A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work

This administration pretends to honor the 250th, but brazenly dismisses its most profound legacies. 250 years ago this month, Washington’s surgeon general John Morgan wrote that government must “provide for the safety of its members by rendering the practice of inoculation as universal as possible.”

They think you're stupid.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Look what happened to Kemp, Abbott knows when not to fuck off and when to fuck off here.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I guess bad faith arguments made by serial liars did not have the intended persuasive effect

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

To be fair to him, that's a bad response to an incredibly dumb question. He was probably caught off guard that someone took his question mildly seriously.

This is probably much closer to the norm in experience and attitudes.

Reading Lyz’s profile and then looking back at Tucker’s trajectory, it’s easy to just see him as a full on opportunist. He started working for the Neocon Weekly Standard when neoconservatism was cool. He became a libertarian when the Iraq War went sideways. Then he became a right wing nationalist

Just some of the most unhinged racist dreck I've heard in my life.

CBS News is throwing a party in a building that Trump illegally seized.

The White House Correspondents Dinner is really an acid test for whether the media elite will formally make peace with American fascism.

Attendance will be a useful shortcut for which broadcasters & 'journalists' must be hounded out of the profession & never allowed on air again

Biden is a serial overperformer narrative strikes again

Trump may have closed the Strait of Hormuz. But it's up to the incoming Democratic president to reopen it.

--Bret Stephens, January 2029

Maybe she thinks she can buy back in, in '30? Idk, personally I'd just disappear if that was me but alas, tis not me.

Stefanik is retiring. She doesn’t need to hitch her wagon to Trump anymore. She is doing it because she wants to do it.

I'm afraid ossoff wants to climb quick and fast in a seat he kinda needs to own for the party.

Every team that's ever won a Superbowl did it without AI. But maybe, just maybe, they would have one other Superbowls if they did use AI.

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I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars - The American Prospect As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

in the American West, we've got totally nonsensical 174-year-old legal structures about water rights colliding with climate change-fueled drought, with the federal government AWOL prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

This is the big issue with AI that most AIvangelists do not grapple with. If you gut the way up, a lot of things will fall apart in irreparable ways in 5-10 years. How do you, as a company, look at this and say that the immediate financial impacts in 2-5 years justify not having a company.

Beginning to think that the Trump presidential library, like TrumpCoin, or in an earlier era, his hotels, is just a useful front for processing bribes to the President.

As I argue in this piece, Trump has transformed the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.

Sorta like MS being touted as revolutionizing childhood education because they held back the bottom 10% of third graders each year to juice the scores.

Remember how a key feature of the recent Hungarian election that ousted Viktor Orban was the building of a broad cross-ideological anti-corruption coalition?

I feel like that detail is going to be important, going forward.

Rich people watch Elysium and genuinely thought that that would be worth it. Personally, I woulda have shot every rich person that stepped foot on earth on principle and strung em up like I'm some uncontacted tribe.