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elon and trump lead like abusers because they are abusers and they staff their agencies with like-minded men

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I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

submitted 3 hours ago • 99 comments

this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

These people will be assaulted and very possibly killed as a result. And all those nice kindly church-goin' "pro-life" folks back home won't bat an eyelash.

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I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

submitted 6 hours ago • 76 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

A Washington Post analysis found that hundreds of the canceled contracts DOGE listed represent savings of $0 each. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 9 hours ago • 212 comments

What parent could object to letting this upstanding looking man inspect their children's genitals?

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 23 hours ago • 137 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

This guy would’ve found a way to rationalize the layoffs as being necessary and good if he hadn’t been personally let go. This kind of person is incapable of having any empathy or understanding until it affects them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 147 comments

It’s getting insulting how much they’re talking about this. Everyone can read the budgets they’re proposing, they increase deficits

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Let me explain the problem for Trump: When you purge the existing officer corps to create one personally loyal to him, you have also just created an alternate officer corps that despises him — and which will maintain a considerable level of influence over what the military does and does not do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1074 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

Yikes. He fired all of the JAGs plus the Chairman? That's not great.

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 233 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

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VIEWER FEEDBACK: A touching note about kindness... and then a message from X/Twitter

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American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

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"The evidence linking James Rodden to the online accounts in question is strong, with significant biographical consistencies spanning over a decade. … The depth of the investigation leaves little room for doubt.” Strong reporting by @stevanzetti.bsky.social! www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 759 comments

The case for X being a 1A state actor now is at least colorable. It is controlled by a government official, who uses it for government business, with no real boundary in practice between the government and his private interest in it. It is little different from if a .gov website allowed comments.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

"Grampa, what was it like living during The Dumbest Time?"

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Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

This is one of the last people on earth I think of when I hear the word "masculine".

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NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!

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McConnell's legacy is grim - he fought campaign finance reform, stonewalled Supreme court nominees - but what stands out most? More than any single person, he had the chance to end Trump but chose not to do so, even as he understood the risk Trump posed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

If only there had been a warning...

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Binnington was incredible in OT. Made a lot of people eat crow.

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