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Boasberg: "Absent this relief, the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action." An unassailable point. The fact that the U.S. government is fighting this tells you what you need to know.

submitted 7 hours ago • 39 comments

As they amp up to 3,000 arrests a day (2-3X the current level), will 2025 have a "long hot summer" of unrest?

submitted 17 hours ago • 59 comments

Lawrence: That is the budgetary cycle we've been in since the 1980s. Republican presidents increased the deficits. Democratic presidents from Bill Clinton forward come into office and reduce the deficits created by the Republican presidents.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 5 days ago • 1125 comments

Re-upping this piece because the deadline for comments on the new version of Schedule F has been extended to June 7. DOGE actions occurred with no public input, so no excuse not to weigh in on Trump's further efforts to politicize the civil service. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Literally would rather hang out with nazis who want me dead and are scheming to kill me than people who want my boss to try to exercise power

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Yeah that's why they're doing it.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

submitted 10 days ago • 125 comments

“he appears to have little interest in the day-to-day work of serving in the United States Senate.” So @fetterman.senate.gov is just an entitled scam artist shortchanging his constituents in PA. ↘️

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 12 days ago • 366 comments

I am worried that even as we see the weaponization of government against Trump's political opponents, too few have stepped forward to object. I worry that as a result, we will see an escalation of political retribution that will be met with what MLK called "the appalling silence of the good people."

submitted 12 days ago • 213 comments

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

submitted 12 days ago • 113 comments

I understand this will sound hyperbolic but it's more accurate than not to say anything you care about, this bill seeks to destroy.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Dem leadership advising against using the phrase "MAGA murder budget" is one of the strongest possible endorsements that the phrase could get. These fools have consistently been TERRIBLE at messaging

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

“Legislators shouldn’t stay in office into their 70s given the demands of the job and its high stakes” is actually a completely different sentiment than “people in their 70s are thoroughly useless and should be set adrift on ice floes”

submitted 14 days ago • 150 comments

the thing with trump that people dont want to understand: when he sees shit on tv he thinks its real. the best way to get him to support this dumb shit is to put it on the tv box. no matter how much something is faked, if its on tv its real to trump. this is how his brain works.

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

submitted 14 days ago • 216 comments

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

submitted 15 days ago • 197 comments

RIP George Wendt. I got to interview him once, and honestly, it was tough to get him to go deep on his career. But he told some good stories about Chicago theater in the '70s, and I got to ask him about his love of the Minutemen. www.avclub.com/george-wendt...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

JFC

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump DOJ has officially now pressed more charges against elected Democrats than the Biden DOJ under Garland did against Republicans. And Republicans did January 6. Think about this.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

It’s easy to forget what this is about. This is the President of the United States extorting a news organization for doing an interview with his political opponent. THAT IS FUCKED UP BEYOND BELIEF. And the media just reports it like it’s a normal dispute.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

submitted 16 days ago • 80 comments

me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical the trump administration:

submitted 16 days ago • 119 comments

Here @parkermolloy.com describes a dynamic that is obvious to everyone who has paid attention but you will never see acknowledged in the MSM: for decades the right has rolled out one fake bullshit controversy after another, always with the goal of exaggerating the extremity of Democrats.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

“Sorry, we don’t have enough money for universal healthcare, we’re too busy paying people whose family members tried to overthrow the federal government”

submitted 16 days ago • 287 comments

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

submitted 16 days ago • 172 comments

The way they resolve this unpopularity is control of the information enviornment. Conservative propaganda outlets will just not report on it, mainstream outlets will drown out their reporting of it with manufactured stories like "was Biden old" or trans-panic on A1 while Medicaid cuts run on A14

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

submitted 17 days ago • 72 comments

As Supreme Court Mulls Trump's Proposal to Poison Entire Chicago Population With Ricin, Democrats Have a Joe Biden Problem

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Song of the day

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments