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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 900 comments

Trump: "Despite the Russia Russia Russia hoax I've always had a good relationship with Putin. He wants to end the war. And I think he's gonna be more generous than he has to be." (Russia continues to bomb Ukraine, so it doesn't seem like Putin really wants the war to end.)

submitted 2 days ago • 232 comments

Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire

submitted 3 days ago • 461 comments

Dead people getting rich off social security. 💀💰💸 They are setting up to rob YOU.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

My message to Elon Musk: get your hands OFF Social Security.

submitted 20 hours ago • 55 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 4 days ago • 1239 comments

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 232 comments

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Today at a Foreign Affairs Committee briefing on USAID I asked Trump's head of USAID Pete Marocco, as the overseer of democracy and free elections programming globally, whether he was at the Capitol on January 6th. He refused to say no.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"The leaders refused to succumb to the efforts of Mr. Marocco & the [DOGE] team, overseen by Elon Musk, to assume control of their functions, dismiss staff members and install Mr. Marocco as the acting leader." HE CANNOT BE AN ACTING LEADER. NO STATUTE PERMITS IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip: He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress. He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession. He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law. Keep fighting.

submitted 2 days ago • 331 comments

Tell Congress to pass the "Stop the Steal" bill to keep DOGE out of our treasury systems and data:

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

#RapeCulture is “threatening to redefine boundaries.” #Trump ##Canada

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In Anniston, Alabama

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Someone had fun writing this

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

submitted 4 days ago • 315 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 4 days ago • 520 comments

Is it safe to assume that Russia itself now has access to computers inside the US Treasury, IRS, FAA, FBI, CIA, etc.?

submitted 7 days ago • 243 comments

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

submitted 10 days ago • 4675 comments

NEW: Judge rules Trump’s firing of federal ethics watchdog is illegal. SCOTUS is likely to rule next week. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

submitted 7 days ago • 825 comments

“This is treason adjacent. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is very busy firing black people and women, so he’s not focused on the actual target here, which is Vladimir Putin.” @therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.

submitted 6 days ago • 562 comments

We’ve had pretty good years—decades?—of air travel safety. “The risk of a fatality from commercial air travel was 1 per every 13.7 million passenger boardings globally in the 2018-2022” I’d rather Trump & Musk & DOGE f*k off instead of laying off FAA employees & gambling, destabilizing. #FAA #DOGE

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

submitted 7 days ago • 893 comments

NEW on CNN: Dan Bongino, incoming FBI deputy director repeatedly has spread the conspiracy theory that pipe bombs planted on January 6 were an FBI “inside job” to “frame MAGA people.” He now be the number two at the bureau. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

It is honestly worth watching the entire 7 minute exchange rather than just the clips. Trump is insane. JD Vance is insane. youtu.be/ZThLlfMvMRY?...

submitted 8 days ago • 109 comments

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

submitted 8 days ago • 851 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 9 days ago • 3190 comments

#RapeCulture is about stealing data, no consent. Rape culture is “drill baby, drill,” no accountability. Rape culture is blaming Ukraine for Russia’s incursion,war. Rape culture is “you made me…!” And “you disrespected me!” And threats of violence like WWIII. #Trump #Hegseth #Vance

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The DC US Attorney, a 2020 election denier who referred to the DOJ as "Trumps' [sic] lawyers," is refusing to charge a GOP Congressman with domestic violence despite a police referral & clear evidence of assault. Our law enforcement has been taken over by criminals. www.alternet.org/trump-prosec...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

You only fire the lawyers if you plan to break the law. It's that simple. That's what Hegseth meant when said "roadblocks." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments

I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am. This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.

submitted 8 days ago • 465 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 11 days ago • 992 comments

The bloodletting of vital services continues. Tomorrow’s economic blackout may have to give way to a general strike.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments