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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 88 days ago • 363 comments

More people voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him.

submitted 89 days ago • 115 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 95 days ago • 711 comments

When MI09 Rep. Lisa McClain voted to fund billionaire tax cuts by slashing Medicaid and CHIP for her constituents, she endangered families, kids, seniors, and the disabled because she feared for her job more than she feared you.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?

submitted 122 days ago • 617 comments

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

submitted 127 days ago • 242 comments

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

submitted 127 days ago • 103 comments

Mike Pence texting JD Vance today

submitted 129 days ago • 116 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 132 days ago • 154 comments

Oh man, I have so many stories about that "startup". The founder Marshall Webb spent a year harassing me because I posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet (he considered himself to be the sole authority). It later turned out his knowledge came from him personally hosting their infrastructure 1/5

submitted 133 days ago • 24 comments

Today is tough. So this laugh is for our programmers and data scientists. #wecodebetterthandoge

submitted 133 days ago • 6 comments

This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.

submitted 134 days ago • 147 comments

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

submitted 135 days ago • 151 comments

This is a five-alarm fire if true. And if BLS specifically is in the cross-hairs markets should flip out

submitted 135 days ago • 55 comments

AP Breaking News banner over a March 19, 2024 AP story.

submitted 135 days ago • 496 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 136 days ago • 511 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 138 days ago • 903 comments

Tell your senators to do their jobs: Vote no on all nominees Refuse a quorum Call for quorum checks Object to unanimous consent requests Be LOUD about why they are doing this and demand a stop to the coup. Thank you @indivisible.org indivisible.org/resource/how...

submitted 137 days ago • 33 comments

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

submitted 137 days ago • 1536 comments

Pretty damning evidence tipping the scales on the question of whether Musk is pro-apartheid.

submitted 137 days ago • 24 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 137 days ago • 1157 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 137 days ago • 3263 comments

OK, it's well past time to start a thread. Welcome to Donald Trump's trade policy. Nobody. Knows. Anything. 1/n

submitted 164 days ago • 88 comments

Journalists: When you ask the question this way, you are accepting the premise. The premise is that non-white men and women (including white women) are not qualified to do the job. Please don’t accept the premise. Frame the question in a way that challenges it. Thank you

submitted 140 days ago • 131 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 141 days ago • 3728 comments

submitted 145 days ago • 912 comments

One week down, 4 years to go. 😩

submitted 145 days ago • 6 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 147 days ago • 166 comments

Literally nothing is as MAGA as watching a bunch of self-righteous frauds who pretend to give a damn about Christianity, viciously attacking a minister who preached about caring for the vulnerable while their rapist-felon messiah scoffed at her. Your religion is short one Jesus.

submitted 149 days ago • 71 comments

Easiest layup question in media today: ask Republican elected officials if Trump should have pardoned the January 6th folks who violently attacked cops that day.

submitted 150 days ago • 357 comments

The insurrectionists have won - it just took four years. I can't even put into words how upsetting and dangerous this is. The message is clear from day one: commit violence and break the law on Trump's behalf and he will make sure you are not held accountable.

submitted 150 days ago • 19 comments

I cannot tell you how tired I am of this bullshit. Republicans nominated and voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Republican politicians endorsed him and refused to impeach him twice. Nearly every Democrat fought him every step of the way to protect democracy. Stop gaslighting us!

submitted 159 days ago • 1230 comments

Hot tip for the next two years: a Republican bill does the opposite of what it’s called. A GOP bill defunding schools that mandate vaccines would be called the “Protect our Schools Act.” A GOP bill raising the retirement age for social security would be called the “Retire With Dignity Act.”

submitted 161 days ago • 352 comments

Reminds me of that episode in The Handmaid Tales where Serena Joy thought because she had written the rules and bylaws for women as incubators and all that bs that she would be equal to the men and was shocked when they kicked her complicit ass out of the big meeting.

submitted 189 days ago • 120 comments

“Trump lied about an election being stolen and then sicked a mob on the Capitol. It's funny that you roll your eyes at this, Kevin, because you're the one who went down and resurrected him...We elected the most dangerous....human being that America has ever elected. And Kevin, you helped him."

submitted 190 days ago • 944 comments