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BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

Politico’s owner liked Vance cozying up to the Nazi-tainted AfD. Good to know.

submitted 3 days ago • 202 comments

Here we go. Certain generals must be removed before any martial law plan is put into action—as Trump and Hegseth are worried there may still be some generals out there who support the Constitution rather than his proposed dictatorship. This is a political purge intended as a precursor to far more.

submitted 3 days ago • 269 comments

This is unheard of in American history. Absolutely insane in peace time.

submitted 4 days ago • 487 comments

I hate to ask this but i have to, are we now the bad guys? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/are-we-now...

submitted 4 days ago • 5045 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1218 comments

Great @ddimolfetta.bsky.social scoop: Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a DOGE staffer fired from a company for leaking secrets and a reported former member of a notorious cybercrime group, now has a DHS email address and has been seen at a @CISAgov office. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

🔥 Yet another @jessicatarlov.bsky.social truth bomb on Fox laying out just a few of the ways Trump & Musk’s federal government destruction is ruining lives & endangering Americans

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

With FAA being gutted, we also lose airline oversight. In covering Northwest Airlines [merged with Delta 2008] in the 1990s, our reporter got FOIA records showing planes so out-of-repair engines were dropping off. The airline went to court to prevent publication, called prior restraint. We won.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Seeing people get up to nonsense like this - like not to get all corny, but honest to God - reminds me that people are worth fighting for lmao.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 6 days ago • 483 comments

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

submitted 6 days ago • 1110 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 404 comments

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 7 days ago • 273 comments

The DOGE website missed its Valentine's Day deadline for producing a detailed list of the savings it was making, and now it's missed its second self-imposed deadline...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders rolling back abortion protections in the middle of the night, hoping that no one would notice. This is — and always has been — about controlling women’s bodies. I’m fighting back.

submitted 7 days ago • 288 comments

The entire contents of Waste.gov, the website tracking government "waste" are from a default WordPress theme about an imaginary architecture firm. Musk said yesterday DOGE is "maximally transparent" and all actions are being tracked on website: www.404media.co/elon-musks-w...

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

I have a question. What is the foreign policy of the U.S. government? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 10 days ago • 588 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 558 comments

Last night Timothy Snyder talked with Rachel about the idea of a shadow government to serve as a model and reminder of what is possible from a government of qualified people instead of Fox guests and family members. It came up twice, actually. Here's 1 of 2.

submitted 68 days ago • 233 comments

“.. After reports of the news Wednesday the online forecast about the contract was edited to remove the word ‘Tesla’ and simply referred to $400 million worth of ‘armored electric vehicles.’” @the-independent.com $TSLA www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

So these $400 million dollars worth of armored Teslas… could they be intended for use on US streets? Against, say, a domestic uprising?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Sorted. 😉😎

submitted 10 days ago • 577 comments

Unbelievable the number of things happening under this administration

submitted 10 days ago • 1287 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

Just when you think you’ve seen the dumbest shit imaginable…the House GOP leaps right over it to the absolutely dumbest shit humanly possible.

submitted 12 days ago • 247 comments

“Charming”

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

Truly sad and humiliating to see Donald Trump, the President, just sit there weak and quiet as Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, acts like the President and talks to the media in the Oval Office. Wild scene.

submitted 12 days ago • 267 comments

This says it all

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submitted 12 days ago • 886 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 12 days ago • 917 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 12 days ago • 991 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895

submitted 14 days ago • 200 comments

Germany is saying no to autogenocide, no to oligarchy, and no to impunity. Thousands are taking a stand against fascism ahead of the election. No matter the results they won't bend the knee to oligarchy. #3E

submitted 14 days ago • 203 comments

NYT: At least 810,000 crypto wallets--include many followers of President Trump nudged by DJT himself--lost $ on $Trump memecoin--more than $2 billion in total. Yet industry pros who quickly bought/sold scored massive profits & Trump family partners made $100 million www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 146 comments

Want to know what evil is? It's having $400 billion—and being projected to earn $600 billion more over the next 4 years—and knowing that you could awaken every morning for a month and point to a country and say I will end all hunger THERE without denting your lifestyle at all and instead you do this

submitted 16 days ago • 474 comments

Good work, rebel federal employees. Keep going. We need you. Thank you. 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 6591 comments

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

submitted 17 days ago • 371 comments

This is possibly the most astonishing thing I've read from the last week. DOGE re-writing air traffic control. DOGE gutting USAID & raiding its SCIF. DOGE hoovering up OPM. All of it madness. But this one is worse. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 18 days ago • 227 comments

A young DOGE engineer has reportedly clashed with senior developers, screaming and calling them “idiots” during a meeting at the OPM.

submitted 17 days ago • 188 comments

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

NEW: Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

submitted 17 days ago • 424 comments