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submitted 59 minutes ago • 68 comments

Hate when I learn something while driving and you have to pull up to random locations to do some content. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YsDbYA/

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

submitted 31 minutes ago • 114 comments

When my Dad was over at Christmas he told me that in the town he grew up in, to this day, which pub you go to drink in is still defined by which side of the Miners Strike you were on in 84/85. Just a quick reminder that you don't have to forgive or forget, the people who betray you and your class.

submitted 58 minutes ago • 3 comments

Trump is pressuring Ukraine to hand its valuable resources to the US - Biden was pressuring them to forcibly conscript their teenagers and send them into unwinnable WW1 style trench warfare. Can we just admit that the US was going to f**k Ukraine either way? Being a US 'ally' is dangerous

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Says the guy who won't even respond to the mothers of his own children

submitted 2 hours ago • 1513 comments

Odd how the turns have tabled… Trump reversed course and admitted that Russia did, in fact, invade Ukraine. International news sources and independent media have stepped up to keep Americans informed.

submitted 2 hours ago • 83 comments

If you look closely, you can see how happy that salute made his base.

submitted 3 hours ago • 83 comments

“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

submitted 4 hours ago • 103 comments

PHOTO: Krasnov (Russian for "Beauty," and also the just-revealed code name for Donald Trump as a KGB asset since 1987) and The Beast.

submitted 2 hours ago • 67 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 5 hours ago • 265 comments

Post WW1 Germany fell into Nazism because of hyperinflation and economic chaos, America fell into it because of record low unemployment and folks liking to “do their own research.”

submitted 3 hours ago • 49 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

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🎯🎯🎯

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 5 hours ago • 888 comments

✨"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."✨ -- Bob Marley 🇯🇲

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

AMERICA to the PENTAGON: STOP SPENDING $70,000 PER TOILET SEAT PETE HEGSETH: ... AMERICA to the PENTAGON: STOP SPENDING $70,000 PER TOILET SEAT PETE HEGSETH: We’re going to fire 76,000 Americans

submitted 16 hours ago • 69 comments

Seeing Americans getting excited for initial court wins while knowing full well it will be overturned by a higher judge who has kissed the ring. How did Roe v Wade go?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

She nails it! “The president is effectively sidelined while Elon Musk takes center stage,” Maddow pointed out. “The president, in contrast, appears to be weak and sort of beside the point while his campaign donor regularly upstages him and talks over him both in interviews and in the Oval Office.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

There’s a reason they’re trying to kill unions in the US.

submitted 5 hours ago • 31 comments

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 6 hours ago • 254 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1093 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1607 comments

If Elon was as smart as he believes, we wouldn’t have found out about his doge boys. And Bondi wouldn’t be threatening people about leaks.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Clinical trials for the most serious diseases halted. Research grants ended. 1,500 NIH workers fired. All probationary employees fired- these were the brightest, fully trained & vetted, most talented next generation of public servants - fired. This is not ending “waste, fraud or abuse”’

submitted 6 hours ago • 42 comments

I don't know for you, but I have never been so scared in my life. #Nazism is alive and kicking .

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

So if Musk is “saving” us all of this money and they are trying to gut an entire program we all paid into, why is it the poorest are having to pay more in taxes moving forward while the rich pay less? If they are taking away all of these things our taxes normally go into, ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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submitted 14 hours ago • 82 comments

Waiting to hear from all the “Trump-Russia was a hoax” crew and somehow they’ve evaporated into nothingness

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

Thoughts?! 👇

submitted 11 hours ago • 94 comments

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

submitted 9 hours ago • 431 comments

By the way, good luck getting German greens or climate activist types to admit that israel dropping bombs on Gaza is bad for the environment. Yeah, good luck getting those German pieces of shit to admit that. Also, good luck getting them to admit that capitalism is the reason why the earth is dying.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

It must be extremely frustrating and scary, as a non-westerner, or someone from the global south, watching the western world descend into fascism, as an outgrowth of capitalism in decay, YET AGAIN. Knowing that one way or the other, BIPOC would suffer for the bigotries and stupidity of white people.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

submitted 19 hours ago • 952 comments

sometimes decorum should be broken sometimes disrespect is appropriate sometimes violence is the answer nazis are always a stain on the collective spirit of humanity

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submitted 15 hours ago • 101 comments

Even in their memes, the pro-apartheid crowd acknowledges they're a shrinking minority

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