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U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) outlined a middle-class-focused economic agenda for Democrats on Thursday. “I believe that the single greatest security threat to the United States is not coming from abroad,” the first-term senator said. “It’s the shrinking middle class here at home…”

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I find it interesting how ‘decimated’ is misused: this suggests that just 10% of Iran’s nuclear programme has been hit. Seems unlikely that’s the plan

submitted 14 minutes ago • 4 comments

This is a pretty big deal.

submitted 22 minutes ago • 1 comment

On Sept. 24 of last year, national security officials briefed Trump at Mar-a-Lago that Iran had multiple hit teams inside the country. -WaPo

submitted 38 minutes ago • 1 comment

this is a repeat pattern, Trump says that we have an INCREDIBLE DEAL or whatever and then Beijing says that it's an understanding of a method of a framework of a means of a possibility of a direction

submitted 38 minutes ago • 2 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 8 hours ago • 403 comments

Bring mandatory vaccinations back with only medical exceptions

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 3 hours ago • 208 comments

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

submitted 5 hours ago • 722 comments

Why do all these guys sound so giddy for violence

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Thinking about Europe

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

“Sleepwalking through Lotus Land”

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I suggest ppl on this site (many of whom i assume dont live in NY and are just following this election parasocially) to take a breath & keep in mind what Brad Lander--the most prominent elected Jewish Dem in NY (&, dare I say, part of "the establishment") said: we're not gonna let them divide us.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

It gives the game away when the admin is seeking to coercively regulate vast swaths of US economic life via a punishing tariff regime, attempting to effectuate the most centrally-planned economy in nearly a century, yet the freakout is over a NYC mayoral candidate pitching city-run grocery stores.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

I think a lot of people failed to realize that the bureaucracy has kept us balanced. We can have crazy leaders, nationally and locally, but the machine can keep everything going for awhile. But that made people believe it doesn't really matter who is leader ever.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms. the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”. the Lander faction are “liberals” the Mamdani faction are “leftists” if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people

submitted 20 hours ago • 72 comments

Working on my NYT Op-Ed about how authentic New Yorkers live in neighborhoods like this unincorporated town in southern Missouri, or a large compound in Jackson Hole with a panic bunker and motion-activated miniguns, or a deconsecrated Orthodox monastery under INTERPOL surveillance in rural Romania.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Without the rule of law, babies are put at risk by attacks on birthright citizenship, people who look like me wouldn’t even be able to hold office, there would be no government services to take care of American citizens. That’s what’s at stake with this President and this White House.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Jake Tapper said its alarmism to question Trumps mental acquity

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Israel's Defense Minister Katz: Israel did not destroy all of Iran's highly enriched uranium, The U.S.-Israeli position is that Iran will be asked to "hand over that material." We all know that won’t happen, think we may be a few months away from things getting kinetic again.

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump 1.0 shoveling a trillion dollar tax cut did not help.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Not getting bus bunching would be a huge fucking win. Huge frustration as a rider to see it day after day.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

All of this. If he wins in November a real test is going to be who he brings into his mayoral administration.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Sigh. Transit advocates have been asking for years for more resources to make buses better: Countdown clocks, car cameras, more service, accessibility training, sheltered bus stops, TPS, and so on. Free fares was never it and we're no closer to getting what we've BEEN asking for w/ this attitude.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

First: Build Back Better Worst: Big Beautiful Bill Cursed: Big Balls Back

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s been crazy to observe how many people in the tech world or adjacent who’s drug habit spiraled completely out of control during the pandemic and they’ve now spent half a decade with debilitating addiction coupled with depression that makes them lust for the apocalypse

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It's easy to forget with everything going on, but the guy in charge of all of this (Witkoff) is Trump's golf buddy and has zero diplomatic experience.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The ‘hot 6’3 russian soldier’ tiktok is at 1 million likes im so done with unbombed people

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

the thing about mamdani is that i think stuff like free fares, city run grocery stores, and rent freezes are, at best, useless policies it's just i also think given the state of nyc they're basically harmless, and if he can get upzoning over the finish line the rest doesn't matter

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

What can I say, LinkedIn is The World's Funniest Website. In no way, shape, or form is the Senior Enlisted Advisor the Chief Operating Officer of anything. What a complete misunderstanding of corporate and military organization, it's so aggressively wrong it could be a troll.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments