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absolute insanity as Mike Waltz suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow deliberately hacked his way into the Signal group

is that bad? Seems bad

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

When you hate foreigners more than you love your own kids

Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.

Mr. Dudek acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times on Friday that he had concerns about what would happen if the fast changes generated problems that impaired the agency. He told advocates during the meeting that if they disrupted citizens to the point of being untenable, the agency would roll them back. In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine's Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.

"I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president," Mr. Dudek said in the interview. "I screwed up. I'll admit I screwed up."

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

Social Security Is Falling Apart Thanks to Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts DOGE cuts have sent the Social Security Administration crashing.

DOGE is crippling the Social Security Administration.

SSA’s website crashed four times in 10 days and Americans who depend on Social Security have flooded congressional offices with angry phone calls. The AARP says it has been getting 2,000 calls a week.

“.. the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary ..”

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Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Hard to believe they descended from wolves. 😝

11.01 Honestly with Bari Weiss The Free Press Episode What DEI Isn't In case you hadn't noticed, the new administration has been waging war on DEI. In many ways, that's a welcome correction, writes River Page today. But the problem, he says, is that the Trump administration, and many of its highest-profile supporters, "are fueling the idea that any minority with a job might not actually deserve it. These people see DEI everywhere." The left says the anti-DEI crusade is just an excuse for bigotry. Don't prove them right, argues River. Read his column: "What DEI Isn't." ***

This is actually in the same Bari Weiss newsletter blast this morning.

There is something deeply, darkly funny about the Free Press spending months fomenting exactly this before being concerned about going too far.

MORE FROM THE FREE PRESS EXCLUSIVE: Trump Is Starving an Agency That Really Matters "It's been a bloodbath." That's how one staffer describes the fallout at the National Endowment for Democracy after a DOGE order blocked its funding. In a Free Press exclusive, Eli Lake reports on the order for the first time, and reveals that it has left the organization-a major instrument of U.S. soft power that helped win the Cold War-unable to meet payroll and pay basic overhead expenses. Read Eli's report on the latest organization in DOGE's sights-and why its dismantling isn't just another cost-cutting measure, but could cause real damage: "Trump Is Starving the National Endowment for Democracy."

Oh no! The leopards are eating Eli Lake and Bari Weiss' faces!

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center?

Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him.

So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

Eric Adams sold out this city to get the Trumps to fix his personal problem, simple as that.

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system:

Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to *lay hands* on them to enforce those orders.

We must end this loophole now.

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.

Yale Law should be forced to comment on this, since they conferred a law degree on him.

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

Can't stop thinking about the number of people in the stadium today who "stand up to cancer" yet will cheer for a man defunding cancer treatment and research.

Trump’s latest stunt—renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”—is peak authoritarian spectacle. It’s a meaningless branding ploy designed to stoke nationalist fervor and distract from his real agenda: dismantling democracy.
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Indeed, no one could’ve predicted.

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

So Dunning Kruger is a defense to treason. Cool cool.

Picture of Trump at table with 4 other characters. In the middle on a plate is (map of) America. Trump says “dig in” and the 4 characters are: someone with a Nazi band, another in a KKK uniform, Putin, and an archetypal capitalist/big corp CEO.

Pretty dark, but yup.

if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.

Another woman, a mom of two young kids and an MBA trying for a third kid with her husband, allowed to die while miscarrying in Texas even as her doctor mother-in-law insisted she needed a D&C