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10 years of obsession about what Trump supporters think & care about has warped our understanding of their size & popularity: Trump is historically unpopular, pro-democracy supporters far outnumber the object of Corporate Media’s love. Time to hear more from majority of US.

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1964 comments

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

submitted 3 days ago • 350 comments

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Contrast is so clear: Do you want to live in Trump's America where disease spread, free speech is physically attacked and everything from government contracts to science depends on the whim of the mad king OR do you want to live in a free country, with vaccines and decisions based on merit

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 4 days ago • 1471 comments

This is like when the NYPD insisted it wasn’t needed on Columbia’s campus. When notoriously brutal police forces like these say you’re overreacting, you are definitely overreacting

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 6 days ago • 898 comments

It would be pretty hilarious to greet the 2,000 national guard members descending on Los Angeles tonight by calmly eating tacos on the porch and cranking up the mariachi music.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

👇👇👇

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is the way, especially with people in the administration chest-pounding about sending in the military.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 8 days ago • 1497 comments

It is such a powerful affirmation of shared humanity to feel safe, seen, and understood. This is what love looks like.

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 12 days ago • 860 comments

Dear Members of the Press. P0TUS bragging that his tariffs are "already" bringing TRILLIONS of $$ into the US. Beyond the fact that it's not true, will you please ask him, "If that's so, then there's no need to even discuss cutting social services, medicine, education, air safety, etc etc. Right?"

submitted 15 days ago • 270 comments

These legislators should be forced to vote on each Commandment separately—not an omnibus package—& no one should be allowed to vote for a Commandment they've violated lest they violate the Third Commandment. Or: they should respect the Establishment Clause & get back to work.

submitted 19 days ago • 232 comments

The Court of International Trade panel that unanimously struck down Trump's "Liberation Day" and other IEEPA tariffs included a Reagan, Obama, and Trump appointee. Credit to all for defending the rule of law. Perhaps Congress could come out of hiding and do its part to help in this good cause?

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

Honestly, I think we should do this. Mock these soft little babies.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Every Memorial Day is painful. I have friends who should be alive right now, not buried in their early 20s with their whole lives in front of them. But this year, it's especially hard to reconcile their extraordinary sacrifice to our country with the unchecked incompetence and corruption of Trump.

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Seriously. The non-stop 24/7 crime, corruption, cruelty, and constant gaslighting is fucking exhausting. This is unsustainable. It's beyond reprehensible. We BETTER be working towards a tomorrow that brings all these motherfuckers to justice. EVERY. LAST. ONE.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I dare you not reach for your own child after seeing this and give them a tight squeeze! Out of the mouth of a child...💔

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

The absolute disgrace taking place today in front of cameras in the White House is yet another reminder that for all the talk of Joe Biden's failures, the people who failed America the most are our citizens. Empowering this guy (again) was a foreseeable disaster we'll be lucky to survive.

submitted 25 days ago • 422 comments

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

submitted 25 days ago • 615 comments

On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?

submitted 27 days ago • 221 comments

Perfect concise summary of how we have completely lost the plot in our National Conversation™️

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

Everything he touches goes bankrupt.

submitted 29 days ago • 506 comments

Runners and swimmers will always talk about hitting their personal best even if they don’t finish first in a race. Infuriating for journalists trying to cover a race, but truly a mindset everybody should have. (Especially weirdo politicians trying to bully kids instead of improving people’s lives!)

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 34 days ago • 2727 comments

The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

submitted 35 days ago • 640 comments

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #MomSky Without a doubt, public television and Sesame Street is my preference for my tax dollars. Elon is a selfish grifter just like DonOLD and they can both 🖕off!

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

He’s currently plating the Oval Office in gold while selling luxury dinners at his private golf club to rich foreigners who buy his personal crypto token. You know, poor people shit.

submitted 37 days ago • 123 comments