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had to give my dog drugs to take him to the vet and after checking in on the news of the day i’m just so jealous of how fucked up he is right now

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Minnesota Senator Calls Elon Musk 'A Dick' "This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick." www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

I’m so excited to be taping my next comedy special next Saturday night in Seattle at the Moore theater. I’ll cut my 2 hour shows down to an hour, & my agents of managers will try to sell it to a streamer. If they can’t, I’ll put the full 2 hour version on YouTube.This will be my 22nd comedy special!

submitted 23 hours ago • 37 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 248 comments

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

submitted 12 days ago • 460 comments

A Black man with 13 kids by six different women wouldn’t be allowed near the White House much less allowed to run the shadow government.

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this. Musk. Owns. Trump. Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison. Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.

submitted 9 days ago • 139 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

My public health YouTube channel is completely free. Whether I have 1, 10 or 1 million subscribers, I will not be monetizing access to accurate health information. I would love your feedback is all I ask. youtube.com/@vinguptaoff...

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 7 days ago • 1039 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 8 days ago • 2978 comments

Crowdsourcing advice for federal employees docs.google.com/document/u/0...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5662 comments

Taylor Swift as Grace Kelly

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It is important to celebrate the wins when we get them.🥳 President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 8 days ago • 226 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 452 comments

ATTN: Probationary federal workers who have been fired, please read: federalworkerrights.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

oh.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 12 days ago • 576 comments

for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to win or retain business in their countries reut.rs/4jVNpuP

submitted 13 days ago • 131 comments

Big ups to @theprospect.bsky.social and @ddayen.bsky.social for putting the most important word in the headline. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I have yet to hear a single D senator apologize for voting for Rubio, who banned trans passports almost immediately after taking office.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 15 days ago • 1489 comments

Elon Musk was raised in apartheid South Africa. He and his family observed, endorsed, and enjoyed apartheid. Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…

submitted 15 days ago • 214 comments

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 15 days ago • 272 comments

CELEBRATING BLACK EXCELLENCE: My cousin, Dr. Shirley Jeanne Allen, was the first Black Deaf woman in the US to earn a doctoral degree. www.dailymoth.com/blog/black-d...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Every day these people show us who they are

submitted 15 days ago • 772 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 16 days ago • 169 comments

Donald Trump is making a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the system, and to overwhelm you. It can be difficult to keep up. And that’s by design. But we can keep up – and respond. Here’s what he’s doing, and what it means for you. Just the facts. 🧵⤵️

submitted 16 days ago • 109 comments

These pictures are when Black Lives Matter came to the Capitol and protested. They were actually interested in having a conversation. Contrary to popular belief they didn't beat us with flag poles. Yes that's me in the pictures.

submitted 16 days ago • 112 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 16 days ago • 941 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 16 days ago • 157 comments

The trump regime has ordered thousands of federal workers back to offices that either don’t exist or are run down because of Republican cuts. The goal is to demoralize civil servants. They have no idea who they’re messing with.

submitted 17 days ago • 195 comments