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submitted 9 days ago • 2024 comments

Stephen Feinberg is the nominee for second-in-command at the Pentagon. His “qualifications”? -No relevant government or military experience -Major conflicts of interest through his investments in defense contractors -Drove 8 Massachusetts hospitals to bankruptcy

submitted 3 days ago • 141 comments

Rhinebeck knitters: Today is a great day to cancel your Airbnb for NYSW 2025. Rebook on vrbo or elsewhere. The head of Airbnb is a DOGE guy and friend of Musk. It’s early - lots of properties are listed on both and there are many options still available. 🧶 #knitters #knitsky #rhinebeck #knit

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

"The oligarchs kissing the ring, the lawsuits against the media, the constraints on which media should be in the White House pool, and which are not — all that sounds familiar": How Trump's Washington feels like the early days of Putin's Moscow. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 52 comments

As long as politicians are beholden to big donors, they won't be working for the people. We need to change the system.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Over half of Trump’s appointees to the Justice Department to receive hearings have been his personal lawyers. Bondi, Blanche, Sauer, Dhillon. He’s turning the DOJ into Trump LLP.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Mission Accomplished, Senator Collins

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

I wrote this several months ago. It is truer today than ever before. presswatchers.org/2024/10/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The Trump-Musk attack on American consumers in a nutshell: Company started scamming people with interest rates as high as 1000% → CFPB stepped in to hold it accountable → Trump Administration reversed course, leaving consumers high and dry.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

After Trump embraced crypto, Coinbase gave millions to PACs backing pro-Trump candidates. After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin. Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase. See how this works?

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

This is authoritarianism. Our criminal president’s vindictive actions are an effort to terrorize people who might oppose him.

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A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct. He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...

submitted 2 days ago • 256 comments

"Evidence grows daily that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been evasive and dishonest about the ongoing effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to gain access to the federal payments system." prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It doesn’t “raise concerns about” a conflict of interest. It is obviously a direct conflict of interest.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Donald Trump broke the law by removing climate change references from USDA websites, lawsuit alleges

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The White House seized control of the press pool today, announcing that the administration — not an independent group of journalists — will decide which reporters cover events with the president.

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows." apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

My latest. Please read + share: "Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump" MSNBC has decided to silence, sideline, & cancel prominent anchors of color, such as Joy Reid. The rest of us can tune out and build our own media community. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 7 days ago • 666 comments

DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

submitted 6 days ago • 101 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 6 days ago • 315 comments

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Say what now?

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com As a reporter, James Gerstenzang covered five presidents and is familiar with the conventional disputes between journalists and presidents. But Trump's ban on The AP "is emblematic of the broader assault by the White House on the public's right to know," he writes.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

Somehow missed this: Musk posted the name, picture and financial disclosure information of the daughter of a Judge who blocked his funding cuts b/c she used to work at the Dept of Education. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

submitted 9 days ago • 743 comments

The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

t's not just that Trump has a flawed strategic vision (lots of presidents have had flawed strategies), it's also that he's full of malice and spite towards Ukraine. So he will lie and lie and lie. This is a Russian propagandist's dream:

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 9 days ago • 3382 comments

🇺🇸👀 CNN poll: ▪️8% of Americans view Russia positively; ▪️61% see Russia as an enemy; ▪️4% Russia as a partner. ▪️ only 9% like Putin! ▪️ 52% support Ukraine using U.S. weapons in Russia.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

Trump last week: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf.” Trump today: on day 4 of 5 working from home, day 4 straight of golfing for part of the day. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

JUST IN: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has fired at least 20 employees who were involved in reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink. -CNBC

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

After talking to sources on every side, it's become clear the stakes in the Eric Adams case are far higher than one man's fate. MAGA is looking to tame the famously-independent US Atty's office in Manhattan. They're trying to take DOJ's "crown jewel" for itself. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

They are laser focused on the issues that matter

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Politico moved its London Playbook author to DC to anchor the original edition of the newsletter. This level of "ooh gosh"-ism about America is not common to US newsrooms! But I am seeing 10 million people dunk on this today, so it does make everyone else look stupid.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 10 days ago • 140 comments

This is a video that every single American needs to see so send the link to aunt "Karen," uncle MAGA, cousin low-info voter & your non-voting nephews. "We are in the middle of a hostile government takeover."🎵🎶🎶 You will enjoy this humorous & informative clip! Please share. youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw?...

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

Organized crime tactics because our government has been taken over by a criminal network.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Yes, the Trump-Vance administration just told Germany it should make nice with a far-right political party with a history of using Nazi rhetoric and accepting racists and antisemites. And no Republican will complain. This is neo-fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

Folks…

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Gavin Kliger, the Musk bro busting into the IRS… wait, is that the same Gavin Kliger who retweets Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate? Why yes, that is the same Gavin Kliger www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are mass firing veterans. apnews.com/live/trump-p...

submitted 12 days ago • 647 comments

At least 7 plane crashes since Trump and Musk destroyed aviation safety in the United States. That's an average of 1 plane crash every 3 days. 1/29 – Washington, D.C. 1/31 – Pennsylvania 2/5 – Washington 2/6 – Alaska 2/10 – Arizona 2/12 – California 2/16 – Georgia

submitted 11 days ago • 237 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5655 comments