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It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

submitted 11 days ago • 459 comments

🧵Days after his election in 2013, Pope Francis left the grandeur of St. Peter’s Basilica to visit Rome’s juvenile detention center. He knelt before twelve young inmates, washing and kissing their feet—an act of humility drawing on a sacred tradition.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Jesus died for our sins, but He may have to come back a couple of more times to cover Trump’s.

submitted 29 days ago • 1308 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 42 days ago • 843 comments

Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.

submitted 42 days ago • 379 comments

Remember when Biden refused to attend the dignified transfer of four dead Americans because he was too busy at his golf course? Oh wait, that was the orange guy. My bad.

submitted 45 days ago • 113 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 47 days ago • 1022 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 52 days ago • 670 comments

DOGE plans to fire 430 workers at the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service — which helps low-income and small business filers. Meanwhile, its wider agency layoffs will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. See what DOGE is really about?

submitted 59 days ago • 234 comments

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

submitted 60 days ago • 772 comments

Burki is a cheat code #allforCITY

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 75 days ago • 1199 comments

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 78 days ago • 280 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 82 days ago • 9473 comments

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — 21 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk's DOGE, refusing to "dismantle critical public services."

submitted 82 days ago • 129 comments

While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

submitted 83 days ago • 275 comments

Remember when we didn’t have to pay such close attention to politics because comic book villains weren’t so close to world domination? That was fun.

submitted 84 days ago • 36 comments

Two seasons in STL, but Forever CITY Red. 🔴

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

Hockey Jesus wins it in OT...what a game.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Oh Baby, Binner!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 88 days ago • 818 comments

This is 100% true. As an American, you may not be responsible for electing such a horrible person, but you are absolutely responsible for stopping him. -A Canadian

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 90 days ago • 1201 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 707 comments

Dear MAGA, I guess you’re cool with this bullshit too? Seek help 🖕🏻 #SheShed

submitted 93 days ago • 57 comments