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The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 11 hours ago • 108 comments

Repealing Section 230 with an autocrat in power will not hold tech accountable, it will suppress speech and force platforms to silence users who say things the regime doesn’t like.

submitted 38 minutes ago • 2 comments

A more effective action would be if everyone with a retirement or investment account makes sure to divest it of all TSLA shares and demands S&P499 index funds or ETFs be offered — i.e. S&P500 minus TSLA — because, as is, if you have S&P you’re an Elon investor.

submitted 42 minutes ago • 4 comments

this is low hanging fruit for Dems and all protest movements: show the ppl that Trump's emissary is taking a chainsaw to their benefits

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 2 hours ago • 44 comments

Completely nuts.

submitted 1 hour ago • 55 comments

Gee, why isn't DOGE flagging this as wasteful spending? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner.

submitted 1 hour ago • 40 comments

Hilarious little example of Musk's "efficiency": wapo.st/4bjScT1

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Pleading with people to understand exactly this:

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 14 hours ago • 183 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

Hail to the thief. Stealing money from blue states, plundering our own country like it's conquered territory

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 14 hours ago • 135 comments

alright, for the evening crowd, i've got a rhythm worked out and have already had the opportunity to talk to a few of you. if you're interested in participating, read the write-up here and then holler at me using the instructions and we can figure out a time that works.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 21 hours ago • 49 comments

someone dig up this dude's ol dusty bones, we need him now more than ever.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 1032 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 11 hours ago • 72 comments

Here’s the thing: women outperform men academically; on most desireable leadership traits women tend to outperform men; women are less likely to display problematic work traits; women score higher on measures of leadership effectiveness. 1/2

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

An anti-capitalism song for the ages. Dolly ftw

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

If there's one thing to call about for the next several days, it's this: early next week the house will be voting on a budget resolution that decimates Medicaid. This is an immediate life-and-death issue for so many, and the GOP House majority is razor-thin. Call early and often. And pass it on.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m worried that many Americans have no idea what democracy even means, why it’s important, how it relates to our nation’s history, which is barely taught to begin with. Dems should be running civic workshops and teach-ins to explain, wild as it seems, why democracy is better than a dictatorship.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 333 comments

"The Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday...the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

And RFK Jr wants to ban mRNA vaccines for ten years.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Morning, all: We remember what happened to USPS under Trump last time. Now, he's planning on taking control. Please be aware. Yes, CALL YOUR REPS.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

📢 ProPublica is looking for 5 newsrooms to join our Local Reporting Network! These newsrooms will be part of our 50 State Initiative. Newsrooms in 40 states (in blue) are eligible to apply: https://propub.li/41270AQ Here's what this would mean for your newsroom 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

If we can't sleep peacefully, they don't get to sleep peacefully. Don't call your republican reps because you think you can convince them. Call them because fuck them, they don't get a free pass on this shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The words and actions of America’s leaders show they believe that having dark skin or having a vagina is a reason a person shouldn’t be allowed to pilot a plane, while having a drinking or drug problem is not. That’s their priority, and they’re fine with the flying public suffering the consequences.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

We all knew this was part of Project 2025. Trump is looking to cut over a trillion dollars from Medicaid + food stamps & there's already a bill. This will decimate under-resourced communities. Make no mistake that they've declared WAR on the working class. Healthcare & food access are human rights.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Trump Crash Plane Watch

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I'm digging down details on a few stories, but I'm very interested in hearing from any federal employees or contractors: * who are just seeing DOGE folks coming into your agencies now * about what has happened in the wake of a DOGE bomb: rehires, canceled programs, big changes, etc. Signal: crg.32

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 827 comments

Buy. Paper. Books. (and download ownable ebooks onto your own devices) New from me at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

It'll be a continuation of the Comstock laws, so of course abortion medications, abortion information, "pornography" that will include any books current being banned anywhere that they deem pornographic definition be damned, and on and on. This one was laid out pretty clearly pre-election.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

submitted 1 day ago • 688 comments

fantastic thread about elon musk bribing the delaware legislature to push through a change to the courts that will give him tens of billions of dollars while also shredding the integrity of corporations chartered in the state

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Explicit instructions here for which Dem Reps/Senators especially need calls to kill this bill. Please read. 👇 This bill will disenfranchise millions.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

some of the public comments so far are pretty good, which i attribute to @aricohn.com's entreaty for folks to weigh in. my favorite:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

make America 🫠

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments