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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2077 comments

Shitler is getting ready to do some fascist things with the military. Only reason to remove people like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 2 days ago • 252 comments

GG Karen

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Marlowe just looked at his news feed.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Here’s another way to think about it. We import roughly $3.25 trillion in goods every year. Income tax receipts total roughly $2.2 trillion. So we’d need a universal tariff rate of, give or take, 65% to be able to do away w the IRS. But… 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Everyone has heard of Burning Man, but what about "Freezing Man"? wisconsinlife.org/story/freezi...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 6 days ago • 455 comments

Our criminal president is making it so that anyone with integrity has to leave the federal government. All that will be left will be minions and co-conspirators.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

submitted 19 days ago • 431 comments

Elon Musk is Eudokia Makrembolitissa. (Same initials, even!) He’s overseeing the administration of the Empire, leaving the hapless crowned head beside him to focus on, and to fuck up, foreign policy. Not only that, but he’s making like a good royal wifey and producing lots of heirs.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2287 comments

Dumb theory, but POTUS has effective control of all three branches of government so why all the Executive Orders and not actual y'know bills and laws? Maybe he really doesn't care about actual governance so much as just enriching himself and his family.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 7 days ago • 788 comments

This. When you contact GOP MoCs, phrase things in terms they care about--accountability for what they approve & constituencies they value. w/Tillis, for example, never stop emphasizing that he is singlehandedly responsible for putting a wildly disqualified person in charge of NC's servicemembers.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

There's a lot thats "off" in this map (Yes, Buc-ee's is big in TX, but WTF is E*Z Mart?), but they're not wrong about Wisconsin's fondness for @kwiktrip.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Outside the Kwik Trip

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Just finished re-watching all 3 Lord of the Rings films, and… In our current sitch, is the President Sauron and Musk is Golem-not-Smeagol?

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"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Fucking @netflix.com - they manage to do something right (finally) by mistake then realize and, instead of taking credit, roll it back and enshittify their customers' experience. spyglass.org/netflix-appl...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

"Canada has the longest total coastline in the world, therefore we are well within our rights to rename our major oceans. Henceforth, the Pacific Ocean will be known as Poutine Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean as Hockey Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean as the Gulf of Brian Adams." - PM Trudeau

submitted 8 days ago • 405 comments

Elon has already chosen the next election he wants to influence: the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, in six weeks. “Very important to vote Republican [in this race] to prevent voter fraud,” he tweeted. The conservative candidate applauded him. Will others mobilize in response? Bolts explain stakes:

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 274 comments