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Not sure who is behind this video (could just be dude on camera) but it is extremely effective and this kind of thing will first make the rounds on social but then show up, or be imitated in, election-season ads.

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 735 comments

Oh dear. I guess the point, if there is one, is to propose/impose something which is utterly meaningless but can be presented as "immersive" (my apologies for using that word) as football becomes ever more remote from the fans.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

THIS! 👇🏾

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

HMMM!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I miss having a human president.

submitted 16 hours ago • 756 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is what a decent human being does. We were very lucky to have him as our president who did so much for Americans. I still can’t believe what we have now.

submitted 13 hours ago • 163 comments

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on Jesse Watters: "He has HIMSELF has said, when you manipulate or edit facts for a public official, someone needs to be fired... I think he's right! I hope he reads his own words."

submitted 21 hours ago • 89 comments

I love that climate change is all up in Bezo's business

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Part of the reason that universal injunctions became so prevalent seems to be because Presidents are increasingly making huge legal/policy changes via executive order. Maybe we can get back to Congress actually making the law and the executive merely enforcing it??

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.

submitted 19 hours ago • 140 comments

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

submitted 22 hours ago • 2949 comments

god damn he's cooking

submitted 18 hours ago • 392 comments

Someone should investigate Tapper's cognitive decline.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Raskin: "If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings bc it offends your religious objections, you can do it bc it offends your philosophical beliefs... you're gonna have a lot of cases where ppl say 'Our family doesn't believe in evolution. We don't want our kid in class when it's taught'"

submitted 1 day ago • 628 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

submitted 15 hours ago • 523 comments

Justice Jackson did not come to play today (Birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions)

submitted 18 hours ago • 157 comments

Newsom: The gloves are off. Let’s go. We’re gonna call out the bullshit. And the propaganda. And the weaponization of lies and disinformation on networks like Fox…

submitted 22 hours ago • 1422 comments

this is just an observation but one way to think of the civil war is that it WAS about states rights, but the right in question was the right of free states to stay free

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

Part of my Economic War Plan means the government shouldn’t give tax breaks to big companies and then have to pay again to keep their employees from going hungry. That’s double-dipping—it makes the taxpayer pay twice for corporate greed. And it’s got to stop.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

🥺🥺

submitted 1 day ago • 520 comments

Governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million for defamation about the call with Donald Trump during the Los Angeles protests. He’s also asking for an on-air apology from host Jesse Watters. Dominion 2.0 coming up. 🍿

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this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

🚨🚨 US TRADE DEFICIT SURGES The Commerce Department's Census Bureau on Thursday reported that the international trade in goods increased by about 11 percent in May as exports decreased while imports remained relatively unchanged — a sign that Trump's tariff strategy has been a colossal failure.

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Murder rates in almost all US cities have fallen massively, but in red states, the rate of murder by police is going up: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

A lawyer like Emil Bove shouldn’t be able to dodge congressional oversight by claiming certain privileges. And yet…

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Today I mentioned Eln Msk in conversation and the adult person I was speaking to said "who's that?" For one fleeting moment I saw a world so sparkling and clear

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 2802 comments

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

Crockett: The First Lady, a model— when I say model I’m not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level— applied for an Einstein visa. You’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement… She had none of those. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see the math ain’t mathin

submitted 2 days ago • 420 comments

The Muslim millennial socialist candidate who just won the Democratic primary for NYC did so during a huge Islamaphobia/antisemitic panic smear campaign in the most Jewish city outside of Tel Aviv, it feels like a dam just broke.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

submitted 2 days ago • 927 comments

Under grilling by Jon Ossoff, Russ Vought repeatedly refuses to admit that it was a mistake to fire the federal employees who oversaw the safety of the nuclear stockpile (a mistake the administration acknowledged when they had to scramble to hire them back)

submitted 2 days ago • 478 comments

SCHIFF: Would it ever be appropriate for the DOJ to tell the court, 'We're gonna ignore your order' ARTAU: I mean, Abraham Lincoln did that with the Dred Scott case SCHIFF: I'm hoping we're not gonna be going back the Civil War

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments

Ted Cruz just said Mr. Abrego has been charged with Human Trafficking. Cruz proclaims "I read every word of that indictment!" Apparently not, because Abrego was not charged with human trafficking. I hope this comes up in a motion to dismiss the charges.

submitted 3 days ago • 835 comments

Crockett: The First Lady, a model— when I say model I’m not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level— applied for an Einstein visa. You’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement… She had none of those. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see the math ain’t mathin

submitted 2 days ago • 969 comments

Ossoff: We usually get this, which specifies how many folks you intend to employ. What we have is a 26-page PowerPoint. Here, it specifies about $17 billion in cuts to medical services. Who are you cutting? Collins: We’ll have more information as we go forward.

submitted 3 days ago • 569 comments

💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 1080 comments

Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire

submitted 3 days ago • 279 comments

FWIW I’ve heard of tons of incidents where people are afraid to report DV, afraid to access medical care, or otherwise petrified to engage with the state in any way. It’s entirely understandable, and it will kill people, and that’s probably the point.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: Together with PM Starmer, we met and spoke with Ukrainian defenders undergoing training in the UK under Operation Interflex. Thanks to the support of the United Kingdom, around 58,000 people have completed training as part of Interflex.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

Just do politics that help real people. It’s not that complicated. It’s not that even really that hard. You just have to listen, look at data, and really want to help.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment