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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 22 days ago • 3612 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 60 days ago • 1804 comments

Man, you just have to be the biggest rube in the universe to think that Trump is halting Ukraine aid because Zelensky didn't wear a tie or kiss the ring.

submitted 60 days ago • 112 comments

The Kyiv Independent Editorial: "It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up." kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...

submitted 63 days ago • 46 comments

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

submitted 66 days ago • 89 comments

House Republicans just voted to pass a budget that savagely cuts Medicaid and CHIP by up to $880 billion. An attack on Medicaid and CHIP is a frontal assault on the 80 million Americans who depend on both programs for health care and home care. Disgraceful.

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

WP analysis of the contract data found that many of the canceled contracts were already complete, meaning canceling them didn’t yield any money back because they had been fully paid out — and indeed, 417 of the deals on DOGE’s list indicate that they saved $0. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 73 days ago • 910 comments

This is probably a good time to point out that one big group of IGs Trump fired were busy finding $100s of billions in COVID fraud, enabled by Trump's own incompetence. Another big group fired were in charge of tracking spending in Ukraine. He literally fired people tracking problems with this $$.

submitted 73 days ago • 24 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 78 days ago • 237 comments

if we had to listen to SPEECHES from A LITTLE GIRL, surely it’s fine to give the richest person in the world free rein to shutter and dismantle US agencies with global impacts and grant him unchecked access to all the confidential information held by the government.

submitted 78 days ago • 79 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 78 days ago • 471 comments

🚨 WHOA!!! Sen. Whitehouse: Mark my words. This Patel guy will come back to haunt you. Every piece of evidence shows that.

submitted 79 days ago • 479 comments

Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

submitted 80 days ago • 82 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 80 days ago • 1164 comments

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.

submitted 80 days ago • 140 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 81 days ago • 481 comments

"the order disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat."

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

On the German press baron who "calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 85 days ago • 75 comments

It's hard to overstate how shocking this is. Appoints a Uyghur genocide denier as undersecretary of state, shuts down USAID ahead of its comprehensive plan to counter China, requests an unclassified list of CIA hires that includes the recent Chinese-language hires whose identities are closely held.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

"an inexperienced developer...is implementing hidden payment-blocking capabilities in the federal government’s $6 trillion payment system, while the very experts who understand these systems are being pushed out, and the teams responsible for investigating security breaches are being disbanded"

submitted 86 days ago • 14 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 89 days ago • 211 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.

submitted 89 days ago • 1958 comments

New at Tusk: Just what could an opposition party be doing right now in the face of an attack on democracy? Dems are leaving tools on the table.

submitted 90 days ago • 6 comments

Gutting the FBI is like waving a red flag at terrorists and other criminals.

submitted 91 days ago • 324 comments

“NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.” www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 92 days ago • 386 comments

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

submitted 93 days ago • 256 comments

Guaranteed that by now the G20 has branched off a separate group chat without him in it

submitted 96 days ago • 345 comments

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

submitted 102 days ago • 497 comments

Going from Lloyd Austin (4-star general, Army Dep. Chief of Staff, top commander in Iraq, head of CENTCOM) to Pete Hegseth (was in National Guard years ago, pushed out of veterans group for misconduct, championed convicted war criminals on TV) really highlights what the right means by "DEI hire."

submitted 109 days ago • 70 comments

What would I ask? "What was your analysis of the Houthi Bombing in October? What counsel would you give POTUS regarding next actions?" "What should the US strategy be in Syria ?" " How would you counter Chinese aggression on the south China Sea ?" "How would you assure civilian oversight of DOD"

submitted 108 days ago • 1565 comments

Tammy Duckworth is just killing Hegseth. Gets him to admit he has never done internationals security arrangements. Doesn't know what SecDef has to do on same. She asks him to name ASEAN countries and significance of them. He names a bunch of countries that aren't part of ASEAN.

submitted 109 days ago • 723 comments