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week 3 of the coup, it’s unclear if the executive branch will listen to judicial orders, we’re 32 days away from a shutdown (3/14) where DOGE may reshape gov services further while the remaining gov employees are furloughed

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe I have to say now is not the time to complain about DEI or suggest we slash the government, but the NYT will likely run that “both sides” take if you have it; also my god your argument is not nuanced, it aligns with the rhetoric of the mounting right wing authoritarians perfectly

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Elon and his bro echo chamber have a kind of mass Dunning Kruger when it comes to the skills they don't have, and that women can often shine at---social, emotional iq etc, so much that they've created a whole ideology of devaluing half of what has allowed functional societies to flourish. /

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story. wapo.st/3EF3aWN

submitted 94 days ago • 358 comments

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

submitted 94 days ago • 450 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 94 days ago • 691 comments

This energy.

submitted 93 days ago • 635 comments

“To my mind, when there is no clear demarcation between authoritarianism and efficiency, the question is no longer whether or not this is ‘really’ a coup. The only question is whether language is even capable of keeping pace with this leviathan.”

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 94 days ago • 132 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 94 days ago • 3168 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 97 days ago • 1117 comments

I just want to thank multitudes of federal workers who have reached out to me with what’s going on in your respective agencies. It might not seem like much, but the simple act of reaching out is an act of resistance. So thank you 🙏

submitted 96 days ago • 305 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 97 days ago • 6509 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 97 days ago • 2121 comments

I think it should be made clear at this point: If you're a federal employee, you should consider your work devices bugged. If you've logged into personal stuff on those devices, you should consider suspending or deleting the accounts you accessed.

submitted 96 days ago • 134 comments

Deleted my Twitter app. I'm not posting to a state media platform, which is now being used exclusively and openly to threaten prosecutions and investigations of people who dare criticize the government.

submitted 96 days ago • 517 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 96 days ago • 2120 comments

the end of American soft power is going unchallenged. gizmodo.com/unelected-bi...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

No time like tomorrow to confront an emergency crisis happening yesterday

submitted 101 days ago • 56 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 101 days ago • 164 comments

OK, Wall Street shitheads, this is what you bought yourself with Trump and his fucking tariffs. Welcome to your crash.

submitted 100 days ago • 19 comments

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids. 🎥 ktla

submitted 101 days ago • 179 comments

BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.

submitted 103 days ago • 82 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 101 days ago • 3274 comments

#KashPatel is not the right choice. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

submitted 101 days ago • 479 comments

Dear Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexico 🇲🇽, I live in a U.S. red state. I know shit will get tough with the tariffs, but I will buckle down and grit my teeth while cheering you on all the way. You do what you need to do to backhand that motherfucker into next year ❤️

submitted 101 days ago • 44 comments

This is how the @MurdochJournal covers the coup: "kicks aside Congress" with an "aggressive reading of the Constitution." Not reading: burning the Constitution and separation of powers.

submitted 100 days ago • 17 comments

Baker & #BrokenTimes fluff Trump like the flaccid porn star he is, testosterone-washing him to make him sound strong. "Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 101 days ago • 19 comments

The perfect shirt for the Trump supporter in your life.

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submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

Here's the roster of youths carrying out Elon Musk's government takeover. Recent high school grads and interns from SpaceX, Palantir, Meta, Neuralink, and xAI, and an engineer for a high-frequency trading firm. By @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 101 days ago • 49 comments

Orange Fuhrer: I will fix it on day one MAGA: YAY. YES YOU WILL, LORD Media: SWOON Harris: We will use anti-trust laws, develop vaccines Trump: fucking bitch MAGA: She aint black RFK Jr: Avian flu vax will turn you into mushrooms Media: 🥱 Swing state voters: a woman prez? Lolwut Egg prices up 37%

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Canadian & Mexican friends, I didn't vote for this. Don't hate me. And I'm sorry.

submitted 101 days ago • 257 comments

Congratulations President Trump. Instead of solving wars, you have succeeded in becoming the greatest threat to world peace….

submitted 101 days ago • 15 comments

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

submitted 101 days ago • 2009 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — USAID security chiefs on leave after trying to prevent Musk's DOGE from accessing classified material, officials say.

submitted 101 days ago • 58 comments

“This feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world" New @telliotter.bsky.social banger on the young people tasked by Musk with upturning the US government

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

It's a tragedy.

submitted 102 days ago • 1125 comments

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

submitted 101 days ago • 462 comments

FFS, #BrokenTimes, he is not "testing" the Constitution, he is destroying it! "Anyone who believes in the Constitution and honest governance should be worried." Really? You should be way past worry to full alarm! Trump’s Test of the Constitution www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

submitted 102 days ago • 8 comments

okay but even in dystopian novels i'm pretty sure they have universal healthcare

submitted 101 days ago • 25 comments

Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 102 days ago • 571 comments

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

submitted 102 days ago • 1009 comments

must not sleep. must warn others.

submitted 101 days ago • 23 comments