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Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1120 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 845 comments

This kind of ends of it. The MSM will not even let citizens pay to speak out against a private citizen who has taken over our government and is firing thousands of workers who live within 100 miles of the paper’s city. Bowing and scraping it’s way into irrelevance.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

This is absolutely insane. — www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 5 days ago • 376 comments

This is absolutely insane. They want to be able to see our tax records. Why? What purpose does this serve? Search our history so Elon can post about it? Attack their enemies? This is a five alarm fire! 🔥 wapo.st/3QizwcN

submitted 5 days ago • 256 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 7 days ago • 330 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 7 days ago • 273 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 7 days ago • 600 comments

Men of profoundly underdeveloped spirits, minds, and perspectives are running the country.

submitted 9 days ago • 154 comments

The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 173 comments

NEW: Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

US cyber agency puts election security staffers on leave Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of US elections have been placed on admin leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state & local election offices www.wxii12.com/article/cisa...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

MAHA: Make America Hungary Again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

New OMB Director Russell Vought claimed we are living in a "post Constitutional time" Republicans are trying very hard to make sure this is true

submitted 14 days ago • 127 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 14 days ago • 941 comments

Per White House official on X, Trump fired the 11th Archivist of the United States tonight. Gor gave no rationale nor cause. Federal law requires President to communicate the reasons for any removal to Congress: uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r.... Sad. She was leading reforms. 1st woman to be AOTUS.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

"With Donald Trump back in the White House, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore — whether they know it or not. This issue didn’t get much airtime during the chaotic 2024 campaign, but birth control has been in conservatives’ crosshairs for years."

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 1680 comments

Read @bijansabet.com: “Public service is not a “lower productivity” endeavor. It is the foundation of our democracy, and its value is incalculable.” bijansabet.com/2025/02/06/p...

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

We are likely about to see a mass purging of archival documents and restricted access to researchers. This will be part of the regime’s effort to rewrite history itself.

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

There it is

submitted 16 days ago • 801 comments

Shutting off USAID payments is bad, but it's not just that: if someone (Trump, Musk, a lackey, whoever) can unilaterally shut off Congressionally-appropriated payments, they can shut off anything. Medicare payments to certain hospitals. Social Security checks to selected voters. Sky's the limit.

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 16 days ago • 1764 comments

We’re all going to die.

submitted 16 days ago • 1230 comments

so i guess student loans are the only thing a president isnt allowed to unilaterally dismantle?

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

It's important to remember that not only is new admin staffed by facist goons, they're unbearably irritating dorks about it.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump is a sociopath who could not care less about the pain he causes. A special thanks tonight to the voters who sent Kamala Harris a message for her pro-Israel views by voting for Trump or staying home.

submitted 17 days ago • 75 comments

Americans thought they were voting for a non-interventionist president. Trump is already demanding territory in three continents.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 17 days ago • 212 comments

In 2023, online sleuths who aided the FBI in cases against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters identified Pete Marocco and his now-wife as being among the rioters who stormed the Capitol in 2021.

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 18 days ago • 428 comments

Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.

submitted 18 days ago • 544 comments

Hunter Biden’s laptop doesn’t have my SSN on it.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 19 days ago • 214 comments

Infuriating.

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

wall street, working to elect a senile fascist: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! wall street, being governed by a senile fascist: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

submitted 21 days ago • 49 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 228 comments

This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 405 comments

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 22 days ago • 971 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 22 days ago • 328 comments

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

submitted 23 days ago • 330 comments

The future they want is a broken administration unable to manage a modern society

submitted 25 days ago • 65 comments

Tired: DEI Hire Wired: DUI Hire

submitted 28 days ago • 56 comments

HUGE NEWS: Supreme Court will decide if public tax dollars can be directed to a free, online Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, a case with massive implications for church-state separation.

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments