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tmw a Ukrainian understands the US president better than the entire domestic political press and most of the opposition

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 1 hour ago • 34 comments

b-school should really include a remedial course on macroeconomic statistics. it could be, like, three sessions.

submitted 34 minutes ago • 20 comments

Mourning 18F’s elimination as a former employee but even more so as a former 18F agency customer. Unlike DOGE, 18F did the hard work of cultural transformation and sharing their methods with other Feds as they helped improve services. They weren’t just techies, they were teachers.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

NBC[Mar 1] -- Iowa Gov signs bill making it the first state to rescind rights previously granted a minority. Now legal under state law to discriminate in jobs, housing, or education against trans ppl, but still illegal under fed law (Supreme Court's Bostock v Clayton). [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This hits because I dated that guy once

submitted 47 minutes ago • 16 comments

i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

submitted 16 hours ago • 68 comments

Zelensky found out what it was like to be a US governor in a blue state asking Trump for medical supplies during the pandemic. Or disaster relief after a wildfire or storm. It’s not his money, but he fully expects you to beg and plead for it and tell him how wonderful he is.

submitted 15 hours ago • 278 comments

In light of our country's current trajectory, I, George Wallace, hereby confirm that I will never jump and/or fall out of a window. Any such incident should be immediately viewed as some fascist bullshit and whatnot.

submitted 13 hours ago • 23 comments

When we protested the Sunoco CEO's retiree healthcare cuts, we did a banner drop. Then plants in the luncheon audience stood up one at a time to yell, forcing them to interrupt the event each time to escort each protester out individually. Ever seen a Fortune 500 CEO cry? We did that afternoon.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

I've never been so pissed off as I am right now 😡😡😡😡

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

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submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

This is so, so shady. If anyone ACTUALLY needed to be fired, someone would take responsibility for it. The failure to do so just further proves the firings were unjustified and never should have happened. RE-HIRE ALL OF THEM, YOU SHADY FUCKS.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

In any other era, the Secretary of Defense threatening to invade an ally and one of our largest trade partners would be front page news for days. It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon. apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...

submitted 17 hours ago • 53 comments

“A person familiar with the matter… said analysts were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. “The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed””

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 comments

I think it’s maybe more accurate to say that Trump will inevitably do this to any future Israel that tries to live up to the dream we had for it

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Himes represents some of the richest and poorest places in Connecticut. He should be ashamed. Ashamed and primaried. His freaking constituents without resources didn't vote to get hurt. #NutmegSky #NutmegSky

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1855 comments

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

submitted 18 hours ago • 290 comments

my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 230 comments

This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 19 hours ago • 834 comments

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

submitted 20 hours ago • 296 comments

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later. 9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine" 1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

submitted 19 hours ago • 261 comments

what kind of country destroys its diplomatic standing on purpose, what an embarrassing bunch of assholes

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

One thing you can say for Trump & co's juvenile, bullying tantrum today: they really demonstrated why America is referred to as a classless society...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Associated Press not allowed, but www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/m...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The EU will now further expedite moving away from their reliance on the United States, including building up their own weapons manufacturing capability instead of relying on major U.S. defense contractors. Because it seems pretty fucking clear to the rest of the world that Trump is a russian op

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Europe cannot rely on the US while Trump is in office. There is no telling what would set off a tantrum (like this one) that could cost us our security. European security begins in Ukraine. We must be willing & able to defeat Russia, without the US asap -only that will deter Putin & bring peace.

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

British politics. 2025. Actually, probably global politics 2025 too. (Cover by Sam Singer)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Pretty much every study shows that the average worker works at their peak for three hours a day or so, and that every hour after six hours a day is a net productivity negative -- the mistakes they make in hour seven will take more than an hour of productive time to fix

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

The DOGE destroying the federal government stuff is actually kind of new but so much of what makes Trumpism "different" is just saying all the things out loud that you're not supposed to say. I hope every liberal that refuses to process the US government gets it now? Like they just say it now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

submitted 20 hours ago • 211 comments

weird, all the coverage indicated Ukraine was definitely going to sign a deal in which they gave away future claims to multiples of their GDP in exchange for nothing

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 20 hours ago • 181 comments

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

submitted 20 hours ago • 96 comments

Reuters and the AP have been excluded from WH press access while TASS, a Russian news agency, has been given access. There it is folks. This combined with 47/Vance’s despicable bullying of Zelensky tells us all we need to know. We are going to be in lockstep with Putin.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Vance has to signal that he’s a viable heir to Trump, not for Americans but for Russia

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments