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wow. they're like actually braindead

submitted 1 day ago • 321 comments

The Pentagon is erasing history, scrubbing tens of thousands of images deemed DEI. One marked for deletion is Harold Gonsalves, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who threw himself on a grenade during the Battle of Okinawa to save his fellow Marines.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

What coherent and intelligent commentary can you even have on national security or military affairs anymore? Everything is just fucking stupid now. What are you even supposed to say besides just repeating over and over how fucking dumb every single decision is?

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

I think it’s fascinating how this administration’s guiding principle on every single policy is just “be evil.” Starving children? Take away their food. AIDS patients? Take away their treatments. Refugees from conflict zones? Deport them. Nations under attack? Cut off assistance. VA? Fire everyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

Why does Trump suddenly want a "rapid ceasefire" 2 days after Ukrainian soldiers started pushing the Russians out of Torezk?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

If a university spokesperson was doing this it would be national news, and used as justification for the federal government to defund the university. The truth is that antisemitism is just one of the excuses they are using to justify destroying independent institutions.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 3 days ago • 1570 comments

Trying to explain this story as if one is speaking to a small child. Members of congress, whose job it is to set federal spending, now get to call Elon, who is for some reason controlling federal spending, to plead for changes to federal spending????? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

These same Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it. But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

one thing I've become very convinced of is the need for the civil service to do waaayyyy more propaganda. like you should know about how NOAA makes the weather app on your phone work. you should know that Uncle Sam runs GPS. you should know how impressive the US census data collection effort is, etc

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

this guy is such an arrogant little prick. he’s done nothing in his life but suck up to a progression of would-be daddies but he struts around like his shit doesn’t stink.

submitted 4 days ago • 1023 comments

When they say peace, they mean surrender.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

The FAA may cancel a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and instead give it to Starlink, owned by Elon Musk, WaPo reports. This would be his latest opportunity to get richer off of taxpayers. Musk and his businesses have received $38 billion in federal contracts and subsidies.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

I do feel bad for the lady who thought Trump would make IVF free and then got fired from her public sector job, but since political correctness is now dead, I'm also allowed to say I think she's dumb as bricks.

submitted 9 days ago • 83 comments

Musk is looting the government and stealing our money to prop up his failing businesses. Hail to the thief

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

interesting to me that no one condemns republicans for “racial essentialism” when their most prominent voices — say, the literal president and vice president of the united states — believe that citizenship has an ethnic and racial basis. www.thebulwark.com/p/vance-immi...

submitted 9 days ago • 130 comments

Rape is a central pillar of the GOP

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

I continue to note that the thing that really made the Romanian authorities go after the Tate brothers was that they held an American woman against her will. I cannot imagine how that poor woman must be feeling, that her own country's administration is preferring her torturers rights to her own.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Worth saying once again that news media lets Trump in particular but Republicans more broadly talk about this country in the most vicious and hateful ways that if a Democrat did even a fraction of this they'd never stop screaming from the top of their lungs about how abhorrent it was.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Something about listening when people tell you who they are.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

This hits hard… “Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.” You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

submitted 11 days ago • 1519 comments

Worth noting, which the article is downplaying horrendously, that the "people" who were left behind are actually American citizens employed by the United States government

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 12 days ago • 493 comments

I'll repeat, the press had no issue labelling students anti-Semitic for chanting "from the River to the Sea." When Republicans do Nazi salutes, it's just a troll though.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 16 days ago • 1135 comments

The crowd recognized it, responded by cheering, and he acknowledged that in return. It isn't some sneaky thing a few elites are caught up in, dogwhistling to the fringes. It is the base of their movement. Because they're Nazis. Sincere, unambiguous fans of Hitler and everything that goes with that.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

What bothers me the most is that if I did half of what Trump, Musk, and other Republicans have done/are doing, I’d be going to prison No way around it, honestly my trial would not be very long either because it’d be so open and shut case The hypocrisy and corruption is what gets me the most

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I’ll admit it: I am a pearlclutcher who really dislikes it when people use this dehumanising phrase to talk about people, and who cannot understand why people don’t immediately grasp why it is distasteful.

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 17 days ago • 581 comments

Elon’s gobbledygook, translated: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.”

submitted 17 days ago • 14 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 18 days ago • 452 comments

I don't know how we're going to be able to share a country with the people who shackle Christian refugees in front of their children and send them to camps in a foreign jungle.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

liberalism has a solution for the problem of kings and it is relatively simple

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 22 days ago • 676 comments

Anyway, I asked this funny little Corsican guy about Hegseth's take on ideals, and he had this to say

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 22 days ago • 232 comments

mfw literally everything going on rn

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE determined this after zero assessment of the employees. Their default assumption is that public work has mo value and public employees are worthless.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 25 days ago • 2076 comments

Pope tells new convert Vance to shut the fuck up

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 27 days ago • 1164 comments

When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

submitted 26 days ago • 70 comments

Irony here is that if he was just cursing the refs out they would have let him stay. But since he mentioned gambling and refs "in on the fix" they had to toss him. Hit a little too close to home? Maybe you shouldn't have made online gambling the new centerpiece of your professional sports leagues

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 29 days ago • 223 comments