, lead by the dumbest guy ever seen in history

submitted 4 days ago • 401 comments

Actual headlines in the past week.

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 4 days ago • 578 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 4 days ago • 454 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 807 comments