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BREAKING: A cadre of largely unidentified actors in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are controlling major government functions with no real oversight or transparency. We're suing to force them to comply with the law and turn over records by March 10.

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

As I see the savage campaign of destruction in our country and extending across the world, I have to ask myself “Why?” So many people doing good work to understand the universe, help those in need, create beauty—why attack all this so viciously? Is it arrogance? Greed?Sheer malevolence? Why?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 3 days ago • 1381 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 4 days ago • 577 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 8 days ago • 231 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

Can confirm mass layoffs of probationary employees underway or about to commence at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish & Wildlife Service, per agency sources.

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 8 days ago • 600 comments

ABC: “.. Multiple current and former employees described the situation as ‘a national security crisis.’” @abcnewsgo.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

submitted 8 days ago • 628 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 8 days ago • 244 comments

Forever relevant in the age of social media. Thank you, Wendy Cope.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 10 days ago • 576 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

NEW: In a move that could jeopardize U.S. election security at the state level, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency put employees tasked with securing elections from foreign threats on administrative leave.

submitted 11 days ago • 140 comments

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

submitted 11 days ago • 1907 comments

Any minute now the White House will publish an Executive Order announcing that they are removing Pope Francis and replacing him with JD Vance

submitted 11 days ago • 90 comments

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 11 days ago • 1060 comments

“These stories should concern all Americans because they are our family members, neighbors and friends. No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way.” The American Bar Association speaks out. Please read and share. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 11 days ago • 249 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 11 days ago • 491 comments

The head of the Catholic Church's global charity arm has blasted the Trump administration's decision to gut foreign aid as "reckless" and lamented that it will likely "kill millions of people and condemn hundreds of millions more to lives of dehumanizing poverty."

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Makes watergate look like checkers

submitted 13 days ago • 376 comments

He is describing a dictatorship. One key difference between the US and Hungary has to do with that first bunch of Constitutional amendments.

submitted 13 days ago • 871 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

This is completely illegal. The reason it is being permitted is that the press refuses to say it is illegal, only describing it as contested.

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 14 days ago • 890 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 13 days ago • 3703 comments