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I think you should know that Trump put the same gold-framed painting of Reagan in the Oval Office as can be seen in the office of the colonel in the movie “MacGruber.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

Cruel and Dangerous… The Trump administration just announced it’s shutting all Job Corps centers nationwide by June 30—no warning, no plan, just blindsiding students and families. Any thought given to the lives this disrupts? Any thought given to the skilled labor shortage this will make worse?

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

when i tweeted this eight years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

The thing with replacing the rule of law with a mafia state is that it's not good for business even if it can be good for particular businesses at particular times; whether Silicon Valley elites will be able to see through their crushes on Donald Trump and figure this out, who knows

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

What’s interesting/ignorant about this is that we *do do the big things here - the AI and the weapons systems. And we don’t do T shirts and textiles at scale. Once again, he has no idea how any of this works.

submitted 8 days ago • 153 comments

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

submitted 8 days ago • 3166 comments

Being a real man seems tiring. I hope at least some of y’all get to be fake men, who are allowed to eat ice cream and hug their kids.

submitted 8 days ago • 278 comments

When 49.8% of voters elected a would-be dictator, we knew there would be bad days ahead. This is one of them. He’s determined to destroy Harvard if he can’t control it. And bribery is the main course at tonight’s dinner for his crypto pals. Stay strong, folks. This country is worth fighting for.

submitted 11 days ago • 171 comments

in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

submitted 11 days ago • 84 comments

This is real. “Suck it.” The Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security.

submitted 11 days ago • 2107 comments

🚨UPDATE: In a late-night court hearing, the Trump admin says that it deported the Burmese man to Burma, but is REFUSING to say where they deported the Vietnamese man, claiming it’s classified! The judge ordered ICE to tell everyone involved they may face criminal contempt.

submitted 13 days ago • 86 comments

so to be clear about what happened here, the Trump White House released audio meant to make Joe Biden look bad to Axios hours after the US's credit rating was downgraded. Trump wanted a distraction and the usual suspects in the press are happy to oblige.

submitted 17 days ago • 732 comments

BREAKING: Jacksonville Airport is on fucking fire. The parking garage is engulfed in flames and sources are pointing at a Tesla explosion as the ignition point. You can’t make this shit up.

submitted 17 days ago • 406 comments

In Trump's world, truth is irrelevant. Either you agree with him and/or back up his lies, or you will be eliminated so you don't interfere with his illusions again.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer.

submitted 21 days ago • 291 comments

Trump confirms the Qatar plane story.

submitted 22 days ago • 698 comments

Children get only two dolls and five pencils. Trump gets a free luxury jet.

submitted 22 days ago • 324 comments

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

submitted 24 days ago • 912 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 24 days ago • 126 comments

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.” newrepublic.com/post/195068/...

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: Trump signed an EO on "Project Homecoming," which authorizes DHS's new plan to pay people $1,000 to leave the country. Trump also orders DHS to "supplement" ICE by "deputizing and contracting ... no less than 20,000 officers ... to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens."

submitted 24 days ago • 81 comments

🔥 ICYMI — “Your department is out of control. Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter.” Senator Chris Murphy drags Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

submitted 24 days ago • 185 comments

So, if I’m reading this right: They gutted the office that runs the government’s award-winning, in-house HR and staffing software, and now they’ve inked a sole-source, no-bid contract so that a private company on proprietary software can do what the office of civil servants did on in-house software

submitted 25 days ago • 86 comments

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

submitted 27 days ago • 209 comments

What the ever loving fuck????? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

My team and I have been investigating Credit Suisse's tax evasion scheme for years. This week we got results: the bank has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions in fines, and now I'm calling for criminal prosecution of the bankers that made it happen.

submitted 27 days ago • 30 comments

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

submitted 28 days ago • 719 comments

Has anyone come up with a healthier version of Cheeze-wiz yet? Is there a Misto for that yet, AI?!?!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

How is this not a bigger story/scandal?

submitted 29 days ago • 56 comments

Each thing is dumber than the last.

submitted 29 days ago • 81 comments

Ah, but that's just it: the oligarchs don't want more innovation. They want the current wealth & power structure to be frozen in place for as long as possible, and they think that removing a building's structural support is the best way to preserve your spot on the top floor.

submitted 29 days ago • 30 comments

Among new National Endowment of Arts grant priorities: “foster AI competency, empower houses of worship.” Not making this up. Also, pretty sure more submission to our new AI overlords isn’t gonna be great for churches…

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

submitted 31 days ago • 400 comments

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

submitted 30 days ago • 628 comments