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Shutting down existing EV charging hardware, which has already been paid for, is the definition of government waste. But I don't hear DOGE doing anything about this… 🙄 electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Career public service workers represent some of the best of America. Their professional mistreatment at the hands of the government is an abomination.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Permitting reform was never about clean/renewable energy. It was always about this.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1926 comments

Sometimes, "Move fast, break things," just results in a lot of broken things.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

NYT deeply failing to meet this moment. This is the top item in their The Morning newsletter to millions of subscribers. Everyone who understands government understands that Trump and Musk are crippling essential services & its ability to keep us all safe & healthy & secure—not “cutting red tape.”

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

A narrative tic worth noting: When Biden pardoned Hunter, lots of ppl erupted saying “this empowers Trump to do the same.” But when Trump says he is above the law, no one replies “this will empower a future Dem to think the same.” And not bc “there won’t be one.” It’s deeper than that.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1538 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

It's time for Congress to fight back. In just a few short weeks, President Trump has closed critical environmental enforcement offices, frozen federal funding for environmental projects, and laid off thousands of federal workers. Act now & call on Congress to defend critical government agencies.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

very much agree with this. contempt for statutory programs and the desire to retrench them aren't new. what is new is an appreciation that the status quo can be shifted by doing blatantly illegal stuff and forcing everyone else to pursue slow, incomplete remedies.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Klein’s column here shows deep misunderstanding of the NPC meme. The whole idea behind “NPC” slur is to deny humanity & agency to people—not just to label them “conformist.” There is no “kernel of truth.” Nor are GOP Congresspeople “NPCs” as he suggests. They are humans, making choices every day.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

a lot of people genuinely think you have to do blue collar work to be considered part of the working class as opposed to like, being a wage-worker

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

The cheapest way to reduce emissions is to not burn fossil fuels. Direct Air Capture & other Carbon Capture methods are more expensive to deploy with higher societal costs that powering up directly with renewables. +... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 sustainability.stanford.edu/news/opportu...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

Worth a read. The purpose of the Citizenship Clause was precisely to prevent spun up theories based on hypothesized social contract, virtue, allegiance, community membership, etc., from being used to deny citizenship. The 14th Amendment means what it says.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Having read it a bit more closely, I can say that it's far more than a nothingburger; every single source they cite, to a one, directly contradicts their claim that birthright citizenship might not extend to the children of unlawful aliens.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Hard to shake the feeling that this is happening partly because the people making these decisions cannot fathom the existence of even 1 person — let alone 1000s — who just goes to work every day for the purpose of making other people's lives better.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Trump and Musk are “shrinking” government like cutting off limbs and calling it “weight loss”

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Remember when Michelle Obama telling kids to eat more vegetables was government overreach.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Help people learn about their rights. It makes fascist scum angry.

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general sued Elon Musk and President Trump on Thursday to challenge Musk’s "unchecked power." The lawsuit came on the same day that Musk and his team were sued by government employees represented by the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit watchdog.

submitted 9 days ago • 108 comments

No. They have no idea and think they’re just eliminating “government waste” and “protecting Americans.” They live in an alternate reality. It won’t affect them until it actually affects them.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Devastating. Hard to overstate how bad this FIRST STEP is. Here in Alaska, there is an outsized proportion of federal workers in their probationary period. Alaska is often the first stop in a career in federal service and typically has a large fraction of probationary workers.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

As I said to a reporter today: DOGE is not a management project, centered on efficiency; it is a political project, centered on shrinking the federal government and politicizing core functions.

submitted 9 days ago • 87 comments

Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments