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submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

The program costs $32 million in annual federal outlays to administer but has saved consumers $200 billion in utility bills since 1992, writes William K. Reilly. "Results like that ought to make a DOGE bro swoon. Why, then, does the Trump administration want to kill the program?" wapo.st/457ID8E

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

No, Qatar‘s royal family gifting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet known as a “flying palace” to the government that will reportedly then go to Donald Trump‘s presidential library is not the same as France giving the Statue of Liberty to the American people.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

An X USER, to Grok: “Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?” 🤡

submitted 8 days ago • 195 comments

Tomorrow. FUTURERUINS.COM

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Blue Prince is so damn good. Holy hell.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 12 days ago • 1079 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 13 days ago • 874 comments

Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised. A gift from the content gods.

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

Investigating a blackout is like a murder mystery. On this week's SHIFT KEY, Rob and I consider the suspects and dig into the mystery of what caused the massive blackout in Spain and Portugal last week. Along the way, we try to demystify the magic behind modern grids heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

submitted 15 days ago • 111 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE just cut millions in Labor Department grants to support getting women into manufacturing & construction jobs & tackling gender-based violence & harassment at work. It may be illegal since some grants were mandated by law. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

“DOGE doesn’t care what we do and will treat us the same as all other agencies: with contempt,” an Energy Information Administration staffer emailed her bosses this year. “Shame on you for falling in line and giving up without any perceptible effort to fight.” By @peterelkind.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Ah, but of course. #OligarchEra 🤡 @washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 359 comments

Sccoooop OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation: www.wired.com/story/openai...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

The president has created his own money-fleecing spin on Reagonomics — instead of promising trickle-down wealth, it’s trickle-down opportunities for fraud. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66210...

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

Shutting down the Energy Star program will raise your energy costs and make you sicker. There is no good policy reason to shut it down. None. It saves people lots of money and helps cut pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

Oh lord, this dipshit is back, this time arguing that Democrats -- under whom oil & gas reached historic peaks & the US became a net energy exporter -- have been "waging war" on oil & gas. I'd hate to see what support looks like!

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

Want higher energy costs? Do this.

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submitted 18 days ago • 131 comments

DOGE's Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws: propub.li/4cVtSYq

submitted 20 days ago • 54 comments

Not great numbers here for Trump

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

submitted 32 days ago • 106 comments

🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

submitted 37 days ago • 52 comments

Yep. Youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts. Read our latest here:

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

submitted 38 days ago • 52 comments

NEW: At least 2,700 employees — roughly 17% of its staff — have applied to resign from the US Department of Energy. The departures could gut the agency’s in-house bank, as well as its offices focused on bolstering the power grid and U.S. manufacturing. heatmap.news/politics/doe...

submitted 43 days ago • 13 comments

Companies tied to Elon Musk have dozens of workplace health and safety cases open at OSHA. Now labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to related whistleblower files: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

You all said Mr. President would fully shit his pants but he only shit 3/4 of his pants. You all look pretty stupid now, don’t you?

submitted 44 days ago • 89 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 46 days ago • 843 comments

I would strongly urge Republicans to make "millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones" its vision for America in the 2026 midterms.

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

We have, as a nation, shot ourselves in the dick www.theverge.com/business/643...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

And that’s if you believe the $600b figure. Some economists believe it could be half that.

submitted 50 days ago • 54 comments

Today’s Garbage is very good.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Scoop: Trump's FCC chair, Brendan Carr, lashed out at House Dems for launching a probe into his behavior, absurdly claiming in a statement to me that for years they were the ones "weaponizing" the law. The Dems fired back, telling me he's "a fraud, a phony, and a liar." link.status.news/4j7foqe

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: US federal judge allows DOGE to takeover $500 million office building for free. In fact, the building—and all of the property inside it—had already been transferred on Saturday.

submitted 52 days ago • 127 comments

Booker is still going. 73K people watching on his stream, 77K on AP's, 19K on PBS NewsHour, 14K on MSNBC.

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

Gotta admit, pretty impressive that Cory Booker is not just going but fucking cooking at 20+ hours.

submitted 52 days ago • 116 comments

NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 52 days ago • 339 comments

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submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

submitted 59 days ago • 829 comments

This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

submitted 60 days ago • 850 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 63 days ago • 509 comments

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

submitted 71 days ago • 367 comments

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

submitted 71 days ago • 125 comments