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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1412 comments

These same Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it. But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

i refer Justice Alito to the precedent set in Rihanna, et al v Mikkelsen (2015), which states, "pay me what you owe me, don't act like you forgot"

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Are your Congressional reps refusing to hold town halls? Tim Walz will come to your district and meet with residents instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

canceled Starlink contracts are my love language

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Republicans intend to rule us like kings. they don't want to hear from the people, they want to arrest protesters. they look down on their voters and think they are easily manipulated sheep as long as they can mediate their experience through conservative media.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Absolutely. This was the most powerful part of US "soft power" in China through past 15 years. Cancelling this is one more act of sabotage against US interests, values, and influence. (I don't think Trump/Mask are active foreign agents. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?)

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

every affected country should announce huge retaliatory tariffs on Tesla, and every time Trump institutes a new tariff the Tesla ones go up an extra 25%

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

The stove has been touched. Good luck everyone. Remember an emotional financial decision is often a poor, and it's good to keep your head when everyone else is losing theirs.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 3 days ago • 332 comments

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Good framing from AOC www.npr.org/transcripts/...

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

if i were winning an award for emilia perez (ew) i would simply fucking say anything about the assault on trans lives and rights in this country

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 4 days ago • 3346 comments

The leadership and staff at the NIH institute who processed 100 grants in an afternoon are heroes. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 8 days ago • 185 comments

Oh NO. Lmaooo. Dems. Please fucking clean up your own house. Maybe now we know why Kamala's campaign went all in on Cheney and stopped saying weird. We had literal voting Republicans running her campaign.

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

We finally have an actual 1A question about social media and I’m wondering where the Twitter Files dupes are?

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 16 days ago • 289 comments

Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 17 days ago • 160 comments

Tied in first place with 45 other teams. #triviaweekend #bringyababadookbadonkadonk

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

He's received more govt financial assistance than anyone and even now they're trying to cover up a $400 million dollar govt purchase of "armored" cybertrucks that don't exist because Elon needs the money since tesla stock is tanking because of boycotts

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Tell me you've never studied the violent labor unrest that preceded the passage of the National Labor Relations Act without saying &c. &c.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

New: the AP says it was blocked from an Oval Office event after being informed that it would be barred if it didn’t follow President Trump’s guidance on renaming the Gulf of Mexico

submitted 23 days ago • 124 comments

Elon Musk is calling for the CFPB's remaining account balance of $711,586,678 to be returned to the American taxpayers. That you give everyone $2-$3. But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

the CFPB that Musk wants to shut down has won $21 billion for Americans from predatory financial institutions and big banks quick, does anyone know if $21 billion is more than $711 million

submitted 23 days ago • 84 comments

@annabower.bsky.social is fire

submitted 24 days ago • 84 comments

Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

Tryna Venmo someone and it’s probably A minorrrrrrr

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

submitted 24 days ago • 69 comments

It's important to keep emphasizing that what Musk proposes in this tweet is illegal. Congress created the CFPB, just as it created USAID, the DOE, etc. Neither the President nor a billionaire can dissolve them by fiat. Doing so is a violation of the law and the President's constitutional duties.

submitted 26 days ago • 84 comments

This is the way. "Fuck you, make me." ❤️👊

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros

submitted 27 days ago • 55 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 29 days ago • 524 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 29 days ago • 1420 comments

Andreessen Horowitz hiring Daniel Perry exemplifies what debates over preferential treatment are really all about. White men are actually rewarded professionally and personally by other white men for their willingness to commit acts of violence against people who threaten white male dominance.

submitted 29 days ago • 36 comments

MSNBC now showing an empty podium. Waiting for Trump and Netanyahu. While House Dems are rallying in front of the Treasury. The most successful Republican propaganda in history was Ronald Reagan’s “liberal media” fantasy. It doesn’t exist, has never existed.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

this guy needs to be a focus of Dem TV appearances and Trump staff need to be asked about him in every interview “why is a 19 year old who called himself Big Balls being given access to our most sensitive personal information?” it sounds absurd because it is absurd and people need to hear it

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Wasn’t the outrage over Hillary Clinton’s private email server at home the possibility that it might contain sensitive information? But now South African Michael Scott can just install a commercial server at OPM to scoop it all up?

submitted 30 days ago • 80 comments

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

submitted 31 days ago • 141 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 31 days ago • 151 comments

Turns out the Drizz is kind of a hero

submitted 32 days ago • 141 comments

Welp. Turns out electing an unstable maniac is a bad idea after all.

submitted 33 days ago • 262 comments

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

Mild-mannered Tim Kaine becoming one of the sharpest, angriest Dem senators v Trump has been an interesting twist.

submitted 36 days ago • 98 comments