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public defense, pithy jokes, and pitbulls named Sadie
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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
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April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
March 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.
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ALL of the Republicans are standing up and cheering for DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump’s “policies.”
Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.
Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
ALL of the Republicans are standing up and cheering for DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump’s “policies.”
Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.
Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.
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even with all of the ways this shitshow administration is going to go down in history it's hard to imagine anyone coming out of it as more utterly a chump than marco rubio
Rubio has been cut out of foreign policy decisions and is not happy, sources say.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
Trump, Ukraine, and the Meme-ing of Marco Rubio
Why the Secretary of State’s stone-like posture during the Zelenskyy meltdown might have been exactly as telling as observed.
www.vanityfair.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
even with all of the ways this shitshow administration is going to go down in history it's hard to imagine anyone coming out of it as more utterly a chump than marco rubio
Who’s boycotting Trump’s speech bc they’re the only people who deserve your vote
March 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Who’s boycotting Trump’s speech bc they’re the only people who deserve your vote
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Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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Group of unions representing 800,000+ federal workers has submitted a temporary restraining order seeking a court order extending tonight's deadline for employees to accept the Fork in the Road directive. Call it an "arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum buy-out program."
Hearing at 1pm today.
Hearing at 1pm today.
Unions Ask Court To Pause “Fork Directive” - Democracy Forward
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February 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Group of unions representing 800,000+ federal workers has submitted a temporary restraining order seeking a court order extending tonight's deadline for employees to accept the Fork in the Road directive. Call it an "arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum buy-out program."
Hearing at 1pm today.
Hearing at 1pm today.
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House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
February 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
House Democrats made an unsuccessful attempt to subpoena billionaire Elon Musk to testify about his efforts to radically reshape the federal government, only to be blocked by Republicans.
What the ever loving fuck
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What the ever loving fuck
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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪
February 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪
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More context here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders
National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
More context here: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
She should be in jail :)
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as Director of National Intelligence advances out of committee in a 9-8 vote.
February 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
She should be in jail :)
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Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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The only two groups that I've seen who deeply understand the spiritual peril we are in:
Black women and Jewish women.
I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.
Black women and Jewish women.
I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The only two groups that I've seen who deeply understand the spiritual peril we are in:
Black women and Jewish women.
I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.
Black women and Jewish women.
I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.
This white sock and loafer thing is Michael Jackson, I don’t make the rules
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This white sock and loafer thing is Michael Jackson, I don’t make the rules
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Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous.
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous.
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!
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Democrats should not vote on a single Trump cabinet nominee until this federal assistance freeze is rescinded.
Do not let up.
Do not let up.
January 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Democrats should not vote on a single Trump cabinet nominee until this federal assistance freeze is rescinded.
Do not let up.
Do not let up.
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if you're a nerd like i am and want to track all of the trump litigation, boy howdy do i have a website for you:
clearinghouse.net
clearinghouse.net
clearinghouse.net
January 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
if you're a nerd like i am and want to track all of the trump litigation, boy howdy do i have a website for you:
clearinghouse.net
clearinghouse.net
Can somebody show me a list of democrats who are doing ANYTHING rn (I’ll give you bonus points if it’s NOT AOC, Warren, Sanders, Raskin, or Crockett)
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Can somebody show me a list of democrats who are doing ANYTHING rn (I’ll give you bonus points if it’s NOT AOC, Warren, Sanders, Raskin, or Crockett)