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that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 16 hours ago • 825 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 4 hours ago • 388 comments

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands. 👇

submitted 1 hour ago • 129 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 14 hours ago • 680 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 12 hours ago • 292 comments

Trump’s military purge is in full swing, axing top officials—especially Black and women officers—to install loyalists. Washington’s in chaos, with FBI, CIA, and DHS bracing for mass firings. The Pentagon is being gutted, and the national security establishment is in shock. 1/2

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 756 comments

"We are getting lots of calls about Musk and lots of calls thanking me for sticking up for Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 hours ago • 257 comments

Before the world is plunged into WWIII, Congress needs to impeach #PresidentMusk www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 14 hours ago • 399 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 17 hours ago • 865 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 14 hours ago • 639 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 14 hours ago • 1010 comments

NEW: The Associated Press is suing Trump Administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from events over the organization continuing to use the name 'Gulf of Mexico.' AP says the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

submitted 19 hours ago • 184 comments

Remember: politicians work for YOU. Don’t let them forget that.

submitted 1 day ago • 596 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 15 hours ago • 721 comments

We have breaking news for @votevets.org as Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on Friday night. Join us shortly. www.youtube.com/live/OdOjEdR...

submitted 15 hours ago • 69 comments

This is really something

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submitted 16 hours ago • 936 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 681 comments

AP sues the Trump administration: "The White House has ordered The Associated Press to use certain words in its coverage or else face an indefinite denial of access. ...The Constitution does not allow the government to control speech." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

So the President of the United States threatened the governor of Maine, in public, acting like the monarch he thinks he is. The story is nowhere to be found on the homepage of the WaPo or WSJ; the NYT has a small story buried deep down with a headline that makes it look the governor picked on POTUS.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1711 comments

Speaking of Krause, here is Judge Vargas's order barring DOGE from access to Treasury systems, just issued today storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 22 hours ago • 245 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 22 hours ago • 374 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1512 comments

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 555 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1088 comments

AP’s lawsuit names Taylor Budowich, Karoline Leavitt, and Susie Wiles as defendants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

The governor of Maine, who just told Trump, on video, "see you in court."

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

submitted 22 hours ago • 172 comments

Always stand up to a bully

submitted 21 hours ago • 924 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 22 hours ago • 2146 comments

“We are the federal law.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 65 comments

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

submitted 1 day ago • 803 comments

BREAKING: A new coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans similar to the Covid-19 pandemic has been discovered in China, per researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology and Newsweek.

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments