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This also includes veterans, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Let's have a moment of appreciation for federal workers who are still able to both send tips and make jokes. Referring to the DOGE staffers moving into the GSA with their little sleep pods, a source tells me, "'Musk' takes on such a new meaning." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

It’s not an exaggeration to say there is no one, living or dead, who deserves more credit for the progress American women have made, in terms of their political representation, than Ellen Malcolm www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ruben Gallego, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking subcommittee overseeing "digital assets," is hosting a luxury retreat with Marc Andreessen, one of the crypto industry's biggest investors: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

Commentary: A USAID employee details what it’s been like inside USAID, an agency that Donald Trump and Elon Musk decided to eliminate.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

so which is it liberals, is it bad for the us to exert dominance over canada (tariffs) or is it good (kendrick lamar)? make up your minds

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Indeed, Dems flipped the seat. DLCC: "This earthquake victory in Iowa puts Republicans across the country on notice."

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

submitted 25 days ago • 191 comments

Tuberculosis, sometimes called "Consumption of the Poor" is a disease of poverty. This is a terrible sign. www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

How SO-IL and Tankhouse are shaking up the New York housing scene, carving out space for architecture through creative interpretation of the zoning codes www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The two hurricanes that hit Tampa Bay this year caused an estimated $50 billion in damages. 100% of Samaritan's Purse expenditures (which are around $500 million a year) are ministry related. Are you gonna pray the power lines to go back up?

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

I <3 Neko Case www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

“We have a Republican Party in the Senate that is on its knees in front of Donald Trump, and not a single one of them are willing to stand up — at least not on the Armed Services Committee.” Great interview with Senator Tammy Duckworth by @tessastuart.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Ah, so this is pure bullshit: "A senior Biden administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the White House’s plans, said Biden was not directing the archivist to certify the amendment, sidestepping what could have become a legal battle over the separation of powers."

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Nice try, Samuel

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

submitted 40 days ago • 1868 comments

Joni Ernst, a sexual assault survivor, sponsor of the 2022 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, a critical vote on the Armed Services committee reportedly refused to meet with the woman who Pete Hegseth paid to settle a sexual assault claim in 2017. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The @rollingstone.com politics team did a deep dive for the print magazine on what went wrong for the Harris campaign this year — zeroing in on how Dems do and do not talk to people. From @tessastuart.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 43 days ago • 46 comments

I got as far as the “maybe we should have done Martha Stewart or Ina Garten’s podcasts” and realized the Dem strategists still don’t have a fucking clue.

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If I were to summarize the new print mag feature (online today) by @tessastuart.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social & me for @rollingstone.com in a sentence I’d prob say: Somehow over the past decade, the party of liberal Hollywood completely forgot how to tell an effective story to…

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Hegseth's lawyer on his rape accusation: "Ultimately... when we got into negotiations, the price that they were looking for was low enough that it was, it was a lot cheaper to just, you know, take care of the settlement than to go through the full process of litigating it." youtu.be/qQLXscShAyI

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Vlado Chernozemski, who assassinated King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, belonged in his youth to a club that was devoted to a game of regicide. In the game, known as "chess," contestants subtly maneuver into a position that allows them to topple the opponent's monarch.

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

Remembering this 2022 #Syria piece from @tessastuart.bsky.social : An obscure Defense Department team had nine months to make a stockpile of Syria’s #chemical weapons disappear. In doing the impossible, they helped avert a global showdown and saved untold lives. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Which way progressives

submitted 79 days ago • 191 comments

RBC PAC’s $20 million last-minute spending spree boosting Trump on abortion was one of the most brazen stunt campaigns in recent memory, designed to evade basic transparency rules. Turns out it was 100% funded by Elon Musk. @rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 79 days ago • 86 comments

NEW: Video from 2023 shows Nancy Mace calling herself “pro-transgender rights” and saying she’s supportive of children who “wanna take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity or grow their hair out, or wear a dress or wear pants…” www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...

submitted 89 days ago • 72 comments

Is it…is it cause he used to be on Road Rules?

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

I spent most of 2024 traveling around the U.S. and Central America hanging out with gamblers, bookies, politicians, even CEOs and casino bosses, trying to learn about sports betting from every perspective. I wrote 10,000 words about it for Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 97 days ago • 7 comments

Leadership at VICE announced it would be laying off hundreds of employees and ending its website. "These people managed to pay themselves outrageous bonuses while tanking the company, and I hope they get perpetual diarrhea," one staffer told Hell Gate. hellgatenyc.com/vice-manager...

submitted 366 days ago • 4 comments

I will never be more receptive to job offers than I am today, so if you need a new circus clown, [email protected]

submitted 367 days ago • 21 comments

Fucking ridiculous.

submitted 367 days ago • 64 comments

New via @tessastuart.bsky.social and me tonight www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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