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China government spending on citizens lags economic peers https://www.ft.com/content/75f97747-53f4-4447-8c14-8a078bdc8750

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s really unbelievable how badly Elon Musk treats people, and the way Trump endorses his mistreatment of our Federal workforce… I’m looking forward to the day we see these two Psychopaths taken down by the American people, because I believe sooner than later “enough will be enough”!

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

The TN Ed Report on Trump’s ed agenda: “While putting the Smackdown on the Dept of Education and advancing a school privatization scheme are both devastating, Trump is not content to stop there… Tennessee is no stranger to this march toward theocracy.” open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

substack.com/@politicsusa...

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Oh my. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Kash is so amazingly qualified that they’re giving him two agencies to weaponize. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kas...

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Trump says that RFK Jr and Dr Oz are working together to solve autism

submitted 13 hours ago • 880 comments

Again: The implications of Trump dropping the Adams case is that foreign nationals now have free reign to directly bankroll American politicians, without any worry about being prosecuted—so long as they do Trump's bidding.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 8 hours ago • 401 comments

Sums it up.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

How many Park Ranger salaries could this have paid for? lhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

submitted 11 hours ago • 106 comments

We must speak for the vulnerable, for their voices are being silenced. If we do nothing, then eventually there will be no one left to speak for us. #substack #writer open.substack.com/pub/brandong...

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"One of the key characteristics of totalitarian leaders and regimes is a demand for unwavering loyalty to the leader and to the goals and values of the regime." - Menanteau Serfontein A good article on loyalty. #loyalty apathlesstravelled.com/loyalty-the-...

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"The term DEI, frequently invoked by the Trump administration, functions as a smoke screen" read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the real goals of the 'anti-DEI' rhetoric www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Over 1,000 people showed up in Framingham to make clear that we’re fired up and ready to fight back against every terrible policy Donald Trump and Elon Musk throw at us. 📸 John Walker

submitted 9 hours ago • 139 comments

This is nuts. But it’s effective fascist propaganda.

submitted 10 hours ago • 153 comments

NEW: Elon Musk issues ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week, or resign.

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NEW: Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

A police officer was killed Saturday after responding to a shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the suspected gunman also was killed, according to state police.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

she is right

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

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KNOX NEWS LTE: “Trump has exceeded all expectations in corruption & incoherence. Where are our elected leaders? — @RepTimBurchett yells on tv about how his father fought in WW2, why is he so enthusiastic about giving unilateral concessions to a dictator?” www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

submitted 12 hours ago • 43 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 13 hours ago • 137 comments

US says revenue from minerals deal will fuel Ukraine’s postwar growth https://www.ft.com/content/b4a64be0-7ca6-43f8-b402-af6193576e32

submitted 15 hours ago • 49 comments

BREAKING: Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says, after he experienced a severe asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high-flow oxygen therapy. The Vatican says the prognosis remains "reserved," indicating a cautious outlook as medical teams work to stabilize his condition.

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

“.. I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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Victoria DeLano is one of thousands of federal probationary employees fired in recent days by the new Department of Government Efficiency team. At the time of her firing, she said she was the only Office of Civil Rights investigator based in Alabama. www.al.com/educationlab...

submitted 15 hours ago • 61 comments

“I want you to thank me.” 💰Kristi Noem says Trump told her to spend $200 MILLION (taxpayer dollars) running ads thanking him for his immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 15 hours ago • 78 comments

As with so many of Trump’s actions, the president can do this but the question is whether it is right for him to do so. As far as I know this termination was completely without cause. Good people who have served their country for decades deserve respect. Trump respects no one.

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

WATCH: “So far DOGE has saved enough to buy each of us 3 cups of coffee.” Economist Justin Wolfers on the DOGE DIVIDEND It’s all a trick. Their goal is tax cuts for the rich. And they never cared about the debt.

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

"The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials Friday over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech" The president set a precedent by banning them for not writing"Gulf of America"and they rightly want that precedent overturned apnews.com/article/ap-l...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, along w/ 85 education & civil rights groups, wrote in a letter to members of the Senate panel the following - “All parents and students in this country…want the best education, support, and dignity for their own children.” substack.com/@brandongill...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Literally extortion

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BREAKING:

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submitted 17 hours ago • 946 comments

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

submitted 16 hours ago • 74 comments

‘Exploited’ migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

substack.com/@brandongill...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I think what we should remember is that Trump is known to negotiate with the aggressors. When negotiating the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump worked with the Taliban rather than the Afghan gov't. And now, he would rather negotiate with Russia excluding Ukraine. www.npr.org/2021/03/04/9...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

JEFFRIES: “we have no leverage” SCHUMER: pulls out a lime and limply waves it around BERNIE:

submitted 19 hours ago • 211 comments

He wants Elon to hurt more people, even as his poll numbers are down not up: www.instagram.com/reel/DGTS6V4... There’s a book about leaders counting on the truth not reaching their supporters. It’s called ‘1984’ — forget “Truth Social”, it’s “Ministry of Truth Social”

submitted 19 hours ago • 86 comments

It’s a cry for help from Desantis. He’s lonely, isolated, and wants his friends back from before he ran against Trump. Maybe this will rekindle fond memories of the life they once had together as brothers in arms fighting the culture wars, and they will return to praise him.

submitted 20 hours ago • 192 comments