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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 2 days ago • 627 comments

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used Signal more extensively for Pentagon business than previously disclosed, engaging in at least a dozen separate chats…In one case, he told aides on the encrypted app to inform foreign governments about an unfolding military operation.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

I listened to President Trump call Rep. Jasmine Crockett a "low IQ individual" and I realized I had heard that before, so put the question to ChatGPT.

submitted 7 days ago • 199 comments

An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as * $20 MILLION * worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 8 days ago • 208 comments

During a cabinet meeting, former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador designate Mike Waltz reveals his signal chats. Communications with JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, and Tulsi Gabbard are visible.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social lights up the phony gamblers at Kalshi for bringing political gambling to regulated derivatives exchanges. Complete BS that these are regulated exchanges. Who are the hedgers? Regulated markets don't exist for gamblers. 🙄 adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/america-fo...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

69% of white evangelical Christians say the ethical standards of the Trump administration are “excellent” or “good,” according to a new poll.

submitted 13 days ago • 1017 comments

I have confidence that Madison, Hamilton, and Jay would have agreed with us that a far better name for Sean Davis’s publication would be “The Fascist.”

submitted 21 days ago • 254 comments

Turns out Steve Witkoff has been doing business with Len Blavatnik while stupidly parroting Russian propaganda and leading Trump's capitulation to Putin. www.counteroffensive.news/p/scoop-trum...

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 349 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 365 comments

This is such a great line from @calliecox.bsky.social I might have to steal it "If you started nasty rumors about your best friend then started pummeling them with Venmo requests for past happy hours, they’d probably distance themselves from you too." www.optimisticallie.com/p/boycotting...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this bugger while walking #MabelTheRescue this morning.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s legacy

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh apnews.com/article/mahm...

submitted 31 days ago • 123 comments

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

submitted 32 days ago • 258 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 285 comments

CBO finds that DOGE failed to achieve measurable savings in March. At first glance, spending fell $38B (7%) compared to last year. But March began on a Saturday so payments that normally go out in March went out in Feb After adjusting, spending rose $45B (8%) compared to March 24.

submitted 33 days ago • 43 comments

The Trump administration is comfortable disappearing people to foreign gulags partially because the Trumpis Justices on the Roberts Court have enabled him at every turn, rewriting the Constitution when necessary to accommodate Trump's lawlessness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 33 days ago • 86 comments

So good: youtube.com/watch?v=scsJ...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.” - Trump, 8/14/24

submitted 38 days ago • 119 comments

We talk about this on-air a lot. What company is going to spend the $$ to bring production home — knowing that trade policy and tariffs could reverse just as the plant is ready to open? @firstadopter.bsky.social @conorsen.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 124 comments

Let's zoom in on the "not too much time" here. Does anyone know how long it takes to set up a manufacturing plant? Not just the physical building but the supply chains? hiring? "not much time". Since the time can't be much less than 3 yrs at the absolute minimum ...

submitted 39 days ago • 240 comments

This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

submitted 39 days ago • 200 comments

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

submitted 39 days ago • 666 comments

If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?

submitted 39 days ago • 145 comments

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 40 days ago • 115 comments

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

submitted 41 days ago • 1042 comments

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

submitted 43 days ago • 1200 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 44 days ago • 2520 comments

"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.

submitted 46 days ago • 129 comments

Not even to mention that Sean Parnell beat his wife.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the names of individuals to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

submitted 48 days ago • 757 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 50 days ago • 1163 comments

Let's not forget that in keeping with the worst people in the world work for Donald Trump theme, Sean Parnell's now ex-wife testified under oath that he "choked her until she bit him to escape, that he hit their young children, and that he lashed out at her with obscenities and insults."

submitted 51 days ago • 25 comments

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 52 days ago • 632 comments

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 52 days ago • 428 comments

if you're not a white servicemember or veteran your contributions don't count. That's the position of this administration. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

submitted 53 days ago • 142 comments

This is a disgrace!

submitted 53 days ago • 919 comments

Jesus, is this the entire "statement" from Chief Justice Roberts? Pretty lame. No mention of the judge who is already facing impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives?!No mention of the guy on social media calling for the judge's impeachment? Just....this crap? Lame.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

In case you're wondering, the county where the measles outbreak started voted over 90% for Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaines_...

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 65 days ago • 1292 comments