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SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 6 hours ago • 949 comments

LISTEN to Maxwell Frost: "We know that this country doesn't have a healthcare program. It has a sickness care program." Every Republican needs to be asked every damn day, what is their plan if they cut Medicaid? They want to burn down the house, w/ millions left inside it! #SaveMedicaid

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

Something we haven’t focused on enough is that the Trump administration isn’t just deporting people without process, it’s deporting them & incarcerating them in inhumane conditions in a third country. And we are paying for that cruel & unusual punishment that our government is imposing.

submitted 3 hours ago • 193 comments

Lawyers for the Venezuelan immigrants seeking to block the Trump administration from summary deportations under the Alien Enemies Act sum up their argument this way in brief to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 125 comments

There is no substantive difference between a government shutdown and what Republicans are already doing and intend to do in the future. The only thing that’s changed is that the GOP can now claim to have bipartisan assent for their wave of mutilation.

submitted 22 hours ago • 46 comments

Trump to end Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

gift link... sober and practical. and very much where we are. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 542 comments

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 1149 comments

"President Donald Trump has scrapped Biden-era executive orders that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

BREAKING: At least 100 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as Israeli officials threaten a ground invasion, according to Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5

submitted 22 hours ago • 43 comments

Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump's Attacks on Critics & Press Are Part of the "Authoritarian Playbook"

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights

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“White House officials took the unusual step of ordering a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive, sources said” It’s a fucking background check. It’s SUPPOSED to be invasive.

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

AMAZING! As a Jewish person, I 100% SUPPORT this! But as a New Yorker this also reminds me how TACKY & GAUDY Trump Tower is.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

"This is a direct threat to the judiciary of the United States, and it includes the Supreme Court justices themselves."

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

🚨NEWS: Leonard Leo-linked dark-money groups are trying to repeal a federal rule requiring disclosure of billionaires & corporations funding efforts to lobby judges to deliver rulings they want. The rule was created by a panel led by Justice John Roberts.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.

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Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

submitted 14 days ago • 1068 comments

BREAKING: The S&P 500 has now completely erased all gains since the election, wiping out $3.4 trillion in market value. Make America great again!

submitted 14 days ago • 881 comments

“People are doing things.”

submitted 34 days ago • 132 comments

The White House is slashing funding for National Institutes of Health grants, a “catastrophic” hit to science research

submitted 38 days ago • 47 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 422 comments

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥 Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

submitted 39 days ago • 1470 comments

Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

submitted 39 days ago • 2094 comments

Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker.

submitted 41 days ago • 1335 comments

Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you.

submitted 40 days ago • 1057 comments

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

submitted 40 days ago • 668 comments

Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit Wednesday — on behalf of a coalition of federal unions — against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to block access to Department of Labor (DOL) data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 40 days ago • 236 comments

30,000 jobs…just in Kansas City.

submitted 40 days ago • 198 comments

With lawmakers either impotent or supine, the last independent check on Musk and Trump is the Supreme Court. And if the court either rules in their favor or finds its rulings against this misrule ignored, then Americans will only know government by Elon Musk, of Elon Musk, and for Elon Musk.

submitted 41 days ago • 33 comments

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that's been associated with severe infections in humans.

submitted 41 days ago • 97 comments

Senate Democrats are doing an overnight filibuster to protest Russell Vought's nomination for OMB, so we can't pass up the opportunity to re-post video of Vought talking about a national porn ban:

submitted 40 days ago • 49 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 40 days ago • 352 comments

We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

submitted 41 days ago • 1753 comments

Nothing like switching gears from Musk’s takeover of our private data, the dismantling of our government, his QAnon nominees moving up confirmation ladders — using the announcement of a Gaza seize and possible World War III.

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 41 days ago • 1750 comments

Even if Los Angeles were low on water, Trump’s executive orders wouldn’t help with that, because the federal government’s canal system doesn’t actually deliver any water to the Los Angeles area. From @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org:

submitted 41 days ago • 68 comments

Only parcels arriving in the US from China and Hong Kong are affected for now, as the restriction doesn't apply to letters and flat mail.

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Most USAID staff across the world will be placed on administrative leave starting Friday

submitted 41 days ago • 55 comments

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

submitted 44 days ago • 2652 comments