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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 2 days ago • 809 comments

Whether it's Joe Biden's son's business partner writing "the big guy" in an email when Biden was ex-vice president or Donald Trump selling crypto, NFTs, bibles, gold sneakers, watches, and cell phone plans while he is the current president, both sides have monetized executive branch positions.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

i planted a quarter last summer

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

NEW—After an innocent protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City No Kings protest by a “safety volunteer,” @utah50501.bsky.social says they hired team of them based on “military, first responder, other relevant de-escalation experience.” Volunteer who fired gun was a vet. Full statement:

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Founders intended for presidents to have standing armies to suppress free speech, because once upon a time, kings did.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Oh my god, they're asking the kids to choose.

submitted 18 days ago • 120 comments

This was written for specifically us and maybe you too if you are reading this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

submitted 33 days ago • 211 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 113 comments

New: National Guard units could soon be deputized to help border patrol agents as they conduct arrests of undocumented migrants across the country. The units would be on state orders, not federal, and serve as a “force multiplier.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/p...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

submitted 42 days ago • 1936 comments

Trump is taking a bribe from a country that funds Hamas. If you can’t say that, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.

submitted 42 days ago • 144 comments

This isn't right even as a matter of literal definitions. Bribery requires quid pro quo. "Corruption" is not limited to bribery. It is corrupt to personally profit off your public office even if it's not direct bribery. Don't finger-wag about "terms matter" if you're going to misdefine said terms.

submitted 42 days ago • 87 comments