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Elmo is demanding that 2.3M federal employees submit 5 bullets representing their accomplishments last week (or be fired). Fun fact. If 2.3M employees spend 5 minutes each answering that email, it will cost taxpayers $8.5M. Your taxpayer dollars funding his harassment of Feds. Now you know.

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📣 Impact: About four hours after this article was published online, Dr. Yee said he received a call from the F.D.A. to restore his job. He plans to return Monday morning. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 7 hours ago • 212 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 18 days ago • 586 comments

"They are laying the groundwork for denying benefits to anyone they want to punish or deem unworthy—or indeed, any one of us." - Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

I guess we shouldn't be surprised anymore .... but it still blows my mind how consistently they do PR for Trump. He could literally put Putin in charge of the military and they'd print his press release about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 6 hours ago • 319 comments

The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

submitted 5 hours ago • 87 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 7 hours ago • 214 comments

I have verified it. It is false.

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Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Whoever wrote that line about “mired in diversity issues” should be fired

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is just the start. Last night he fired the highly-regarded General C Q Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replaced him with a retired three-star general, Dan Caine, who on their first meeting put on a MAGA cap and said ‘I love you, sir.’

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Some things to know about General Brown: - 41 years of military service - F16 fighter pilot and instructor with 3000 flight hours, 130 in combat - Master’s in aeronautical science - son of a U.S. Army colonel and Vietnam veteran - grandson of a WW2 veteran

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I'm planning to join the rally for Ukraine at the Lincoln memorial today. Providing arms and aid to a country fighting against a would-be conqueror who launched an unprovoked invasion affordably helps protects us all against would-be dominators. novaukraine.org/event/mass-r...

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 231 comments

Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

submitted 13 hours ago • 123 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 23 hours ago • 99 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 13 hours ago • 181 comments

Nate Silver squawking about IQ. The only value IQ tests have is you can automatically ignore anybody who thinks they have any merit

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I suspect we’re going to be hearing more stories about failing farmers having their land bought for cheep—it’s not a coincidence. Is this why USAID was cut—to make way for billionaires?! Watch til the end and keep an eye on national parklands too. 🧵

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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.

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DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Resharing this from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek with the correct url www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon Trump’s purge started with his firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

USA today!

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I am tired of this horseshit. BP didn’t “go green”; it kept drilling for oil and gas in repressive petrostates and creaming billions in profits These analysts actually believed the greenwash, and are now calling for the black pill www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Republican Congress members “are feeling helpless” to push back against the Musk/Trump layoffs and cutbacks because, as we know, the Constitution gives them no say whatsoever in this matter. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

The vectoralist class rewires the functions of the state

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“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

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

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 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 • 60 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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"salute" "gesture" 🙄

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

and to be clear, this action would ensure the rapid military defeat of Ukraine

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 39 comments

What was it that the ABA said about the rule of law the other day?

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 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 23 hours ago • 201 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 18 hours ago • 99 comments

That is a real quote. Jfc

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