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Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 116 days ago • 2214 comments

what a day

submitted 116 days ago • 506 comments

Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

submitted 116 days ago • 65 comments

Generally Trump, the Trump administration, and Trump supporters can be predicted by asking this question: how would a bully handle this? Bullies are weak and insecure and favor other bullies. Hence the craven support for Putin. /1

submitted 125 days ago • 12 comments

Any path out of autocracy will require welcoming and accommodating the Emily Andersons of the world. I know this. And yet . . .

submitted 126 days ago • 73 comments

this poll says to me that a lot of americans just think everything is a TV show with zero consequence www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 136 days ago • 1420 comments

I have to say that the fact that the people destroying the country are such fucking morons kind of stings.

submitted 138 days ago • 249 comments

Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing

submitted 138 days ago • 2106 comments

I wrote a book - or finished a book - I guess I should say. That’s where I’ve been. And to those that have asked about how I feel about things. I feel this way.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

"DOGE has no authority": Attorneys general plan to sue to block Musk's data access: Representatives of more than a dozen states said they hope to DOGE's "unacceptable" federal rampage

submitted 138 days ago • 38 comments

A king in the White House, utterly unrestrained & above the law. A party in control of Congress, utterly devoted to the king, and not the Constitution. An unelected oligarch, the king’s patron, firing federal employees & taking control of federal databases. Yes, it’s a constitutional crisis.

submitted 141 days ago • 72 comments

!!!!

submitted 141 days ago • 134 comments

Elon’s response to a post simply naming the 6 people he has working for him inside our government. Apparently, it is a crime for the American people to know who they are.

submitted 142 days ago • 1718 comments

Endorse. This is the most effective way for allies to counter Trump/Musk. Don't be coy; don't be diplomatic. Target their attack surfaces.

submitted 142 days ago • 13 comments

Our Vichy State’s paper of record, Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, which calls it, “The Dumbest Trade War in History.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 142 days ago • 16 comments

I don't think outlets are doing a good job laying out the very real legal problems with Trump and his boss, Elon Musk, unilaterally dismantling USAID. This is a VERY good and useful rundown www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...

submitted 142 days ago • 7 comments

"Donald Trump has done one salutary service for the nation: He’s obliterated the myth that there is anything politically or morally redeeming about concentrated presidential power." It's taken us two centuries to learn. New from Patrick Eddington:

submitted 142 days ago • 27 comments

The first rule of an insurgency is to survive. That holds for peaceful insurgencies as well. Because they won’t necessarily distinguish.

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

“President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk—nominated for no federal office, employed by no federal agency, accountable to no one—are racing on several fronts to undermine laws, procedures, and norms that would constrain their arbitrary exercise of power.” @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

submitted 142 days ago • 23 comments

Folks, he was impeached twice. You seriously think he cares if you impeach him a third time?

submitted 142 days ago • 9 comments

This is correct.

submitted 141 days ago • 10 comments

Yes. People never learn.

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

The sense of betrayal I hear from my Canadian friends is palpable and bitter. And they are absolutely right.

submitted 143 days ago • 14 comments

I know there’s a lot going on right now but it’s important to keep things in perspective and focus on what really matters. Hunter’s laptop.

submitted 143 days ago • 52 comments

We rightly focus so much on Trump’s dishonesty, corruption, authoritarianism, and lawlessness, that we just don’t say this other obvious truth enough: He’s an idiot. I mean, he is a stupid, ignorant human being. He’s an idiot.

submitted 143 days ago • 71 comments

As frustrated & angry as we all are, I implore folks not to play footsie with violence. It is not the way. It certainly isn’t welcome on my timeline. If I see a post, repost, etc. encouraging or implying violence as the solution it’s an automatic block.

submitted 143 days ago • 15 comments

“The most immediate task for the anti-Trump coalition in these early months of 2025 is to avoid more mistakes,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. “Build unity from the center, rather than indulge the factionalism of the ultra-left.”

submitted 143 days ago • 72 comments

submitted 142 days ago • 382 comments

This is coming, maybe in this initial blitzkrieg or maybe 6 months or a year from now, but it’s coming: Trump will seek to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.

submitted 142 days ago • 32 comments

Spiegel reports that Musk now also has access to sensitive data of competitors with regard to their financial dealings with the government.

submitted 143 days ago • 82 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 143 days ago • 712 comments

"It took immense courage to create our constitutional republic, and now immense cowardice is placing our system of justice under threat." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 142 days ago • 17 comments

As bad as things are with the unelected Elon Musk running around with his fake gov’t agency, just wait until Tulsi freaking Gabbard is running intelligence.

submitted 142 days ago • 6 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."

submitted 142 days ago • 700 comments

Even more true now than a few days ago. Read this:

submitted 142 days ago • 25 comments

beyond parody

submitted 142 days ago • 177 comments

Way back in 2016, @GOP believed the truth: the economy is just a complex set of interactions between people, and govt should facilitate that. Tariffs are the opposite. It’s big govt. And they say I changed. LOL

submitted 143 days ago • 664 comments

1/2 In less than 2 weeks Trump has: (1) created rifts with Denmark, Panama, Canada, and Mexico (2) pardoned all the J6rs, including the most violent (3) begun in earnest his purge of DOJ and FBI (4) installed the most unqualified SecDef in history; (5) created chaos with his spending freezes;

submitted 142 days ago • 10 comments