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submitted 13 hours ago • 286 comments

Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 14 hours ago • 175 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1291 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1152 comments

Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 20 hours ago • 690 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 1072 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 1 day ago • 524 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 1 day ago • 1857 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1987 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 1 day ago • 2560 comments

Woke or biology? There are actually more than the basic “male” XY & “female” XX sexes. Why? Because biology also creates people with single X chromosomes, or extra chromosomes like XXX, XXY, XYY, or XXX+, plus many 🧬genes. 👉All I’m asking is— please be kind to others. Thanks🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:

submitted 1 day ago • 1104 comments

Trump: "If you notice, every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem. They execute drug dealers. And when you think about it, it's very humane, because every drug dealer on average they say kills at least 500 people ... I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it."

submitted 1 day ago • 765 comments

Rare to see someone confront Trump in person. "We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Bannon… such a copy 😹 cat.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Important new in Eric Adams case. Judge Ho does the right thing. "To assist with its decision-making via an adversarial process, the Court exercises its inherent authority to appoint Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC as amicus curiae to present arguments on the Government's Motion to Dismiss."

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submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

lol what It’s about 160 million in 24 hours at peak. It’s a few dozen in a few minutes at a polling place. This not strenuous for a computer.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Is Elon’s ultimate goal to replace the personnel purge with Ai? Does anyone have an idea how this could be implemented in a stable & timely fashion to work? I find it odd Musk hasn’t mentioned Ai this way. Is the mission of DOGE kids to gather gov data for Musk to train his Ai for himself & gov?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The US government's foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world's poorest countries, and life-threatening gaps could persist for months, according to two sources reut.rs/3DalEhy

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

Sasha is shocked by the proposed Cat Tax J.D. Vance is proposing.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

Nothing abt what DOGE claims it's doing, or even what most suspect they're doing, requires anything like the current access they now have to critical data and nat sec computer systems across the federal govenrment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Scoop: 40 news orgs have signed on to a letter circulated by the WHCA supporting the AP and denouncing Trump's move to block them from official events. The WHCA has gone through great pains to keep the letter from leaking, but I obtained a copy. Read it in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Math is still hard www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

a good start💙

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my God if this is true

submitted 3 days ago • 853 comments

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment. Hello?

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

I don’t often feel rage. That said, I’ve been getting pretty damn close, watching one of the few truly warrior like heroes in the world of leadership…Zelensky…being rat fucked by two of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet.

submitted 3 days ago • 1126 comments

👇🏻

submitted 3 days ago • 1368 comments

Hitler propagandized the blame on the Jews as Trump is doing the same to Latino immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

Surprise! People with extreme personality disorders - narcissistic psychopaths - do not make good leaders, instead devastating leaders. Trump, Hitler, et. al. Sadly, narcissistic psychopaths can have uncanny charisma and gain an exceptional number of followers. Trump, Hitler, et. al.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 3 days ago • 4562 comments

@secrubio.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

submitted 3 days ago • 1767 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

Math is hard

submitted 4 days ago • 2031 comments