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An underreported and really nasty fact: DOJ Friday was full of political allies from around the country. Career staff –the life blood of the place –were forbidden from attending, unless expressly invited by the regime. It was a meeting of the Vichy govt in Paris with all Nazis and a few quislings.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

This is Chuck. Chuck is selling a book. Chuck also has a full-time job. I would consider buying Chuck’s book if he were doing that job, but he’s not. Don’t be like Chuck. And don’t buy Chuck’s book.

submitted 2 days ago • 2526 comments

Hard to explain how many profitable technological “solutions” are just tools that displace labor from the vendor onto the consumer.

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How many people who work at the Heritage Foundation don't have postsecondary education? Do you think they are telling their kids to skip college in order to have more babies? It's always someone else's sacrifice.

submitted 5 days ago • 136 comments

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

until they can identify what DOGE is and who runs it, the messaging should be that it’s a criminal enterprise

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

David Icke, notorious English peddler of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about lizard people, is calling out Elon Musk on Twitter and it is fascinating to watch:

submitted 21 days ago • 138 comments

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 23 days ago • 698 comments

This seems like a really bad idea, esp. for someone with no experience in ATF’s guns/arson/bombs based prosecutions or their regulatory mission (on top of the slightly demanding job of being FBI director: Kash Patel to also take over as acting ATF director www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 23 days ago • 364 comments

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

submitted 23 days ago • 568 comments

Looking for a history of Puerto Rico and Amazon keeps sending me ads for a U.S. citizenship study guide. I am so discouraged.

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Anyway, here's Sugar the cat contemplating the impermanence of life and the very nature of existence, as one does

submitted 24 days ago • 391 comments

This is the way back (2025): an aroused/involved American people effective lawsuits wins in state/local elections political class finds its footing *falling Republican polling numbers All are starting to happen.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

From the incredible team continuing to track the effect that abortion bans are having on women's health: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 27 days ago • 1214 comments

It's not lost on me that the two Democratic electeds talking consistently to regular people right now are AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Dassit.

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submitted 28 days ago • 539 comments

If the White House press corps doesn't walk out in solidarity for the AP they're not gonna do it for anyone.

submitted 32 days ago • 120 comments

Can we start to discuss how ignorant Musk & his minions are, and how much contextual knowledge matters?

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

Stand with @apnews.com!

submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

This is ballgame on the First Amendment unless there is immediate action by news media, Congress, the courts & the public to condemn & prohibt this www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

submitted 32 days ago • 215 comments

Soldiers at Valley Forge suffered frostbite, disease and malnutrition, but they stood fast for democracy. Republicans in the Senate suffered deep unease about being primaried, so they betrayed democracy.

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Tom Tillis is responsible for Hegseth selling out Ukraine. He could have voted to stop him. He didn't. NC needs a new senator

submitted 34 days ago • 70 comments

DOGE IS ALREADY TAKING AIM AT MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY LISTEN LIVE: open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... Mike Luckovich

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Susan Collins will support RFK Jr. as US health secretary The Maine Republican, considered a key swing vote for many Cabinet picks, did not respond to questions about why she thinks Kennedy is qualified for the role despite his history of criticizing vaccines. www.pressherald.com?p=7423929&uu...

submitted 34 days ago • 126 comments

In a CBS October poll just before the election, more than 60 percent of Americans said efforts to promote racial and gender equality had been going about right or not far enough. www.scribd.com/document/784...

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Keep calling your Republican Senators and Reps. 202-224-3121

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

This, exactly. "Oh, it's just a little thing, we can do that. ... Well, this is a bit worse, but I guess we can go along with that too. .... Huh, this seems a lot but what choice do we have now?"

submitted 34 days ago • 58 comments

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

submitted 35 days ago • 93 comments

Great point.

submitted 37 days ago • 1217 comments

I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 432 comments

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

submitted 36 days ago • 461 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 36 days ago • 168 comments

the shift in a lot of ways has been away from rich Americans fairly passively allowing a rigged system to accrue to their advantage while supporting nominal democratic norms to “forget norms, we’re here to take everything”

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

We know what’s going on here.

submitted 38 days ago • 1011 comments

I remember when right-wing media said that I wasn’t qualified to be a member of Congress because of my credit card debt. My debt was nowhere near $1.2 million. Do they think the same of RFK Jr? Or does that standard only apply to young people? We know the answer.

submitted 39 days ago • 281 comments

It is notable that Big Law is completely absent from the legal fights to protect democracy. In 2017, they bragged about their pro bono work for the resistance. Now, they are silent -presumably cowering in fear of Trump and Musk. Support the non-profit law orgs and small firms doing this hard work.

submitted 39 days ago • 189 comments

Musk's latest power grab: your Medicare benefits. Elon - you're looking in the wrong place. Private insurers in Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by at least $83 billion in 2024 alone.

submitted 40 days ago • 320 comments

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 40 days ago • 573 comments

From today’s NYTimes: “The E.P.A. has begun clearing toxic debris from homes destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires. The full cleanup will take many months. The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 E.P.A. employees who work on climate change and other programs that it may fire them.”

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

submitted 42 days ago • 83 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

Did anyone vote for Elon

submitted 43 days ago • 452 comments