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I hope it goes without saying that this goes doubly for purged military officers

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

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.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1017 comments

France's Nazis officially find CPAC too Nazi to attend. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

Holy crap. At his town hall last night, Rep. Rich McCormick compared his own constituents who asked him tough and fair questions to January 6 insurrectionists

submitted 1 day ago • 1679 comments

"Even more unconstitutional than usual." What a timeline, eh?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He has a point.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I might love this man. In a totally not weird or stalker-y way, honest.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You know, iirc when the Nazis first came to power they made it a priority to improve the economy for most working people. MAGA's making it a priority to crash it. A clear policy Adifference, at last. And one under which MAGA manages to be worse than the actual historical Nazis. Impressive!!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today? legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 1 day ago • 3412 comments

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Oh, wonderful. Now we have to fight our alleged allies, too. Yes, we have to. Stripping Section 230 protections is dangerous for all of us. It invites censorship of political speech Big Tech doesn't like. Senate Judiciary Dems don't know what they're doing here; apparently we have to tell them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Deep breath

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Bravo, sir, and thank you. (Also: I'll give our city council this: They wouldn't have arrested him. Possibly because they'd have been too wrapped up in that bitter dispute about whether an item had passed a first reading to notice, but still. Not policing public comment counts for something.)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In this piece I highlight just one example of one of the main (anonymous!) accounts that Elon is taking instructions from, claiming that Bill Kristol is funded by USAID... based on a total misunderstanding of what a donor approved fund is. There are so many examples like this.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

This is a good reminder that anytime you try to find some kind of 4D chess reason for what Musk does, the reality is much likelier that he is a complete idiot who has no idea how the world works, yet he is powerful and rich and wields near complete loyalty from others so he gets what he wants.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Deputy AG having to show up to personally represent the United States because he literally couldn't find anybody else willing to do it would normally be the most insane thing to happen in American government in several years, rather than maybe the third or fourth most insane thing on a Wednesday.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A question many of us have been asking since some time in 2015/16. And it's gotten materially, visibly worse since then.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Washington Post is reporting that the US Gov't program to send free COVID tests to households will be shut down tonight, and the remaining tests destroyed. If you haven't already ordered yours in the latest batch (autumn 2024's) it's super quick & easy, price $0.00 covidtests.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

This. Especially the 'irreconcilable with existing law' part. But I also wonder about the possibilities for malicious compliance. My City Council just had a venomous, hours-long fight about trivial questions of procedural law. Could agency lawyers send all similar crap to Trump now for answers?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 3 days ago • 186 comments

Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

When you've lost Fetterman . . .

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

New issue of Der Speigel (German News magazine)

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

Fine, Elon doesn't know how anything works, but why are GOP reps listening to this? Judges interpret what the law says. Congress MAKES LAWS. It can change them if it thinks judges are interpreting them incorrectly. Does the GOP caucus not get that it's a legislature? where they have a majority?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

Accurate. Also, the clearest declaration I can imagine of where the current executive branch stand; the other two branches should treat it accordingly.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Nailed it

submitted 10 days ago • 97 comments

I don't want to derail a conversation about something else, but I have to wonder: Why do you want or need superheroes for a political thriller? Why "established brands"? If you have to use existing IP, why not do a faithful remake of, I dunno, Advise and Consent?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 11 days ago • 2085 comments

Trump, on the terms of his own EO, has not given DOGE any power to cut spending or shut down agencies, and Musk is not even officially in charge of DOGE. The power he is seizing is completely without any formal basis, much less constitutional. He has no legal authority whatsoever.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments