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They’re bringing back the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” but as an aspirational thing

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The US joining Russia on this vote is astonishing. Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes. Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Kristi Noem told attendees at a CPAC dinner Friday that Trump directed her to launch a taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanded she thank him in the ads. No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

The three people she’s being replaced with: - Democratic operative - Ex-chair of the Republican National Committee - Daughter of an absurdly corrupt Senator

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 6 days ago • 749 comments

Breaking News: President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer, a role that traditionally stays in place as administrations change.

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

submitted 9 days ago • 77 comments

Can’t reach the moon now Can’t turn the tide The world looked different When God was on your side - Vampire Weekend

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Blog: Which Agreements Are Being Terminated by USAID? Cancelled agreements add up to a little over $4 billion, or equal to 14 percent of a total of about $30 billion in prime awards by USAID in 2024... www.cgdev.org/blog/which-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

These people are idiots.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Republicans don’t vet anymore. Vetting is gay. Vetting is what you do when you give a shit. Giving a shit is gay.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 10 days ago • 8252 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 12 days ago • 494 comments

1000%. This is why Jewish America's most powerful institutions won't fight for American liberal democracy in its moment of peril. Because that would alienate the American authoritarians they cultivate to sustain support for authoritarianism in Israel-Palestine.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Standing in solidarity with The Resistance on Boston Common this afternoon. We must resist Trump and the billionaires, hold on to our democracy and our Constitution, and overcome the Democratic Party elites who would rather lose elections than confront inequality, corporate power, and imperialism.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 14 days ago • 1087 comments

Since Trump's election, many Democratic pundits & elites have indicated it's time to stand down. They think the “Resistance” of protest movements from 2016-2020 went too far, & people should now fight less hard. I call these people "The Desistance”— they’re wrong! www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-r...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

Trump will shift many of the "FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role" and "from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to drug-trafficking and violent street crime." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 22 days ago • 45 comments

This morning House Speaker Mike Johnson called abolishing the Department of Education “an idea whose time has come.”

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

Breaking News: President Trump declared Palestinians had “no alternative” but to leave Gaza, before meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

submitted 24 days ago • 289 comments

ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.

submitted 24 days ago • 58 comments

A family member is speaking out against an ICE operation in northwest Phoenix on Sunday, calling it an unnecessary use of force www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

This is not just a "pause." It is an unlawful destruction now. Foreign aid is a cornerstone of national security with diplomacy and defense. USAID's work reaches 100s of millions worldwide and America will be harmed. Here are some of the lives at stake.

submitted 25 days ago • 46 comments

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

submitted 26 days ago • 266 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 26 days ago • 591 comments

This is the core of it. They expect respect but have zero respect for any of us

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Just confirmed that the Trump administration shutdown the Medicaid portal for Florida. There are over 3.8 MILLION Floridians on Medicaid.

submitted 31 days ago • 267 comments

Just got off the phone with a medical provider who accepts Medicaid. Because they are shut out from the Medicaid portal, they might not be able to make payroll. They exclusively serve low-income Floridians.

submitted 31 days ago • 671 comments

The full ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now being seriously discussed by the new US administration. The population of Gaza is over 2 million people, mostly children. Trump also resumed sending the 2000 pound bombs that Biden sent to Israel before pausing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

On Air Force One from Las Vegas to Miami, President Trump says Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated. “I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”

submitted 33 days ago • 864 comments

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 36 days ago • 212 comments

This is precisely how Netanyahu and his regime put world Jewry in danger. Musk does Nazi salutes, endorses Nazi parties, shares Nazi memes, amplifies Nazi accounts, and spreads Nazi conspiracy theories. Netanyahu, speaking for “the one and only Jewish state,” launders his image. 1/5

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

"Hundreds of thousands of his most loyal voters had come to this place at their own expense to applaud him as their hero. They were, all too literally, left out in the cold." inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

In this moment when antisemitism has reached a new high, this is outrageous behavior. At a Presidential rally no less. Donald Trump should condemn it. And Elon Musk owes our country an apology.

submitted 38 days ago • 341 comments