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Democracy dies in broad daylight
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Sometimes you can find resistance in the most unlikely of places.

submitted 21 hours ago • 76 comments

Baaaaahahahhaha

submitted 16 days ago • 215 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

submitted 18 days ago • 561 comments

Every word of this. This is one of the best exchanges with Governor Newsom.⤵️ In interview he also lays the groundwork for legal (and policy) case: That President Trump's actions “created the conditions” and put “fuel on this fire every since he announced he was taking over the National Guard.”

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

Early voting starts in the New Jersey Democratic Governor primary this week. It’s a big race. One candidate really stands out. secure.ngpvan.com/LIT5s8Eo6Ei3...

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Donald Trump on his son Barron: “He can look at a computer... I turn off his laptop, I said, ‘Oh good,’ and I go back about five minutes later, he’s got his laptop, I say, ‘How do you do that?’.. He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology." (March)

submitted 35 days ago • 195 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 47 days ago • 608 comments

Did he just look at her without leaving his seat or calling for aid? Twice?

submitted 52 days ago • 142 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 69 days ago • 754 comments

Donovan Mitchell is 6'3" and weighs 215 lbs.

submitted 78 days ago • 211 comments

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

submitted 82 days ago • 73 comments

It's called sports it's called baseball in particular

submitted 84 days ago • 155 comments

As over $3 trillion was wiped from the market today, Trump spent the day golfing at his West Palm course His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis

submitted 86 days ago • 142 comments

This is fabulous!

submitted 100 days ago • 86 comments

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submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 107 days ago • 2095 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 113 days ago • 587 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 117 days ago • 1565 comments

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

submitted 118 days ago • 715 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 121 days ago • 5951 comments

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

submitted 120 days ago • 2489 comments

As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

submitted 121 days ago • 63 comments

I'm trying to put together a list of the many debunkings of DOGE's claims of savings. Email these to your Republican Members of Congress, who still credulously claim DOGE is finding things. Let me know what I'm missing. www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

submitted 123 days ago • 21 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 129 days ago • 1014 comments