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anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 71 days ago • 93 comments

Ben Meiselas at Milken Institute: They want to hear: Why are you bullying a marginalized community? Why are you punching down at human beings? We are the United States of America—why are you treating people like this?

submitted 3 days ago • 254 comments

US pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink. Wow the corruption. An internal State Department memo lays it bare:“As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill and intent to welcome U.S. businesses.”

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

I love the internet

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

The man who has never accepted responsibility, apologized, or admitted a mistake in his entire life isn’t about to start now.

submitted 10 days ago • 2892 comments

“Sketches of deals” “Sub-deals” “Concepts of a plan”

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

submitted 13 days ago • 669 comments

After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

submitted 18 days ago • 472 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 19 days ago • 1357 comments

Trump is trying to destroy universities because college educated people don’t vote for Republicans enough.

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments

NEWS: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has resoundingly rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to block an order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 23 days ago • 99 comments

NEW: Chicago city council passes resolution calling on city Commissioner of Human Resources to exercise discretionary power not to hire any applicant convicted of "crime related to Jan 6, 2021 unlawful activities at the US Capitol, regardless of recent clemency or pardon status"

submitted 23 days ago • 83 comments

I am enraged that our members of Congress, in the midst of the unfolding crisis of our economy, immigration actions and other lawlessness, see fit to leave D.C. for three weeks of vacation in April, and save for a few who are holding town halls or big events, or taking actions, 1/2

submitted 24 days ago • 96 comments

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

submitted 24 days ago • 2932 comments

Today’s staggering levels of economic inequality are not inevitable. To overcome today’s oligarchy, we must look to our history. Watch:

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 28 days ago • 217 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 30 days ago • 1518 comments

If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government.

submitted 30 days ago • 270 comments

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

submitted 30 days ago • 1983 comments

NEW: Sen Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) requests "an accounting of which White House or Trump administration officials were part of the deliberations on the change in policy or announcement, and whether those individuals made stock transactions or communicated with financial proxies ahead of the announcement"

submitted 30 days ago • 68 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 30 days ago • 607 comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene bought $275K in stocks after tariffs were announced. Interesting timing, huh? Martha Stewart went to prison for far less.

submitted 30 days ago • 275 comments

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

submitted 30 days ago • 1685 comments

Larry Kudlow brings Rand Paul on his show to make the case against tariffs and hopefully stage an intervention for Trump

submitted 32 days ago • 149 comments

Nothing shows Americans their safety is secured than seeing the secretary of Homeland Security all equipped and prepared to hunt down the bad guys with her hair extensions, fake eyelashes and a $60,000 Rolex watch.

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

submitted 33 days ago • 295 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 33 days ago • 521 comments

This thread!!

submitted 34 days ago • 164 comments

Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to

submitted 36 days ago • 458 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 37 days ago • 829 comments

Just a reminder that Grubhub is a Bezos/Amazon joint. Delete your Grubhub app and leave them behind. 🙏💙

submitted 37 days ago • 557 comments

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

submitted 37 days ago • 1366 comments

Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.

submitted 37 days ago • 784 comments

Senator @booker.senate.gov is still on the floor. 16 hours and 24 minutes. He is now blocking the confirmation of Matthew Whitaker to NATO. GO, CORY, GO!

submitted 39 days ago • 226 comments

Remember this in the coming months.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

We just wanted to say amazing work to everyone this weekend—an estimated 200,000 protesters took to the streets. Elon Musk claims that we are “paid” protesters, and many of us are curious about how to sign up to get paid (/s).

submitted 40 days ago • 227 comments

Elon Musk took in another $8 million in taxpayer money this morning, as he does every morning. But Granny needs to eat cat food and live in a tent. Got it.

submitted 43 days ago • 112 comments

People are taking things into their own hands

submitted 43 days ago • 1131 comments

Breaking: A Delta jet just came close to colliding with a US military jet over Washington, DC, causing alarms to go off.

submitted 42 days ago • 649 comments

USA is not the land of the free.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments