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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 20 hours ago • 1216 comments

🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Public lands belong to us. President Trump can't privatize them.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Some House lawmakers are raising “deep alarm” over DOGE’s interactions with NASA and potential conflicts of interest in a new letter released Friday. cnn.it/3Qw2GVG

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy. The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #CA #California #Energy #Renewables #Solar #Wind

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Farmers are once again at the FAFO stage. They should remember when Trump 1.0 screwed them with tariffs and killed their Chinese markets. But I guess the $28 billion bailout he gave them back then has made their memories a bit fuzzy. wapo.st/4k6EpTT

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Read this measured but heartbreaking account of the disastrous Musk/Trump destruction of USAID and what its devastation portends for the world and our nation’s indispensable role in relieving global suffering www.thebulwark.com/p/the-human-...

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

A very enlightening and prescient video by Blonde Politics. She predicted the steps to be taken, implementing Project 2025. The tech bros egos are so out of control, they see themselves as lords of new Network States that will replace government. Some crazy shit. youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 245 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1003 comments

Musk used government property and his government position to advance his own business interests- Tesla may finally launch in India after Elon Musk meets Modi - Quartz

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Elon had the FDA employees who were reviewing his brain implant company fired: www.yahoo.com/news/fda-sta...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

“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”

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

This is so important @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans in Congress have become NPC's - Non-Playable Characters. Watch Ezra Klein's excellent analysis on how and why the most powerful branch of government, the legislature, is abdicating their power. (gift article from The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 166 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 6 days ago • 1059 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

submitted 7 days ago • 109 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

submitted 8 days ago • 1271 comments

Arrrogant Trump admin tries to keep a lid on the truth of their cruelty to the global poor newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

Wait, the guy you said was Tony Stark was actually Lex Luthor?

submitted 9 days ago • 174 comments

Good on her! 🔥 Courage is needed right now! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 352 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

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submitted 9 days ago • 788 comments

This is the way… Thousands of Democrats are flooding town halls around the country, making their voices heard and demanding their senators and reps to do more, to fight harder against Trump and Musk! Don’t let up—it’s working.

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

I think part of the reason the NYT (et al.) don't yet see this as a crisis is its wildly erroneous belief that "nearly all intragovernmental government disputes eventually wind up" in federal courts. (1/3) "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-constitutional-crisis.html?smid=url-share

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Oh look who got a $400 million contract and has hidden the name Tesla from the paperwork! (gift article) wapo.st/4jZC8tu

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of your have read declaration in USAID case from Marcus Doe, which described being evacuated from Kinshasa. Doc 24-2 here. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619... A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

Donald Trump isn't interested in a smaller government, he wants a weaponized government. He doesn't want fewer federal employees, he just wants them loyal to him.

submitted 10 days ago • 245 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 11 days ago • 917 comments

While meeting with the King of Jordan and a visibly uncomfortable Rubio today, Trump now changes his position from yesterday and says the US is not going to buy Gaza, we are just going to take it: “We’re gonna take it, we’re gonna hold it, we’re gonna cherish it.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1433 comments

Staffers at the U.S. cybersecurity agency working on countering foreign disinformation and on election security have been put on leave, according to sources who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…

submitted 11 days ago • 556 comments

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

submitted 11 days ago • 263 comments

Excellent video by Ezra Klein. Trump wants us to believe he has expanded powers and a mandate. Don’t believe him! youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments