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It occurred to me that firing thousands of highly skilled, highly knowledgeable people, some of whom had access to highly secret information, and now have grievances and an urgent need for money, might be considered a security risk. Like, a big one.

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

"Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office, was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner." wapo.st/41qBKwR

submitted 2 hours ago • 43 comments

It's a Christian nationalist coup. Trump fired the Joint Chiefs chair, Gen. Charles Brown Jr. -- a four-star fighter pilot, and the second African American to hold the job. Trump replaced him with MAGA Gen. Dan "Raizin'" Caine. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 3 hours ago • 672 comments

Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 3 hours ago • 41 comments

Seriously people. Bondi is a skilled agent of corruption. Don't let her blonde hair distract from her considerable skillset.

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

"the poll shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

All while Trump and Musk are slashing funding to programs like Meals on Wheels & cancer research in the name of “efficiency”… This isn’t efficiency, it’s a cash grab. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 138 comments

Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 19 hours ago • 149 comments

Nothing says "coup" quite like a loyalty test for the military! Taken to its logical conclusion: Mump will direct the US military against American citizens. Congress, are you still happy giving up all of your power and authority?

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

Part of the preparations for using the American military on American streets to commit violence against American citizens. Full caudillo. bsky.app/profile/avin...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Rest assured that Felon 47 and the Republican Party aren’t firing America’s top military leaders who will uphold their oath to the Constitution.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

More good reporting like this, please, cutting through the lies and bullshit of Musk et al. This is the #GoodTimes DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 336 comments

“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 18 hours ago • 846 comments

battles are being won. don't give in!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1708 comments

Look surprised. 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 20 hours ago • 46 comments

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Hearing multiple reports that members of the current ACIP were fired. I hate it when my predictions come true. bsky.app/profile/dave...

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 22 hours ago • 245 comments

The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role.

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 20 hours ago • 239 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1511 comments

In my dream world where we had a functioning White House Press Corp, Trump would be asked why we're no longer protecting all Americans by tracking abusive cops. No one benefits from this except corrupt police. I want him to explain why this is good. How much do you want to bet that no one asks?

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

While it's true that Democrats in Congress -- and especially the House -- have relatively little power right now, what they can do is use their local offices to find people suffering from Trump's policies, like this caller, and lift up their voices and tell their stories

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 36 comments

NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2170 comments