The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

I've been wondering this myself

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

More of this please!

This is heartbreaking

From Deep Throat in All the President's Men: "Then there must be something, mustn't there. Look, forget the myths the media has created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth.

But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

My friend and screenwriter @toddalcott.bsky.social wrote this, and it makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

If you’re an 80’s kid,it is so hard to wrap your brain around the Russia loving GOP

How can you tell that Trump and Musk don’t actually care about going after waste and fraud? They just fired someone at the Minnesota VA whose job was to find waste/inefficiencies to save taxpayer money.

It’s all a façade to shell out more money for billionaires and big corporations.

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.

This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment.

Hello?

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 61. 2/14/25 … Prosecutor Hagan Scotten wrote an epic resignation letter to Dep AG Emil Bove after refusing to dismiss the corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams: “Any Asst US Attorney would know that our la...

DOJ in crisis: Prosecutor Hagan Scotten refused to drop NYC Mayor Adams’ corruption case & resigned in protest—torching DOJ leadership in an epic letter. More resignations now than the Saturday Night Massacre. This and MUCH MORE. Catch up now:

comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/sta...

Trump is using Elon Musk to get rid of nonpartisan federal employees so that he can refill the federal government with political cronies and loyalists.

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This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.

If only there was a word for when an unelected oligarch moves quickly to take over control of the government.

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REPORTER: You promised to reduce costs, and so many of the products that would be tariffed, the outgoing country is not paying the tariff, the buyers in the US pay that and it's passed on to consumers

TRUMP: There could be some temporary short-term disruption, and people will understand that

Shitler is blaming Democrats for the plane crash in DC. Would someone… please… for the love of god and country… tell this man [to his face and on camera] to go fuck himself???

Since Monday, Trump has:

-Halted civil rights investigations
-Suspended public health advisories
-Frozen infrastructure spending on roads and bridges
-Rescinded an executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors

How does this help working people?

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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Fucking insane!