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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 15 hours ago • 415 comments

SEC is talking settlement with Justin Sun, the Chinese-tied crypto guy who has dumped millions into Trump's crypto in the last six months. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 384 comments

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

submitted 23 hours ago • 175 comments

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 297 comments

We have actual laws regulating citizenship requirements.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Love this from Denmark

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Considering that Musk routinely shares the personal data, addresses, etc. of people who make him mad and sics his degenerate legions on those enemies, is it any wonder people don't want him to have access to all their banking, social security, medical info?

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

When asked what happened to the town’s money, the mayor said, “The traveling salesman who sold us the monorail is working very hard. I have seen the big machines myself and they are currently digging a very large hole. I am sure everyone will be very impressed when the project is finished.”

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Much of the Black middle class was built by federal jobs. That may change. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/... via @nbcnews

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 5 days ago • 2099 comments

Republicans are holding back our own tax money from us to extort policy changes that Californians voted against. Treating us like conquered territory to be looted www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

When M. Gessen and Bret Stephens are 95% in agreement, that seems worth paying attention to… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 266 comments

The USPS is so, so much better and less expensive than basically any other.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

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That headline sent me into a doom spiral—how hard would it be include “illegally”? Or even “threatens” in lieu of “expected”?? JFC Wapo.

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Good

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

What’s happening with the US government reminds me of this story (great book btw): Libertarians took over a town in NH in 2004 and gutted its services, cut taxes, etc. Less than 8 yrs later things had gotten so bad that black bears were breaking into homes and killing people for the first time ever.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 274 comments

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

submitted 7 days ago • 176 comments

I mean, let’s be clear about this. US Citizenship and Immigration Services has faced cuts. USCIS is funded by immigration application fees. It specifically is not supposed to cost the taxpayer ANYTHING. & that money can’t be spent elsewhere. This isn’t an efficiency calculation!

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk is involved in government because he is bad at business. He is removing these consumer safeguards because otherwise his terrible businesses will never have a shot at bringing products to market.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

When the dismantlists talk about "trimming the fat" or "bloated" whatever relating to the federal government, remind them that there have been about the same number of federal employees since the 1960s. Meanwhile US population has increased by ~70% and GDP has increased 29-fold.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Over at EPA, new administrator Lee Zeldin is trying to "claw back" $20 billion that the agency has already dispersed. In other words, the government gave the money to private parties, and now it's going to steal the money back. It is straightforwardly illegal.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Make America Grift Again

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Lord Elon is making a new acquisition: Wisconsin. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

I don't think we've ever had a pro-sex trafficking administration before www.ft.com/content/3f95...

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

submitted 13 days ago • 161 comments