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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 923 comments

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

submitted 4 days ago • 2065 comments

Over the past week, several recent ex-State Dept officials reached out to me with a major concern. DOGE could soon access a huge defense-export database that represents a massive, if not transformational corruption opportunity for Musk & allies. Meet USXports:

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

You should read this thorough account of the Iowa Attorney General’s shameless lying about a lawsuit to end protections for people with disabilities.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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#ThisIsACoup

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The challenge that all the DOGE-related lawsuits face is that DOGE has a formalistic structure that’s designed to look benign, but which appears to be a charade. Proving it’s a charade in court in a compressed time-frame will be hard. A thread: ... 1/14

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

The answer is yes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

submitted 15 days ago • 571 comments

🧵 Always Follow The 💸💵💵💰

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#FAFO

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Yesterday's announcement about NIH grant indirect cost funding being retroactively reduced has direct, potentially major impacts on Iowa and, specifically, #iadist89, on not only the jobs economy, but also the future of medical and scientific research.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I just donated to @democracyforward.bsky.social These folks are doing a lot of the litigating. secure.democracyforward.org/a/support-df

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Guy wanting to make payment app knifing agency that regulates payment apps prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Elect a 🤡 get a circus 🎪. This is yet another shiny object for the press to look at, while Musk dismantles the government.

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There's one plausible way Democrats could shut down the DOGE crime spree/constitutional crisis in the short term. And I'm pretty sure this is it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...

submitted 16 days ago • 137 comments

🎁 wapo.st/4hpzH1z

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

More corruption, out in the open.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

This is the worst case scenario for what Elon has been up, an actual coup where he seizes control of government systems and uses them to control the government unlawfully, and it’s just been confirmed. Musk should be arrested immediately

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Hi, scientists. You're seeing what we all are: USAID illegally blown up, 20 yr olds dumping code into the Treasury's seven-trillion-dollar payment system, Senators and House members joining protests at Treasury today... It's a lot. It's a national crisis. What should you do now? 🧵 🧪 1/x

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Agency after agency is being ransacked by 20-something Muskovites at DOGE. Trump Admin threatens to lay off 1/4 to 1/2 of employees at the National Science Foundation. Cutting staff at the $10b/year grantmaking agency would “gut the intellectual center of U.S. leadership in science and technology."

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

If you’re in or around Washington D.C. tomorrow (February 5), come out to 200 Constitution Ave. NW at 3pm and tell Elon Musk to keep his grimy hands off the Department of Labor:

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

"...although it may be worth noting that U.S.A.I.D. supported the efforts of Black South Africans during and after apartheid"

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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 18 days ago • 221 comments

Amazing to see members of Congress celebrate Trump shutting down an agency authorized and funded through a duly enacted law. Remember, Joni Ernst thought it was "overreach" for President Biden to forgive student loan debt without specific Congressional action. www.radioiowa.com/2025/02/03/i...

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"The consequences of this are just real human suffering…" www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc....

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social Have you seen this? Also recommend the article @ddayen.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social are discussing here. If your hair isn’t on 🔥 yet, this will do the trick. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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Accounts are quickly popping up here and there using "Alt" as a prefix. Please exercise caution & watch the starter packs. They are updated in real time.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 539 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments

🚨If your Senators are Democrats, make sure they see this. Tell them you want them to use it, starting right now. Walk on to the Senate floor and ask for a quorum.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly.

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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