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DC police are mounting a criminal investigation of an alleged assault of a woman by GOP Rep. Cory Mills, who represents a district near Orlando. The incident started at a penthouse in a luxury DC apartment building. Mills, who’s married and has two kids, apparently had a fight with his girlfriend.

submitted 91 days ago • 279 comments

Republican Rep. Cory Mills under investigation for assault? Against a woman? Color me not shocked. Lock him up already.

submitted 91 days ago • 33 comments

Remember, Russell Vought said he wanted to "traumatize" federal civil servants.

submitted 90 days ago • 112 comments

a very confused Trump still thinks that people who make political asylum claims by definition come from insane asylums

submitted 90 days ago • 730 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 96 days ago • 2357 comments

Supreme Court gets first chance to weigh in on Trump firing

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 344 days ago • 1240 comments

I'm seeing issues accessing House.gov, hopefully that's a sign of lots of complaints. #downwithtrump #impeachmusk

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 112 days ago • 263 comments

Thank you, Senator! Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden demanded answers from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after reports surfaced that personnel affiliated with Elon Musk have sought access to a highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system.

submitted 112 days ago • 229 comments

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Here we find Musk violating every precept of media literacy to spread racist disinformation. Anonymous author; unsourced data; and data which—even if it's real, which we can't know because we can't source it—is precisely the sort of single-variable data neo-Nazis use, not criminal justice experts.

submitted 136 days ago • 81 comments

Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general. Typical

submitted 152 days ago • 1220 comments

If Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who made his fortune in part through government contracts, really wanted to help the government’s finances, he could simply agree to pay his fair share in taxes. Or, I guess, he could fuck over kids with cancer.

submitted 154 days ago • 80 comments

Trump's pick to run the FBI wants to target Trump's critics. Forget about whether he *can*—the fact that he publicly stated he wants to, and that this didn't immediately disqualify him from getting anywhere near the government's top law enforcement agency, is a sign of our democracy's deterioration.

submitted 174 days ago • 17 comments

DOJ is dropping charges against Trump based on an INTERNAL MEMO that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted. An internal memo. It’s not a law. We didn’t vote on it. It was never debated in Congress. A group of unelected government lawyers DESTROYED the rule of law?!?!

submitted 179 days ago • 194 comments

Jail! The news that broke 5 min before Gaetz pulled out of AG nomination www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...

submitted 183 days ago • 6 comments

It is worth noting that Matt Gaetz pulled out of AG consideration, not because fellow Republicans told him they couldn't support someone who raped and gave drugs to underage girls, but because CNN told him that more accusations were forthcoming.

submitted 183 days ago • 60 comments

Remember when Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures? Another great cabinet choice!

submitted 183 days ago • 53 comments

"The document bolsters recent claims by a lawyer for two of the women who say they had sex with Mr. Gaetz for money. It shows thousands of dollars in payments Mr. Gaetz made to both of the lawyer's clients."

submitted 184 days ago • 15 comments

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish. Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part. Who’s with me?

submitted 184 days ago • 6340 comments

📢 App Version 1.94 is rolling out today (1/5) A new release to go along with 20 million users! Open this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 185 days ago • 2354 comments

Elon Musk just called the COVID-19 pandemic that killed at least 1.4 million Americans a “scamdemic.” My dad died during the pandemic; we weren't able to visit him in the hospital because of it. Every aspect of that horrible tragedy was real. And exacerbated by Musk’s co-POTUS. I’m seeing red. 😡

submitted 186 days ago • 1867 comments