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Yeah the thing is you can point to shitbags on the left all day long but the furthest left congresspeople are still mostly decent people and the furthest right congresspeople are wannabe genocidaires so the 'both sides' falls flat in practice

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Today on the shadow docket: overruling Humphrey’s Executor sub silentio (except for the federal reserve under the well-known “but muh portfolio” rule)

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I knew when I saw Andy Harris drop in a “present” with Garbarino and Schweikert taking a walk that we’d be inundated with this take, which is understandable but wrong. They had 4 more votes if they’d needed them. Republicans did this, they made decisions, they don’t deserve to be excused this way

submitted 19 hours ago • 69 comments

holy shit

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Kasper Eriksen has never been charged with any crime. He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua. What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was a single document: Form I-751. buff.ly/LiPjJj9

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

If you want to understand how appropriating funding for ACA cost-sharing subsidies saves the government money and decreases premium assistance for enrollees, check out this analysis from 8 years ago by me and @cynthiaccox.bsky.social. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Nothin' to see here except maybe the most Idaho photo that ever Idahoed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

This point can’t be repeated often enough - the Trump administration is animated by vile, idiotic internet conspiracy theories.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The House just passed a massive attack on trans people and literally NO MEDIA OUTLET is covering it Transition care literally saves lives. This is an effective ban on transition care. It will literally kill people.

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

SNAP is incredibly popular with the American people. Voters do not want cuts to supplemental nutrition assistance.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you” The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

h/t Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Congress wants to slash Medicaid health insurance from millions of Americans to shower billionaires with tax breaks. Don't let them. #AmericansNeedMedicaid Pass it on!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

ALSO THIS IS THE LITERAL FUCKING OPPOSITE OF HABEAS CORPUS

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

thst BS summer reading list of fake books isnt just thousands of readers lied to and the CST embarrassed like few publications have ever been, it's also actual 50 books that those readers could have been told about that they never will be because a handful of people in a back room are greedy af

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

They know these boosters save lives. That's why they're still offering them to vulnerable populations. But they're cool with endangering the rest of us and our kids to please the anti-vaxxers. To put it another way they're sacrificing our kids to keep anti-vaxxers happy.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I really want y'all to understand just how uncomplicated the birthright citizenship case is bc the Supreme Court is playin like this is a hard question and going all o whatever shall we do ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Bit late to tell House Republicans not to fuck around with Medicaid

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Wow remember when we found out Reagan left the White House not even realizing he was President and our entire system of politics changed

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

There is a federal law specifically forbidding DHS from spending any money to prevent a member of Congress from inspecting an immigration detention facility, explicitly including if unannounced. This will not be the last bogus charge against a member of Congress and if that doesn't wake them up...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Every so often, political media will go out of its way to create a story and then externalize it as though it happened naturally at the hands of some other party. "Continued questions" from whom? "Emerging" from where? This is police shooting-speak.

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Democrats don't need to apologize. They certainly don't need to roll out some nationwide hair-wringing mea culpa in the middle of the biggest assault on our democracy in history—and that's including the Civil War. …

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: No fuel for chainsaws. Expired medical supplies. The approaching wildfire season is going to be even riskier for firefighters this year - among the staff cuts from the Trump admin also lies cuts to supply funds firefighters need immediate access to. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY. Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

IMPORTANT: David’s research shows even further the depth of the inhumanity at play with the imprisonment without trial of hundreds of men in El Salvador.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 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 3 days ago • 52 comments

the anti-Kelly Loving Act folks appear to have set up a fake website to try to trick trans people into doxxing themselves

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Amazon on Its Partnership With the Saudi Prince Who Murdered Jeff Bezos’ Employee and Hacked His Phone. A profile in rapacity & cowardice. [slate.com]

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

👀🚨 Another big loss for the far right. Despite the non stop hype from right wing media echo chamber and the elite media that keeps falling for the hype - right wing across the globe keep losing (especially after Trump 2.0). JD Vance had gone all in on this one. lol

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

This is pure corruption. Dems need money to win races and crypto is POURING money into the Dem Party. Dems need to vote for cloture to pass this corrupt crypto bill, so we should pressure them esp @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social. Then reform the court & repeal Buckley/Citizens.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re spending one fucking second wringing your hands about Joe Biden’s age while a new set of arsonists are burning the entire nation down, please go touch all the grass

submitted 4 days ago • 331 comments

who gives a shit? why is @chrismurphyct.bsky.social responding to this question with anything other than "The Republican budget plan increases the deficit by three trillion dollars and cuts essential services to Americans while handing billions of your tax dollars to the ultra-rich like Elon Musk"

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Turned on CNN three times yesterday while running errands. First time was in the middle of a segment about Biden's age. Second time they were airing a promo for Tappers book, which is about Biden's age. Third time was during a panel discussion -- about Biden's age. Meanwhile . . .

submitted 4 days ago • 145 comments

Never underestimate the ability of so-called political experts to miss the moment. Looking at you, Politico. www.unchartedblue.com/to-political...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't care if Joe Biden was awake only 2 hours a day and could only speak in riddles, he'd still have been a better choice for president than this decaying meat lump.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

submitted 7 days ago • 261 comments

So the whole Tapper book is premised on George Clooney's outrage that Joe Biden didn't recognize his movie star mug at a donor gaggle. The horror! JFC, this country. 🤦🏻

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Yeah. I think Hillary Clinton would agree with that.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Does everyone remember Trump saying this about Liz Cheney? "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." I didn't think so.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The sitting president has been on an anti-constitutional crime spree since his first hours in office, but “leading Democrats” are supposed to focus their time and energies on … sorry, what?

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

The full text of this has been put up on the legal fund page so you can share that URL with people. Mark's in NYC & his contact info is in the message for anyone who would like to meet with him, get more info on the case/this constitutional issue, or for support. https://timburkelegalfund.org/#four

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is a funny story because of how it establishes that all around the world, even the most nihilistic ultra-rich freaks are realizing this shit is stupid, wasteful, and unnecessary and Trump is like "the big plane has a couch in it, it's the highest premium leather," www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

New reporting reveals that Denver airport air traffic control went out for 6 minutes on Monday. Up to 20 pilots were unable to talk to controllers. www.denverpost.com/2025/05/15/d...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments