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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 12 hours ago • 737 comments

Here’s another way to think about it. We import roughly $3.25 trillion in goods every year. Income tax receipts total roughly $2.2 trillion. So we’d need a universal tariff rate of, give or take, 65% to be able to do away w the IRS. But… 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Reup, for @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's easy linking. Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Have y'all heard of the Project 2025 Heat Map that outlines how 1/3 of the goals have already been achieved? Check out this site and follow: www.project2025.observer Call your representatives and ask them if they are aware of this site and how much of their plans have been implemented.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

They're gonna normalize plane crashes the way they normalize school shootings if we let them. Just the cost of lining certain pockets.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

submitted 8 days ago • 132 comments

“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 121 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 10 days ago • 2311 comments

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 551 comments

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

submitted 11 days ago • 216 comments

Musk's calling it a "judicial coup" because Judge Amy Berman Jackson entered a two-day administrative stay to consider the sudden firing of the Special Counsel who, by statute, has a 5-year term and can't be removed except for specified reasons, none of which were even mentioned by the notice.

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

What...does any of this mean www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 283 comments

Just imagine what actual creative people could achieve, from the ground up, if they too didn't have to pay any tax on their businesses.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild deadly cars if ever there was one.”

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 14 days ago • 131 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 17 days ago • 127 comments

Now adding "destroy higher education" to the mix

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

god i wish he wasn't given a free pass for literally everything he says, cause this has got to be the worst answer ever. they don't need all the information they're hoovering up? so they're hacking? and also the US is easy to hack? good job, much reassured, sir

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

some good news for your friday: in 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power capacity it now takes one day

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

Trump has made a habit of ginning up crises and then declaring victory when he “solves” them. We in the media must stop giving this arsonist credit for his firefighting skills. wapo.st/4jSmj87

submitted 15 days ago • 73 comments

Trump’s tax agenda outlined by the White House today will add at least $5 trillion to the debt, potentially much more. Per new analysis by nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-...

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Thousands of press releases about decade-old ICE enforcement actions topped Google search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration. This goal is to create a mirage of mass deportations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

We all know the president's brain is a rancid pile of pudding but it's still a bit jarring to see him open his piehole and have utter nonsense come tumbling out.

submitted 16 days ago • 232 comments

ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

submitted 17 days ago • 508 comments

The guy who created the phrase "rapid unscheduled disassembly" wants to control airplane safety

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

i have long felt that self-described "constitutional conservatives" were just subjects looking for a tyrant and they found him

submitted 17 days ago • 129 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

“They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,” said a former Noaa official. “They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.”

submitted 17 days ago • 217 comments

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada? Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally? Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

submitted 19 days ago • 225 comments

I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza. But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

submitted 17 days ago • 249 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 18 days ago • 2271 comments