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Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

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If the substance of the report is the same regardless of the data behind it, that should tell you something www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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Me when someone complains about Everything Everywhere All At Once.

submitted 4 hours ago • 43 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

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Yesterday, I saw Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson wheeled out for a TV interview under the chyron "Musk: Back to Business" and it really feels like the media is entirely happy to go along with a concerted PR effort to increase Musk's finances by downplaying what he did to your government.

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This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

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in a shocking turn of events, billionaire fascist eugenicists are also sometimes the planet's biggest tiny little birthday boys crying on their birthday

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We don't deserve her

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

For nothing. FOR NOTHING. For fucking nothing! I'm having problems with everything that's happening but the bit that lays large eggs in my brain is that this is all happening for no reason other than rich white people got sad the world isn't 100% about them anymore.

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Hundreds of thousands of people also claim they’re being harmed by chemtrails, but we absolutely do not need to listen to them.

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What Vladimir Putin realizes is Trump was too chickenshit even to impose any tariffs on Russia.

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because people on here have real problems

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an informal yap session about jd vance's recent interview over at the nyt youtu.be/NqpmOGdzlWI

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The rapidity with which the media conventions have shifted to "trump's mad at you, what did you do to deserve it" is disconcerting but as with pretending anti-vax raw milk drinking carnivores who sun their assholes have a point to make, power really does alter media behavior bsky.app/profile/lemi...

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One of the things deregulation gets you: big E. coli outbreaks without any consequences or warning to the public www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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The cool thing about being president is that any time you want money, you can threaten tariffs, buy cheap stocks, then reverse the tariffs and collect your profit when stocks rebound.

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We’re not impotent! they whisper as they delete their Bluesky accounts and return to the more soothing abuse of Twitter

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i really cant think of a better distillation of current dem party leadership than this paragraph

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

what happened to the gentle man who bombed his way to the presidency in 1999

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Jake Tapper asking a basic question and then getting run over by a mediocre right wing liar is very on brand.

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Gary Larson <3

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Originalist essay about how the founders wanted to cover up the richest man in the world pillaging the American government dropping any minute now.

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in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

There’s always enough goons! Don’t ever worry about running out of stupid fucking goons! Never gonna happen!

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It's pretty nausea-inducing to watch all these financially stable mainly white men with all the privilege applauding about taking necessary, sometimes life-sustaining services away from people in need to give to people who need nothing. What a gross place.

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It took all of four months for the 6-justice conservative majority to throw off its own 90-year precedent and hand a unitary executive to an already-lawless president. Four months. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

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Keep today's decision in mind when you next time you hear #SCOTUS MAGA Chief Justice John Roberts complain about how "rule of law is 'endangered.'" 🙄

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Good piece. Also gets into the shamefully hypocritical move by @corybooker.com to confirm him. Honestly Cory, please don't preach about you and your staff wanting to "do more" and get into "good trouble" and turn around and featherbed the Kushners.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments