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They’re called conflicts of interest one day, but corruption the next

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...

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BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division. Developing story.

submitted 10 hours ago • 89 comments

If only there were a word for this

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

😳 this dude ran the FSB [KGB]!

submitted 13 hours ago • 449 comments

I miss DEI

submitted 11 hours ago • 1977 comments

Go figure.

submitted 10 hours ago • 281 comments

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

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New Roanoke College poll of Virginia out this morning finds Donald Trump at his highest level of disapproval in either term — 59%. www.roanoke.edu/documents/rc... Just 37% approve, he’s 22 points under water. Virginia elections including for Governor and Attorney General are just over 8 months away

submitted 14 hours ago • 82 comments

Um ... "small army" of private citizens, "processing camps" ... this is sounding familiar.

submitted 15 hours ago • 115 comments

Just cut federal cancer research & food for starving children.

submitted 1 day ago • 771 comments

www.threads.net/@newrepublic...

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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The Judge said NIH grants for medical research had to be unfrozen; the White House found a way to refreeze it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

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They could stream on YouTube every evening at the same time. People would know that there was a daily recap and tune in when they could.

submitted 11 days ago • 117 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 11 days ago • 1086 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 14 days ago • 915 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 14 days ago • 2313 comments

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

submitted 15 days ago • 1252 comments

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

submitted 16 days ago • 1232 comments

www.instagram.com/p/DFnLC8Bx8e...

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You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 16 days ago • 702 comments

www.threads.net/@sasha.niccc...

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Trump told us his governing philosophy years ago: "Grab 'em by the pussy"

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 22 days ago • 1711 comments

The Kremlin continues to praise Musk for the job he is doing.

submitted 22 days ago • 248 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 23 days ago • 1175 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 23 days ago • 615 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

submitted 25 days ago • 2389 comments

Using the tragic plane collision over the Potomac that cost 67 human souls as an occasion to slam DEI hiring was obscene. There’s zero evidence at this point that an underqualified air traffic controller or pilot had any role in this crash.

submitted 26 days ago • 1331 comments

Pro-Musk Scott Jennings is dared to repeat Elon Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ during an on-air verbal brawl with fellow CNN panelist Catherine Rampell.

submitted 28 days ago • 162 comments

Luckily we've got a real A Team heading in to this part of the U.S. government right now... 😬 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

submitted 29 days ago • 1314 comments

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Mastercard "As with our commitment to decency, diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] are embedded in our DNA through the Mastercard Way." "We do this not only because it has a meaningful impact on our business, but because it is the right thing to do." Priceless.

submitted 29 days ago • 242 comments

This threatening tweet was deleted by Trump’s dumbest son 20 minutes after he posted it.

submitted 30 days ago • 1701 comments

Hard no. Maybe he’ll say it was just a joke but you can’t put the FBI in the hands of someone who thinks this is funny.

submitted 31 days ago • 1465 comments

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Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i... via @statnews.com

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Trump pardoned leaders of the white supremacist, rabidly anti-Semitic terrorist group the Proud Boys. You may know them by their motto “6MWE” — which stands for “6 Million Wasn't Enough.” Yes, they’re referring to the Holocaust.

submitted 34 days ago • 445 comments

In a nutshell... "Biden pardoned January 6 police officers, Trump pardoned January 6 criminals." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 35 days ago • 276 comments

Just saying.

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Cant believe this is our reality ?? www.threads.net/@gonzoinhous...

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Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

submitted 46 days ago • 461 comments