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First, what an unbelievable piece of shit. Second, I suspect he's not the only one on Team MAGA who thinks this way. Third, this massively overestimates US agency. Massively.

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President Trump warned international students that if they support groups the U.S. deems terrorist organizations, "we will find you, and we will deport you." It's left many student activists anxious.

submitted 22 hours ago • 103 comments

"The Postal Service, almost all of it, runs off its own revenue, not taxpayer money. We believe that the post office[...] is gonna be absolutely necessary, popular, [&] needed by the people of the country." APWU President Dimondstein Keep it for the people #USMailNotForSale ✊

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a very difficult time to be a Tankie. Suddenly they have to be in favor of the USA grabbing the mineral wealth of a small country.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Aww that's cute. They want people to come meet them at their homes 🥰

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Federal law court clerks grapple with bullying and abuse - an NPR investigation www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The Trump administration is requesting data from all federal agencies about government resources devoted to union matters, potentially setting the stage for a showdown between the White House and federal unions.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

These things are related. Anyone who wants to save Social Security from Musk and Trump’s cuts must join us to fight back.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

In the flurry of first-day executive orders, President Trump revoked a 2022 police accountability package, including a system to flag misconduct.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

A law firm representing Elon Musk and Tesla has drafted a bill that would overhaul Delaware corporate law specifically to let Musk collect a compensation plan of up to $55.8 billion. The bill has now been introduced in the Delaware General Assembly. www.jalopnik.com/1794019/musk...

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

How’s this prediction going so far?

submitted 13 days ago • 920 comments

I think we underestimate the prevalence of Billionaire Psychosis, when people get so rich they lose touch with reality. Musk wears it on his sleeve but he's not alone, staid "business leaders" like Jamie Dimon also live in parallel worlds where they're victims. Rationality left them long ago.

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 13 days ago • 181 comments

Imprisoning journalists is fine when we do it

submitted 15 days ago • 609 comments

NEW: Scoop about the architect of the destruction of USAID. Pete Marocco was a USAID official in the first Trump Admin. On a trip to the Balkans, he secretly met with the Serb separatist leader. That was a no-no. Caused a big diplomatic incident. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

This is gangsterism, pure and simple.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

If the IRS owes you a tax refund, it should come within 3 weeks of filing. And in a change, 25 states are now participating in the IRS's free online filing program.

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

The Murdochs’ courtroom battle for control of their media empire has unfolded almost entirely in secret. But 3,000 pages of the trial record obtained by The New York Times reveal bitterness and betrayal that not even writers of “Succession” could conjure. nyti.ms/41fN66Q

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

This letter, from now-resigned prosecutor Danielle Sassoon to Pam Bondi, is worth reading in full. Simply put, there is no non-corrupt reason for dismissing Eric Adams’ case. The Trump DOJ is itself obstructing both justice and the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 18 days ago • 75 comments

The #2 official at the United States Department of Justice literally gave the Stringer Bell "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" warning to the Manhattan prosecutors pursuing the Eric Adams case.

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

Great article by @stevanzetti.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...

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USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 21 days ago • 121 comments

A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as “Big Balls” is listed as having taken on a new State Department role, raising concerns among some diplomats about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus.

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BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

submitted 29 days ago • 342 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 31 days ago • 502 comments

This is the stuff of nightmares! 🧵

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

SCOOP: The email Andrew Kloster, the Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel and self described "raging misogynist," used to sign up for his X/Twitter account appears in a leak for an escort service website. The IP address for the escort service website account is in Washington D.C.

submitted 34 days ago • 127 comments

At best, they're incompetent:

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Paul Pelosi made $38 million in stock trades leading up to Trump’s inauguration, including investing in a small AI firm whose shares rose nearly 50% last week. This has again raised the issue of Congressional stock trading, especially as federal involvement in AI increases.

submitted 40 days ago • 27 comments

The 46 House Democrats who joined Republicans to pass the Laken Riley Act and send it to Trump's desk:

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

As journalists we have to walk a fine line, and sensitive stories often need to pass internal legal reviews before publication. I like how Wired handled this — the headline doesn’t mince words and actually shows you how Musk’s salute is being received by Nazis www.wired.com/story/neo-na...

submitted 42 days ago • 104 comments

Looking forward to the right-wing media spending the next 24 hours explaining how an obvious Nazi salute really wasn't a Nazi salute, you stupid libs.

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Trying this again: I deleted posts earlier because Blue MAGA crowd became completely unhinged to the point that I was getting messages telling me that I deserved to die. This posts specifically references what those neo-Nazi accounts were saying, including the terminology they were using. 1/

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

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Have you noticed an uptick in "expert analyses" on Russia remaining a strong economy able to wage its war for many years? A new insider report from VCHK-OGPU suggests it's part of Russian information warfare and provides even more details on what is going on inside the Kremlin regime. 1/9

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

A report released by the Department of Agriculture found that poor sanitation practices at a Boar's Head facility in Virginia contributed to the largest listeria outbreak since 2011.

submitted 51 days ago • 136 comments

The defamation case brought by voting technology company Smartmatic against Fox News can proceed, a New York state appellate court rules. via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 258 comments

BREAKING: Nearly 5,000 nurses and doctors just launched a historic strike at 8 hospitals in Oregon. It’s the biggest health care strike and first doctors' strike in state history. The workers at Providence hospitals are fighting against under-staffing and bad health benefits.

submitted 53 days ago • 18 comments

Has anyone told the "they're sending criminals, secure our borders" crowd that their new hero was jailed for illegally entering USA on a false passport? #FreeTommyRobinson

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

A large area of greater Los Angeles had unhealthy air Friday, due to particulate matter from large wildfires. Here are tips for breathing cleaner air indoors if it's smoky outside.

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

There's a forgotten history that should serve as a warning — wildfire isn’t unique to the West. Now the warming climate is increasing the risk of major wildfires across America. And more people are moving to fire-prone areas without realizing the danger.

submitted 53 days ago • 87 comments