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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 2 hours ago • 974 comments

My crack team of coders has hacked into dozens of government websites and we can now reveal the following.

submitted 56 minutes ago • 17 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 201 comments

The Trump administration reversed itself on making funding and staff cuts to a federal health program for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, after bipartisan criticism of the moves.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 4 days ago • 239 comments

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 2 days ago • 566 comments

At events from Georgia and Wisconsin to Oklahoma and Oregon, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE are carrying out.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 2 days ago • 756 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 2 days ago • 1131 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Regarding Acting DAG Bove's proposed dismissal of the Eric Adams prosecution, 3 former US Attorneys plead with Judge Ho to hear them out. They want to discuss "how best to develop the factual record" & whether he should "appoint counsel to investigate the events."

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Wow, finally happened: The average wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs has now broken $8, per USDA.

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today? legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

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At CPAC today, JD Vance lauded "all the great folks at DOGE" They include 1 who just a few months ago wrote "Normalize Indian hate" on social media & another who credited a Holocaust denier w/ his "political awakening" as @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social & I scooped ⤵️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

New filing: "Orr v. Trump, President of the United States (Passport gender marker change ban)" Doc #30: MEMORANDUM in Support re 29 MOTION for Preliminary Injunction Plaintiffs' Motion to Stay Agency Action and for… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69623342

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks and the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 4 days ago • 256 comments

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 807 comments

Sure, since you asked so nicely! 1. McConnell and the Senate GOP kept Judd Gregg from joining Obama’s Cabinet and blocked Tom Daschle — a powerful senator! — from being Obama’s HHS pick.

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

One more thing about this piece of bullsophistry by Barnett and Wurman on birthright citizenship. To the framers of the 14th Amendment, people who had, by bad actions, failed of allegiance, obedience, and amity were not a hypothetical problem. There were hundreds of thousands of them. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Holy cow. Serious national security implications of the Musk-Trump sledgehammer approach. National Nuclear Security Administration internal email: “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs. Incredibly, they didn't know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.

submitted 8 days ago • 166 comments

NEW: Over a dozen states filed a lawsuit Thursday to nullify the unconstitutional actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and prevent them from performing any future actions like freezing federal funding, accessing agency data and taking over agencies.

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Another emergency hearing scheduled for 5pm today on Trump’s firing of inspectors general

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

What happened to USAID foments a constitutional crisis the likes of which most Americans haven't seen in their lifetimes. You can't just eliminate it. When/if courts say so, will Trump/Musk defer? Courts don't have armies. The story I've been waiting to read: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

None of this is legal:

submitted 19 days ago • 170 comments

more things happened while you were sleeping! * Trump says US should occupy Gaza, Palestinians forced to move out indefinitely * Drastic cuts in CIA staff * Post office suspends shipments from China * Website published a list of health agency workers with their photos, calling them "targets" ⬇️

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 144 comments

Letter from SFRC democrats on USAID.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

WaPo: decides not to endorse a candidate in 2024 election for the first time in 36 years LA Times: accepts an anti-RFK jr op-ed, removes the negative parts, slaps on a positive headline WSJ:

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