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Unfortunately for the Democrats, no, you cannot flashmob your way out of a coup. www.garbageday.email/p/democrats-...

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

in many ways, i think this comment about empathy being weakness is the most overtly narcissistic, fascist thing elon has ever said or done

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

good news everyone, digg is coming back bad news, everyone, it's using AI for ... uhh... fictional language translation?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 4 days ago • 519 comments

say it with me: Republicans know their policies are unpopular which is why they're hiding from their voters

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 5 days ago • 751 comments

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire buddy turned commerce secretary, has confirmed that the administration was simply lying to MAGA supporters about not touching Social Security and Medicare.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

submitted 9 days ago • 399 comments

Trump wants to be an autocrat like Vladimir Putin—and that starts with collecting cowardly oligarchs who pay you to be kind to them. He has that. Now he's moved on to trying to create vassal states like Russia has Belarus. He wants Ukraine to be a vassal state and is enraged that Zelenskyy refuses.

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

submitted 9 days ago • 494 comments

I think back to this from Zelensky regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a greater example of national leadership and courage in the face of extreme personal danger. edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/e...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

submitted 9 days ago • 825 comments

This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match. Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:

submitted 9 days ago • 272 comments

Trump and Musk are getting even richer from their White House gigs — and ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

"I cut costs in the Clinton administration. The contrast with what Musk is doing couldn’t be sharper." And @rbreich.bsky.social should know, he was there and doing said cost-cutting. An actual competent human... open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

submitted 11 days ago • 758 comments

Republicans just voted to take your money and give it to billionaires. It’s not enough that House Republicans are enabling Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous power grab. Now they’re selling out everyday Americans so that Trump, Musk, and their billionaire allies can get even richer.

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army. And yet....16 Democrats just did so

submitted 12 days ago • 650 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 14 days ago • 928 comments

This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

submitted 14 days ago • 255 comments

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 15 days ago • 151 comments

A Rupert Murdoch owned paper. 🤔 via @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/news/ny-post...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 568 comments

Suppose the air conditioning in your car stopped working, and you brought the car into the shop, and the mechanic said, “I am afraid your car is broken, so I have started dismantling it”. That, in a nutshell, is what Trump and Musk are doing to your country.

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Trump has essentially replaced Congress with Elon Musk. Trump has no authority to do this, but the Republicans who control Congress seems cool with it The last bulwark is the courts, who top administration officials (including Vice President Vance) are suggesting Trump could and should ignore

submitted 28 days ago • 166 comments

Yeah. This.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

1. Yesterday, the Trump admin released a contract laying out more details of the "deferred resignation" offer they are using to encourage federal employees to resign. The deal is MUCH WORSE than it seemed Anyone who signs this contract agrees to resign and gets NOTHING guaranteed in return

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

"You can discourse and quote-dunk and fact-check until you’re blue in the face, but at a certain point, you have to stop and decide what truth you believe in." www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical."

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only...

submitted 33 days ago • 96 comments

New: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

submitted 34 days ago • 106 comments

Demagogues, oligarchs, and literal teenage boys are tearing apart our government. They are fueled by Silicon Valley’s dream of a monarchist network state and blood and soil white nationalism and every day they are in power means years of work required to fix it. www.garbageday.email/p/musk-s-sup...

submitted 34 days ago • 37 comments

Garbage Day is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in tech and the internet, in almost any way. It's also funny AF.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on why she did not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration: “Let me make myself clear. I don’t celebrate rapists.”

submitted 47 days ago • 39 comments

Just made the long overdue decision to finally delete Facebook once I download some old photos, and it feels great. My nieces and nephews and aging high school friends can find me in other ways. Kiss my ass Zuckerberg.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments