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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

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 985 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

submitted 2 days ago • 2071 comments

Why does the dude wear sunglasses every time he does and event with lots of light you ask. Ketamine causes pupillary dilation and involuntary eye movements.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I should just give up, but… Democrats should imagine what Republicans would have said and done if Merrick Garland had gone to, like, Netroots Nation, called Don Jr a crackhead, and mused about fabricating criminal charges against Joe Biden's enemies, and then say and do that.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

A former commander of an International Space Station mission counters Elon Musk’s misinformation about the current ISS mission. Musk lashes out and calls him “fully retarded” and an “idiot.”

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 3 days ago • 1381 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 3306 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Sláva Ukrayíni!

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

Republicans have made clear they won’t hesitate to bleed health programs dry if it means they can shower more tax cuts on billionaires and big corporations. I will fight tooth and nail to stop them & protect the health care families rely on. Repost if you're with me.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Trump Fired the People Who Could Dispute His False Claims about Ukraine Aid www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

"The prospect that the cap will return, combined with dramatic cuts the Trump administration is making at every scientific agency, has generated chaos in the scientific community...'Why are they trying to destroy the science training pipeline? To what end?'" www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

the billionaire’s so-called “efficiency“ “department” is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture, in which a group of impossibly rich individuals are trampling over the regulations — and the federal workers — that stand between them and a deep, deep revenue stream:your tax dollars

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 4 days ago • 1335 comments

On the left: President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")" On the right: Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

Have the @DOGE folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This is a reminder for all those who voted for Trump: We are almost a month into his presidency, and he has done nothing to lower grocery prices for Americans. How does renaming the Gulf of Mexico help your wallet? Like “Infrastructure Week,” “Day One” will never come, and we told you so.

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

submitted 6 days ago • 448 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

submitted 6 days ago • 423 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 787 comments

👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 778 comments

How Mitch McConnell Blew America’s Best Chance to Stop Trump www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

Here is the reality. The house is 217-215, and there 3 special elections coming up that can flip the house. Also, progressives are not popular in the swing districts. So I ask you, do you want power or be the minority? Choose one.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

submitted 9 days ago • 1002 comments

when all the eyes of a nation of attempted coup survivors were on McConnell he sold them out (for the umpteenth time) and brought this on - so may he rot in hell www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

They're now cancelling key meetings at the NIH to give the green light for future cancer research

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense. Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

Reminder on the first day of Davos: it's time to fund the police. The I.R.S., to be precise. They're in charge of auditing the billionaire class, who are avoiding and evading their taxes on a massive scale.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 10 days ago • 466 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 2471 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 1573 comments

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 909 comments

Nothing said by Trump & Musk in the Oval is true. They don’t have any proof of what they said.

submitted 11 days ago • 245 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 11 days ago • 382 comments

More on Kash Patel...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

A trump voter may be out of nearly $300k they invested into their farm, thinking the government was going to repay him. Now he might lose his farm because Trump and President Musk cut the funding to the program he was relying on. These are the stories our reps need to be amplifying.

submitted 11 days ago • 213 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 885 comments

This energy.

submitted 13 days ago • 647 comments