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NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 351 comments

All of Trump‘s top security advisors, including Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Waltz, have had their mobile numbers, E-Mail and passwords placed in commercial databases & publicly available leaks. While they scramble to take down info, everything has been documented.

submitted 74 days ago • 108 comments

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

submitted 113 days ago • 646 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

submitted 112 days ago • 38 comments

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 115 days ago • 492 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 118 days ago • 962 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 119 days ago • 23 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 119 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 119 days ago • 56 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 121 days ago • 190 comments

The Derek roast part 1

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The Derek roast part 2

submitted 142 days ago • 13 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 132 days ago • 1 comment

aging well, sadly

submitted 121 days ago • 340 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 122 days ago • 140 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 122 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 123 days ago • 1222 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 122 days ago • 410 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 123 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 123 days ago • 6491 comments

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

submitted 123 days ago • 366 comments

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

submitted 123 days ago • 3655 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 123 days ago • 538 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 124 days ago • 532 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 124 days ago • 515 comments

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

submitted 123 days ago • 44 comments

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 124 days ago • 194 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 125 days ago • 906 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 125 days ago • 1250 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 124 days ago • 17 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 124 days ago • 800 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 124 days ago • 2783 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 124 days ago • 68 comments

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

submitted 124 days ago • 160 comments

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

submitted 124 days ago • 511 comments

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

submitted 124 days ago • 1430 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 125 days ago • 236 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 125 days ago • 301 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 125 days ago • 370 comments