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all of this additional reporting is vindicating my argument today that by delegating huge amounts of presidential authority to other people trump has made the executive branch even less accountable

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NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

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When you take a step back, it’s genuinely stunning how far any of this is from anything Trump campaigned on. It aligns perfectly w Project 2025 of course, but in terms of Trump’s public rhetoric, this was totally absent.

submitted 22 hours ago • 417 comments

Carlos Slim orders to cancel his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink Starlink Contracts Cancelled in Latin America Costing $29 billion. ground.news/article/carl...

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

Kamala Harris warned us.

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

And as we’re witnessing a rapid and expansive dismantling of our nation’s systems, an unelected billionaire infiltrating our government, a pervasive chaos enveloping everything, the one question I want to ask his supporters is: Is this what you wanted? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/trump-vote...

submitted 2 hours ago • 45 comments

Trump’s bizarre meeting with UK PM Keir Starmer, his Epstein file tease blows up in his face and leaves MAGA furious, and his apparent role in helping a human trafficker. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

submitted 2 hours ago • 70 comments

Translation: We still can’t get our heads out of our asses long enough to get things done and govern, so we have to continue Nancy Pelosi’s 2022 budget AGAIN for a few more months and let Musk cause chaos so they will blame him and not notice our incompetence.

submitted 1 hour ago • 159 comments

Here's what Trump does: 1. Creates a crisis that hurts a lot of people 2. Frames the crisis as a good thing 3. The crisis gets really bad 4. Trump then reverses his bad decision and takes credit for ending the crisis he created 5. MAGA eats it up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

🇺🇲 Veterans fought for this country. Now, DOGE is making them fight for their jobs, their benefits, and even their health care. This is a disgrace! Speak out. Fight back. DOGE screws Veterans. Tipline for veterans who've been affected by this administration's cuts ➡️ votevets.org/doge-tipline.

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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

submitted 2 hours ago • 131 comments

Trump hasn’t done squat to lower grocery prices—he’s not even trying. Barely a month in, and it’s obvious his top campaign promise was never genuine. Families are feeling the squeeze! So this begs the question: did his voters really care about the price of groceries?

submitted 1 hour ago • 104 comments

Jim Jordan always runs a tight ship.

submitted 1 hour ago • 71 comments

This is absolutely true.

submitted 4 hours ago • 123 comments

Not pro-life

submitted 6 hours ago • 355 comments

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 3 hours ago • 64 comments

A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.

submitted 5 hours ago • 483 comments

Gene Hackman was proud of the fact Richard Nixon put him on the "enemies" list and I think we can honor him and whatever joy his career has given you by living our lives in such a way that evil people know our names and think of us as enemies.

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

submitted 6 hours ago • 1397 comments

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

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"Frank traveled this month to DC to speak with Alaska’s congressional delegation... she said she was well received by Begich. “He assured that he 100% backed us on fighting to not have any cuts to Medicaid,” said Frank. Now, she said she feels betrayed by his vote..." www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

submitted 6 hours ago • 314 comments

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The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools. I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov

submitted 5 hours ago • 479 comments

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 306 comments

Maybe instead of purging the Social Security workers who make sure seniors get their checks on time, we should be expanding benefits to make life a little easier for your parents and grandparents.

submitted 4 hours ago • 628 comments

Trump on calling Zelenskyy a dictator: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 427 comments

You only fire the lawyers if you plan to break the law. It's that simple. That's what Hegseth meant when said "roadblocks." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 10 hours ago • 87 comments

I have NO sympathy whatsoever for MAGA business owners who enthusiastically voted for Trump but are whining like babies now that their federal contracts are being cancelled. I realize they only expected people they hate to get hurt, but guess what? Trump and Musk don’t care about people like you.

submitted 8 hours ago • 259 comments

from today's post — thanks for reading! link to the whole thing is here: bit.ly/4bgBAvr

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Truth sandwich The President does not have power to ignore the courts. John Yoo and Robert Delahunty essay recently invoked Cambodia case claiming Pentagon "ignored" a court order. The legendary Burt Neuborne sets the record straight in this brilliant essay. (Burt argued the case in 1973.)

submitted 13 hours ago • 126 comments

Aren't these ideas GREAT for Americans???

submitted 9 hours ago • 206 comments

Donald Trump said he wants to deport rapists and sex traffickers. Turns out he's now importing them.

submitted 10 hours ago • 305 comments

Remember when QAnon was hunting for sex traffickers? Then Trump imported the Tate brothers from Romania to Florida. #SexTraffickingFirst

submitted 9 hours ago • 145 comments

LMAO! 🤣

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Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored "...officials skip patients at the top of waiting lists & send organs to people who are not as sick and have not been waiting as long. Those recipients are disproportionately white & better educated." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich: As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for…

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“Especially in light of the billionaire’s other blatant efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump, Bezos’s move is more than a gut punch; it’s more like a death knell for the once-great news organization he bought in 2013.”

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In the past, when presidents tried to trim the number of government employees, the result was not lowering the cost of the government. This is because those jobs were often given to private contractors at higher rates. So it is no coincidence that a big private contractor is running this DOGE scam.

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US consumer watchdog drops case against Capital One over cheating customers: Agency had accused banking giant of cheating consumers out of more than $2bn in interest payments on savings accounts The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped a legal action against Capital One,…

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Woman suspected in vandalism of Colorado Tesla dealership with Molotov cocktails and graffiti

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submitted 9 hours ago • 57 comments

I guess Trump put so many rapists in his administration that he now has to import new ones.

submitted 9 hours ago • 227 comments

Clarence Thomas accuses colleagues of stretching law "at every turn.” That’s rich.

submitted 10 hours ago • 259 comments

The travel ban has been lifted for the Tate brothers. They’re leaving Romania and headed to Florida thanks to Donald Trump. They were arrested in 2022 and charged with human trafficking, sexual intercourse with a minor, money laundering and starting an organized crime group. Beyond DISGUSTING.

submitted 14 hours ago • 249 comments

Congratulations Magats, these are the immigrants that you’ll get now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments