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Man he really called it

submitted 7 hours ago • 51 comments

A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

submitted 1 day ago • 377 comments

No one should trust Trump. No one should trust Musk. Not with your money. Not with your vote. Not with your laws. Not with your land. Not with your air, or water, your belief or your faith, not with you systems, or your family, or the things you love and value - and certainly not with your data.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Early in the war, Ukrainian officials were ecstatic to welcome Elon Musk's "help." Now Trump/Musk appear to be using Starlink as part of the US scheme to secure a quid pro quo for Ukraine's survival. Our allies should take note that it appears our only principle is truly "America First."

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

Is "pressing tough demands" a framing for this that properly contexutalizes it for readers? Normalizing insane thug behavior from the United States that was properly considered a scandal in the first term. Why write the story like this? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

This is unbearably dangerous and unfathomably cruel. Solidarity with the trans community.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

It sure feels like that the shooter in Butler was a fan of Trump got buried quickly along with any lingering press curiosity about him at all. Like does anybody even remember his name without looking?

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

These are just the statements on record. Do you trust these people, #auspol? Whose songsheet are they singing from?

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

If you think that someone who is not a white male only holds their position of power because of DEI policies, then you are exactly the reason why DEI policies are necessary.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Any nation that is dependent on Starlink for military comms should be building sovereign capability. Don’t want to become a hostage to the whims and bullying from the US.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Germany warned of a Russian propaganda campaign Trollgruppe, targeting voters with false social media videos to boost the AfD party and undermine democracy. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s almost like it was never about “merit” for the Trump boys, eh

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

300 people showed up outside of Murkowski & Sullivan's offices. On a Thursday. In February. In Anchorage, Alaska! Alaskans are taking a stand and demand our elected officials to do the same. We don't expect you to save us but we do expect you to STAND WITH US! In-person town hall anyone??

submitted 1 day ago • 21 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.

submitted 1 day ago • 2379 comments

The National Library of Australia has invited renowned photojournalist Mike Bowers to select favourite images from the Fairfax Photo Archive for a new exhibition, Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive, on display from 27 February 2025. artsreview.com.au/fit-to-print...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1842 comments

Maddow is sharing town halls where GOP reps like Cliff Bentz (🤮) are being booed for trying to defend Trump’s funding cuts. You LOVE to see it. Keep showing up. Keep making noise. Keep the pressure on 150%!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hey, I've got another clip of R's getting yelled at in town halls! Rep. Cliff Bentz, OR-2 (R +15) plays cute, dodging a question about Trump usurping the power of the purse from Congress. His constituents are NOT having it! As a native Oregonian, this made me proud 😤👏🏻 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ygx9pA/

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Republican U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz again faced a combative crowd at a town hall last night in Pendleton, Oregon. According to the East Oregonian, he was booed and heckled throughout the meeting.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 23 hours ago • 89 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

3 years after Russia's invasion, Ukraine’s fight is the world’s fight. This war isn’t just about territory—it’s about sovereignty and democracy in the face of tyranny. Abandoning Ukraine means surrendering to brute force. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 23 hours ago • 783 comments

President Trump's purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/V6pB4qcF

submitted 21 hours ago • 93 comments

Peace talks where the fate of a nation is decided by other nations rarely end well. @uk.theconversation.com #Ukraine

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Once again you hit the proverbial nail right on the head, @vanbadham.bsky.social Right now Australian politics is full of mischief makers and the Greens are some of the biggest mischief makers going.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

The only people who vote for the Greens are people who don’t really know them. NOT EVEN TURNING UP to vote on anti-hate legislation is consistent with decades of obstruction and abandonment of progressive issues. They’re snobs who treat Labor like ugly servants. It is disgraceful. #auspol #springst

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

The Trump administration has begun dismantling the nation’s defenses against foreign interference in voting, a sweeping retreat that has alarmed state and local election officials. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/elec...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

And don’t even talk to me about the DMs…

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

prisons are overflowing with people with his business acumen

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Never thought I’d be saying this: thank you New York Post

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

A bunch of military spouses were probationary federal employees and have just been laid off by the deranged Trump/Musk effort to gut the U.S. government. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that he will soon host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in South Africa for a State Visit.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

New Editor Commentary: Under the current program of wild, mindless destruction, Ohio doctors, farmers, veterans, teachers, professors, students, working families, and children with disabilities, are all being terrorized by the Musk, Trump, Vance regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

A drug-addled Boer is burning down America and incredibly, he’s being permitted to get away with it. Exactly how much more of this are the American people willing to take?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

not that the south africans were doing good things but it is fun to note the reason he left his birth country was to dodge the draft

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

What in the world? They are shutting off federal employee (and military?) travel across the board? By restricting the payment cards? What about people already in the middle of a trip?

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

A brief history of the Pentagon's relative clear-eyed realism on climate change, now apparently upended by weird children

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

All those channers chortling at this: “hahaha, let the Lib/Left tears flow… upset at a hand gesture, gurgle gurgle…” - know, WE ARE CRYING FOR YOU. YOU are what gets fed into the meat grinder when the cheerleaders of violence get their violence. Ask a Russian boy.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Remember a fake video in October that showed a fake poll worker destroying pro-Trump election ballots in Pennsylvania? There's now a copycat fake video with the same script about the German election, showing a fake poll worker destroying election ballots for the AfD in Hamburg.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Liz Truss still trying to make Liz Truss a thing.

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