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Speaking of "intent of the Framers," we don't have to guess what they'd think about the Secretary of War saying he's going to use the enormous standing army to break the law.

submitted 6 hours ago • 42 comments

The lack of transparency surrounding DOGE’s efforts is off the charts. The DOGE team members appeared at the agency’s Washington headquarters, and carried out work in a basement conference room where they covered its windows in paper, according to a photograph of their workspace seen by FOIA Files

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Several Trump administration officials leading federal agencies urged their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s order to summarize their accomplishments for the past week or be removed from their positions, even as Musk doubled down on the demand over the weekend.

submitted 2 hours ago • 89 comments

Pesky damn lawyers, it's always "no, that's illegal" this and "we could all go to prison" that.

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

It is legitimately distressing to face what appears to be conflicting instructions from the Secretary of Defense and the White House, all the more so when the President's official statement is in the form of a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon.

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

I keep having my inner doomer voice, who I usually keep placated with Mental Health Strategies, be like "ok so what happens if this means the appointees are rallying around a more sober P2025 agenda and are going to kick Musk" but I realized, there's no way Musk goes quietly if that happens

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

Very much appreciate that this starts with the premise that being unconstitutional is not automatically bad. Criticizing this administration purely on constitutional grounds is both morally weak and cuts off our collective political imagination. www.crisesnotes.com/why-should-w...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The Republican Ripoff - a great tool that helps understand how we will suffer locally with the forthcoming maga budget... democrats-budget.house.gov/legislation/...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

submitted 8 hours ago • 498 comments

The real reason people say Musk is stupid is that every time he talks about any area that a particular person knows about, he reveals that he doesn’t understand the most basic things about it. Apparently this has never come up for Noah Smith.

submitted 6 hours ago • 92 comments

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 231 comments

That's 9 tweets an hour (plus replies). This dude is allegedly running the world's 7th biggest company (by market cap) as well as like 6 other companies and completely overhauling the federal entire government. And high as a fucking kite the whole time.

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments

It’s worth noting that America was also the wealthiest in the post-WW2 period because the US had abandoned tariffs, beginning with the RTAA of 1934 and continuing through the GATT of 1947.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Ugh. Trump unilaterally terminated government contracts. He stopped payment for work already done. That will kill many of these companies. But it also undermines trust in contracts and the fed gov's willingness to enforce them. You'd think free market advocates would care about that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

This is an excellent legal analysis by Katherine Yon Ebright and @lizagoitein.bsky.social of Trump's unlawful border "invasion" declaration. Turns out Abraham Lincoln once led a campaign to censure James Polk for falsely invoking the Invasion Clause, which sparked the Mexican-American War.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

A friend of mine who works in government helping veterans received an email from a south African billionaire demanding he justify his job to our draft dodging president. That's how absurd this shit is.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments Analysis by Professor Nicholas Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) Bottom line up front: The threat of termination by implied resignation is legally invalid.

submitted 20 hours ago • 53 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 124 comments

A lot of republican events are straight up dangerous for formal acts of protest, but going NIMBY-mode on townhalls seems like a perfect way to distort the calculus of GOP electeds

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

‘Venture capital is killing more value than it creates,' author and tech activist Catherine Bracy argues in a new book, World Eaters. Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit, she says.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

The SAVE Act is specifically designed to disenfranchise a ton of American women. Let us recall how many of the techbros now infiltrating the American government, like Peter Thiel, believe that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Wow…I had to double, triple check to make sure this tweet from Senator Smith was real. Rare to see a US Senator tweet like this. Not complaining, just surprising.

submitted 18 hours ago • 162 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 22 hours ago • 635 comments

people keep telling me Dem electeds aren’t reflecting or articulating our frustration and anger but I think Smith gets it

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

This is insane. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

submitted 18 hours ago • 53 comments

“Please be advised that this email did not originate from the Judiciary or the Administrative Office and we suggest that no action be taken.” www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

I’m just gonna call it right now—agencies advising their employees to not respond to the OPM email is gonna cause Elon to absolutely crash the fuck out and do something even more batshit insane.

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

I try to think about how bad filling these slots with Trump cronies is going to be for foreign relations, trade, and peace and my brain just factory-resets

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The thing about the chaos tonight is that a lot of different parts of the government are pushing back on Musk. Very easy to imagine him having to pick between trying to fire an absurd, untenable number of people or backing down after having made a big threat and looking weak.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

New — State Department employees have been instructed not to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 112 comments

He has the AUDACITY TO SEND THESE EMAILS TO VA DOCTORS !! Doctors working at Veterans Hospitals What does trump do ? Golf....AYFKM

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

Something that wasn't brought to my attention until after publication is that GlomarResponder also made a lot of posts that appear to praise and defend Adolf Hitler.

submitted 22 hours ago • 38 comments

Another department tells its employees to ignore Elon…

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 21 hours ago • 86 comments

BREAKING: As Elon Musk said on X would be happening, I can now report that all federal employees are receiving an email directing them to provide “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.” It directs them not to send any classified information and is due by 11:59p Monday.

submitted 23 hours ago • 201 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

I LOVE MORALISTIC GARBAGE I LOVE GLOBALISM I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

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Remember when everyone made fun of Kendi for proposing a Department of Anti-Racism that would have veto over the entire government? It just occurred to me that the conservatives invented the equivalent Department of Racism in DOGE

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments