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Some of us remember the last time Trump paused aid to Ukraine...

submitted 10 hours ago • 170 comments

Vermonters making good trouble.

submitted 19 hours ago • 216 comments

My new, long reflection about 1989-1991, which we all know as “the collapse”. I argue that if we saw it as liberation, we would have better recognized the dangers of reversal and Russian revanche. We need the liberation lens even more today. www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

wild how he can just say whatever he likes and never get pushback. remember when he claimed students could bring aunties, uncles, granny? even when you dug up the actual eligibility rules for students going back a decade and put the links in front of people, they'd still insist he was right

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The conservative commentator Bret Stephens in the @nytimes.com The @washingtonpost.com has, so far, very little to say

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Wow: Jeff Grant, a top career official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, retired today. On his way out, Grant sent this letter excoriating Jeffery Anoka, who carried out the DOGE firings, and said Anoka is "ethically and legally bound to restore" the jobs of the fired employees.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

Gardasil-9 was rolled out recently and covers 5 additional strains - even if you got the original 3 or 4 strain version, might be worth looking into. (I keep meaning to)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Only Donald Trump would say he's taking "good care" of our Veterans and admit he's firing thousands of them all in the same breath. As shameless as it gets.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

this degenerate clown's micro-bros have spent the last month sending emails to the PRESENT air traffic controllers begging, pestering, and trying to threaten them into resigning their jobs. and now this ...

submitted 4 days ago • 283 comments

Suffice to say, this is not how investigative agencies used to refer matters to federal prosecutors.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Scam researchers and survivors of forced work in compounds in certain regions have been mentioning for awhile that scam operations are increasingly relying on Starlink for internet access @mattburgess1.bsky.social goes deeper to expose the scope and scale of the problem www.wired.com/story/starli...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Powerful story and design! How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

submitted 6 days ago • 168 comments

The Cowicorn.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Trump's funding cuts are putting Oregonians in the literal line of fire. Wildfire prevention and mitigation groups across the West are having to lay off staff and close doors just ahead of fire season, all so Republicans can give another tax handout to Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

New testimony and records in the Idaho murders case show how the FBI identified Bryan Kohberger as a potential suspect after tapping into consumer DNA databases that were supposed to be off limits. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Senator, welcome to Bluesky. Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space? Thanks. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 6 days ago • 201 comments

DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b Annual increase in deficit: $900b Cuts to Medicare: $880b

submitted 6 days ago • 194 comments

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

submitted 7 days ago • 625 comments

Commander of Andrews Air Force Base tells military personnel not to respond to Musk's "what did you do last week" email. "Your chain of command is the only source that can direct you to take specific actions -- OPM is not in your chain of command." muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

The Trump administration cites a survey that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it? @sengelberg.bsky.social ‬⁩ takes a closer look.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Dan Bongino sued the Daily Beast for $15 million for reporting the NRA fired him for being "unfit for his duties" and not only did he lose but he was found liable for the Beast legal fees and had to pay THEM $40,000

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2971 comments

Kevin O'Leary to @ianhanomansing.bsky.social on Cross Country Checkup, rough quote: "The Canadian dollar has dropped 40% against the US dollar under Trudeau." Fact check: the CAD has dropped 34% from the 2011 peak, but just 4% of that drop happened under Trudeau. The big drop happened under Harper.

submitted 8 days ago • 207 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

How about that. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

This would produce an impeachment of the US Attorney in a functional political system. Nonetheless, it's curious how Musk is referred to as "an appointed representative of [the] President" who has "government staff who work for him." What's his position? Who works for him? They've refused to say.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

"Spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." "A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call ... from a lawyer at X. The message was clear ... Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else." A merger could be tanked. Gift!

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments