this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
200 points (97.6% liked)

politics

21140 readers
3993 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Just a reminder to question everything.

all 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 94 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

“Errors” fuck this headline and whoever called it errors. It’s lies and propaganda. A thin veneer to cover up the fact that they’re stealing all the tax revenue for the billionaire oligarchs instead of spending it on tax payers.

It’s this reason I’ve been a staunch critic of NYTimes since 2016 when it was clear they were helping Trump.

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Thats what I think is going on, they created a barn fire and while people are putting it out the bad guys are making off with the cattle.

I have no idea where I came up with this analogy …

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

For profit news is trash. We need more non-profits like Pro-Publica.

[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

seconded. big fan of pro publica right now. actually digging into the roots of corruption and abuse of power.

[–] Flap0179@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I stumbled upon a youtube short by nytimes yesterday which showed that DOGEs 5 biggest points where basically fake and that some "savings" go back to contracts that were discontinued in the Bush Administration. Maybe I can find it again.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I'd be interested in seeing that.

[–] Haess@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's going to take decades to recover from this damage, if anyone gets a chance in the future.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

if ever. i was figuring on 'decades' to recover from the first term.

less than two months in, and 'round 2' is already infinitely worse and has been for weeks.

[–] Haess@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 11 hours ago

Its just a "Flood the country with bullshit" on top of both another upcoming massive wealth transfer, and gutting 100 years of progress.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

it appears the only thing that muskrat is lowering during his tenure in government 'service' is his own net worth.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 4 points 11 hours ago

will you please stop doing stupid shit? i know you are insulated from daily life, but jesus fuck. STOP. please, STOP.