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Raskin: "I say a rally a day keeps the fascists away."

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News programs need to stop inviting these people on

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What he's doing in the federal government now is intended to make the U.S. similarly dependent on him. It won't matter who controls Congress or the presidency if he can turn off social security on a whim. That's the crisis we're all yelling about

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

submitted 2 hours ago • 604 comments

Yes, but also, an acknowledgement that government income could actually be increased substantially through returning to a tax structure at least a tiny bit closer to the post-war era would be nice, too.

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Trump: "We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after, because they were very dishonest people. They were very, very dishonest. We have a lot of law firms that we're going after."

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Grandpa is out playing golf while his drug addicted grandson is stealing our money

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Wasting Tesla sale staff's time is a GREAT way to help out. Don't give them any reason to suspect you aren't a serious buyer, and they have to play along. With the quarter ending, they're gonna be desperate for sales. Leverage that, keep them grinding for a sale that will never come! #TeslaTakedown

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Questions for my friends at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP: 👉 Are you proud of representing this felon on his criminal appeal? 👉 Why do you think he deserves legal representation when he’s trying to prevent others from getting representation through the corrupt abuse of official power? (1/2)

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Repeat after me - this is the stupidest possible way to run the world’s biggest economy.

submitted 3 hours ago • 96 comments

NYC artists catching up to London now

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

A Trump administration freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover everything from dumpster pickups at national parks to liquid nitrogen for lifesaving military research is upending work across the government, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

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It’s funny how all those big protests just disappeared after the election, despite worsening conditions for Gaza. Almost like they were being disingenuously amplified to sway voter opinion, or something.

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"I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. He’s the one that goes golfing on the government dime. I don’t even know how to golf.”

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“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

submitted 13 hours ago • 143 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 16 hours ago • 577 comments

Does nobody have a calculate? Or common sense? Or a olfactory sensor to do a sniff test? A "new study" finds that 2% of US Adults have been injured at a mass shooting. No. "7% reported having been present." 7% of US adults = 18,346,00 people Are you effing kidding me?

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I can't believe there are still so many suburban white people paid to churn out papers about "racial disparity in policing!" Stories that refuse to acknowledge real world racial disparities that might cause some of this. I liked PPI more when they focused on mass incarceration.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

There's legitimately blood in the water at this point. Keep attending Tesla protests. Post about it. Solidify the brand's association with Nazi incels.

submitted 12 hours ago • 92 comments

It sure does take a lot of cops to protect Elon's feelings.

submitted 15 hours ago • 756 comments

Kinda worse than secession tbh. Its literally the "protect but not bind" thing where they want the benefits of being part of the United States but with none of the obligations

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

My concern is that the GOP and his admin in particular are inciting violence, taking advantage of and pardoning violence (Jan 6 anyone). Political violence is a tool of the GOP to enforce party discipline.

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US defense companies might never be trusted again on.ft.com/3DtQQZs

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Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

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We want them to fight not “find places we can work together.” Nuance is dead.

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“This isn’t Twitter, where the worst that happens is people losing access to their accounts,” the former senior executive said. “People die when FAA workers are distracted and processes are broken.”

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That Kennedy goes hiking in the middle of a measles outbreak is a sign of the larger crisis we are in. They don’t want to solve problems. They want to be in control. In rightwing politics, these are separate things.

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I'm reading Ezra's column that adapts his Abundance book, and he's using California high-speed rail as the example of liberal America's inability to build. And I ctrl-F "consultants," and find nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

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Normally, if bad actors hijacked our government systems with an intent on crippling them, which would directly bring harm to American citizens, we’d be pretty comfortable labeling that as terrorism. But right-wing billionaires have you believing that it’s called “patriotism.”

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And when government is not perfect it is an opportunity to commit massive Medicare fraud

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US military ending joint exercises with NATO, as America’s leaders denounce Europe. Russia’s top foreign policy goal has long been to undermine, ideally break up NATO, which is apparently a US goal now as well. Similarly, America’s stated goal is now regime change in Ukraine, the same as Russia’s.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

You get to be a big tough guy or a smol bean. Pick one. bsky.app/profile/just...

submitted 4 hours ago • 44 comments

We are governed by such adults.

submitted 16 hours ago • 73 comments

Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”. No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut. What’s happening are purges and censorship.

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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

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Trump's ways are learned. It looks intuitive or 'natural' because he has decades of experience at it, since childhood. What he's 'replicating' is high school, where he was a rich kid managing hangers-on. 'Patrimonialist regimes' have schoolyard characteristics www.liberalcurrents.com/a-rich-kid-t...

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needlepoint it on a pillow and then use that pillow to smother anyone in congress who’s too busy keeping their job to DO their job

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I just want to say to fellow Feds, particularly SES: resigning in the face of illegal actions is not going to cut it. Protect your agencies and refuse illegal orders. Throw yourself into the gears of the machine. Make them fire you. It's a leadership test. Try to pass it.

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Trump and his minions are ruining international relationships that will take decades to fix, if ever: youtu.be/z3rIlAITjXk?...

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The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.

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they're averaging like an "Obamacare website" every 14 hours

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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

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For years I've been explaining that presidents don't control the economy; they get too much credit when things go well, too much blame when things go poorly But right now it really feels like Trump is trying to prove this wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

Remember when the Trump Administration said they were not trying to fire air traffic controllers? They were lying.

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as much as we tend to group these people together in a single (awful) bucket, it emerges from this account how each has his own (terrible, defective) management style that proves to be incompatible with everyone else's

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They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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