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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 4 hours ago • 855 comments

NEW: Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Chief Naval Officer & the second in command at the Air Force. He is also firing the top lawyers in the Army, Navy & Air Force. These are EXACTLY the steps you’d take if you planned not to step down peacefully in 2029.

submitted 11 hours ago • 27 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Next up, they will attempt to destroy the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make accurate reporting of employment numbers impossible. They will re-mix the covid-era "if we stop testing for covid, we'ed have very few cases" but for the economy.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

RFK's not-so-veiled threat to take mental health drugs away is even worse than it looks at first blush. He wants to replace these medications with labor camps. This fits with the larger, eugenics-informed Trump/Musk agenda. www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Democracy is doomed to die if people don't understand this. Too much wealth held by a few is as dangerous as unchecked political power.

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As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

Recirculating my and @mjsdc.bsky.social's scoop from last night. New AG Pam Bondi has sent out a directive to staff asking for options to criminally investigate specific companies for DEI initiatives. Memo is now available. Here's the relevant passage and from the EO: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

EXCLUSIVE — On Tuesday, the Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her house with just 3 hours notice www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... by @nbcnews.com

submitted 16 days ago • 149 comments

Hey it turns out we're getting rid of the CIA. "The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities, including targeting drug cartels." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 17 days ago • 504 comments

I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 25 days ago • 123 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 21 days ago • 503 comments

Trump appointee fires January 6 prosecutors and issues threat to FBI agents

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments

The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building): OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost

submitted 21 days ago • 113 comments

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

submitted 21 days ago • 2580 comments

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 22 days ago • 69 comments

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

submitted 22 days ago • 158 comments

This is a hair-on-fire situation (gift link) Musk allies (not official government employees, apparently) seek access to "the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide." wapo.st/4jH7XYa

submitted 22 days ago • 146 comments

Today in oligarchic consolidation

submitted 22 days ago • 31 comments

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 253 comments

Here's the memo from Trump asking DOD and DHS to open a concentration camp at Guantanamo. (And it's a memo, not an executive order, btw.) www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

The US Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

#nottheonion Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

submitted 25 days ago • 47 comments

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

submitted 26 days ago • 577 comments

These claims haven't been independently confirmed I can only say that this tracks with my pinned report with respect to Amanda Scales being put atop one of the most powerful components of our government at a time that she is actually an employee of Elon Musk. This should at least be looked into.

submitted 26 days ago • 58 comments

“The level of anticipatory obedience we’re seeing from business, universities and the media is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime” — @brendannyhan.bsky.social Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off. As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week. It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 165 comments

During the 2016 campaign, the NYT ran one A1 story after another about the Clinton Foundation that involved no misconduct (let alone illegal conduct) by Clinton, and in some cases contained no evidence of any conduct by Clinton at all

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Trump administration just ordered a blackout on public communications by agencies across government, multiple officials tell me. Here's a memo from HHS I obtained describing the comms blackout.

submitted 30 days ago • 91 comments

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

submitted 32 days ago • 399 comments

There are two real stories here. 1) What motivated these three (anonymous) officials to put forward ideas exonerating Russia and the ships concerned, ideas instantly dismissed by (named) shipping experts as nonsensical? 2) What led the Washington Post to lead on those ideas not the real story?

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 39 days ago • 169 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 38 days ago • 379 comments

The purges have already begun. Any career employee at the National Security Council who puts loyalty to their country above loyalty to Donald Trump is being identified and marked for elimination; some are already leaving. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments