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submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Thought your Social Security was safe?

submitted 3 hours ago • 71 comments

Social Security is far too important to be raided by the Musk-rats 🐀😡

submitted 3 hours ago • 95 comments

Musk & DOGE are now f*cking with the Social Security Administration. 🚨 IMPORTANT: If you or a loved one experience delayed SS payments or difficulty accessing SSDI services, CALL THE PEOPLE’S HOTLINE! Tell your story. ☎️ 503-212-4600 ☎️ Pass it on:

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

DOGE has also canceled leases for ten Social Security offices, a vast majority of which are in states Trump carried. Really screwing over Trump’s own voters. Green Bay WI White Plains NY Logan WV Carlsbad CA Batesville AR Columbus OH Okemos MI Nacogdoches TX Las Vegas NV Roanoke Rapids NC

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

DOGE cuts hit Social Security in the places “where people access government.” Always read Eli Hager.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

STAND UP TO MUSK Despite Trump’s campaign promises, Musk is coming after your earned Social Security benefits. Demand that every member of Congress stand up to Musk’s cynical efforts to steal our earned Social Security benefits while giving himself and other billionaires a hefty tax cut.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1602 comments

Well that's believable.

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

The firing of the army's top lawyers and military decorated generals has only one goal 👇👇

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

When did we conflate the art of threatening with making a deal?

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Tillis railed against Putin but steered clear of Trump. The NY Post railed at Putin being a Dictator with only a veiled reference to Trump. Half-measures show progress because the bar is so low. But full-on courage is what America needs. We need several GOP, banding together, to speak in unison.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Breaking: The Supreme Court has — for now — prevented Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 26, and the court could act at a later stage.

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump just fired the country's senior military officer: Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot who became only the second African American to hold the chairman's job.

submitted 21 hours ago • 60 comments

Trump called out Maine for resisting his executive order on transgender athletes. Trump: "Are you not going to comply with that?” Gov. Janet Mills: "I'm complying with the state and federal laws." Trump said "we are the federal law" and threatened to withhold funding. Mills: "See you in court."

submitted 7 hours ago • 48 comments

A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI. The ruling bars Trump from requiring federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they don't engage in "equity-related" programs, a term the judge found too vague to be enforced.

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

Associated Press sues White House over ban from Oval Office and Air Force One www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 23 hours ago • 293 comments

Why I'm glad Judge Dale Ho appointed an amicus curiae in the Eric Adams case today: www.muellershewrote.com/p/judge-dale...

submitted 20 hours ago • 41 comments

François Heisbourg, one of the world’s leading strategists and a cool head:

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1274 comments

Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 6 hours ago • 196 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1092 comments

The wealth of Dr. Mehmet Oz has swelled in part from for-profit health care companies over which he’d wield significant power if confirmed as Trump’s Medicare pick.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Trump has ordered the shutdown of the first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers. The closure ends the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database — a resource experts said improved public safety by preventing bad officers from jumping from agency to agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

TRUMP: You have a man who has let a country that had the more beautiful cities get demolished. The most beautiful domes. FOX: But that's Russia's fault, Mr President T: 1,000 year old domes. Everything is demolished. It's sorta like Gaza F: That's Putin's fault T: I get tired of listening to it

submitted 1 day ago • 481 comments

Elon Musk's super PAC donated $1 million to support conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. Schimel's opponent, liberal candidate Susan Crawford, criticized the donation, alleging Schimel is being bought. I think — or hope! — Musk’s attempt to influence this race will backfire.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

BREAKING: Judge Dale Ho declines quick approval of Trump administration's bid to dismiss criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, appoints renowned conservative lawyer & former solicitor general Paul Clement to argue against dismissal. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

DC police are mounting a criminal investigation of an alleged assault of a woman by GOP Rep. Cory Mills, who represents a district near Orlando. The incident started at a penthouse in a luxury DC apartment building. Mills, who’s married and has two kids, apparently had a fight with his girlfriend.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

🚨 Trump’s DOGE purge just made Veterans’ data a massive target. They fired key cybersecurity staff protecting VA.gov —leaving millions of Veterans’ medical & personal records exposed. This isn’t efficiency. It’s reckless and dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Per @phildstewart.bsky.social: “U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 132 comments

Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 206 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

U.S. Republican Senator Thom Tillis called Putin "a cancer&the greatest threat to democracy" in his lifetime: "So,when I tell that Putin is a liar,a murderer&a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture,kidnapping&rape of innocent civilians,believe me — because the evidence is mile high"

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

submitted 23 hours ago • 264 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 19 hours ago • 713 comments

INDISPUTABLE FACTS: •Russia invaded Ukraine. •Ukraine bears no responsibility for Russia’s invasion. •Russian aggression is a threat to the entire world. •We stand with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We stand w/all the people of Ukraine. Follow all: WE ARE THE OPPOSITION. go.bsky.app/AMZH6uh

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

submitted 20 hours ago • 193 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 19 hours ago • 198 comments