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submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Having been a DC voter and taxpayer for a very long time, I can say: This jurisdiction now runs better, and has a longer record of steady improvement, than, say, Palm Beach. Go fix Florida. Then come tell us about DC.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Looks like spending the night involuntarily at Denver airport (yet again), and bags who knows where, because of 'traffic management program' that will make us miss connection to west coast. I personally think this is a great time to be cutting staff at FAA. Thanks Doge! /s

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Crazy question but is there a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs right now? there's never a gap. Brown is out but Caine needs to be confirmed by the Senate. He also I think needs probably a couple waivers. I assume the responsibilities devolve on the Vice Chair. But still seems pretty weird.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Top ICE official removed bc he wasn’t deporting people fast enough Brings to mind [true?] story of under enormous pressure from Stalin to arrest & send Russian citizens to Siberia, NKVD also “arrested” dogs & cats to meet his “failure is not an option” quotas apnews.com/article/immi...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 493 comments

Trump’s goal is to do a Saturday night massacre at least once a week, rotating the night each week, until there’s not a single independent voice left. And he’ll keep doing it until at least 4 Republican senators get spinal transplants.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

NEW: Judge warns Trump appointees not to try to evade his order halting a blanket pause to foreign-aid payments, but stops short of holding officials in contempt. Minutes later, aid groups file new evidence Rubio may have violated court order www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 2 days ago • 682 comments

This IS THE BEST thing I have listend to. Its long, 25 minutes. I PROMISE worth every second. Please folks, listen and share! Please.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Mark my words—He is going to try to shut down mail-in voting. When he does, we will sue and we will win. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 1057 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 698 comments

When it comes to the National Parks it's crystal clear Trump and Elon Musk want to destroy the system via DOGE so the MAGA oligarchs can buy up the parks for cheap. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

Biggest concerns for public right now: healthcare costs, inflation, budget deficit. Good thing Trump/Congress plan to: -slash Medicaid, let enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies lapse; -increase tariffs; -expand deficits by trillions of dollars through tax cuts www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

As of noon on Thursday, Trump was president for 31 full days. He spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. from @pbump.com: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

The gravedigger of democracy seems to think he can redeem himself by a few irrelevant votes against Trump. Nope.

submitted 2 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

another W for the resistance libs

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

submitted 5 days ago • 775 comments

Has he seen Russia’s economy?

submitted 5 days ago • 165 comments

In 1989 (during the Reagan/Bush era), I worked with a USAID subcontractor to design a sewer treatment plant in Cairo. As witness, I observed how it positively impacted the perception of the U.S.—Reagan agreed.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

New in PN: How Marco Rubio helped bury American soft power "Rubio initially seemed a surprising choice for Trump. But tapping a mainstream Republican and former neocon as secretary of state and making him a spokesperson for his callow isolationism was Trump’s own demonstration of hard power."

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

Great. 🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1363 comments

Wondering again where Larry Summers is & why he is not 24/7 on every media platform warning about stagflation odds & the least responsible economic policy in 40 years 🤔🤷‍♂️

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Given that RFK Jr. doesn’t believe that things are safe and effective unless proven so by a randomized clinical trial, Dr. Pardo-Guerra and I hereby propose that RFK Jr. consider being assigned to the control group of an RCT of either oxygen or parachutes.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Denise Chung—a 24-year DOJ veteran—just resigned rather than, what in her view, fabricate probable cause at the Deputy AG’s direction. This isn’t just a canary in the coal mine. It’s the coal mine coming. The Constitution demands probable cause. She refused to cross that line.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 8253 comments

One of the lasting effects of Trump’s rise is politicians with career-ending scandals trying to white knuckle it and see if they can wait it out. Thinking that will not work for Adams!

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

In less than one month Republicans have acted to ban college athletes from organizing, bring back non-competes and restrictive severance agreements, outlaw public worker collective bargaining, and allow major companies to ignore their unions with no penalty. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/checking-i...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

They fired people who specialize in protecting infant formal from contamination. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This absolutely will make flying less safe. Maybe not today. But inevitably. Conceivably this will finally get public attention? About the danger of just blowing up structures built with care over decades? Maybe some GOP Sen/Rep will think: "I'd rather not be on the wrong side of this one"?

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

Musk is the greatest conflict of interest & thus the greatest case of corruption in US history. By keeping Musk in power, Trump shows that he supports corruption.