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Cartoonish ass proudly bullshit administration www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...

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HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

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The Justice Department plans to drop a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

submitted 3 days ago • 1567 comments

very likely that they’re about to find a constitutional right to forced conversion therapy

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What’s stopping every Democratic governor from doing this

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The Social Security Administration rolled out a new policy banning employees from looking at news websites on government devices three hours after this story published www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @jeffstein.bsky.social @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

They’re running government like a business taken over by private equity — slashing the labor force, selling real estate, and funneling all of the savings back into their own pockets. Last step is selling the Interior department to an Estonian publisher

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sharing this now because everything is just so dumb www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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It’s easier said than done and this is not to downplay the menacing risks, BUT: don’t do all their work for these bastards www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Interesting where government spending isn’t being cut. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Mark Warner is the 4th richest person in all of Congress, which helps explain why he's so unbothered by the enormous spike in unemployment Virginia is about to see

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Elon Musk fought Delaware's laws. Musk may be winning. I wrote about how a billionaires' revolt has the tiny state that's home to the world's largest corporations scrambling to rewrite its rules. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.

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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 11 days ago • 135 comments

The first year VMI integrated the yearbook had the n-word and a bunch of blackface photos in it. The editor later became the Republican Senate leader in Virginia. He retired last year

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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.

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The US Nuclear weapons agency meets DOGE: "Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration are frantically calling employees back and telling them that -- as of right now -- they're not fired, despite some receiving termination emails and phone calls on Thursday." This is a mess

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

The turtles can have some beers today

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There's only one way to bring Elon Musk down, writes @pblest.bsky.social. www.discourseblog.com/p/theres-onl...

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this makes sense, only jack posobiec has the career expertise to securely transport clean piss for hegseth

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Elon Musk is just the beginning www.discourseblog.com/p/theres-onl...

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 27 days ago • 485 comments

The anti DEI pro trump stuff is purely about discipline organizing workers example # 5373

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

Lmao

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🚨🚨 This is not journalism. It is embarrassing.

submitted 27 days ago • 559 comments

NEW: The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.

submitted 28 days ago • 72 comments

1) housing went insane 2) pandemic inflation and price gouging that went unanswered by the government 3) pandemic support (good) was yanked away virtually all at once (bad) 4) continuation of trend of hedge funds driving up costs of unavoidable expenses which hit poor/lower middle class the hardest

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

A lot of people were convinced that zoomers were the Franco Generation based on a handful of exit polls and dumb tweets they saw go viral. Probably not a good assumption to make

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Save me Fountains of Wayne reunion tour. Fountains of Wayne reunion tour save me

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NEW: Dozens of CFPB Workers Terminated in After-Hours Firing Blitz w/ @dmehro.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dozens...

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SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 29 days ago • 179 comments

oh snap krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...

submitted 33 days ago • 112 comments

Throwing a literal Whites Only sign up at the immigration office.

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Schumer and Jeffries are attempting to lead a Democratic party that does not functionally exist anymore outside of Congress. This shit has no audience anymore — not the base, not swing voters, and definitely not the CEOs.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

For the past few months I've been working with some of my colleagues on a story about Springfield, Ohio, what made it ripe for political opportunism last year, and the future of its residents. We published it yesterday. Give it a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI66...

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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"Building a party that can enforce candidate accountability to the collective political judgment of party members isn’t merely difficult in the US, it’s impossible. US election law simply forbids such parties." jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons

submitted 36 days ago • 95 comments

"Our reporting speaks for itself. It is rigorously reported and fact checked [and] we look forward to continuing doing the work, trying to figure out exactly what Elon Musk and his team are doing inside of these federal agencies," -- @katie-drummond.bsky.social, head of WIRED

submitted 36 days ago • 32 comments

This is the US attorney of the District of Columbia who just made a letter public that vaguely threatens anyone who challenges Musk

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

Gavin Kliger, 26, authored the email announcing USAID HQ would close today. Here is Gavin in a Twitter Academy ad from 2021. He interned at old Twitter. Gavin is an avid Yelp reviewer, critiquing everything from Orange County Planet Fitnesses for being too loud to local Chinese restaurants/

submitted 37 days ago • 42 comments

So that’s a federal subsidy for the media platform owned by the president’s biggest donor, which he’s made a gathering place for nazis

submitted 39 days ago • 88 comments

Ultimately the only real remedy to the Elon-specific rot working its way through the federal government right now is a state takeover of Tesla

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments