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"Wars don't start with explosions; they start with silence" - 20 days in Mariupol Part-time technocrat and some tree stuff.
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The reconciliation bill's hikes in farm subsidies "are brazen.... the GOP doesn’t just spare millionaire farmers from cuts, they aggressively expand inefficient farm giveaways by $57 billion." And they "lavished the biggest subsidy increases on GOP parts of the country." [Chris Edwards, @cato.org]

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This. People want a “solution” to the threat of fascism that is achievable within the decision making procedures of a democracy that also cannot be overturned using those same procedures. It doesn’t exist. The only answer is to keep the people who want fascism from winning, forever.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

“He would be offended if people called him a Democrat.”

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1060 comments

This is incredible

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments