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😱 Elon Musk's Tesla reportedly halts Cybertruck deliveries as owners complain of metal sides falling off. fortune.com/2025/03/14/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s. www.theverge.com/news/631552/...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

A person who can't even use the right glue is trying to run the government. Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue : www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 267 comments

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

submitted 1 day ago • 1235 comments

Pete Hegseth is a danger to this country and our men and women in uniform.

submitted 1 day ago • 1167 comments

Absolutely 💯%

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

Disgraceful response. They never take responsibility. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk. He is completely unfit to lead.

submitted 1 day ago • 2418 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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"Now we’re seeing more and more people who are in detention who are green card holders"

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This is apparently the best the official DOD “rapid response” account can do in response to the Houthi PC Small Group story.

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Young folk, did you know that the ACA got rid of something called Pre-Existing Conditions? Before the ACA, insurance companies could deny care or coverage because you had any number of conditions (even unrelated ones to what you needed care for), including simply being pregnant! Thanks Obama!

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Buttigieg: What if this had, in fact, gone to somebody else? I mean, somebody who could plausibly be in some of these people's cell phones. I don't know, the Chinese ambassador or Russian negotiator. And the other question on my mind is how many other times has something like this happened?

submitted 1 day ago • 469 comments

They attacked Hillary Clinton for using the wrong email account and now they're texting war plans to journalists. So everything is fine, really.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

I’m still shaking with rage over this.

submitted 1 day ago • 479 comments

This energy right here.

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just think if Jeffrey Goldberg didn't voluntarily leave that group chat. they never would've figured out he was in there.

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This is insane.

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The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 2083 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 1 day ago • 3693 comments

One and a half hours since the Atlantic published that bonkers story and no one has yet resigned or been forced out at DoD. I'll keep you all informed as the day progresses.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

This will be an unmitigated disaster.

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Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 1566 comments

Is Bondi going to prosecute this guy federally as a domestic terrorist?

submitted 1 day ago • 2274 comments

Union brothers and sisters that voted for Trump screwed us more than you know!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

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Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.

submitted 1 day ago • 1567 comments

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

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Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

submitted 1 day ago • 929 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

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Pete Hegseth: "Hey, front desk, can I get a wakeup call for 10:30AM? I need to get up super early because we are secretly bombing Yemen tomorrow at 1PM. And could you have someone send up another bottle of Scotch? Thanks."

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

Protesters in Georgia, Serbia, and Turkey are rising up to protest failed leadership. When will we?

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Jim Himes: "This administration acts with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality."

submitted 2 days ago • 339 comments

Trump and DOGE have fired 25,000 federal workers so far. Now Trump and DOGE have to hire them back thanks to court orders. Most workers have been placed on administrative leave — technically rehired and paid, but still unable to do vital work in our communities. "Efficiency."

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

#TeslaTakedown Columbus Ohio today!

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Proud of you, Chris – not an easy feat. Stories like yours are exactly why it meant a lot to pass the ACA.

submitted 2 days ago • 346 comments

Host Michael Steele slammed Howard Lutnick as an “insensitive lug” after he said only “fraudsters” would complain about delayed Social Security payments.

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