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It turns out a very bad way to avoid fascism is to make sure people don’t call it fascism until it’s too late

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 6 hours ago • 65 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 5 hours ago • 154 comments

Trump: I'm hearing so much about eggs, figure something out fast. We inherited all of the problems. A few months down the road, we won’t be able to say it’s so much us. But the big things we can blame other people for

submitted 14 hours ago • 271 comments

@washingtonpost: Officials with the General Services Administration told staff that probationary workers who took the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer would not necessarily be paid through Sept. 30, going back on a guarantee made to all federal workers.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 5 hours ago • 418 comments

Look, everyone. Chill. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

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...

submitted 6 hours ago • 284 comments

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 7 hours ago • 1193 comments

Who does this? A generational evil is the answer.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

man, reading /r/army is kinda depressing

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 4 hours ago • 64 comments

It took six reporters to conclude that these numbskulls "don't fully understand" government contracting. For weeks now it has been patently obvious that not a one of them has even the faintest grasp of how procurement works.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 38 comments

Trump will travel to Moscow to stand next to Putin on the reviewing stand for the May 8 Victory Day celebration, Moscow sources reveal to Le Point. This year's celebration will focus on Russia's victory over Ukraine. How many messages does the world need? (H/t John Paul Fitch)

submitted 4 hours ago • 44 comments

He might as well just put on an ushanka and stomp on a bald eagle

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 11 hours ago • 112 comments

This is probably the most ominous act so far

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Being embarrassing would be a massive improvement

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 975 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 5 hours ago • 59 comments

New — All Department of Defense agencies were sent a video of an agitated Pete Hegseth debunking supposedly fake media stories. Today at least one agency called an “emergency” town hall and forced employees to watch the propaganda. www.dvidshub.net/video/953069...

submitted 8 hours ago • 162 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 5 hours ago • 230 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 9 hours ago • 988 comments

Donald Trump plans to take control of the U.S. Postal Service. This will make life harder for those who rely on the USPS to get medicine, purchase home necessities, and stay connected—especially in rural communities.

submitted 11 hours ago • 270 comments

This opinion is 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

A BIG win for the country. We are fighting Trump's agenda in Congress, in the courts, and in the community. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

people are going to be doing this look, including the cuffs

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Maybe I'm going overboard, but why would the Times specifically characterize the governor as the one making the threats, here?

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 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.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1436 comments

BREAKING: Trump loses the first emergency plea of his second term at the Supreme Court. The case concerns Trump‘s removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 116 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS, for now, leaves order in place keeping Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger in office. Trump fired him, but Dellinger sued. The government’s request, however, is being kept before the court — on hold for now — since the TRO is set to expire on 2/26.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 11 hours ago • 117 comments

I knew this administration was going to be rough but I really did not think we were going to commit a full national lobotomy

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 10 hours ago • 29 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 13 hours ago • 1866 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 10 hours ago • 684 comments

This is Nichols reverting to type, albeit based on extensive declarations from Peter Marocco, a J6 insurrectionist who never faced charges and who now essentially runs the remnant of USAID for Trump.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments