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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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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 22 hours ago • 1942 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.

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NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

clearly captured by russian propagandists

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LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

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This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

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reminder that this dude had a literal list of ways he was exploring avoiding accountability and one was just “become a right wing nut”

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totally cool and normal www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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

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Democrats insisted for four years that Joe Biden couldn't remove ONE GUY at the Postal Service. Trump has been president for four weeks and he's essentially abolishing it as we know it, firing its board and making it part of the Department of Commerce.

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fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

The Trump/House budget will cut $880 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from SNAP to pay for tax cuts to billionaires. But just in case Elon Musk wasn't benefiting enough, it also gives us a trillion dollar defense budget to pay for added missile defense, with contracts likely going to SpaceX.

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BREAKING: The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4gI5Ss4

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Those Who Say (X) Agency Should Be Eliminated: DOGE: 25% USAID: 21% DOE: 17% IRS: 13% FEMA: 11% EPA: 8% CDC: 7% CFPB: 7% ICE: 5% FBI: 4% NWS: 2% DOD: 1% YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603

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Here’s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories within their jurisdiction, b) give them a blistering statement, c) blast it out on all channels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

lol taking bets does he a) think “algorithms” actually exist and are being used here or b) have no idea what he’s talking about but put some keywords into chatgpt and this is what came out

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Not breaking any new ground here, but my god is Bari a bad writer and thinker

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

Credit where it's due: it is helpful that a thoroughly corporate mainstream media outlet is able to draw the line from "Musk is spreading bullshit about fraud in Social Security" to "Trump and Musk are coming for your Social Security and this is them laying the groundwork"

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a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

2005 me: maybe technology really can save us? 2025 me:

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

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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...

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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if a literal russian agent had become president i can’t really imagine their policies being anything different than this

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Trump officials are reportedly pushing Romania to let Andrew Tate and his brother leave the country, amid human trafficking and sex crime cases. www.ft.com/content/3f95...

submitted 5 days ago • 180 comments

let’s be crystal clear: statements like this are why no one shows up to the polls for democrats. people who “support over woke-ism” literally do not exist sir. they were a moral panic invented to get you to say dumb shit like this. there is no constituency waiting to hear a statement like this.

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Fact Checker: The Trump administration is sweeping through the U.S. government. At the same time, the White House has adopted a unique lexicon to describe its agenda — in some cases, using words that in ordinary contexts mean the opposite. Here’s a guide to the verbiage.

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Don't these people get sick of reading the same article thirty times a month

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#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

submitted 6 days ago • 302 comments

You mean he was unbanned by Musk after first being banned for posting some of the worst CSAM around.

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Truth Social lost OVER $400 MILLION last year in $3.6 million in revenue www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 481 comments

A new law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah prohibits unions from negotiating wages and other terms for teachers, firefighters, police officers and all other public employees, joining just two other states that have banned collective bargaining in the public sector.

submitted 6 days ago • 390 comments

Annoying... On @cnn.com now, a discussion of budget & deficit and ALL of the discussion is focused on cutting spending. WHY is it never mentioned that deficit problem is because we cut REVENUES. And GOP wants to cut $4 TRILLION more in taxes? THAT is a main reasons why we have a big debt.

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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

This is the ultimate result of a hate campaign against the trans community. Depraved violence and murder against our community. archive.ph/G4U6J

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

entirely made up stories followed by made up reactions to them followed by made up policies to “stop it from happening again”, rinse, repeat

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Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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CBS is one of a dozen U.S. outlets that responded to authoritarianism by shifting coverage further right, which is why we're calling rounding up minorities in the middle of the night and dumping them in random countries they've never been to a "breakthrough"

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