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Oakley was where my grandma lived. It’s a small town in west Kansas farm country, and seeing that place get red hot about Trump and Musk is sort of breaking my brain.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 1 day ago • 3465 comments

Its hard not to see the transparently planned "incident" choreographed by Trump and Vance as a planned justification,not just for deserting Ukraine but deserting NATO as well. Putin knows this. It's his ultimate wet dream to have spent years cultivating an idiot to become as useful as Trump will.

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Reposting this given the general state of the world as a dangerous authoritarian felon and his overconfident billionaire lackey deliberately play with existential risks. www.forkingpaths.co/p/we-dont-ha...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.

submitted 4 days ago • 1409 comments

"Firing military leaders for perceived disloyalty is often part of a strategy to consolidate regime power—even as it weakens the military." @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social in @lawfare.bsky.social today

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I'm late to pick up on this fact, but the lawyer who famously argued that President Trump would be immune from criminal charges if he ordered Seal Team Six to kill a political opponent, John Sauer, is going to be our new Solicitor General.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

A not-so-gentle reminder US consumers pay the tariffs www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

A federal judge has granted expedited discovery in a case alleging privacy violations related to DOGE access to Labor Department records. The discovery includes interrogatories concerning the chain of command and sworn testimony by a DOGE representative: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

How would any of this be going different if the president were a Putin puppet

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 11 days ago • 164 comments

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

submitted 11 days ago • 668 comments

"What chance does an unknown epidemiologist, or food safety inspector, have against the unfiltered enmity of the world’s richest man?" Me on Musk's mix of Orwellian nastiness and lawless self-dealing. on.ft.com/4k4ZkXl

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 12 days ago • 4820 comments

“[SSA] has our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.” “Warning about the risks of Mr. Musk's team accessing the data, Ms. Altman added, ‘There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.’” (🎁 link)

submitted 13 days ago • 65 comments

No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 13 days ago • 141 comments

Here’s a Republican who seems to recognize the current crisis better than almost every prominent Democrat.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Between this, and the Pentagon ordering armored Cybertrucks, and the Pentagon contracting for Starlink, it basically confirms that Elon Musk is a welfare queen

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

After living in Europe for the last 16 months, let me say with some authority that JD Vance’s concepts of liberty, free expression, and democracy bear almost no ressemblance to those concepts in modern Europe

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

I was buried in some other work and then family stuff someone plz correct me if I’m being ungenerous that the Democratic Party elite just… didn’t “POUNCE” on the Emil Bove / Eric Adams scandal the way you’d expect a somewhat relevant opposition to do so

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 16 days ago • 106 comments

NEW: Hemingway said, "The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one." As I write in the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this well describes the GOP. Each day, we see another of its deaths. link.motherjones.com/public/38626... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription at davidcorn.com.

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

Team trump: Europe should take care of its own security. Also team trump. Europe can't be a part of negotiations about European security.

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

This is super troubling. Canary, coal mine

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

If you're a probationary government employee who got laid off today, please reach out: Signal: Tim.415 (You can stay anonymous)

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

this would seem to set up a situation where any doj attorney can be placed on admin leave/investigated if they're determined to have "weaponized" law enforcement, a determination that takes place unilaterally & w no review, any time trump changes his mind about whether a prosecution was good or not

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Here we are Tried to warn you

submitted 17 days ago • 86 comments

In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.

submitted 17 days ago • 79 comments

The Danielle Sassoon letter to AG Bondi is wow. If you have a tip about what’s going on in DOJ/SDNY, I can be reached on Signal at annabower.24 Read the letter: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 17 days ago • 212 comments

Horrible day for Ukraine. Deeply concerning day for Europe, and supporters of democracy worldwide. Massively embarrassing day for sane Americans, especially those who truly value the US's strong national intelligence. And the greatest day imaginable for Putin.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

The constitutional order is totally inoperable & the president is delegating powers he does not have to people who have no business even being in these buildings Federal law enforcement needs to start deciding whether they have sworn oaths to the Constitution or a Mad King bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

The next Director of National Intelligence, ladies and gentlemen:

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...

submitted 20 days ago • 325 comments

NEW: @apnews.com has now been barred from an event in the Oval Office because it "did not align its editorial standards with Trump's EO renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America." In other words, b/c @apnews.com ACCURATELY calls it the "Gulf of Mexico," it is now being punished by Trump.

submitted 19 days ago • 257 comments

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

submitted 19 days ago • 1184 comments

Warning signs of a recession are already flashing red. Trump's new tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports will "kneecap" his own “national energy emergency” and turn his "pledge to expand infrastructure" into yet another Trump infrastructure punchline. unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/the-...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: Judge O'Toole concludes hearing on 'Fork in the Road' deferred resignation offer without a ruling, but says his TRO will remain in place holding the offer open til he decides

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Secretary of Wallet Inspection

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Trump is shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that has returned nearly $20 billion to consumers since it was created in 2011. The CFPB helps businesses who play by the rules not be disadvantaged by businesses who cheat. Shutting it down will only hurt American consumers.

submitted 20 days ago • 65 comments

Taking a break to show off my latest kitchen towel. Pricey eggs not included lol. #machineembroidery

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

1. Stay engaged When all the news is about Trump and pardons and lies, it is easy to want to retreat and stop paying attention. Don’t. It is precisely when things are hard that we must all lean into remaining vigilant and informed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 21 days ago • 145 comments

BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore BASH: You are the government

submitted 22 days ago • 1918 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 22 days ago • 527 comments

BERNIE: “Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DF3FXK6...

submitted 22 days ago • 94 comments

The challenge that all the DOGE-related lawsuits face is that DOGE has a formalistic structure that’s designed to look benign, but which appears to be a charade. Proving it’s a charade in court in a compressed time-frame will be hard. A thread: ... 1/14

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

I think I know where this is headed…

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments