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Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 14 hours ago • 120 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 17 hours ago • 447 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 15 hours ago • 480 comments

"Big Balls is the grandson of a KGB agent" is never a phrase I thought was going to come out of my mouth but goddamn if I'm not going to say this to my own mother tomorrow

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

Steve Bannon announced: he spoke with Ric Grenell, and the J6 Choir will perform at the Kennedy Center. Yes, this is real. Don’t wish that it were satire?

submitted 20 hours ago • 548 comments

DID YOU KNOW: As Trump/Musk fire anyone in the fed government that participated in diversity, equity & inclusion, he just nominated Kimberly Richey for Asst Sec Office of Civil Rights at the Dept of Education. During Trump's 1st term, she ESTABLISHED the DEI office people are now being fired from.

submitted 19 hours ago • 140 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 351 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 18 hours ago • 213 comments

Todays hero

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

Trump’s betrayal of Americans: He promised not to cut Medicaid—now he’s backing a House plan that slashes $880 billion from it. All to fund $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. He doesn’t care if families drown in debt, as long as he & his billionaire buddies get richer. Don’t Cut My Medicaid!

submitted 18 hours ago • 239 comments

Elon Musk and the ultra-rich don’t need more tax breaks—especially at the expense of your healthcare. Slashing Medicaid to fund handouts for billionaires is a betrayal at its worst. It’s all part of the GOP Tax Scam.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

She needs to be in charge of Oversight. Currently, we have a 70+ year old man, battling cancer who looks and is unwell. Oversight needs a 'don't fuck with me' face and she's got it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 117 comments

Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

BREAKING: @pogo.org sued Trump and DOGE in federal court in D.C. today over the administration's efforts to treat DOGE records as presidential records not subject to FOIA for now. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 18 hours ago • 649 comments

Republicans are embracing full on fascism. Nazi salutes, siding with murderous dictators, trash talking our allies, promoting hate, racist ideology, and bigotry, as well as, gaslighting Americans 24/7. In 30 days Trump & Republicans have managed to tank America’s reputation. The world hates us.

submitted 21 hours ago • 98 comments

Great point!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The Peace Plan: Get the fuck out of our country. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Daniel Dale, as ever, doing the Lord’s work:

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 1 day ago • 5065 comments

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: While the Trump Justice Department is telling a federal court that Elon Musk has nothing to do with DOGE, Republican members of Congress are telling their constituents that DOGE is “led by Elon Musk.” See below 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

This is bananas

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Jasmine always brings the facts and this statement is the truth! Somehow, some way we must stop the immigrant from destroying our government!

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

1/ If Elon were really a tech guy, he would know his claims of 150-yr-olds getting Social Security checks are false. That's what data errors in an old (COBOL-based) system often looks like—date values being left blank in a database or outdated records or both.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 844 comments

UNBELIEVABLE. Am I the only person who remembers who Kirill Dmitriev is? He was in the Seychelles in January 2017 plotting with Trump envoy Erik Prince, a Jared Kushner envoy, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and a host of shady characters who'd worked to steal the 2016 election for Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

A senior prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., resigned on Tuesday, citing an improper demand by Trump administration officials to freeze assets and launch a criminal investigation.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Exhibit #5,000,000 that none of this has anything to do with efficiency. It's just incredibly basic white Christofascism. Anti-science, anti-life. Profoundly sadistic. The people who claim they are going to protect your money would spend any amount of money to cause you even a little more pain.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Trump and House Republicans are trying to sneak through a dangerous bill that would block millions of American citizens from registering to vote...

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

"There has been a golf trip each of the four weekends since Trump came back to the presidency on Jan. 20, and he has now played golf at his own properties on nine of his first 30 days in office." Musk is running the government. Trump is a figurehead. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 3 days ago • 1111 comments

BREAKING: Massive protest rallies are happening today across the country, blasting DOGE and the guy that nobody voted for. There will even be a protest at SpaceX headquarters. SPREAD THE WORD. 🙏💪

submitted 2 days ago • 399 comments

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

submitted 3 days ago • 545 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 3 days ago • 1335 comments

These Republicans and others like them need to be inundated with calls and protests about what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing. They know it’s wrong. They are feeling the heat. So keep the pressure on.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Here’s what Democrats did today and over the long weekend (February 18):

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

NEW: Letter from 900+ former federal prosecutors warns of decisions at Justice Dept "Some of you have been ordered to make charging decisions based expressly on considerations other than the facts & the law, including to serve solely political purposes" www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

President’s Day 2025 0 out of 5 Stars… Do not recommend 47th “POTUS”. Smells like shit, performance is destructive, and overall appearance is nazi-like. I prefer my holiday support to go for Biden/Obama styled presidents.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

To all you white supremacists obsessed with DEI: That Delta plane that landed upside down in Toronto today was piloted by by a white man.

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS! TRUMP AIRLINE CRISIS!

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments