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i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

submitted 5 days ago • 668 comments

"European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics&perhaps further west, leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine" - @gideonrachman.bsky.social writes in the Financial Times

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 10 days ago • 991 comments

On Morning Joe (I watch so you don't have to) Scarborough reads a credulous editorial telling us all to calm down; Meacham and Stein have blinders on. Only @gtconway.bsky.social speaks truth: Trump will obey no one. The rule of law is dead. All we can do is take to the streets.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

I just noticed this NPR post from a week ago that says: "Most presidents want as much power as they can get." It asks whether Trump's opening moves are "just a spicier version of the standard playbook." What disgusting minimization of a fascist power grab.

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

It is fascism. Calling it "an aggressive flexing of power" fluffs the Führer. Call this what it is, Baker. It is fascism. #BrokenTimes Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 13 days ago • 197 comments

The Derek roast part 1

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The Derek roast part 2

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Somebody needed a little reminder... Please follow me on YouTube and Patreon. There's more where that came from! www.youtube.com/@MonteMader patreon.com/MonteMader?u...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

aging well, sadly

submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

submitted 14 days ago • 142 comments

🤷🏻

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“While the worst is yet to come, it’s clear that a revolution has already happened. It’s currently happening. But there’s nowhere to run. Even for the most privileged among us, regardless of where you are, it will find you. Fascism cannot be escaped, it can only be fought.”

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 15 days ago • 1253 comments

We'd seen enough election irregularities on Election Day to question the result. And then, like the villain in every Bond movie, he bragged about how he did it. So WHY did they let him get away with it? Read my latest Substack and find out. brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/trumps-con...

submitted 15 days ago • 424 comments

You should read the article. But spoiler alert: the solution is using the leverage Democrats have with the upcoming appropriations/debt ceiling deadlines. Here's language you can use with your members of Congress.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 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 15 days ago • 6591 comments

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

submitted 15 days ago • 371 comments

We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.

submitted 15 days ago • 3754 comments

It’s not just that the buy-out won’t be honored; it can’t be honored. They have neither authority nor appropriations to honor the promise. “Fraud in the inducement.”

submitted 15 days ago • 554 comments

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

submitted 16 days ago • 545 comments

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 524 comments

Musk Watch reported this on Monday, citing OPM sources and quoting internal correspondence:

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FEDERAL WORKER AT A VIRGINIA TOWN HALL: “And to top it all off one of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor.” 🤔 Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7Y3V7/

submitted 16 days ago • 200 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 17 days ago • 923 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 17 days ago • 1281 comments

ALL OF THIS. Trump and Musk “are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government.…And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 17 days ago • 821 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2839 comments

Who's worried about hurricane forecasting when there is an unelected President Musk running NOAA into the ground? Surely, none of the millions of Republicans in Florida.

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

Vengeance. Apart from self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment, Donald Trump's only motivation.

submitted 17 days ago • 165 comments

the Oversight Committee immediately devolves into chaos after Democrats call for Elon Musk to come and testify

submitted 17 days ago • 528 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 17 days ago • 1469 comments

“Should this information fall into the wrong hands, the national security of the United States would be severely compromised” Nine FBI employees/agents sue over Justice Dept acting leadership’s order that the Bureau hand over a list of employees who worked on Jan 6 cases

submitted 17 days ago • 240 comments

JUST IN: The FBI Agents Association, repped by @markzaidesq.bsky.social, has filed a second lawsuit on behalf of agents who sayd their inforation may be publicly disseminated and used as part of a purge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 days ago • 305 comments

Crockett: What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now

submitted 17 days ago • 381 comments

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

submitted 17 days ago • 534 comments

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 132 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 4329 comments

DOGE snowflakes. U.S. attorney hints at prosecutions over ‘targeting’ of DOGE employees www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 18 days ago • 428 comments