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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

submitted 13 hours ago • 242 comments

On a Saturday too? Wow — well, here’s a summary of what Republicans voted to do this week: - Defund Medicaid - Defund Medicare - Not to protect IVF funding - Not to protect food assistance

submitted 17 hours ago • 45 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1256 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Billionaires have more class solidarity than we do.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Teenage DOGE worker Edward Coristine is grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov who was an officer in Line X - the technical espionage division of the KGB. Martynov became a double agent after FBI recruited him and began feeding Soviet secrets to the Bureau www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Totally agree. Also, a lot of these “savings”…aren’t. Government isn’t a business.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Even if it was real, there’s literally nothing the “woke agenda” could do to our government that is half as harmful as conducting massive barely-coordinated purges of longtime federal employees working on critical matters of state

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1021 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 2 days ago • 276 comments

Also and not for nothing, vote by mail

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 407 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

This is very important and concerning. The NIH funding freeze is still in place. NIH can't issue new awards if proposals aren't approved by Council. OMB is using a technical work around to prevent these meetings from happening. NIH can't post meetings, so they can't actually have them.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 321 comments

Includes phone numbers and participation in government programs such as Medicaid. A potential end goal here is data matching across different systems to chase after fraud. Sounds good on paper, but the risk of false positives is very high (see election administration efforts in this area).

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

See this is what I’m talking about

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Translation from Legalese: Your Honor, we have no idea WTF Elon is doing. Respectfully, The United States Department of Justice

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

“A lot of these contracts have data deletion clauses,” a researcher told me. “The fact is that they won’t be able to reopen them if they change their mind. They’re not just paused. They’re terminated and we’re losing the information.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Not only did the National Park Service remove references to transgender history on the Stonewall website, it appears they are now editing the work of historians without their knowledge or consent.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Oops no more Yosemite.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

submitted 7 days ago • 658 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 6 days ago • 2403 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 479 comments

Almost as if they were agents of a hostile foreign power sent to infiltrate our government for that very purpose

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

I bought 10 of these locally and am now sticking them in all the tiny free libraries. #booksky #books

submitted 15 days ago • 445 comments

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 15 days ago • 738 comments

I get more than 20 emails from J Crew in a day.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 17 days ago • 921 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 947 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 18 days ago • 526 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

Because of the number of respondents, the ACS is one of the only data sources for rural and tribal communities. It’s used in emergency preparedness planning, business planning and more. You can still download the data at IPUMS, but this is bleak.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 1280 comments