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The Trump administration’s mass layoffs of health workers hit a key vaccine unit of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to people familiar with the matter.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

I keep thinking about Trump saying that he needed the kind of generals that Hitler had.

submitted 10 hours ago • 74 comments

That’s why the AMA has to work against it.

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Trump and Trumpism summed up in a single statement.

submitted 12 hours ago • 85 comments

If this happened in a foreign country we’d call it a purge

submitted 11 hours ago • 50 comments

one really interesting thing about congestion pricing is that Trump basically said “I am killing congestion pricing right now”, got a friendly puff piece in the New York Post, and then every other media outlet went along with it even though it turned out he actually did not kill congestion pricing

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Turns out the Dow doesn’t love it

submitted 14 hours ago • 136 comments

Three people are dead after a shooting outside a driver licensing office in Louisville, Kentucky. www.wlky.com/article/loui...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

AW, Marky. Can we give you a binky?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Focus on the positive: this has overall been a very bad week for Trump! * he is falling in the polls - both his favorability and his policies * he lost his first Supreme Court case on firing an watchdog, setting the way for others fired to fight back 1/

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

Judge Susan Crawford in Wisconsin needs to run a huge ad campaign about Elon Musk trying to buy this judicial election against MAGA McGee. Elon's unfavorables are very high right now, and people are getting tired of billionaires buying elections.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

They're doing an end run around the courts.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 16 hours ago • 170 comments

U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

Dear @cnn.com, The judge did not “vacate” the trial. He adjourned it. Then he appointed an amicus curiae to argue against dismissing the charges. Who writes your headlines?

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Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who played an intriguing role in a sprawling 1980s espionage drama. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 14 hours ago • 358 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

Fired for being Black.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

We've got ourselves an old fashioned Friday news dump. What's happened over the past few hours:

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

The last failsafe of any republican form of government is that the military is loyal to the constitution and rule of law over a particular leader. Cross that line, and you get Venezuela today and every dictatorship in history.

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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...

submitted 14 hours ago • 403 comments

www.businessinsider.com/russia-culti...

submitted 15 hours ago • 104 comments

The Trump / Musk administration’s extortion of vulnerable American ally Ukraine should be a #FrontPage and multiple day story. Will it be? h/t @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and announced he would replace five other high level positions in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 15 hours ago • 94 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 15 hours ago • 67 comments

"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

submitted 18 hours ago • 72 comments

Trump probably wants people who won’t push back against orders to invade Greenland or do military actions across Mexico. Maybe also orders to use troops against American civilians. I’m not sure how easy any of that would be, but I suspect that’s part of what they want.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

USDA suspends scholarship program at historically Black colleges, website shows | Reuters search.app/ESwsA2eHq455...

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President Trump has ousted Joint Chiefs Chairman CQ Brown and says he is replacing him with Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine. A retired four-star general expressed serious dismay over this move to me tonight, calling it "sadly political and tragic for our nation."

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