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Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

submitted 3 hours ago • 112 comments

Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

They're resegregating the government.

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PA folks! (Be honest & not rude here, it'll accomplish more.)

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Nazi shit happens at CPAC every single year now. It's undeniable what that hive is. Anyone denying this shit still has their head so far up their own ass that they should never be taken seriously for any reason on any topic ever again because they're delusional.

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 2 hours ago • 34 comments

“trump crash plane” - @debbiedingell.house.gov (paraphrased slightly)

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

They're gonna feed this into an LLM and then ask the LLM who to fire based on the answers. Answer accordingly!

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 141 comments

If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

The thing about literally all "concerns about immigration" is that they fall into one of two categories. 90% of them reference things that are made up and don't happen. 10% reference things that do happen but are fine. None of them are based in reality

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Social Security Offices are critical because many people, including the disabled, cannot actually access benefits without being in person. SSA closures led to a 16% decline in disability benefit receipt-w/largest impact on those w/moderately severe disabilities www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

“As part of its continued efforts to own the libs, or get rid of anything President Trump does not like or understand, the General Services Administration is gearing up to remove electric chargers from all federal properties nationwide” is as damningly factual as it gets. gizmodo.com/u-s-governme...

submitted 5 hours ago • 35 comments

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 comments

I gotta say if his last notable act is telling JD Vance to get fucked he will be the most metal pope of my lifetime

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 7 hours ago • 162 comments

brief thread. since we focus on the role of local institutions at Bolts, one thing we knew we wanted to do when Trump won was: ramp up our reporting on how local law enforcement is responding — & why it matters. it's still early days — but some important articles from our team as patterns emerge:

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1184 comments

The Elon regime is effectively about making the lives of hundreds of thousands of government employees miserable. Not even so they quit, tho that too, but first and foremost out of an ideological commitment to hating public sector workers & public services.

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 4 hours ago • 421 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1144 comments

This poor kid just had his 7th surgery! And his recovery isn't over yet! Can we rally and get this fundraiser over $10k? I've known these folks for decades, this has been incredibly hard. Imagine with all the shit happening right now your kid being in the hospital for 7 operations. Please boost!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

submitted 10 hours ago • 224 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 10 hours ago • 177 comments

The bipartisan efforts to demonize and criminalize pro-Palestinian protestors have also contributed to the lack of mobilization of civil society against Trump, and this was EXACTLY what the right wanted when they cynically exploited Democrats' racism/desires to suppress any dissent.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

If Luigi walks because of David Zaslav and Eric Adams I will laugh so hard I will probably have a stroke and die.

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

"Killing Gawker was a trial run for a media takeover."

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 54 comments

Jordan Peterson is another example of what I call a competency cosplayer. Informed people immediately identity him as an intellectual fraud, but uninformed people can fancy him an intellectual who flatters their unexamined prejudices.

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@repstephenlynch.bsky.social Sir, you're a Trump-sucking embarrassment. You should resign. If you're too craven to do that, try growing a pair, anyhow.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

I wrote this about the thundering charlatan who's shackled America to his incompetence. On planes falling from the sky, and asteroid impacts at full speed and slow motion. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

naturally, they were like, “Who’s the guy willing to break the law to feed us information? Put him in charge.”