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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 hours ago • 54 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

submitted 22 hours ago • 134 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2173 comments

Are there any procedural tools Ds could use to stop the Patel nomination? If there are, yall better use them because the investigations into YOU will start shortly after.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 537 comments

As they DOGE ✂️ programs for regular people & mass fire federal workers (largely veterans), Trump’s Tax Cuts: -Add $4.6 TRILLION to the deficit -$48 BILLION to top 100 firms A wealth transfer to the top. They don’t care about the debt, and never did. www.benzinga.com/25/02/437748...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Can you imagine thinking a government employee making 40K processing Medicaid payments to a parent with medically fragile children is the enemy, while thinking a billionaire who sends his sperm to random women and takes billions from the government to go to Mars is the good guy? WTF.

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."

submitted 5 days ago • 310 comments

🎯 ‘It’s a relay, find your team’

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 6 days ago • 5670 comments

The most important thing anyone can do right now is pressure every Republican in their state. Show up at their events. Show up at their offices. Make them look at what they’re doing to the Constitution.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

Remove Eric Adams Impeach Emil Bove Impeach Pam Bondi Impeach Donald Trump No more bribes. No more quid pro quos. No more disgusting corruption.

submitted 8 days ago • 165 comments

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

submitted 8 days ago • 174 comments

A man who helped condemn Samoan children to death with medical disinformation about vaccines just got confirmed to lead HHS by a 52-48 vote of the Senate. How many more children will RFK Jr. kill?

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

submitted 9 days ago • 570 comments

AND THATS HOW YOU DO IT 👏🏻

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

Eric Adams sold out this city to get the Trumps to fix his personal problem, simple as that.

submitted 11 days ago • 150 comments

Dems MUST hold daily press briefings just after WH briefings. Fact check, fight back, fill the news void. Press banned from WH briefings will show up -- I promise! (I know what I'm talking about, so lets do this!)

submitted 11 days ago • 75 comments

If Musk compromises the Social Security Administration in any way, millions of Americans could miss their checks. If Elon is all about transparency, he should drop by House Oversight and tell the American people why he's messing with their social security. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

submitted 12 days ago • 366 comments

I think they've got it! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

Why is Trump the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl? Because all the presidents before him realized it would be extraordinarily wasteful to spend 15-20 MILLION of our taxpayer dollars to go in person.

submitted 12 days ago • 284 comments

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

There’s an edit here at 11 seconds in. Isn’t that illegal now??? Call the FCC! Release the full transcript Fox!

submitted 12 days ago • 98 comments

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

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submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee. The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee. The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee. The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Senate rules were explicitly designed to protect the minority. Democrats should exploit them mercilessly to slow Trump and Musk before they destroy the country.

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

"I was racist before it was cool" "I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth" “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" “Normalize Indian hate" -- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 15 days ago • 253 comments

From Russia, with love. Or...for Russia, with love?

submitted 16 days ago • 46 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 16 days ago • 2295 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 16 days ago • 200 comments

At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

submitted 16 days ago • 213 comments

Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders. These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.

submitted 16 days ago • 441 comments

SF86 National Security Questionnaire, Section 9: “In the last seven (7) years have you illegally or without proper authorization accessed or attempted to access any information technology system?”

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments