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Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

submitted 5 days ago • 887 comments

Random reminder that banning members of Congress from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

submitted 28 days ago • 411 comments

Trump's family has deals to build luxury resorts and hotels in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. And their crypto firm will be used by the UAE to make a $2B deal — netting the Trumps hundreds of millions of dollars. His "diplomatic trips" are blatant self-enrichment opportunities.

submitted 30 days ago • 153 comments

This

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.

submitted 42 days ago • 391 comments

And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?

submitted 42 days ago • 454 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 51 days ago • 1614 comments

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

submitted 50 days ago • 987 comments

Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.

submitted 54 days ago • 576 comments

In this holy season of Passover and Easter, may we reflect on our many blessings of faith, family and community. From my family to yours, wishing you a Happy Easter today!

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

Jesus died for our sins, but He may have to come back a couple of more times to cover Trump’s.

submitted 55 days ago • 1304 comments

There is only one way to end the war: put pressure on the Russians. The Trump people did the opposite: put pressure on Ukraine, and relieved pressure on Russia. They have made the war worse while talking of "peace."

submitted 56 days ago • 84 comments

A statement by Seth Rogan about the evisceration of science in the US, made at an awards ceremony attended by Schmuckerberg, Bezos, and Brin, was edited out of the final version that aired. The "Breakthrough Prize" for science was originally established by Schmuckerberg and Brin.

submitted 57 days ago • 21 comments

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

submitted 57 days ago • 212 comments

“I will not stop fighting” 💔 #KilmarAbregoGarcia

submitted 59 days ago • 99 comments

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

submitted 59 days ago • 68 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 60 days ago • 909 comments

Make it make sense

submitted 62 days ago • 609 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 65 days ago • 481 comments

“I feel much better now.” —nobody

submitted 66 days ago • 474 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 66 days ago • 2252 comments

I really do think we’re well beyond this point. If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.

submitted 69 days ago • 534 comments

Bingo

submitted 71 days ago • 421 comments

Never forget: Rex Tillerson was right.

submitted 72 days ago • 478 comments

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

submitted 73 days ago • 1175 comments

Translation: “I don’t understand the difference”

submitted 74 days ago • 95 comments

Old trope from Musk who always casts everything in overly dramatic terms that put him at the center of the narrative www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

submitted 75 days ago • 370 comments

Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

submitted 75 days ago • 85 comments

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

submitted 75 days ago • 221 comments

An excellent emendation to Paul, Weiss’s Wikipedia page. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul,_W...

submitted 75 days ago • 563 comments

Literally “up is down”

submitted 76 days ago • 489 comments

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 76 days ago • 273 comments

"in the #Signalgate scandal... our government is openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights. Its position is that it is worth risking the lives of soldiers abroad in order to be able to persecute civilians at home." snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...

submitted 79 days ago • 40 comments

Delaware Democrats just caved to corporations and billionaire CEOs. SB 21, ghostwritten by Tesla and Meta lawyers, makes it harder to hold corporations accountable for a range of misconduct. As billionaires destroys the federal government, why are state Dems playing along?

submitted 79 days ago • 295 comments

Mark Carney vowed that there would be a 'broad renegotiation' of the trade agreement between Canada and the US, as his country aims to reshape its economy and seek 'reliable' trading partners. www.ft.com/content/6e09...

submitted 78 days ago • 52 comments

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

submitted 78 days ago • 92 comments

The top 7 donors in the 2024 election — all GOP — gave a combined $1B to buy Trump a second term. It's a gigantic amount of money in total — but it's just pocket change to them. We must get Big Money out of politics. No one from either party should be able to buy an election.

submitted 78 days ago • 247 comments

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency. Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

submitted 78 days ago • 269 comments

Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

submitted 78 days ago • 2882 comments

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

submitted 78 days ago • 830 comments

"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online" www.spiegel.de/internationa...

submitted 79 days ago • 97 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 79 days ago • 1692 comments

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

submitted 80 days ago • 2394 comments

Who cares about the journalist? He was the most professional member of the group. The scandal is these idiots engaged in secret national security on insecure commercial phone apps - and one member on his personal phone in Moscow.

submitted 80 days ago • 62 comments

Important thing about this jaw-dropping story is that even if Jeff Goldberg hadn't been invited into the chat, Hegseth was sending out detailed military stuff over a civilian app that even the other people in the conversation probably didn't need to know about "Need to know" means "need."

submitted 81 days ago • 485 comments

If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.

submitted 81 days ago • 848 comments