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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 15 hours ago • 1789 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 15 hours ago • 281 comments

Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is just the start. Last night he fired the highly-regarded General C Q Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replaced him with a retired three-star general, Dan Caine, who on their first meeting put on a MAGA cap and said ‘I love you, sir.’

submitted 5 hours ago • 44 comments

1/US demands Ukrainian minerals or face cutoff from Starlink. It is the most venal form of economic coercion. And it will only accelerate the backlash to US tech platforms. Now Starlink = AWS = Facebook for friends and foes alike. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 4 hours ago • 395 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 16 hours ago • 143 comments

I keep seeing people just do something they think maybe would be helpful and watching that snowball and it's just amazing. Don't wait for permission, don't wait to be invited. Pick something you think needs to happen and that you can do, and do that thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is pure extortion. Musk has far too much power for one person and also has enormous conflicts of interest in any role he serves in government. Both will have to be addressed if we want democracy, prosperity, and stability.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 15 hours ago • 183 comments

Afraid we will lose our government because Judges will sit on their hands rather than act with any sense of urgency. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 21 hours ago • 669 comments

WAIT -- who was doing the threatening?

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 848 comments

Federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among those who have been accidentally fired in President Trump's rush to lay off thousands of workers reut.rs/438ofU4

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

1. The Philadelphia Inquirer has 2 journalists - our chief political writer and foreign affairs columnist - in Germany for its critical election. A friend yesterday called us "a regional newspaper" but I'd say we're a historic legacy news org (with 23 Pulitzers)... www.inquirer.com/politics/ger...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

3 🦄s and 1 stolen unicorn today 😃 #Wordgrid #Wordgames #WQuers

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My best ever score on Wridges! I rarely reach the average, let alone beat it! #Wordgames #WQuers I got to level 90 playing The Washington Post's Wridges. ⬢⬢⬢⬢⬢ 🏆 Think you can spell your way past me? www.washingtonpost.com/games/wridge...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 1530 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

“Annex” sounds like a small cottage attached to a larger estate. America wants to INVADE AND OCCUPY Canada, a sovereign country. The words used have to reflect the violence required to achieve what he wants.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Trump’s comments and positions on Ukraine are the most dangerous & treacherous ever uttered by a sitting president. A complete capitulation to war criminal Putin. Russia, Russia, Russia is true, true, true. Our word is less than meaningless on the world stage. So dangerous.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC. THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!

submitted 1 day ago • 592 comments

This is a 5 alarm fire. They are trying to disenfranchise women from voting. Through back door legislation they are attempting to undermine any woman who took her husbands surname and take away your votes. Contact your senators today. This is an all out assault on women.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Not. Legal.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1052 comments

Guys it's been one hell of a day here at the good ole IRS. Need some time to process and to reach out to friends and family affected by the terminations this week. We don't know how many we lost or when this will end. Take care of yourselves, and be kind to the people hurting. We are all Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

It was never about saving money was it? It was always about stealing money.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Democracy is fragile, isn’t it? It takes decades, even centuries, to strengthen it, but in just a short time, it can slip away, replaced by authoritarianism. Things can go south so quickly when we take it for granted.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Trump and House Republicans are trying to sneak through a dangerous bill that would block millions of American citizens from registering to vote...

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

submitted 2 days ago • 210 comments

“For us, as Christians, we are not leaving Gaza. We will remain in Gaza and help people in Gaza reconstruct their houses, rebuild the streets. Yes, we will stay in Gaza. We are not leaving,” says Gazan Christian George Antone.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 2 days ago • 1461 comments

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

It's far too little and much too late, yet I will still try to appreciate every time someone in the GOP speaks truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is it. The Executive Branch is the audacity to try and take away the Checks and Balances. Rise up people. The time has come for the administration to know the power of the people.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments