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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 13 hours ago • 116 comments

Everything they do is to enrich themselves and their friends. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 3 hours ago • 147 comments

Gavin Ashenden, a former BBC podcaster who these days is an occasional guest and writer for a number of mainstream British media outlets, performed a Nazi salute on Friday in unison with his fellow hosts of the "Catholic Unscripted" podcast in the UK. They say: "Our hearts go out to you."

submitted 19 days ago • 157 comments

🗣 'With a Putin-appeasing president at the helm, it is clear the transatlantic alliance is collapsing and European leaders must plot their own course' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #usa #trump

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Y'all notice this hypocrisy? •Musk gets $20B+ in federal subsidies—is celebrated! •NPR gets ~$3M in federal grants—Trump wants to shut it down as "wasteful." This isn't democracy—it's autocracy & an all out war on free press. Here are two ways we can fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-war-on...

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Maybe we should stop dragging this backwards-ass Constitution with its Electoral College and its abusive powers (like the Presidential pardon) that have detonated in a 21st century world that its 18th century authors could not have foreseen. There is a strong argument for holding a new convention.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

submitted 19 hours ago • 80 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 450 comments

There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS. forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 20 hours ago • 62 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 20 hours ago • 513 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 20 hours ago • 95 comments

Brown had to go - he was serving his country while black.

submitted 10 hours ago • 546 comments

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 19 hours ago • 200 comments

The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to view individual tax returns while he works at the agency, according to a copy of an agreement laying out his temporary job assignment.

submitted 8 hours ago • 46 comments

“It’s as if we lost the war to US..” He wants to take resources from a country in war. How are we supposed to live? We have children. It’s as if US seeks to deprive us of our economic potential. It would finish us off, the same as America did with Red Indians” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Much media coverage: These Pentagon moves are unusual but Trump's within his rights and wants supporters of his America First agenda. The truth: How is removing the JAGs relevant to any agenda? New, Hegseth-selected JAGs are needed for total loyalty to Trump and finding all his orders lawful.

submitted 8 hours ago • 45 comments

ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1098 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 19 hours ago • 132 comments

The Republican Party has a "bedrock ideological commitment to policies that take from the poor and working people to keep taxes low on rich people and corporations." And yet poor and working people keep voting for the Republican Party over & over again even though its against their own interests.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 10 hours ago • 224 comments

1/US demands Ukrainian minerals or face cutoff from Starlink. It is the most venal form of economic coercion. And it will only accelerate the backlash to US tech platforms. Now Starlink = AWS = Facebook for friends and foes alike. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Friday Night Purge: Trump fires 6 Pentagon officials, including Gen. Charles Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy So many thoughts about this, most of them unprintable

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

Yeah, guess which ones got fired?

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

🤔🇺🇸 CIA plans biggest mass layoff in 50 years, — NYT ❗️The Trump administration plans to purge a large number of employees working on the issues.

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

Timeline cleanse of stunning award winning marine photography 🧪

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 16 hours ago • 559 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 23 hours ago • 518 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 146 comments

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submitted 21 hours ago • 111 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 21 hours ago • 1933 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 21 hours ago • 451 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

submitted 23 hours ago • 175 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 944 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...