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Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging...
There's been so much going on I haven't had a chance to cover it but Musk's DOGE connecting so many government systems to the open internet is so insanely disastrous.
NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access.
It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Backing the truck holding all Americans' private info up to the dock for pillaging...
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He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
April 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
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I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time
Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...
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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
March 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
March 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
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that Trumpers think the US Postal *SERVICE* should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government
February 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
that Trumpers think the US Postal *SERVICE* should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.
February 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.
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This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”
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This exchange is going to slip by and go undercovered but this is a very revealing moment. Trump’s government won’t study anything, they will just tell us everything is going great no matter who gets hurt.
‘1984’ is upon us.
‘1984’ is upon us.
REPORTER: Would you direct agencies to study the impact tariffs would have on prices in the US?
TRUMP: No. There's nothing to study. It's gonna go well.
TRUMP: No. There's nothing to study. It's gonna go well.
February 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This exchange is going to slip by and go undercovered but this is a very revealing moment. Trump’s government won’t study anything, they will just tell us everything is going great no matter who gets hurt.
‘1984’ is upon us.
‘1984’ is upon us.
The thing that gets me about maga that is so stunning is when trump says Russia is entitled to the land it fought for and deserves it they cant see how that same attitude will be applied to their own lives in some capacity.
February 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The thing that gets me about maga that is so stunning is when trump says Russia is entitled to the land it fought for and deserves it they cant see how that same attitude will be applied to their own lives in some capacity.
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Cheney to Vance: “You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you’re losing. That’s tyranny.”
February 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Cheney to Vance: “You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you’re losing. That’s tyranny.”
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I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick
February 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I don't know any headline is bad enough to break the fever, but Elon Musk's Ketamine Dealer Is Gutting the Department of Education might do the trick
Can these politicians think ahead a little bit. Crack open your copy of project 2025 and read ahead 2 pages and see what trump will do next.
February 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Can these politicians think ahead a little bit. Crack open your copy of project 2025 and read ahead 2 pages and see what trump will do next.
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what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?
The thing that gets me is trump campaigned on everything that happening now. Dems told everyone that he would even if he denied it and the press reported the same as infinitum. So the idea that the GOP is shocked by all of this is fucking pathetic
February 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The thing that gets me is trump campaigned on everything that happening now. Dems told everyone that he would even if he denied it and the press reported the same as infinitum. So the idea that the GOP is shocked by all of this is fucking pathetic
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Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
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Schedule F is back - and so are the 1870s.
January 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Schedule F is back - and so are the 1870s.
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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
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BREAKING:
The Jack Smith report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts is out.
Smith says Trump would have been convicted had he not been re-elected.
"[T]he Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." tinyurl.com/yc38kjdh
The Jack Smith report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts is out.
Smith says Trump would have been convicted had he not been re-elected.
"[T]he Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." tinyurl.com/yc38kjdh
Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025
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January 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
BREAKING:
The Jack Smith report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts is out.
Smith says Trump would have been convicted had he not been re-elected.
"[T]he Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." tinyurl.com/yc38kjdh
The Jack Smith report on Trump's 2020 election interference efforts is out.
Smith says Trump would have been convicted had he not been re-elected.
"[T]he Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." tinyurl.com/yc38kjdh