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"FBI agent writes anonymous letter warning Americans." Someone else wrote down the transcript. I am posting a screenshot for anyone who might want to read it themselves, outside of video format.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 80 days ago • 2254 comments

Translation: What we said originally about our reasons for doing this was bullshit, we really wanted to dismantle a federal agency by fiat for ideological reasons.

submitted 80 days ago • 570 comments

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

submitted 81 days ago • 276 comments

With current developments in technology this was inevitable. What matters is what happens next. Do we regulate the technology and have countries sign treaties to try to limit its use? Or do we wait until it's taken millions of lives and harmed millions more?

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I've wondered the same. One element at work here IMHO: Trump & Musk have taken a calculated risk the mighty national security state is a bunch of bootlickers who won't even speak up when their jobs, safety, and the foundations of American soft power are ripped apart. So far, it seems they're right.

submitted 81 days ago • 14 comments

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

submitted 84 days ago • 211 comments

An apt metaphor for what is happening to the United States of America.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).

submitted 85 days ago • 741 comments

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 87 days ago • 256 comments

That's more like it.

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 90 days ago • 1092 comments

CNN's Jim Acosta signing off: "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too." I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too. Pass it on.

submitted 89 days ago • 682 comments

As you read this thread, remember that when Trump's funding freeze does wreak this kind of havoc on cities, he'll absolutely blame their leaders for the consequences of his actions.

submitted 89 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

submitted 89 days ago • 1085 comments

They shut down their own app for a day, then turned it back on thanking Trump. What an obvious scam this was. Disgusting on the part of the Tik Tok owners, Trump, and all his sycophants who reversed their positions on it one second after he did for no reason other than he did.

submitted 98 days ago • 997 comments

Here they come: theins.ru/en/news/277378

submitted 112 days ago • 289 comments

Server found in apartment funded by Russian government used AI to interfere with 2024 US elections | Department of Treasury December 31, 2024 #news #worldnews

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/samuel-cha...

submitted 120 days ago • 12 comments

Well this looks concerning www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 122 days ago • 37 comments

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

submitted 122 days ago • 213 comments

I have the same wish!

submitted 123 days ago • 573 comments

CNN is hopelessly broken. 1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law. 2. It would violate several treaties. 3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.

submitted 124 days ago • 4095 comments

Chris Murphy: "Why is Donald Trump engaged in this relentless campaign to try to silence journalists, media companies, and his political opposition? It's because he's trying to steal from you."

submitted 130 days ago • 386 comments

@danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co: "Right now, we have President Elon Musk. And Donald Trump—maybe he's vice president. I guess vice presidents don't do much, so that makes sense. He might be the chief of staff. I don't know what you call him, but he is not calling the shots."

submitted 128 days ago • 85 comments

"I am struggling to recall another instance where an unelected public figure has exercised that kind of influence."

submitted 129 days ago • 192 comments

“Don’t waste your independence!” Powerful warning from Polish Hero of post-WWII #EdwardRaczynski. Unfortunately it feels as if we are wasting our Independence in our failure to adequately support Ukraine and Georgia and our failure to fully defend independence and democracy in our own countries.

submitted 129 days ago • 6 comments

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

submitted 135 days ago • 76 comments

An unelected billionaire was crowned co-President by the Republican Party. They’ve given him the influence to make a damn post that throws a spending bill into limbo cause House Republicans are scared of him. No greater example of oligarchy. Where the ultra-wealthy run the show.

submitted 130 days ago • 531 comments

This should be impeachment territory.

submitted 165 days ago • 227 comments

submitted 130 days ago • 26 comments

SMART Elections, a non-partisan organization, published an analysis of the 2024 elections and is reporting irregularities. Their press release is worth a read.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

submitted 131 days ago • 3234 comments

No lie detected.

submitted 132 days ago • 368 comments

... yeah she should sue over this, per the DMCA. 17 USC § 512(f)

submitted 132 days ago • 7 comments

If they abolish the FDIC the first response would be a massive run on the banks, which would trigger a banking collapse. Good idea fucktards.

submitted 135 days ago • 21 comments

The Trump crowd wants to kill FDIC, install tariffs and bring back polio? I guess all this time the magical past of American Greatness they’ve been aiming for has been the banner year of 1930. Can’t wait for the soup lines! Wheee!

submitted 135 days ago • 230 comments

“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

submitted 135 days ago • 137 comments

The notion that reading a shooter’s statement will cause people to snap to attention and become homicidal maniacs, like some kind of Manchurian Agent trigger word, is media paternalism at its worst. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-i-publ...

submitted 136 days ago • 96 comments

We justify killing every time we watch a movie and a villain is killed. Each time we celebrate our troops, for better or worse. Every time we talk of how Bin Laden was killed. We don't have to feel Thompson's death was "right", but we should understand why some may feel that way.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

One group of people who aren’t buying the “think of his family” moral scolding about not feeling much compassion in response to the assassination of the health insurance CEO are families of loved ones who’ve suffered under the the system he represents. This woman has a terminally ill four year old:

submitted 137 days ago • 18 comments

I wish the red caps liked to read.

submitted 137 days ago • 135 comments

Truly remarkable how Republicans manage to be on the wrong side of everything, their steadfastness in corruption and incompetence. There's an obvious answer to, "should the government make it easy to file taxes, or should people be forced to use private companies to do it?" And yet.

submitted 137 days ago • 24 comments

To the “high road” Democratic leaders who say Biden should pardon Trump, knock it off. What the hell kind of a message do you think that would send? We need to fight autocracy, not flirt with it.

submitted 139 days ago • 524 comments