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"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual. The secret freedom which you can supposedly enjoy under a despotic government is nonsense, because your thoughts are never entirely your own." — Orwell, April 28, 1944
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Lol. The MAGAts are bragging that Japan is supposedly making America great again, just like the Quataris having to give us an old airplane because, apparently, we're unable to make our own under Tr-mp. That's how low we've fallen under these fools.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

submitted 2 days ago • 1097 comments

This is gold.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Where are the Democratic leaders? We should have been dancing on this (the "We're all going to die!" remarks of Sen. Joni Earnst to her constituents who complained of healthcare cuts) two seconds after she said it!" -Rev. Al Sharpton He's exactly right. Where are they?

submitted 1 day ago • 968 comments

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

submitted 1 day ago • 860 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 1 day ago • 1109 comments

Oh, I don't think they're ashamed at all. I think they love this shit. But they're probably deputized locals who don't want to be identified.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.

submitted 1 day ago • 876 comments

How many questions will Leon get today on his psychopathic dismantling of USAID? And, for later, how many times will Little Marco, who is part of the psychopathic dismantling, get asked about it? Like everything else, it'll get swallowed up in the next unthinkable savagery of our national soul.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republicans: "Wealthy job creators need low taxes." Democrats: "Well, we all are going to die." Republicans: "Tariffs are not taxes." Democrats: "Well, we all are going to die." Republicans: "Make America Great Again." Democrats: "Well, we all are going to die, sooner than you think."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As I've tried to argue for many years, Justice Kagan is not a "liberal" justice. She doesn't mind siding with the reactionaries at times because, apparently, she just doesn't see the deconstruction of the rule of law going on around us. Eventually, Tr-mp will render her & the SC a moot court.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yeah, well, he won't. Of course, it depends on who is doing the asking, but largely he gets away with, literally, murder. I'm sure today there will be a couple of tough questions, about the dead and dying kids, the drug abuse, his failure to cut government spending. Then, we'll be back to normal.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It's hard to see how Democrats can fck up the campaign commercial next year.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The simulation we're living in is run by Walter Tr-mp.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So Idiot Trump’s signature policy was, of course, illegal from the get-go. The irony is that the United States Court of International Trade has saved him from himself.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Exactly. The 130-day limit just happened to be the one law Elon Musk decided to comply with? Nonsense. The ketamine-infused crackpot had his ass handed to him by the courts and by public opinion and—most deliciously—by his own jackassery. LMAO and good riddance.

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

#TACO 🌮

submitted 3 days ago • 560 comments

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

That’s not the only personality disorder he has.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world."

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s now Marxist to understand that the Constitution only authorizes Congress to impose tariffs.

submitted 3 days ago • 1092 comments

As i said, democracy in Missouri is dead, and the MAGAts are feasting on its carcass.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Democracy is dead in Missouri. Voters can vote until their arms fall off, but the MAGAt legislature and state supreme court will tell them to fck off.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just read this and ponder. Voters suck. Journalism often sucks. The military and police will do whatever he says. The corruption is in our faces. And his ongoing mental crisis is not even a thing that matters to most people, including the editors of the NYTimes and WaPo and CNN.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why should they hide their corruption? Who is going to stop it? The courts? Lol.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Good thing for Putin he has such a good friend in WH to run cover for him while he continues to bomb civilians.

submitted 4 days ago • 1295 comments

If we're only "looted," we'll be lucky.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most important question Americans should be asking themselves... ...right after they ask, "Wtf is wrong with the American lunatics that voted for the neo-fascist asshole who's stealing us blind."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

submitted 5 days ago • 869 comments

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

submitted 5 days ago • 473 comments

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

Any news organization that covered that speech and didn't mention that he is clearly suffering from dementia & often incoherently rambling has abdicated their responsibility to truth in reportage. This abdication and failure, pretending he & his cult are normal, is a large part of how we got here.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

If Trump successfully installs his heinously corrupt henchman on the 3rd Circuit, it will be because SENATE DEMOCRATS refused to confirm Biden's nominee to this very seat—based on their own Islamophobia and credulous embrace of bigoted GOP smears. Just a total nightmare top to bottom.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

Most of the reason people don't understand what Republicans are doing is because most journalists are themselves ignoring it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The "state's rights" party. Lol. As the House, Senate, and Supreme Court demonstrate every day, Republicans have no ethic or ideology that they won't bend or break at will.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is a big fcking deal. Wish more journalists thought so.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Update: This happened last night—Senate Republicans went nuclear, overruling the parliamentarian and blowing up the filibuster to repeal California's vehicle emissions standards. Many Republicans will likely cite this precedent as reason to bypass the filibuster to pass the reconciliation bill too.

submitted 9 days ago • 125 comments

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

submitted 9 days ago • 179 comments

A more accurate headline for this story would be "US government weaponized FTC to go after a group that exercised its constitutional right of free speech and association."

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments