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submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 1 day ago • 3185 comments

If the vice president of the United States is looking for "common sense" analysis, I think it's common sense that the vice president should have more important things to do than trolling social media sites. Especially after telling us that he's definitely not been shut out of decisionmaking, no sir.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

First time I've seen a tax cut so poorly designed that the dynamic score RAISES the cost by $356 billion. The infinitesimal growth revenues are dwarfed by the rising inflation and $441 billion in interest costs from higher interest rates.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Okay. The world can see this. Why it so hard for 30% of Americans to continue holding out hope a leopard will change it's spots?

submitted 4 days ago • 642 comments

He has to pay $2.3M.

submitted 4 days ago • 921 comments

mood

submitted 6 days ago • 266 comments

Trump, the oldest man ever elected to the Presidency, does not look well tonight.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

I have no idea how many people get their news from Foxnews.com rather than the cable channel, but those people would have no idea — none — that there were any protests today against the President. The only even tangentially related story I found on the home page: www.foxnews.com/us/gov-newso...

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

submitted 6 days ago • 971 comments

👇👇

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

Trump looks like an utter jackass. Marching soldiers like toys when a real war is going on. Attacking peaceful, productive Americans and dehumanizing them. Now an evil political assassination. He cannot and will not perform his job. Those who voted for him should forever hang their heads in shame.

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

Prices were double this last weekend for WorldPride.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

The escalation is a function of the unpopularity. A president in the first few months of their term should be able to get their policy priorities through normal legislative means rather than by sending armed troops to quell protest.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 554 comments

The Fox News mission in a nutshell. Use a manufactured crisis by the Trump administration to help prop up a former Fox News employee's political campaign -- in this instance, one-time host Steve Hilton, who is running for governor in California.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

“This isn't law and order. This isn't making our country safer or fixing our border. And it isn't leadership.”

submitted 11 days ago • 223 comments

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

submitted 15 days ago • 313 comments

“Humanity rises and falls as one.” -Yurong “Luanna” Jiang And here she is. Please listen.👇

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

submitted 19 days ago • 166 comments

I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

submitted 21 days ago • 576 comments

Jessica Tarlov: “He does these interviews and says I don't know, or I'm not sure. He was asked ‘do you need to uphold the constitution? I don't know, ask a lawyer’ … He may be in front of you, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not spewing utter BS.”

submitted 23 days ago • 336 comments

The GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history. On average, someone in the top 0.1% would gain around $390,000 next year. But someone in the bottom 20% would lose $820, and nearly twice as much—$1,545—in 2033.

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

A Constant Theme From That Political Party….

submitted 22 days ago • 275 comments

My wife has been on a Netflix documentary binge and I generally keep her company but read or play games and ignore the documentary but I think it’s starting to seep into my consciousness because last night I dreamed my wife wanted us to tour the OJ Simpson Brentwood house to buy it and /1

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

submitted 25 days ago • 678 comments

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

submitted 26 days ago • 700 comments

Once again, the Press Secretary is lying

submitted 29 days ago • 47 comments

KAGAN: “If the idea is to reassure the markets, a simpler—and more judicial—approach would have been to deny the President’s application for a stay on the continued authority of Humphrey’s.” 🎯

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 512 comments

Minutes apart 👀

submitted 29 days ago • 113 comments

🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 29 days ago • 1033 comments

The CBO just released a score on Republicans' existing mega-package and found that the GOP budget plan would increase the deficit by $2.3 trillion over a decade. It would boost the incomes of the richest 10% of Americans while lowering the incomes of the lowest 10%.

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

The tariffs are, of course, a drag on growth. The tax package, otoh, increases the deficit, so + fiscal impulse. What's the expected net impact? According to GS, it's negative. The tariff drag > than the fiscal boost. That said, when I look at this AM...

submitted 32 days ago • 14 comments

Vance is a genuine asshole, but I think he also sees assholery as a part of a winning political persona. What he misses is that lots of people see Trump as a fun asshole and that's why they like his schtick. But there's nothing fun about JD Vance and never will be.

submitted 32 days ago • 172 comments

Today May 15th is Peace Officers Memorial Day. Statements like this are inflammatory, disrespectful and flat out lies. Not only did you betray law enforcement, but you sided with people who attacked us. You don't support law enforcement, you are are a criminal.

submitted 36 days ago • 587 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1 million to $5 million worth of shares in President Trump’s media company last month on the same day that he announced expansive tariffs that led to a stock market rout, according to disclosure filings.

submitted 36 days ago • 171 comments

Dear media reporters - Here is your “the president can’t accept a luxury jet from a foreign government” primer unless he is going to personally pay for it. Enjoy. youtu.be/trsFl6sR26w?...

submitted 40 days ago • 38 comments

On what planet is a jet provided by a foreign government ever something that the U.S. Government would rely upon for the security of the President of the United States?

submitted 40 days ago • 475 comments

www.wtrf.com/news/devasta... Bad news for electrifying everything - Cleveland-Cliffs cancels plans to invest in a transformer factory in Weirton, WV (also home to Form Energy) due to financial issues and uncertainty around, you guessed it, tariffs.

submitted 42 days ago • 36 comments

Oops.

submitted 42 days ago • 4059 comments