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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that

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Yikes, Russ Vought, running CFPB, dropped a big enforcement case against a sleazy lender, claiming he was stopping "weaponized" consumer protection. Turns out, even X users knew the outfit is sleazy, and corrected him. Musk took it down, but not before this screenshot.

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Fucking shameful United States. Shameful. You too Israel. Shameful.👇

submitted 3 hours ago • 91 comments

The $400M worth of State Department Teslas? Trump admin said that started in Biden White House. But I obtained a document showing the amount Biden's State Department planned to spend on EVs: $483,000. Former WH official on $400M: "I don’t think this is a clerical error" www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

Shameful

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We’re throwing tomatoes again folks, take note

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

is this actually trolling or is it simply catering to his tastes. he is widely known to be our nation's foremost aficionado of late 20th century crowd-pleasing broadway musicals

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Please share this fact sheet about Ukraine with anyone who needs it.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Everyone is shitting on some blogger I've never heard of, and I was happy to just ignore it because who cares, but this is genuinely entertaining. "Gengis Khan couldn't spell his own name" is my new typo defense.

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When they say "I don't believe it" or "I'd have to see it in context" they are saying they don't have the courage to stand up for their constituents.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments

Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 5 days ago • 521 comments

Hey, I know her! Time to dig out this old meme I made as advice to lawyers about social media.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Tori Bedford at GBH News reports it's because the Musk administration fired five key workers today.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

When you dump an entire agency into a "wood chipper" — as Musk boastfully did two weeks ago (see his tweet at x.com/elonmusk/sta...) — this is the kind of tragedy that can result. Many more tragedies will come to light. This is the core and legacy of the Trump-Musk administration: pure destruction.

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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 8 days ago • 265 comments

Good lord.

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 8 days ago • 497 comments

Jamelle Bouie is correct here, in my view. Using the phrase “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” – the name first applied to that body of water in 1550 – has nothing to do with national pride or ideology and only to do with obedience to Tr•mp. #Obedience #Führerprinzip

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A message from His Majesty King Charles III to Canada on the 60th anniversary of our flag. 🇨🇦

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doge has a gov web site so insecure you could literally push your own update to it www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 9 days ago • 326 comments

I showed him a map.

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I don't assume he's wrong. I know he's wrong as a matter of fact. I also think you both are intellectual hacks who don't belong anywhere near a university classroom.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Happy Valentine's Day!

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Oh that’s easy - the Republican base is so mad that they were told to make a sacrifice during COVID to save lives that they’re fully dedicated to removing anyone’s ability to tell them that again and they don’t care what goes with it. It’s a party of spoiled children who don’t want to listen to mom.

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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

❌ No, USAID didn't provide a grant of $32,000 for a "transgender comic book" in Peru.

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I’m sure all these Very Principled & Courageous Republican Ukraine supporters in Congress who complained that Biden was not doing enough to help them defeat Putin will condemn Trump & Hegseth’s remarks today.

submitted 11 days ago • 377 comments

It is really wild how desperately the modern GOP leadership wants the USA to be a ethnically-homogeneous, corrupt mitteleuropean country hemorrhaging population growth to the EU and spending most of its time threatening to declare war on its neighbors over regional nomenclature disputes.

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The GOP is not a political party. It’s an organized crime syndicate.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Everything is projection with him. "They're gonna golf, they're gonna sit around and eat a piece of beautiful chocolate cake at the chintzy little club they own in Florida, they're gonna spend all day tweeting slurs instead of doing their job. They're not working!"

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Still blows my mind that Tommy Tuberville, that guy they paid more than most Alabamians will see in a lifetime to leave public university, has the brass to bitch about waste at all.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB Education Sciences Act of 2002 Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

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Under Joe Biden, CFPB returned $6 billion to American taxpayers. They took on Wells Fargo and Walmart and Zelle, junk fees and overdraft fees and medical debt on credit reports The billionaires won and we lost.

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This is for Charles Pelto, the man behind Classic Comics Press, which has given us collections of great comic strips like Mary Perkins, On Stage, The Cisco Kid, The Heart of Juliet Jones, and more. gofund.me/6b0ceaea

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