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so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

submitted 2 hours ago • 29 comments

Every fed employee should have a copy of the Joshua Fisher declaration on their desk

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 2 hours ago • 31 comments

I would really like a guest piece on how turning the U.S. Digital Service into DOGE,taking over the General Services Administration (GSA) & Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are part of a unified plan to control the infrastructure of government which all agencies rely on (& thus be controlled by)

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 292 comments

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org sues on behalf of unions, retirees to block access to personal and sensitive data at SSA. This case comes after SSA commissioner stepped down due to concerns about DOGE accessing data. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 4 hours ago • 164 comments

Chief of Israel's Institute for Forensic Pathology: No evidence the Bibas mother and kids were killed in an airstrike. All were brutally murdered by their captors. N12.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

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submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 20 hours ago • 202 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 22 hours ago • 133 comments

Important new Times piece which has new details on issue @TPM discussed earlier this week: use of blocking notifications on Federal Register as way of circumventing court order to unfreeze NIH grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

Speaking of Krause, here is Judge Vargas's order barring DOGE from access to Treasury systems, just issued today storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

DOGE hackers lose again: court agrees with us that the world's richest man can't spy on your sensitive data. We will keep fighting for your privacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 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 1 day ago • 952 comments

The Supreme Court dashed President Donald Trump's plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump admin has not fully complied with his court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali: "To the extent Defendants have continued the blanket suspension, they are ordered to immediately cease it."

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

If the Senate votes to confirm Ed Martin or any other Trump lackey for US Attorney for DC, do they realize what this means? That people like Tarrio can show up at the Capitol and do whatever they want, because that's the office responsible for prosecuting crimes in DC

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Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

There is a wave of anger building across the entire country. People are already becoming fed up with Trump and Musk. These algorithms can try to hide it all they want, but they won’t be able to avoid reality for long.

submitted 1 day ago • 352 comments

These stories showing up nonstop on local TV news youtu.be/N23KVyaSoLw?...

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

I just wanna congratulate @meidastouch.com for beating Joe Rogan, and thank them for recommending my Substack. Indie media FTW! Check theirs out here: www.meidasplus.com

submitted 1 day ago • 282 comments