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So WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. “In no uncertain terms is this an audit,” claims the second auditor. “It’s a heist, stealing a vast amount of government data."

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I think all of the MSNBC commentators should emulate @jonathancapehart.bsky.social and pronounce "DOGE" as "DODGEY," because wow, does that fit!

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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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While the Trump administration is modeling its shift of the United States from democracy to authoritarianism after Victor Orban's Hungary, they would do well to notice how that's going over with Hungarians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 34 comments

The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around. International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of America now?

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Fact-check: True

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🌪️ 🌧️ ☀️ ⛈️ 🌀

submitted 13 days ago • 371 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 17 days ago • 917 comments

Cartoon by David Sipress.

submitted 16 days ago • 498 comments

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 18 days ago • 3180 comments

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 18 days ago • 11989 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 20 days ago • 630 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

submitted 21 days ago • 131 comments

When I saw the disgusting "trump Gaza" video this morning, the bile rose to my throat. I won't share it. Instead, help me promote this counter narrative by Tala, from Gaza. "Gaza is not yours to take. Gaza is ours, and we are still here. This is our land." BRAVO to her strength and DEFIANCE. 🥹💪

submitted 20 days ago • 490 comments

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 22 days ago • 614 comments

Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1060 comments

I did an event in IN a few weeks ago where I said that on 1/6/21 Mike Pence saved the country (for now) by being one of very very few who stood by his principles under maximum threat.

submitted 27 days ago • 683 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 27 days ago • 2073 comments

VF: “In private, Republicans fear Trump might incite his followers to commit violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions… scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff...” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 227 comments

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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PSA: Words matter They aren’t “layoffs” It’s not about “efficiency”

submitted 29 days ago • 97 comments

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

submitted 29 days ago • 1213 comments

True words.

submitted 29 days ago • 549 comments

Well, the WH and DOGE just floated the idea of letting Musk and SpaceX take over the FAa's responsibilities, so that would be the why. Always follow the money.

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Knowledge is power…

submitted 30 days ago • 1037 comments

Beautiful tribute by Adam Sandler. #SNL50

submitted 30 days ago • 48 comments

SNL famously sticks to a crazy schedule to get the live show on every week. That doesn't explain the 50th Anniversary special, where presumably they had more time to write and rehearse. It doesn't show. #SNL50

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When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

submitted 36 days ago • 1704 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 40 days ago • 2277 comments

You get rid of Inspectors General because you don't want them to detect fraud. You get rid of counterintelligence agents because you don't want them to detect _________.

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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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