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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 11 hours ago • 207 comments

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 18 hours ago • 77 comments

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

This was the best thing to land in my inbox.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

In Washington last year, a traffic crash killed or seriously injured someone every 2.7 hours, but I've never seen a TV news station claim that even a single horrific crash "highlights the dangers" of roadway travel.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Because you are sucking up to the owner of your newspaper?

submitted 5 days ago • 1464 comments

A coalition of watchdog groups and unions is seeking to block the DOGE team from accessing taxpayer data at the IRS. A similar battle is brewing over Social Security data.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

You know what might be unpopular but it’s how I feel? I’m not interested in shoes like SNL or those late night hosts yucking it up over Trump & Elon Not saying some aren’t funny, I’m just not interested in that particular group of men or their hot takes/jokes/skits

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 4 days ago • 454 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 5974 comments

Take people's social security or Medicare from them and it won't be bullets politicians will be fearing, it'll be bombs. People paid into this system all their lives. You can't just yank that out from under them and expect to wake up tomorrow.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8246 comments

also, why didn’t this come up in his committee hearing

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

I think the thing people misunderstand about street protests, is that they are not seeking to persuade power, they are seeking to intimidate it. It is a statement that x many people, way more than you, are organizing. The crowd size is a tool to put fear in the hearts of those who control us.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

Journalists are getting the story out, activists are staging protests, courts are weighing in. The Democrats need to tie it all together in high profile daily briefings for the entire country. My latest on the urgent need for a counter narrative to Trump/Musk. ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

I just feel like reminding a lot of you that Kamala Harris owes you nothing……..

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I think some people are going to regret letting Mr. Hogg near the trough.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Every video of the Eagles parade is just Saquon Barkley doing side quests like he's on his own personal scavenger hunt. 😂😍🤩 "Find overlooked employee in crowd and pull him into the parade." "Get Philly cop to give you their bike." "Sing Eagles song with the QB." www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Y9CVED/

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Don't do this administration's work for them by coming up with justifying and rationalizing arguments for institutions and organizations to cooperate. This includes the justifications for why the Democratic party has to "find common ground." If you even start to think this, slap yourself.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

It’s time for Governor Kathy Hochul to remove Eric Adams as Mayor of New York City. She has the power to do it and he’s a proven criminal and fraudster.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

"Trump and Elon Musk are like two guys with six-shooters trying to hold a thousand people hostage. They only win if everyone thinks they are too strong to rush." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 9 days ago • 1051 comments

This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage. Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read. 🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

Feel like we need to start developing a different form of posting here. Ones which don't chase the new but restate what matters. Like: None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Key remaining question is how Musk is planning to overthrow Trump, and formally take dictatorial power. Then we need to start with this end game and work backwards to stop them both.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

I've watched this ad like a bunch more & as someone whose feet do not fit into Nike;s, the other striking to me thing about the ad is the bodies. If you don't know there's a big push for early 2000s disordered eating bodies right now. The MUSCLES on these women is unreal in the most positive way

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

“In response to an executive order titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Radicalism," the U.S. military has halted sexual assault prevention programs.”

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

submitted 13 days ago • 182 comments

Jeep coming in to have Harrison Ford doing a greatest generation ass freedom ad for electric cars... man. Woke winning the war

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

The Eagles have won Super Bowl LIX, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22! This marks the Birds' second time claiming the Vince Lombardi Trophy. inquirer.com/eagles/live/...

submitted 13 days ago • 101 comments

🦅 Enjoy the moment, Philly 💚 Join us for complete coverage of your Champions, the Eagles: inquirer.com/sports

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It wasn’t so much a game as it was a display of absolute dominance by the Eagles. I’m happy for Philly!

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.