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ah, well www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 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 1 day ago • 2408 comments

Homan is trying to intimidate AOC for telling people their rights, but she isn’t flinching. “This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.” Trump’s immigration enforcer is learning the hard way—AOC isn’t easy to scare.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

submitted 3 days ago • 256 comments

A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

NEW: Trump's education secretary nominee Linda McMahon told senators that the U.S. government’s dark, 150-year legacy of Indian boarding schools is “a key example” of why education should be locally controlled. www.huffpost.com/entry/educat...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Translation from Legalese: Your Honor, we have no idea WTF Elon is doing. Respectfully, The United States Department of Justice

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

NEW: Here is Trump's executive order purporting to end the independence of multi-member head independent agencies. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 3 days ago • 2406 comments

No parody can top the real ghoulish behavior of those morons.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 845 comments

NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST President’s Day / Feb 17, 2025

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments

President Trump fires the head of the Office of Government Ethics. oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Trump has dismissed the director of the Office of Government Ethics. David Huitema, the former director, played a key role in vetting Trump administration appointees for conflicts of interest.

submitted 12 days ago • 145 comments

i feel like the rando DOGE teens with access to all of the US government systems as a vector for attacks (hackers, espionage) is still probably not getting enough attention. www.theregister.com/...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s Tariffs: Higher Prices, No Solutions Trump just raised taxes on steel and aluminum imports by 25%, despite economists warning it won’t lower prices—only raise them. The last time he did this, it killed 75,000+ U.S. manufacturing jobs. His trade war is just an economic disaster on repeat.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

getting darker by the minute. not just some average nazi dope, but a member of the digital direwanger sect

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Wired has been one of the few "major" media outlets to be doing their damn job reporting on the crisis unfolding. Toss them $5 for a year of articles, if you can. (I did!)

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Not too long ago, Elon was doxing government employees on X. Where was the outcry of “You’re breaking the law” then? These employees feared for their families’ safety.

submitted 18 days ago • 103 comments

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

"You cannot sue us for our illegal agreement that a court could not easily enforce without a change in existing precedent."

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

NSAGov DISGRACES ITSELF by covering up displays of pioneering woman and Hall of a Honor minorities in Cryptologic Intelligence. You covered up BETTY FRIEDMAN?! She practically invented American Code breaking! CYBERCOM_DIRNSA WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS DESPICABLE. Fix this!

submitted 18 days ago • 206 comments

The first thing Trump & Musk did was attempt to freeze payments to woke trans marxist grants which turned out to be Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and police departments. So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.

submitted 18 days ago • 63 comments

well it was a fun third twitter account while it lasted

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 19 days ago • 523 comments

Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.

submitted 19 days ago • 140 comments

we are witnessing a master at work

submitted 19 days ago • 77 comments

Yes folks please process that what’s happening right now is that Mr Nazi Salute has access to the personal information of every Jew in America, along with every person who gets/has gotten disability benefits, and so on The Holocaust was an administrative process that included lists of targets

submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

Good. And we won’t stop fighting until Trump’s OMB freeze that hurts working families is a thing of the past. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 139 comments

America, you broke through—the media, from small outlets to large, is finally picking up on what’s happening. Legislators, judges, and attorneys general across the country are speaking out. They hear you. We love you and are honored to serve you! 🦬💚🇺🇸

submitted 19 days ago • 495 comments

I’m sitting here pulling my hair out in stress, barely sleeping, crying, and they’re having a fucking dance party

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 19 days ago • 310 comments

Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.

submitted 19 days ago • 127 comments

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

submitted 20 days ago • 219 comments