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Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 7 hours ago • 118 comments

In 2014, a Google engineer launched a petition proposing a national referendum. The first two points? 1. Retire all government employees with full pensions. 2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry. What a difference a decade can make!

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1101 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 23 hours ago • 26 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1529 comments

This chart shows that Ford’s deficits are much larger than Wynne’s. Sure some of that is due to Covid but Ford is also defunding everything we need (education, healthcare) while spending on things we don’t (agency fees, spas, tunnels, highways, ads on Hannity). #OnPoli

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Amazon-produced 007 movie pits Bond against fulfillment center workers who want to unionize

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

More of this please.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Why is Doug Ford committing Ontario to a $100 million deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink, when Musk can yank it out from under us when it serves him or Trump?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

open.substack.com/pub/kylekasa...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 20 comments

This blog post hits hard. “Politicization of the military… is bad for military effectiveness, it is bad for democracy, and we are now here, deep in the middle of it. And getting out is going to be really hard and will do lasting damage.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old blood & soil factory. So when Steve Bannon and Elon Musk promised to bring back Heil Hitler salutes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 14 hours ago • 182 comments

I'm beginning to think that the Build Canada folks might be trying to gin-up some outrage over federal government spending & "fraud" in Canada. Here's what they put out today: x.com/canada_spend... But (next post), a more careful read of the data shows the CRA's "loss" in 2023-24 = $13.6M

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 23 hours ago • 613 comments

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 13 hours ago • 41 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 233 comments

Bingo!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

A deep dive into DOGE data discovers a disturbing directory of discrepancies, distortions, delusions, and deception. Dismal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

And by permanent he means 4 years, but maybe 2 years. 😏

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Sweet! Maybe your car can power your house during an outage.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We're very fair to Canada. But they're not fair to us. We invite them. Come and play in Boston. Beautiful city. Boston, Muskachusetts. The perfect city really. But Canada. Very unfair. We give them two goals. Very fair. But Canada takes more goals. Not very fair, right? Goal tariffs. It's happening.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

This brief exchange perfectly sums up the current state of the post-truth online information space.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 1 day ago • 920 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

"We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves, why can't the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy?" "I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates

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It is Black History Month and each day this month I am sharing stories from Canada's Black history. Today it is the story of William Peyton Hubbard. A popular Toronto politician, who was one of the first Black Canadians elected to public office. 🧵1/10

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SCOOP: Sam Mraiche, owner of the firm that imported meds from Turkey, is a part owner in two private surgical facilities that last year were negotiating deals with inflated rates compared to competitor, according to documents www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w/ @alannasmith.bsky.social

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U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said he was “disturbed” and “puzzled” after Trump-appointed U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that returning to Ukraine’s pre-war borders is “unrealistic.” https://buff.ly/4i9othN

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Douggie’s new nickname: “Are you the Premier with the oil?”

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These kinds of threats only work if the threatener can credibly commit to not doing the thing that they are threatening. And Trump can't commit to not pulling out of Europe, so Europeans should just do what is best for themselves. So, no, German pols shouldn't embrace the AfD

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“White House officials have told Ukraine to stop badmouthing Donald Trump and to sign a deal handing over half of the country’s mineral wealth to the US, saying a failure to do so would be unacceptable.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 294 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Point.

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To the Trump voters feeling betrayed by his actions, remember that this is the conservative ideology you voted for. Under “trickle-down economics,” the billionaires will get tax cuts, become richer than ever and then THEN they will create prosperity. Soon! Hang tight! It’s been 45 years but soon!

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