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submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Political exploitation of a child While cancer funding for children is cut

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

submitted 37 days ago • 1930 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 37 days ago • 3155 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 40 days ago • 293 comments

Worth flagging: Max Goldberg, Security-Clearance Decisions and Constitutional Rights, Yale Law Journal Forum: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/F7.Goldb...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.” T. Paine, American Crisis

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

medicine.yale.edu/news-article... Congress needs to fix this, not cut CMS (this is where the waste is) @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand2.bsky.social @tomsuozzi.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 47 days ago • 168 comments

I second, third, forth this

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

Our society peaked in the 1970s

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

substack.com/@joycevance/...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Liberal society — free people, individual rights, government by the consent of the governed, equality under the law, free markets, peace, and prosperity — is an accomplishment. It can be lost. Serious people do not take it for granted.

submitted 50 days ago • 72 comments

Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites acting like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

submitted 50 days ago • 117 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

submitted 51 days ago • 105 comments

Treasury Department officials admitted today that the agency “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Musk’s DOGE team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database. The disclosure undercuts the Trump administration’s repeated claims that access was limited to a “read-only” basis.

submitted 54 days ago • 382 comments

Who is running Elon Musk's companies or is he just proving CEOs don't matter

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

This is why we need NPR PBS etc

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I'm been thinking about an essay called "First they came for the critical race theorists" for a while and it might be time.

submitted 54 days ago • 12 comments

There was an anti-trump anti-doge pro-dei rally in Mississippi! www.clarionledger.com/picture-gall...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

The overnight shut downand leaving staff stranded, m is the equivalent of leaving troops on the battlefield

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

USAID Fraud Allegations: Fact vs. Fiction Fact Inspector General’s Investigations: - USAID’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) actively investigates allegations of major fraud, corruption, and misconduct within its programs and operations, demonstrating accountability in addressing internal issues.

submitted 56 days ago • 96 comments

OMG this was the 90’s in NYC!!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

'Congress has collapsed': Ex-GOP insider says Republicans have no fix for the next big problem

submitted 56 days ago • 196 comments

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

submitted 57 days ago • 192 comments

The moment someone is called out on breaking the law the president will pardon them. Who, and at what point in the cycle does the intervention occur?

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 56 days ago • 1048 comments

Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

This is the system that works so well for the Supreme Court

submitted 58 days ago • 194 comments

SpaceX, which holds billions of dollars in government contracts, was penalized by the FAA for ignoring regulations. In response, Musk pushed for the resignation of the agency’s chairman.

submitted 57 days ago • 103 comments