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So many missed opportunities to avoid this situation. So many people whose imaginations just couldn’t fathom that this could really happen here. I told my husband the other night that trying to warn people over the last few years felt like trying to talk to people that don’t speak the same language.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

This is so unsurprising. Did anyone think Elon was doing all of this work just for fun?

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ. So I’m no expert. But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.

submitted 9 days ago • 292 comments

The United States is collapsing right before our eyes. It’s in free fall.

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Kash Patel: "He has said the FBI is a powerful and cunning part of the 'Deep State.' Someone who begins with that kind of antagonism and hostility to the FBI will not be able to engage in positive, constructive reform"

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

This. Unbelievable. Did he forget who actually started this war?

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO

submitted 10 days ago • 507 comments

I never thought that US democracy was this fragile.

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BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 702 comments

The Kennedy Center Honors ? Removing the bi-partisan Board of Trustees and Chair of the Kennedy Center, replacing them with your own people, and then appointing yourself as the new Chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is North Korean Kim Jong Un dictator level shit. 😲

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Trump has granted a conflict of interest waiver for Musk. We’re eager to see if the administration will release it in line with their vow of transparency.

submitted 10 days ago • 169 comments

Where are the former Presidents? They need to speak out. I know that traditionally they purposely try to step back. But this is different. This is the god-damn future of democracy in the United States of America 🇺🇸

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That only makes it more of a challenge.

submitted 11 days ago • 2365 comments

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

submitted 11 days ago • 1023 comments

Et tu REI ?

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Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 12 days ago • 355 comments

Don't you know? They're talking about a revolution. It sounds like a whisper. Tracy Chapman

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

The shit is going to hit the fan when Muskrat and his boyz tries to mess with the Pentagon and Intelligence Agencies.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

You can bet there’s interesting conversations going on right now in the Pentagon and Intelligence Agencies.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

LOL the White House released its policy stating that White House personnel may never engage in communications with DoJ that could influence an investigation. Then it spends 3 pages explaining that the president can, though.

submitted 17 days ago • 512 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 17 days ago • 1105 comments

Many of the White House candidates for high level positions in the Federal government come across as badly qualified for the jobs they are seeking. If they all happened to be Black, I wonder if they’d instead be rejected as incompetent DEI hires?

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

This is MAGA.

submitted 18 days ago • 633 comments

Holy shit! 😲

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These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 19 days ago • 2229 comments

Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session. They should have come back, the place is on fire. Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING

submitted 19 days ago • 1145 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 20 days ago • 969 comments

Government civil servants threatened with US marshals. Why? Bc they were defending classified information and security systems from being accessed by Musk’s flying monkeys. Illegal AF.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

All Five Eyes partners need to presume that ALL US government IT systems are now insecure. Similarly the EU need to treat any data interchange agreements with the US as null and void. This includes cloud hosting on Azure, AWS and Google (not that anyone uses Google Cloud ;)

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

I stand with the men and women of the FBI who investigated the crimes WE ALL SAW TRUMP'S ANGRY MOB COMMIT on Jan. 6, 2021. They did the hard, honest, ethical work of protecting We The People & American democracy. Now it's our turn to stand with them. You in?

submitted 20 days ago • 342 comments

If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.

submitted 20 days ago • 626 comments

At what point will it be time for the Pentagon and their support resources to act? Congress?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

All the people who were firefighting experts last week are now NTSB Air Disaster Investigators.

submitted 22 days ago • 246 comments

just start saying this plainly to more people i'm serious.

submitted 22 days ago • 342 comments

When in the course of human events ……

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

@schumer.senate.gov Where’s Congress. Rome is burning! Do something.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Where’s Congress?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social America and democracy is burning. Please do something …. Fast

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It’s unclear if America and democracy can ever recover from these first 2 weeks let alone 4 years.

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The 700 words you can’t say on TV

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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth