they lie about everything all the time
BREAKING:
JD Vance just gave a big speech in which he claimed that "for the first time in a very long time, workers' wages are rising faster than inflation.."
The only problem?
The Trump Labor Dept. reported exactly the opposite just yesterday, showing real wages falling in June. #EconSky
JD Vance just gave a big speech in which he claimed that "for the first time in a very long time, workers' wages are rising faster than inflation.."
The only problem?
The Trump Labor Dept. reported exactly the opposite just yesterday, showing real wages falling in June. #EconSky
July 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
they lie about everything all the time
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(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
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Trump signed an executive order that will delay Medicare price negotiations for a range of prescription drugs.
This will raise the price of life-saving medicine for millions of seniors and cost taxpayers money.
It's a big win for Big Pharma.
A "new Golden Age" for whom?
This will raise the price of life-saving medicine for millions of seniors and cost taxpayers money.
It's a big win for Big Pharma.
A "new Golden Age" for whom?
April 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump signed an executive order that will delay Medicare price negotiations for a range of prescription drugs.
This will raise the price of life-saving medicine for millions of seniors and cost taxpayers money.
It's a big win for Big Pharma.
A "new Golden Age" for whom?
This will raise the price of life-saving medicine for millions of seniors and cost taxpayers money.
It's a big win for Big Pharma.
A "new Golden Age" for whom?
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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What is happening within the highest levels of the Trump Administration is an effort to illegally deprive people of their rights and freedom purely on the basis of their race or appearance, contrary to many, many laws. In any reasonable world it would result in immediate and unanimous impeachment...
April 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What is happening within the highest levels of the Trump Administration is an effort to illegally deprive people of their rights and freedom purely on the basis of their race or appearance, contrary to many, many laws. In any reasonable world it would result in immediate and unanimous impeachment...
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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It’s April 7th 2025 and the United States of America is an authoritarian state.
Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s April 7th 2025 and the United States of America is an authoritarian state.
David Brooks considers himself to be a Conservative. "If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. The strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won...
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
David Brooks considers himself to be a Conservative. "If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. The strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Trump is a Russian asset. He is a traitor to our country.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” Because the US is a Russian ally (or satellite?) now I guess. [therecord.media]
February 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Trump is a Russian asset. He is a traitor to our country.
Trump is a Russian asset. He is deliberately destroying the post-WWII balance of power in Europe.
Trump kicked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House after berating him for being “disrespectful” in the Oval Office. So embarrassed to be an American right now. [kottke.org]
Trump Ejects Zelenskyy From White House
Trump just kicked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House after berating him for being “disrespectful” in the Oval Office.
The astonishing turn of events could scramble international affairs in Eu
kottke.org
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Trump is a Russian asset. He is deliberately destroying the post-WWII balance of power in Europe.
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
February 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
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$19,000,000,000,000.00
February 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
$19,000,000,000,000.00
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The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment
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This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
February 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this.
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".
Brilliant and even-handed analysis. Containing the Flood open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Containing the Flood
Understanding the three ways Trump is seeking to expand his power
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Brilliant and even-handed analysis. Containing the Flood open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
They have literally taken over the mechanisms by which the US Federal Government operates. This is a coup. www.liberalcurrents.com/personal-dis...
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
They have literally taken over the mechanisms by which the US Federal Government operates. This is a coup. www.liberalcurrents.com/personal-dis...
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1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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There should be no budget deal until Musk and his groyper cadre are exiled from DC. Why would Democrats vote for any budget when the executive has usurped their branch’s budget-setting authority?
NEW: Negotiations stall ahead of shutdown deadline as Democrats slam Trump for subverting spending laws
Trump's attempts to freeze money and nix agencies have damaged already fraught bipartisan talks.
Democrats say they'll use a March 14 deadline to push back.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Trump's attempts to freeze money and nix agencies have damaged already fraught bipartisan talks.
Democrats say they'll use a March 14 deadline to push back.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Negotiations stall ahead of shutdown deadline as Democrats slam Trump for subverting spending laws
Democrats are eying the March 14 deadline to push back on Trump’s recent unilateral actions, saying he needs to follow the law on government funding.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There should be no budget deal until Musk and his groyper cadre are exiled from DC. Why would Democrats vote for any budget when the executive has usurped their branch’s budget-setting authority?
This is a coup. America is being attached from within.
February 3, 2025
I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is a coup. America is being attached from within.
The US government has been taken over by a few private citizens. This is a coup. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The US government has been taken over by a few private citizens. This is a coup. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...