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NEWS: Trump abruptly assembled his cabinet today to let them know Elon MUSK is not in charge of hiring/firing -- they are. It was an abrupt admonition that appeared aimed at the mounting legal scrutiny of Musk's power over the government. w/ @DashaBurns www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

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Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelensky's White House meeting on February 28th. Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision. youtu.be/TRdkzNb5VI4

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

submitted 22 hours ago • 64 comments

I wouldn’t be surprised if all 3 major sports teams in Seattle have new GMs in a year or two.

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Starting to get the feeling that John Schneider isn’t a very good GM. #Seahawks

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I think Schneider doesn’t know what he’s doing anymore. This is going to be a ROUGH next few years for this franchise

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If you trade DK, you might as well get rid of Geno also. You’re not winning anything next season without DK.

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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Sitting there with your little paddles and not leaving or interrupting this bullshit only grants it the veneer of normalcy. This isn’t normal. And if you value decorum over the lives of trans people, over the destruction of democracy, go find another job. We don’t need you.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Can we just get rid of this idiot today?

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Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

submitted 2 days ago • 5995 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 2 days ago • 1101 comments

All maybe kinda makes sense when you realize how falling Canadian oil production and higher prices would help Russia and Saudi Arabia tho

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

yep. and this is the basic problem with trump being psychologically incapable of perceiving a positive sum relationship. everything is a dominance game for him.

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

No shit

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How do we get rid of any of the democrats that show up to that farce of a speech tomorrow?

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Man, you just have to be the biggest rube in the universe to think that Trump is halting Ukraine aid because Zelensky didn't wear a tie or kiss the ring.

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

There it is. Literally saying the US and Russia are working together to take away the independence of another country. I'm wondering if any of our press is gonna pick this one up? Seems like headline material?

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

submitted 3 days ago • 243 comments

Been waiting to start hearing stuff like this. Make these people uncomfortable every where they go.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's kind of weird how Trump getting impeached over trying to extort Ukraine disappeared from the discourse

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

In this instance, standing up against and defying the United States of America is the morally, geopolitically, and strategically right decision.

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK. “Ukraine Hero Ambushed” “Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky” “A spectacle to horrify the world” Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

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The state department cut this program today

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 6 days ago • 1194 comments

This must be that "free market" thing that Jeff Bezos is so excited about.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

I started planning this column a while ago, but I kept imagining it wouldn't be necessary, as many other journalists would surely get there first. I've been scratching my head ever since, wondering "where is everyone?" Is this not a huge and obvious issue?

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Musk is actively undermining air safety, potentially causing crashes, then awarding himself a $2.4 billion contract to fix what he is breaking? This is not conflict of interest, this is criminal insanity! Amount of money Musk is stealing from US is bigger than all his “savings” combined.

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

submitted 8 days ago • 109 comments

Hi, it's me again. THIS IS A COUP. AN ACTUAL COUP. Not a drill, not a test, just a COUP. We are experiencing a coup in the United States, and the fact that we're not acting like that's an emergency is a problem. IT IS DAY 38 OF THIS COUP.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 8 days ago • 156 comments

Six months ago Biden/Yellen/Powell had more or less nailed the soft landing. Interest rates were coming down, job growth was steady, a manufacturing and infrastructure boom was happening coast to coast. Envy of the world. Oh well. At least eggs are cheaper and the planes land on time.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

submitted 8 days ago • 175 comments

most corrupt US admin of anyone's lifetime and it's been 5 weeks

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This has to be one of the biggest opsec fails I've ever seen in my life. The actual director of the FBI driving around in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable made even more so by it being neon red.

submitted 9 days ago • 693 comments

None of the concepts / phrases Anna Paulina Luna highlights below are stated in the Republican bill. Search for yourself. Here is the text: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

Congressional Republicans tried to pull a fast one. They called off the budget vote that cuts healthcare for over 38 million children and just put it back up after everyone left to try and make some Democrats miss the vote. Many Dems are voting by card to keep the vote open. I just did mine.

submitted 8 days ago • 338 comments

So let me get this straight. They want to defund Medicaid, halt NIH grants, pause vaccine research and expect us to believe that killing Americans isn't their agenda?

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

🤌🏿

submitted 9 days ago • 119 comments

Totally normal

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

here's the chart of private sector job growth as joe biden led our recovery out of the trump slump. his treasury secretary is lying as they push us into the trumpcession.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

in the run up to the election musk said they were going to intentionally crash the economy for two years and it wasn't even news, much less a scandal

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 9 days ago • 123 comments

We love merit, don’t we folks?

submitted 9 days ago • 506 comments