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guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

submitted 1 day ago • 751 comments

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

submitted 20 hours ago • 114 comments

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 1560 comments

This is their goal. Everything else is bullshit.

submitted 2 days ago • 185 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 1 day ago • 705 comments

"Richard Hobcraft Allan III, a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, locked himself to a metal post outside of the presidential building Monday morning, holding a pipe around his hands reading 'King Trump and Pres Musk are killing veterans.'"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil! Pass it on.

submitted 4 days ago • 98 comments

This administration is being led by individuals who are morally corrupt. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

“Scientists are already considering moving trials to other institutions, which will mean veterans are no longer first in line for participation, and could cause millions of dollars in research funds to go to waste…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

US technology, provided by private companies, just ceased to be reliable

submitted 8 days ago • 221 comments

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1184 comments

Sofa king stupid

submitted 9 days ago • 1250 comments

One more time for the people in the back.

submitted 10 days ago • 438 comments

Exclusive: Six sources who worked for the Air Force or in Congress told ProPublica that they had heard about Sen. Joni Ernst’s relationship with a top military official and there had been concerns about it for years.

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submitted 11 days ago • 162 comments

A lot of people are going to die from this

submitted 13 days ago • 1221 comments

We are here This ain’t the f-ing movies Bad guys can win.

submitted 14 days ago • 478 comments

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

submitted 14 days ago • 544 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 15 days ago • 3402 comments

Trump got a human trafficker's travel ban lifted.

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

submitted 16 days ago • 320 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 16 days ago • 717 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 17 days ago • 1643 comments

A nontrivial percentage of Roman emperors were killed by the Praetorian Guard. Apropos of nothing .

submitted 18 days ago • 242 comments

DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?

submitted 19 days ago • 247 comments

Donald Trump's administration wants to make shady loans great again. Appalling.

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

They’re eating the Veterans. They’re eating the Military Families.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

STATEMENT: “This Is The Move Of A Weak And Insecure Tyrant, Not A Strong Commander-in-Chief”

submitted 21 days ago • 55 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 121 comments

It’s a cult.

submitted 21 days ago • 3300 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 104 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 22 days ago • 2002 comments

I try to keep the language on here… PG… but in this case i can’t. You, Trump, are a traitorous piece of shit

submitted 23 days ago • 2031 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 23 days ago • 497 comments

"One casualty of the mass firings across federal health agencies are regulators who ensure drugs for pets and livestock are safe and effective." Not even our pets are safe anymore from this Trump Administration. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 23 days ago • 86 comments

Blaming Ukraine for being brutally invaded by Russia. Putin is really getting his money’s worth.

submitted 24 days ago • 172 comments

This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

submitted 24 days ago • 1255 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 24 days ago • 1191 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 24 days ago • 1258 comments

This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 24 days ago • 94 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 24 days ago • 1326 comments

🚨AP: “Acting Commissioner Michelle King's departure after more than 30 years of service was initiated after King refused to provide DOGE staffers at the Social Security Administration with access to sensitive info…” Alarmed yet? www.yahoo.com/news/social-...

submitted 25 days ago • 119 comments

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 25 days ago • 337 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 26 days ago • 1052 comments