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Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 2 days ago • 793 comments

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases. Visit Democracy Docket for more info. www.democracydocket.com

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JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of Cathy Harris atop the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruling that Trump's decision to fire her exceeded his authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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(Content Warning) The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network has apparently also removed references to trans people and trans survivors of rape from their webpages. The quoted webpage had stories of trans survivors of sexual assault web.archive.org/web/20241121...

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NASA update: There's now a 2.6% chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, up from 2.2% yesterday. Historical context: The highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received was 2.7% in 2004.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 632 comments

1/ Judge Hurson (D.Md) just issued a comprehensive opinion & TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from enforcing its EO banning gender-affirming care. It's not only a great result, it's a roadmap for other judges reviewing Trump's illegal actions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

pro-USAID demonstrators are roughly escorted out of a House hearing

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To be clear: the Attorney General said the U.S. had filed “charges,” but what they in fact filed was a civil lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 10 days ago • 175 comments

Let's be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 686514229454!

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Trump is tackling big problems today

submitted 12 days ago • 189 comments

Sounds like Trumps Gaza Trump resort expulsion plan has led Hamas to suspend hostage reelase deal. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

Republicans will tell you they couldn’t understand a word Kendrick Lamar was saying, then turn on an RFK Jr podcast.

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Rep. Nancy Mace just posted a grand bombshell announcement in which she misspells the word "tonight"

submitted 12 days ago • 354 comments

Being told CFPB just got an email saying "cease all supervision and examination activity, and all stakeholder engagement" Blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. They're seeing how far they can push without blowback.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

To be clear, this is the bureau charged with protecting Americans from financial fraud and abuse. Musk coming at it as he tries to make Twitter a bank. No coincidence. The richest man in the world would like to defraud you and steal your money and wants no checks on that power.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014. This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous. #resist

submitted 14 days ago • 333 comments

The new cover of TIME.

submitted 15 days ago • 1624 comments

So DOGE showed up at the CFPB last night. This truly epic press release identifies the workers by name (and biographical low-points) and goes on to say "we welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators." nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...

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Any Dept. of Energy folks out there, particularly those familiar w/ its IT systems? I’d like to know if the system accessed by DOGE could contain Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data that is classified by virtue of the Atomic Energy Act. Signal: annabower.24 www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.” Part 1:

submitted 16 days ago • 76 comments

doesn't this undercut like ... all plea negotiations www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

I hope this is helpful & I’m glad ppl are vocal, but as a former Senate intern I’m not sure it is. I wish we could harass Trump & his admin like this so that Senate staff can manage what’s on their plates. I answered phones & letters & there was all a procedure to it but there’s other work to do.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I’m on my way to the Treasury Dept to demand answers. Billionaire-in-Chief Elon Musk has been given illegal access to Americans’ private info, including Social Security numbers. Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.

submitted 18 days ago • 482 comments

Federal employees have received a copy of the deferred resignation agreement. Contains a lot of brow-raising lines such as, "Employee waives any claim that could be brought on Employee’s behalf by another entity, including Employee’s labor union." Full text shared with me:

submitted 19 days ago • 291 comments

NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

He has no fucking clue what Rare Earth is unless he's remembering the song "I Just Want to Celebrate"

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