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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 16 hours ago • 52 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 124 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 17 hours ago • 860 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 344 comments

The only data that cannot be compromised or abused is data that does not exist: I absolutely agree Democrats should be running on these ideas.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

there is no reason our passports need to reference our genitals

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

Liam Hogan never misses a beat.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 17 hours ago • 151 comments

we are living through a kleptocracy by coup like early 90's russia and it's wild how few people seem to care or realize everything is being stripped down and sold for parts. they are only interested in accumulating wealth and power.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 16 hours ago • 821 comments

Unfortunately I have been fired from my job guarding the orb containing the sum of all human knowledge from the creatures that live at the borders of reality but I know how important it is to pay down our national debt.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

“Bye bye social security”

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

I miss the days when YA drama was like "This person in my debut group one-starred my book on Goodreads" and not like "this school district in Florida set a bunch of books on fire and also the FBI now has me on a list for writing about Black people."

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

CRYING DEA AGENT SAID WHAT?

submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

IMPORTANT: I have done a comprehensive survey of one’s possible musical options during an MRI and can state conclusively that Deep House is always the way to go. Don’t fight the horrid noises. Work with them. (Also tested: Classical, Music I Dig Now, various iterations of Music Loved at 16).

submitted 22 hours ago • 201 comments

An entire government built on the premise of owning the libs. Revolting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 119 comments

the hollywood standard for men going from like “modestly fit [well known actor in his late thirties]” to “a body fat percentage that puts you on the verge of death” is probably bad and underpins a lot of rw subcultures i think

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

All you need to know about Crypto is that Miami is the most Crypto friendly city in the world and it will not exist in 50 years.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Asked my accountant if he thought paying taxes was obeying in advance and he said he's really busy

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

Men: Ugh I struggle to even finish a book anymore my attention span is so cooked Women: It's called A Field of Fury & Roses and it's the prequel to A Palace of Thorns which I enjoyed almost as much as its sequel, A Maze of Mist & Fire. Each book is 800 pages of inter-species elven smut

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 17 hours ago • 452 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 18 hours ago • 136 comments

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

submitted 22 hours ago • 179 comments

every single one of the 70 year old wine moms in the replies posting gifs can be shown the guiding light of maoism. I believe this in my bones. we just need to print the little red book in the live laugh love font

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 20 hours ago • 61 comments

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

look, who wouldn't prefer playing with a chainsaw to dealing with their child's life-threatening medical issues

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Robert Evans ( @iwriteok.bsky.social ) with a slice of Peter Thiel's origin story. Highly recommend the entire 4-part series on this bastard..he's got a LOT to answer for, with regards to the current state of the union. @coolzonemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Jb...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

i feel like with thirty minutes time and a couple diet Cokes i could get him to reverse the Louisiana Purchase

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.

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Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

in other news, an armed man used an AR-15 in a provocative manner at a local grocery store

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Musk now calling for people at 60 Minutes to go to prison.

submitted 5 days ago • 237 comments

this is somehow actually what happened

submitted 3 days ago • 196 comments

the fact that there are people who seem to think that the funds he is stealing from the american people by stripping away all their rights and protections are somehow going to go to them and not directly into his bank accounts makes me want to smash my head against a wall

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

This is literally Curtis Yarvin’s 2012 proposal he called RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. They are following Yarvin’s playbook to the letter, and that should have everyone at defcon 1, because his playbook is plagiarized from Nazi legal philosopher Carl Schmitt.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Here's an example just from today of how closely Elon Musk is aligned to ideas propagated by Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt. Musk says that people vote for elected representatives who "decide their will." Nothing else matters. (no courts, no bureaucracy) Schmitt says...exactly the same thing.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments