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Looks like Musk-OPM 'report five accomplishments or resign' reached inside US intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence sends countermanding order: “Given the inherently sensitive and classified nature of our work, I.C. employees should not respond to the OPM email."

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“Your voice is meaningless right now. ... I can talk over all of you” said the emcee at the GOP event as the woman objecting to Medicaid cuts was dragged out.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 42 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 4 hours ago • 283 comments

if nothing else I hope this era finally makes clear that government is a SERVICE, not a business. everything isn't designed to make money.

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 5 hours ago • 194 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 5974 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 6 days ago • 2090 comments

Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 755 comments

Make Tesla worth nothing.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

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 6 days ago • 107 comments

Democracy dies in darkness….after the Washington Post turned out the lights. Disgusting.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Nothing to worry about, just an administration official suggesting that the DOJ may prosecute a member of Congress for advising people about their rights. Happening right now. Right in front of us.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

Doing great 👍

submitted 8 days ago • 1846 comments

Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

Do people not understand what’s happening with the Eric Adams thing? The memo instructing the prosecution to be dropped explicitly said it was because he was carrying out the president’s agenda. It was “you’re working for me, so we’re letting you go.” It was an explicitly corrupt bargain

submitted 10 days ago • 249 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 9 days ago • 520 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 9 days ago • 244 comments

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

Trumpism is built on the belief that America should rule the world and that the “Rule the World” button installed on the White House desk’s control panel should be ripped out and thrown into the flaming hole of Mount Doom.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

While everything is awful, it’s refreshing to read a news story about Musk/Trump that doesn’t just blandly report their claims but investigates and challenges them at every turn. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

🧑‍🍳 👌🏻

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

I just got an email from @harvard.edu flagging the dire implications of Trump's plan to slash research funding. The author of the e-mail was Alan Gerber, who replaced Claudine Gay after Harvard capitulated to pressure from anti-DEI allies of Elon Musk. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 12 days ago • 1916 comments

lawyers who are complicit in ignoring court ruling shutting down unlawful DOGE/Trumpworld actions need to be disbarred. make an example of these rogue attorneys subverting our constitutional order.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?

submitted 12 days ago • 1426 comments

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

submitted 12 days ago • 463 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 13 days ago • 207 comments

An important message from the ABA: "We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party ... change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less."

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

submitted 13 days ago • 455 comments

Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 13 days ago • 575 comments

Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem.

submitted 15 days ago • 1771 comments

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 15 days ago • 291 comments

these guys are also afflicted by the delusion that nothing can actually get bad

submitted 15 days ago • 212 comments

Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION

submitted 15 days ago • 71 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots. A big victory for voting rights and democracy! www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 16 days ago • 670 comments

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not in spite of inadequate vetting but because they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

submitted 16 days ago • 149 comments

Max Fisher: "Wielding the power of the state to intimidate news agencies against reporting on the government's illegal abuses of power is literal authoritarianism. I'm not speaking figuratively, I'm not calling it a warning sign. It's authoritarianism. It's here."

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

submitted 16 days ago • 382 comments

The Republican witnesses at today’s hearing tried to blame Californians for the fires. Had to set the record straight.

submitted 16 days ago • 60 comments

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 164 comments