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Just walking around finding different rooms to be horrified in

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

submitted 12 days ago • 194 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 439 comments

You all understand the assignment. Failure is not an option, internet. 🚀

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 13 days ago • 1605 comments

Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

The Elon Musk backed pro-Russian candidate in Romania, Calin Georgescu has been arrested. Authorities raided him like the crook he is and found at least $10 million in cash and tickets to Moscow. He may have also bumped his head a little bit too.

submitted 14 days ago • 435 comments

Oh NO. Lmaooo. Dems. Please fucking clean up your own house. Maybe now we know why Kamala's campaign went all in on Cheney and stopped saying weird. We had literal voting Republicans running her campaign.

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 16 days ago • 137 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 16 days ago • 2168 comments

Every day it’s like “we’re getting rid of a highly qualified woman or minority or disabled person and replacing them with a white guy who majored in skull measuring.”

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.

submitted 17 days ago • 138 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 18 days ago • 196 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 19 days ago • 118 comments

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...

submitted 19 days ago • 485 comments

If you're going to read one thing today it needs to be this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

This goes to the dark heart of m MAGA, though: the urge to dominate, embodied in the child’s taunt “stop hitting yourself.” Every generation of kids teaches itself that taunt because it so perfectly captures the psychic reward of bullying: hurting someone while blaming them for their own suffering.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 33 days ago • 169 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 840 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 23 days ago • 857 comments

Ash Sarkar does it again. "When we're talking about the permanent resettlement of an entire group of people from the place that they call home, that is called #ethniccleansing." I love how the directed truth of her words leaves both of them stunned. #Palestinians #holdIsraelaccountable

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I knew this was coming but it’s still surreal. The CEO of a $trillion market cap company that is currently being charged by the SEC, is allowed to strut into SEC HQ and just start swinging a chainsaw. An embarrassment to the United States. Nicaragua-level corruption. 🤮

submitted 23 days ago • 21 comments

Just like Cortés burned his boats when he reached the new land, I will be leaving my old jeans in this Walmart fitting room.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 24 days ago • 186 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 24 days ago • 200 comments

Once again, Brother Neil would like to share a word: “By "loving," I mean that, in spite of the confusion, errors, and stupidities you see around you, you must always keep close to your heart the narratives and symbols that once made the United States the hope of the world…”

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

submitted 30 days ago • 82 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 33 days ago • 1674 comments

Disgusting! Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects, www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 35 days ago • 118 comments

Each year USAID buys 2 billion dollars worth of crops grown by US farmers across the land American food aid comes from American farmers Life saving food is rotting on the docks. Farmers in DC are have lost $340 million in unpaid bills since foreign aid was halted

submitted 35 days ago • 139 comments

We don't hate him enough.

submitted 35 days ago • 262 comments

Big ‘ole yikes.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

submitted 35 days ago • 50 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 36 days ago • 939 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 38 days ago • 730 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 38 days ago • 817 comments