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"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

How does firing Americans help make America great again? Cutting 5-8% of the workers is unproductive and harmful to our economy and society. This is just simply reckless and unsustainable. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 22 hours ago • 730 comments

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 51 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5073 comments

For the last two days, Sean Duffy has been blaming Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, the Democrats, and anyone else he can think of for the fact that under HIS watch, planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. Maybe fewer joyrides to the Daytona 500 and a little more attention paid to transportation.

submitted 3 days ago • 365 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

submitted 4 days ago • 217 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 5 days ago • 2292 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1253 comments

This is not a draining of the swamp or “low-productivity workers” that the Trump administration imagines filling seats at the CDC—but the future of our epidemiology infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Every single attorney who advocates for the defiance of court orders should be DISBARRED. Immediately. Every. Single. One.

submitted 8 days ago • 420 comments

If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.

submitted 8 days ago • 619 comments

can someone smarter than I am explain in small words how dumping hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed federal workers into the job market all at once won’t absolutely wreck the economy

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

We shouldn't be surprised the American people have lost confidence in the Department of Justice and FBI. Donald Trump and his loyalists have been trashing them – without cause – for years. And confirming Kash Patel will only add fuel to the fire.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 418 comments

We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

submitted 10 days ago • 963 comments

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

submitted 10 days ago • 570 comments

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

submitted 9 days ago • 2178 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 1394 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 11 days ago • 674 comments

Egg, gas and grocery prices are surging all around the United States which is odd because we were all told by a fraudulent failed businessman that tariffs would magically lower the prices for everything and that the world would greatly benefit from vindictive trade wars. 🧐

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 10 days ago • 2311 comments

Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.

submitted 11 days ago • 3949 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 11 days ago • 3885 comments

National Day Of Protest February 17, 2025

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 11 days ago • 428 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3222 comments

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

submitted 12 days ago • 90 comments

This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.

submitted 13 days ago • 985 comments

Since we’re cutting programs and benefits because there’s so much wasteful spending in government… Just wondering how much it’s going to cost for 🟠 to attend the Super Bowl?

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

Thread by @TimothyDSnyder: 0/50 Why we do think that Mr. Trump owes a debt to Mr. Putin? Here are fifty reasons. All of the facts are a matter of public record, and all of the sources can be found in my book The Road to Unfreedom. #RoadToUnfreedom threadreaderapp.com/thread/11174...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

Tell your Senators: Don’t allow Trump’s recess appointments!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

They are effectively closing down an agency created by Congress. What happened to the "take care" clause?

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

my dog Cash and I are both ready to see what Butler can do for our #warriors, lfgoooo

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 135 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 13 days ago • 368 comments

My lab strives to reduce infertility, miscarriages, and birth defects. We want y’all to have healthy kids. I know it sounds weird, but indirect costs pay for lights, HVAC, maintenance, cleaning, safety, and admin. It’s really hard to reduce birth defects in the dark. Call your representatives

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

The most important pro-democracy lawsuit you may not be following.👇 Trial begins Monday in a years-long redistricting battle that will determine Black representation in Alabama’s congressional delegation through 2030. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 13 days ago • 1489 comments

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

submitted 14 days ago • 456 comments

There’s a false narrative out there that as president, Trump can do whatever he wants with the executive branch. False! Congress has passed laws creating agencies, appropriating funds, and crafting procedures. Constitution requires President to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

submitted 14 days ago • 260 comments

When you solve for the wrong problem, not only do you not get the solution, you can cause harm. The President wasted water that was being saved for farmers for a PR stunt. This was harmful, ludicrous, and solved nothing.

submitted 16 days ago • 872 comments

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 16 days ago • 1253 comments

Litigation update Thursday (Part I of II) New lawsuits: 1. American Foreign Service Association v. Trump (suit against dismantling of USAID) 2. Government Accountability Project v. Office of Personnel Management (Schedule F) Part II ... Four successful administrative stays, injunctions, etc

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

FACTS: "There are proposals from Republicans to cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid." THIS is what it would do: It would destroy Medicaid. It wouldn't fight inflation. It wouldn't bring anybody's prices down. It would just steal people's health care #HandsOffOurMedicaid

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments