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Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

submitted 7 hours ago • 206 comments

Our vaccine policy will now literally be determined by regular guests to the Joe Rogan podcast

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

He did know.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 12 hours ago • 268 comments

This is the most dangerous thing Trump has done since taking office and the silence from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker and House Chair Mike Rogers is deafening, and a betrayal of their duty to the military and the Republic.

submitted 8 hours ago • 270 comments

RIP big dog

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

After campaigning on a claim that he would deport undocumented immigrants with a criminal record—a policy that has broad support—Trump is now increasingly arresting persons with no criminal record of any kind.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

It can happen here. It is happening here.

submitted 12 hours ago • 247 comments

It’s insane watching a police and military state being formed in real time and media discussing this as a political issue. These same journalists and pundits should go live in Russia to get a taste of a police state

submitted 10 hours ago • 39 comments

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

submitted 13 hours ago • 424 comments

It is only one poll but if polls keep showing a consistent “in the 30s “ range for Trump’s approval, that is maybe the greatest cause for even a glimmer of hope about the humanity of a collapsing empire

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Fully protected cops throwing unarmed people to the ground, keeping the peace as always

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Have you ever seen a lil man so obsessively concerned about his masculinity? Even worrying that his food is “effete” 🤣 SO PATHETIC

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

It's not that I don't enjoy the world's richest asshole groveling, it's just that I wish it wasn't to the world's most powerful one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2068 comments

Can you imagine a single American President before Trump saying this? I can't. Not even the worst of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

My parents are well acquainted with military parades from their time in the Soviet Union. I asked my mother what she thought of Trump having one on his birthday. She replied "at least the communists did it on national holidays to pretend it was for us."

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I feel sick to my stomach. DC right now. #nokings

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

👇🎯 Even now, as the full mask-off nature of the fascism is revealed, our most prominent media outlets are completely unable and unwilling to stop following their totally broken playbook of “normal politics” theater criticism & framing. Entirely predictable, but no less sad for being so.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Yes, this was the idea

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Another program that can and should be targeted by foreign governments interested in poaching value from the United States as we self-destruct. You can't easily replicate the Fulbright program but a start would be targeting of the scholars unceremoniously cut loose by this administration.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB

submitted 14 hours ago • 592 comments

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

submitted 15 hours ago • 56 comments

White House proposes axing 988 suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

SEWELL: The last question that I was asked to ask you is when will hit the debt ceiling? BESSENT: I want to congratulate you. You have a very sophisticated constituency to ask questions like this SEWELL: With all due respect, just because you're poor doesn't mean you're ignorant

submitted 14 hours ago • 240 comments

Honestly, I don't care about Rs and Ds anymore. When Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are conservative folk heroes and Joe Walsh and Judge Luttig are "radical leftists", those labels mean nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

submitted 16 hours ago • 88 comments

A scene from the explosive police-protester clash on Buford Highway this evening CONTENT WARNING: Video begins with officers throwing a man to the ground, causing his head to hit a concrete embankment

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Re-upping. No reason.

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

My work here is done

submitted 18 hours ago • 233 comments

The collapse of corporate media in the face of Trump is something to behold.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The pro-crypto GENIUS Act was tied up thanks to the return of traditional Senate legislating. Then, senators "came to the realization that they didn’t actually want to be lawmakers if it meant that a source of future campaign donations might get mad at them." prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Oh.

submitted 19 hours ago • 549 comments

❗️A U.S. Marine Corps Ah-1Z "Viper" helicopter, armed with HYDRA missiles, flies between the skyscrapers of 🇺🇸Los Angeles.

submitted 2 days ago • 723 comments

It is a disgrace that the Department of Defense continues to post partisan political messages on social media and a disgrace that the DHS Secretary is making political statements about elections from the Oval Office. They piss on this country’s traditions daily. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 1152 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

It's funny because Hegseth bent over backwards to pretend they were renaming them after non-Confederates but Trump just went and blurted out the game. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Just want to express once again my contempt for all the mainstream and libertarian platforms that promoted this loathsome discount Goebbels. Shame on you.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

The DOJ just charged a Russian national with moving hundreds of millions through the system—mostly using a foreign stablecoin called Tether. The GENIUS Act includes a massive loophole that allows Tether to evade basic safeguards. It must not move forward without real fixes.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 488 comments

So apparently Riverhead police are saying the men weren’t ICE agents but that they don’t know who they were and they weren’t informed of any US marshal actions ahead of time. This just got weird. The 12-14 men didn’t identify themselves and had masks and long guns per local paper.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

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Not too long ago, a cabinet secretary lying to the face of a Senator would result in serious repercussions. They'd be hauled in to explain themselves before the committee, ordered to reverse their action, and threatened with having their funding/salary revoked. Not to mention possible impeachment.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Congrats ABC. You must be so proud.

submitted 1 day ago • 494 comments

Did not have agreeing with Senator Rand Paul yet again on my Bingo card www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjpTH7YM/

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

My husband said at the beginning of this criminal administration that people with privilege would be able to keep their heads down and pretend it’s not happening. I’d thought he was wrong, but so far, he appears to have been mostly right. Those don’t want to see it, don’t.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Nothing convinces me that democracy remains a radical and emancipatory ideal more than seeing that our political and media elites so clearly do not believe in it

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments