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Valuing diversity is not a crime Installing white men in every position of power is not a meritocracy

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1084 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

At that rate, the Trump administration would detain about 1 million people over his four-year term, even though he promised to deport all of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Lutnick: "I'd like to thank you President Trump. It is the greatest honor to work for you, to be with you, to carry your name, your leadership, and your flag throughout the world ... I know him as the smartest, most thoughtful, and most intuitive person I've ever met."

submitted 1 day ago • 1327 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 249 comments

“The U.S. is refusing to co-sponsor a draft U.N. resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that backs Ukraine's territorial integrity and again demands Russia withdraw its troops.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

submitted 2 days ago • 2069 comments

Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

submitted 6 days ago • 448 comments

“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal” — Richard Nixon, 1977 “He who saves his country does not violate any law” — Donald Trump, 2025

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.

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If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

submitted 16 days ago • 203 comments

As I reported during the election, Trump was running a disinformation operation not a conventional political campaign. That is continuing in the White House. The conventional media has trouble coming to terms with this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

Yet.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Performative trade war

submitted 19 days ago • 66 comments

"Explain the Luka trade in MLB terms." Ok, well... we tried. @chriskirschner.bsky.social and @mikevorkunov.bsky.social have covered MLB and the NBA in their careers. They tried to translate this NBA blockbuster into terms that a seamhead would understand. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/610...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 19 days ago • 93 comments

And ... that's actually the right framing? This isn't about making government "more efficient" or more productive; it is "anti-government" at its core. Musk called federal workers "the opposition," which says it all. He's a threat to our government, which is to say, he's a threat to all of us.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

The Athletic | Justin Tucker's alleged behavior in a massage parlor brings shame to the NFL. by Robert Kraft

submitted 21 days ago • 69 comments

Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel: "His willingness to say yes when everyone else would say no, to whatever the president wanted...That's why he is sitting here...How can any of us think that his background, his qualifications, hold a candle to the people who went before him."

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

Well looks like we are going for a three-peat. Go Chiefs.

submitted 27 days ago • 108 comments

The expectation that Trumpists would ever admit they were wrong, rather than blame everything on their favorite Emmanuel Goldstein, was always wrong. They would die with Trump’s knife in their back whining about Biden.

submitted 28 days ago • 50 comments

A lot of the commentary about Biden's pardons is from people who weren't tracking the extent to which GOPers lied constantly about what his family had done to try to take him down. It was relentless and mostly in the right-wing bubble where it was often unseen. Not exculpatory, but moderating.

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, claims the FBI planned and instigated the Jan. 6 riot. That's just one of the many dangerous lies Patel continues to promote. Senate Republicans cannot confirm this guy. Maybe they should just read this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

Jon Stewart does not believe in special rules when it comes to the media covering Trump. #TheWeeklyShow

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

REPORTER: Why did you change your mind about TikTok? TRUMP: Because I got to use it. And remember, TikTok is largely about kids. Young kids. If China is gonna get information about young kids, I don't know -- to be honest with you, I think we have bigger problems than that.

submitted 33 days ago • 136 comments

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

submitted 34 days ago • 1278 comments

The invasion of Iraq, which I supported, was one of the great shitlib crimes in American history. But I'm ok with Donald Trump, who I do not support, invading Greenland. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

The reality is that Salesmanship is the differentiation between the two parties. The Dems couldn't sell dollar bills for 50c Trump has found his audience and can sell them dollar bills for $5 When everything is a story the algorithm flashes at you as you scroll, you better be selling fast

submitted 42 days ago • 875 comments

I have found great uplift by dwelling on the model of decency, compassion and love of country Jimmy Carter provided us, but can I also say: It was uplifting to see all the surviving presidents give the felon the cold shoulder and Obama, generously, taking one for the team.

submitted 44 days ago • 249 comments

On this National Day of Mourning, we remember former President Jimmy Carter. The National Park System evolved during Jimmy Carter's presidency to preserve many special places Americans enjoy today.

submitted 44 days ago • 28 comments

Justice Samuel Alito talking to Trump two days before SCOTUS could be deciding on whether Trump’s sentencing proceeds is another disgraceful reminder how little Alito cares about any appearance of corruption or impropriety.

submitted 45 days ago • 206 comments

Welcome to idiocracy.

submitted 45 days ago • 4584 comments

this guy on the bottom left entertaining this map showing Canada as "The Northern Colonies" is a member of Congress

submitted 45 days ago • 838 comments

“This might be the saddest day since that heinous Wednesday four years ago because we know now that even a deadly, violent insurrection at our Capitol is not enough to discourage so many Americans from rejecting its hateful, carnage-loving, felonious ringleader.”

submitted 47 days ago • 51 comments

Always important to remember, when it happened, everyone knew how bad it was. They all needed time to create a web of justifications and excuses to justify or dismiss the gravity of it. The incoming president led a criminal attempt to overthrow the republic.

submitted 47 days ago • 44 comments

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

All I want for Christmas is a right tackle who doesn’t lead the league in holding penalties

submitted 59 days ago • 36 comments