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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.

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Comparing law abiding taxpayers to J6 criminals is appalling!

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Maybe a drug addict isn't the best person to be co president.

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 17 hours ago • 78 comments

Damn. What a day. Or week. Or who even knows what to call it. All I know is that we were all as prepared as we could be for what the morning would bring. Then we saw this: www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p... and we had a few hours of reprieve. Finally, someone had been a convincing voice of reason 🙏 and

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Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

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So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

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The Office of Community Planning and Development (OCPD) helps rebuild homes and communities after natural disasters. Now, the Trump Administration wants to slash OCPD’s workforce by a staggering 84%. This, after saying they want to eliminate FEMA—the other agency that handles disaster-recovery.

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Oh also - I got a Facebook ad today for starlink services on my phone. No thank you. circleid.com/posts/202405...

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This is amazing. “The legislation, the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, ensures transparency and honesty in government spending” from Wisconsin rep Mark Pocan #stoptrump #stopdoge #stopmusk pocan.house.gov/media-center...

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Thank you @ohiocapitaljournal.com for this piece. “The Trumpian rubber stamps in Congress do as they’re told. Trump offers a ludicrous clown show of objectively unqualified looney tunes to run massive government operations?? No problem.”

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www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20... This is quite the assessment of the current situation. The only thing it doesn’t delve into is what I have to assume is threats of physical harm and / or financial kickbacks that must be coming to the republicans who aren’t stopping the madness.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Have you heard about the biggest bank heist in history? Donald Trump is trying to pull it off right now. He wants to steal 20 billion of your dollars that are already working to cut energy bills and power the clean revolution.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

#fafo

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I think I might actually miss Mike Pence.

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

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10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

submitted 4 days ago • 636 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

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Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

submitted 6 days ago • 327 comments

a useful summary

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic.

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Breaking News: A judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration’s plan to end funds for hospitals that offer gender-transition care for people under 19.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 11 days ago • 569 comments

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

submitted 11 days ago • 420 comments

Dear national press: please interview Americans who didn’t vote, to ask them if they regret not voting, and their thoughts on the chaos we’re embroiled in. Thank you.

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While meeting with the King of Jordan and a visibly uncomfortable Rubio today, Trump now changes his position from yesterday and says the US is not going to buy Gaza, we are just going to take it: “We’re gonna take it, we’re gonna hold it, we’re gonna cherish it.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1433 comments

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/goo...

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There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

submitted 11 days ago • 3204 comments

What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

submitted 12 days ago • 908 comments

JUST IN: Elon Musk-led group offers $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, the world's largest AI company.

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The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

submitted 12 days ago • 222 comments

Vance posted on X: “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” You mean Trump’s “power” being used to violate our Constitution? The Constitution is not something any president can manipulate for political games.

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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.

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This video is long but detailed and troubling. See also : www.newsweek.com/2024-electio...

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At this point he is just trying to figure out the best way to make sane people’s brains melt. Total evil lunacy. Sadly, I actually miss the W days. I even miss Dan fucking Quayle. #fafo #magacult #idiots

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Trump's federal hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of thousands of seasonal federal firefighters — including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the Los Angeles-area fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 14 days ago • 65 comments