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one fairly common thing in Idaho is "constitutional sheriffs" formally deputizing militia guys to do stuff which is marginally legal

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

sorry to be so self-promoting, but after all of these conversations i'm having with current and former federal workers, i'm going to have a lot to say about this kind of attitude from musk and from conservatives in the weeks to come.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

wow that’s so crazy. i bet trump was totally owned by a song from a musical that he’s on the record as loving, has played at multiple rallies, and frequently requests at his country club

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 12 hours ago • 583 comments

genuinely where does the gilded age nostalgia come from. i dont keep up with american conservative thought, is this nostalgia for an era before the immigration act of 1924 really so common?

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Cool that's just an announcement they're going to do war crimes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

17 Republican States filed a lawsuit claiming Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act is unconstitutional That part of the federal law prohibits discrimination based on disability and provides disabled children with individualized education programs

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Terminal case of techbro disease. They literally cannot comprehend that a shit-ton of people work for the government doing things that don't involve e-mail at al whatsoever.

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

"The liberals who described beating Trump as an existential imperative may turn out to have been more right than they knew" WE KNEW IT! WE KNEW IT BETTER THAN YOU! THE WHOLE TIME! YOU WORTHLESS CARBON SINK! PEOPLE LIKE YOU KEPT TELLING US THAT TRUMP WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE DEMOCRATS! FUCK! AHHHHH

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

It's genuinely insane the night and day difference in age coverage on Biden vs Trump, because the former was EXPLICITLY AND ADMITTEDLY DIRECTED BY AG

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 80 comments

Several things about that were fucked. Everybody should remember that Walter Isaacson lied to protect Musk, who bragged to him about fucking Ukraine. J. Martin, in his final weeks as a NYT employee, was a witness* and didn’t think it newsworthy. (fucking scumbag). *at a HS FB game with Isaacson

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Think of all the ways the administrative arm of the world’s most powerful sovereign state is like a medium-sized tech company that sells ads on a website. Both collect taxes, provide the national framework for markets, run spy agencies, have nuclear weapons, run the global reserve currency, etc

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

You know I'm starting to suspect that this "Law of Self Defense" fellow might not have a sound grasp of the case law around self defense claims.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

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They actually did this this is all so horrible, illegal and incredibly stupid

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

When it comes to neurodivergence, the only “cure” I can think of is to stamp it out at the genetic level. So…eugenics. That is clearly the logical endpoint of the White House’s stance, and Erin is right

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

please, please set it up wrong so it turns into the mother of all reply-all shitshows

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

its beyond fucked up that a bunch of self-described leftists are making a folk hero out of someone who is more or less politically indistinguishable from a DOGE kid

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Ngl I don't think the Canada tariffs are off the table yet, I think Trump really thinks he can coerce Canada into the Union and he's gonna keep circling back

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I know it’s been treated as a sideshow but Musk’s insane breeding fetish, the high likelihood that his actual number of children is far, far higher than known, and the fact he has effectively abandoned almost all of them is actually one of the most damning things people can learn about the man

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 1 day ago • 365 comments

As the 1800 Presidential election nears, the "High Federalists" turn against John Adams for his refusal to declare war on France, with the Federalist caucus nominating Adams and Charles C. Pinckney for high office without elaborating which would be their Presidential candidate

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 2 days ago • 452 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman.”

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

God this is all so, so dumb

submitted 1 day ago • 340 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 1 day ago • 545 comments

Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."

submitted 1 day ago • 1825 comments

he will literally be the death of us all

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 2 days ago • 53 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 2 days ago • 493 comments

Between this and his comments to the governor of Maine it looks clear that he is using unconstitutional coercion/extortion to compel policy outcomes at the state level that his office doesn’t give him the authority to dictate.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

man, reading /r/army is kinda depressing

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

My thoughts on last nights firings

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Whoever wrote that line about “mired in diversity issues” should be fired

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The Joint Chiefs don't change with a new president. Supposed to be impartial, nonpartisan. Until now. Trump fired the Chair, Gen. Charles Brown (because he's Black), Navy chief Lisa Franchetti (for being a woman), and the 3 top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers (because they say follow the law).

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Gotta get the dogeboys in front of Congress. Fancy lad college boys cutting veterans' benefits will not be a good look for anyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

gotta say causing more or less concentrated recession right around the national capital—a place that is already fairly hostile to you—for highly educated and civic-minded bureaucrats is not a wise sound strategy

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments