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He nails it.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 6 hours ago • 958 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 952 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 • 1125 comments

When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.

submitted 1 day ago • 669 comments

As suspected, Gitmo was all for show and an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars.

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

submitted 1 day ago • 683 comments

📣 TWO WEEKS UNTIL WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 📣 On March 7th, we’re Standing Up for Science in DC & ALL 50 STATES to make our voices heard. We hope you’ll join us! ☀️ #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #standupforscience2025

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Agreed, pass it on.

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"I can no longer be a part of what we can all plainly see is happening to our country." Somebody should collect these incredible resignation letters and make them a book. This one is from Nate Brought, resigning as director of the NIH Executive Secretariat. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 978 comments

A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 1 day ago • 584 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 1 day ago • 1968 comments

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Apple 🍎 The Apple Board of Directors unanimously recommends that shareholders vote against an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting on Feb 25. Morningstar recommends Apple shareholders vote against the anti-DEI resolution, below ⬇️ www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Elon Musk and Republicans are trying to buy a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court for Brad Schimel & end its 4-3 liberal majority. The election is April 1, & donating to Judge Susan Crawford or volunteering is one of the best ways you can help fight back against far-right oligarchy right now

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🚨 Mass VA layoffs with zero transparency. 1,000 VA workers just got fired—no warning, no answers. Trump & Musk’s purge is already hurting Veterans, and they don’t care. Democrats are demanding answers. This is a betrayal. MORE: www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 561 comments

📢If you're a Veteran fired by DOGE, or impacted by DOGE cuts in any way, report it here: ➡️ votevets.org/doge-tipline Your stories are critical and we want to help get them out!

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Lots of people think it's pointless to call out GOPers on capitulation to Trump. Here's why it's not. You need to make this claimed helplessness visible. You need to make it clear Jerry Moran has PLENTY of tools to rein in Musk, but has chosen not to use them. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

If you want to get a sense of the mood out there, apparently this song from last century is going viral (Yes, the same band that famously did "Tubthumper")

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Staff at multiple agencies instructed not to speak to Congress, says Democrat: Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent several letters on Thursday to various federal agency heads seeking answers regarding directives banning employees from speaking to Congress. “The Committee on Appropriations has a…

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

submitted 1 day ago • 865 comments

9/11 cancer research funding saved from DOGE 'chopping block' after bipartisan outcry: The mass layoffs of federal government workers being pushed by the Trump Administration with the help of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are drawing vehement criticism not only from…

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More of this energy everywhere please!

submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 327 comments

The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

submitted 1 day ago • 216 comments

Posted minutes after the Commander of the ISS said Musk lied about the stranded astronauts in his Fox interview with Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 920 comments

Bullshit. www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

fucking incompetents and/or malicious... they own every repeat offender who commits police misconduct www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service. “It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

These layoffs may include people who tried to roll out safety guidelines for AI oh and also people who worked w/Musk's AI competitors. Remind me who is keeping and visualizing the master list of Elon's conflicts?

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

In case you were wondering!

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

One of the most terrifying, brilliantly written, balanced and relevant books I have ever read. I’ve always thought Rees was an exceptional historian, this reaffirms that view.

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Love this guy. He appeared on the Mueller, She Wrote podcast in 2018. Hell of an activist.

submitted 2 days ago • 283 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

It’s not a coincidence—it’s a warning.

submitted 3 days ago • 745 comments

www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

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He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

submitted 2 days ago • 2068 comments

🚨 NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy went to California for a photo op against a state-federal high-speed rail project. Instead, he was drowned out by boos as crowds rallied for the project. Maybe he should focus on keeping planes in the sky instead of staging stunts for the Dear Leader.

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

submitted 2 days ago • 882 comments

Won't see this in the US any time soon

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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move upends trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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