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I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 22 days ago • 523 comments

Absolutely right. Once upon a time, playing politics with the debt ceiling was unthinkable. But during the Obama era, the GOP decided it was, in Mitch McConnell's words, "a hostage worth ransoming." They used it to force spending cuts; Dems should use it to rollback Musk's unconstitutional purges.

submitted 22 days ago • 63 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 25 days ago • 278 comments

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

submitted 27 days ago • 314 comments

Pete was transport chief for four years. Why did this happen ten days under Trump after he let Musk fire the FAA chief and took an ax to the FAA and flight safety system? 🤔

submitted 27 days ago • 49 comments

It's not "politicizing a tragedy" to point out the top levels of the federal government aren't functional—the three key leaders here are drunk rapist TV show host at DoD, reality TV star at DoT, and nobody at FAA—and they're doing squat except spreading the same dysfunction down the ladder.

submitted 27 days ago • 194 comments

The firing was blatantly illegal. And forcing her out of the office without due process was likely a crime.

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

Join a union folks

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

New class action suit against OPM is wild. "Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM..." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Everybody bow down to @marisakabas.bsky.social and her newsletter which broke the biggest federal government/political story since forever last night?

submitted 28 days ago • 27 comments

and yet no major tv, audio or print outlet has publicly talked to me about it. and getting credit has been a strain. not sure what gives.

submitted 28 days ago • 93 comments

There are so many people that work for the federal government AND THEY SHOULD SLOW EVERYTHING DOWN. triple check it. oh no, I printed it wrong! Oops, I called after the office of the approved shut down for the day. Work slowdowns can be done by ANYONE.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

submitted 35 days ago • 1211 comments

it's like AOC is the only person who is expressing an actual emotion here

submitted 33 days ago • 1257 comments

This is the cowardice of The New York Times. Legacy media is failing.

submitted 36 days ago • 3891 comments

The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.

submitted 36 days ago • 142 comments

Sorry Mina but this is really funny

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

Distance between NYC and Miami is around 1200 miles. The trip on Amtrak's Silver Meteor takes 28.5 hours and costs $170 one-way.

submitted 55 days ago • 40 comments

get every single one of these people out of leadership and put them on a farm somewhere i don’t give a shit www.msnbc.com/jonathan-cap...

submitted 79 days ago • 833 comments

Giants' draft pick was in trouble for a second there

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I can think of a few pictures that have become popular recently that it would be a total shame if google search results became flooded with AI altered versions.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

One thing that's cool about living in The Greatest Country on Earth is how we don't have real privacy laws and so there's dozens of shady companies that have huge dossiers on all of us, and this of course also means that every hostile foreign government has them too, purchased with a bulk discount.

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

Matt Yglesias in June vs. Matt Yglesias in December

submitted 86 days ago • 216 comments

the biggest foreign bribery scandal in history, being done right out in the open. trump selling our country out to the saudis and it gets less attention than "which kind of fertility treatment did Tim Walz' wife REALLY get?!" by the political press.

submitted 154 days ago • 26 comments

They seriously tagged a 100% factually accurate claim, a claim that is indisputably correct regardless of context, as "misleading."

submitted 190 days ago • 48 comments

This is a clean hit: the press relentlessly cleans up Trump statements to make them coherent and offers implausibly favorable interpretations.

submitted 201 days ago • 32 comments

NYT has COMPLETELY memory holed that disastrous press conference from Trump.

submitted 201 days ago • 65 comments

Philadelphia Inquirer showing how it’s done.

submitted 201 days ago • 45 comments

Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

submitted 251 days ago • 31 comments

The entire conservative judicial project runs on flagrant corruption

submitted 267 days ago • 19 comments

David Weiss immunized the gun shop owner who altered the Hunter Biden gun purchase document so he could charge Joe Biden's son for owning a gun for 11 days in 2018. And of the 50 or so journos covering the case, I've seen only CNN even report that the form did get altered.

submitted 267 days ago • 8 comments

From reading the article, there’s a ton of “yay for police!” to get through before the information that the city deployed social workers who referred troubled kids and their families to Social Services instead of putting them in the system.

submitted 272 days ago • 15 comments

when Trump sends his forces around to deport millions of people, they will not legally be allowed to deport US citizens, and that won't matter. when the armed man says you have to get in a truck, you're going in the truck. and the law won't help you fast enough if it helps at all.

submitted 274 days ago • 38 comments

This is because Johnson is considering not handing Ukraine to Putin

submitted 316 days ago • 5 comments

Not a coincidence that this comes a day after Johnson saying he doesn't like Putin and wants to get Ukraine aid going, imo

submitted 316 days ago • 8 comments

Incredible work dumping a bot honeypot into Elon Musk's mentions. 😂

submitted 327 days ago • 13 comments

When über-corporatist Fortune magazine is saying there's an imbalance in the distribution of wealth, you know it's bad.

submitted 343 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine if the NYT front page had side-by-side stories, one saying, "Trump can't get $$ to save Trump Tower" and the other saying, "Trump plans to rehire confessed money launderer who conspired with alleged Russian spy." Now ask why NYT is not reporting it that way?

submitted 345 days ago • 11 comments

So we are just ignoring that this is an escalation and one that historically leads to violence at scale ? The republicans are telling you they are going to become open and proud terrorists if they lose. This is definitional stochastic terror. Anyone who backs this is a domestic threat.

submitted 346 days ago • 25 comments

I don't think it's supposed to do that

submitted 361 days ago • 0 comments