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I’m old enough to remember when Didk Cheney and Condi Rice warned that “mushroom clouds” would be over American cities if we didn’t attack Iraq. No one should take anything these clowns say at face value.

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This administration really is just a war on a free and open society

submitted 9 hours ago • 42 comments

What an embarrassment. Good for the Juventus players for not humoring Trump’s bullshit, but why did the club have them there to begin with?

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Why the hell are Juventus at the White House? They don’t look very happy to be there.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Utter bullshit. It's "adjudicated" by the IRS every year when you file your taxes. He's a moron.

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments

(Sigh) Here we go: The main reason some enrollees actual incomes differ from what they reported is because ACA subsidies are based largely on what you EXPECT to earn the FOLLOWING year, and ~half of exchange enrollees are self-employed, which usually means a highly variable income. 1/

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If we don't want to repeat history, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it. The authoritarian playbook starts with pointing to a group of people who don’t look like you and blaming them for your problems. When those issues are still there, what comes next?

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

Adding: JD is only on Bluesky either to 1) create cause to initiate legal action v Bluesky in the US or 2) do so in the EU.

submitted 12 hours ago • 126 comments

Pathetic that in the midst of a escalating foreign conflict and economic signals of a downturn, our vice president is just poasting

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I know it’s far from the most important issue in the world but pro sports ownership shifting to private equity, holding companies of multiple teams, and Middle East money is a pretty depressing trend.

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

Narrator: it was absolutely this stupid.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

I do not think I will take your commitment to ending genocide seriously if you're also running around agreeing with the MAGAs that murdering hundreds of thousands of people by suddenly withdrawing US aid (which is happening right now) is a good thing.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Narrator: Trump's using the FCC to extort a "settlement" payoff from the owner of CBS in return for approval to sell the company to an entity controlled by the family of a Trump supporting billionaire. That is TrumpLaw in a nutshell, as discussed here.

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

Fuck the SCOTUS six. Trans kids deserve care.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

The collective shrug from our media at 340,000 deaths resulting from the closure of USAID is appalling. This is one of the most horrific things an American administration has ever done.

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My request of Senate Democrats who call Trump a “threat to the rule of law” or whatever is that they either (1) actually show up for work and ask his crackpot judicial nominees hard questions, or (2) make way for someone who is willing to do the job

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

America on the brink and the president is at a pole-raising ceremony.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

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"Constitutional conservative"

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none of these people are capable of analyzing politics in terms anything other than their narrowest and most petty resentments

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

GOP Senators want to be even more brutal toward the needy to benefit the very rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

This is a good idea, and pooling funds to target at areas with a lot of ICE activity is a potential use for the mutual defensive pact I proposed earlier. publiccomment.blog/p/blue-citie...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

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Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

"Heated rhetoric" and "incivility" and the like do not fuel acts of violence. A political party and its leader who explicitly revel in their overt, direct encouragement and support for acts of violence is what fuels acts of violence.

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There's something ironic about how the supervillain/dictator aesthetic in movies & TV is designed to embitter and enrage the audience against the subject of the aesthetic and yet the guys who've taken over the federal govt think that this aesthetic is the key to absolute power. Cargo cult regime.

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If Harris had been elected instead of Trump, there would be hundreds of thousands of children who hadn’t starved to death or died of treatable AIDS and we wouldn’t be on the verge of war with Iran. Anybody who doesn’t acknowledge this as a starting point has nothing to say worth hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

let's fucking goooooooooo

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