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submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

They want war crimes. I do not know why the media will not say this. They say they want war crimes. Heggy got his job because he supported war crimes on Fox News. They think it is good to hunt children for sport.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

submitted 1 day ago • 505 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 481 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

This is an “initial” purge. Reports suggest this could expand to “tens of thousands” over the coming weeks. Shock and awe now hitting the Pentagon

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

MORE: The Trump/Hegseth Friday-night military purge continues—and includes top JAGs.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

Ruh roh

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 3431 comments

BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

Real talk - If you are a member of Congress and are warned of death threats, I'm genuinely sorry, that's terrible. But the response is not to surrender and change your vote. It's to run to EVERY CAMERA YOU CAN FIND and say "I am receiving death threats for doing my job." Christ.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1003 comments

just want to point out that it should be pretty easy to identify who specifically was behind this tweet/this media production, seeing how they're all government employees and all

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Received this message via Signal from a former FAA worker who lost their job. Person works for Enroute Navigation Charts for Pilots and Air Traffic Control.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

We are on the eve of a military purge donmoynihan.substack.com/p/you-should...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

this article's remarkably straightforward about what's going on here and doesn't pull punches, which is an encouraging development.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Lol

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

not too many dynasties begin with a mad king either, let’s be honest

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

our election security agency is now open to a teenager who was verifiably part of a CSAM extortion ring

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I always viewed them as “what if you made a whole empire out of lead poisoning”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A moral stain on all of us

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

literally his sole positive contribution to the world

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 807 comments

Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is” (This is not how the Constitution works)

submitted 4 days ago • 764 comments

Does anyone have a small loan of a few million dollars for me to start a think tank (jobs program for my friends) that does foreign policy that isn't braindead and acknowledges simple truths like this?

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

kinda wondering with how severe Influenza A is recently, whether it may have stolen genes from bird flu. I am not a virologist, but surely the fear that H5N1 could recombine with seasonal flu works in the other direction as well

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants. This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

They're legendary disease detectives: The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Very little may be left of it after today, writes @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

submitted 8 days ago • 419 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 9 days ago • 231 comments

After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 10 days ago • 173 comments

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

submitted 10 days ago • 553 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 443 comments