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Great news for money launderers!

submitted 12 hours ago • 826 comments

A pathetic and humiliating walkback from the would-be destroyers of CFPB, who know they've lost in court and can't kill the agency. This email from Mark Paoletta went to employees today. It neglects Vought's Feb 10 "stop-work" email that superseded it, ending all activity with no exceptions.

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

"Just a big mess": Musk's team claims credit for saving $53.7 million for "canceling" a federal contract that in fact was just for $144,000 and was actually completed 20 years ago. @Fahrenthold.bsky.social @sangerkatz.bsky.social @jsvine.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 124 comments

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 8 hours ago • 186 comments

and that was an earthquake

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

"Nancy Kerrigan must mend the breach with Tonya Harding--or resign"

submitted 21 hours ago • 1193 comments

Seems like a pretty important detail

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 2 days ago • 3217 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 5 days ago • 1235 comments

Wut?

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

David Frum: "Trump and Vance displayed in the Oval Office a highly personal hatred. There was no effort here to make a case for American interests."

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

In wrestling this is called a worked shoot.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

The most important leaders in the free world are embracing Zelensky...as they should. America is now--appallingly--on the side of the dictators, the enemies of international law, the war criminals. (It's not the first time. But it may turn out to be the worst.)

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Utterly shameful

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Zelenskyy meeting was a setup. Trump has been trying to form a pretext to stop Ukraine aid. That’s why he said Ukraine “started the war” the other day. He wanted to say something so outrageous it’d get pushback. It’s also why TASS was there.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

'In his book Building for People, Eliason shows how [a dual stairway] rule makes apartment construction on small lots impossible... prohibiting many designs that flourish in places like Germany.' great @henrygrabar.bsky.social piece on @stephenjacobsmith.com's code reform slate.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

How it started/How it's going

submitted 3 days ago • 369 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 438 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Never forgive, never forget

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

There are like 5 scandals every day that would have broken any previous Administration.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

So, refugees seeking asylum are criminals, but an actual human trafficker, ok. apnews.com/article/roma...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Oh!

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

submitted 4 days ago • 613 comments

the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

submitted 4 days ago • 281 comments

Was just reading an assessment of the budget fight that was like “Trump’s team says tax cuts will boost spur growth that offsets them.” What it doesn’t say is that they said that last time, too, which everyone said wouldn’t happen and which didn’t happen. Seems important to note!

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 4 days ago • 713 comments

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

submitted 9 days ago • 287 comments

This is a travesty. They’re going to conjure up phony numbers to try and hide the fact that they are exploding the deficit with massive corporate tax cuts and tax cuts for the top earners. Tariff projections and Trump Gold Cards pay for everything! A complete fraud.

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

submitted 5 days ago • 112 comments

If you’re into seeing Elon & DOGE get called out for their lies about savings — this account is doing a very nice job of it: x.com/electricfutu...

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

Name every victory when they come

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

Ben Meiselas: This is a time for fearless coverage. There's so much to report about every single day—what's going on in the White House every single day.. pushing back on that every day and saying it in a way that doesn't mince words. And I think that's what's connecting with our audience.

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

These are your brown shirts.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

An idea from North Korea.

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

Alice Coltrane's show at the Hammer is just gorgeous — and a lesson in the ways in which we can come together to build our own communities. I write about it for this week's Art Insider for @kcrw.com email.kcrw.com/love-grief-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Aluminum producer Alcoa said on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports could cost about 100,000 US jobs and would itself not be enough to entice it to boost production in the country. The tariff is set to take effect March 4. 🔗 www.mining.com/web/alcoa-wa...

submitted 6 days ago • 283 comments

This seems bad

submitted 6 days ago • 2113 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 6 days ago • 976 comments