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Reuters is reporting that Ukraine has been notified that Elon will shut off Starlink access to Ukrainian Armed Forces unless Zelensky signs the rare earth minerals paperwork. 100% extortion.

submitted 12 hours ago • 24 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1014 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 370 comments

ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

submitted 23 hours ago • 512 comments

Hitler destroyed German democracy in 53 days. We are on day 30. The purge of the military and FBI has commenced. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 16 hours ago • 94 comments

As of January 13, 2025 Razin is “recently retired” and at a venture capitalist firm. He’s not even active military! shieldcap.com/announcement...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 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 22 hours ago • 2179 comments

Jess was born with a genetic disorder Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. She requires multiple specialists, treatments and medications. We rely on Medicaid to literally keep her alive at times. It also provides pathways to help her live as independently as she can. #DontCutMyMedicaid

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 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 21 hours ago • 1718 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 22 hours ago • 2127 comments

Canned response from my senator, Cornyn. My email was about concerns over Musk having US Marshalls deputize his private security team. 🙄🤬

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

“it appears that the strength and stability of American democracy have also meant that lawmakers somehow cannot really believe that the U.S. is falling into authoritarianism.” Let’s wake up our lawmakers!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Lawyers at X/Twitter are threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform OR ELSE Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies. America First 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

The Senate voted 51-49 Thursday to confirm election denier Kash Patel to be the director of the FBI. During a confirmation hearing, Patel repeatedly refused to say that President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 1 day ago • 1123 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

The Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service. It did, by law, during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was established by Congress in law. USPS is wildly popular with the American people and its service is essential and irreplaceable.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

We can all rename the Gulf of Mexico now! It’s been over 20 years since i thought about mapquest but I’m liking this throwback gulfof.mapquest.com

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@mwuerker.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Trump has trouble with science because it is outside his skill set. I say that not to be critical or snide rather it is a reality we must deal with. He doesn’t like what he doesn’t understand.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

submitted 2 days ago • 528 comments

Hegseth orders military to draw up plans for 40% total budget cuts over the next fives years, 8% per year. Exponentially worse than sequestration that crippled the military in 2011. wapo.st/4hHV3Yt

submitted 2 days ago • 243 comments

Nightmares exist. Reduces/eliminates: Sec 2a- (i) the Presidio Trust; (ii) the Inter-American Foundation; (iii) the United States African Development Foundation; and (iv) the United States Institute of Peace. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

You know what used to be uncool in the United States? Being a royalist

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Writing from experience. We’re being forced to feel what I’m calling “mass learned helplessness”. We are watching our institutions that have been protecting us get ripped apart every day on MSM. Our leaders appear to be helpless. Helplessness is how we will be made to conform to the new America.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies."

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Trump’s firing of 1,000 national park workers raises concerns about maintenance and operating hours apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE who is the administrator of DOGE WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????

submitted 3 days ago • 458 comments

I’m ashamed of our country www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1216 comments