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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 6 days ago • 503 comments

The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

submitted 28 days ago • 205 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 28 days ago • 209 comments

They’re scared to have their bluff called on the sorts of positions that gratify their base but would be unlikely to stand up in court.

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

A well-oiled machine 🫠

submitted 35 days ago • 651 comments

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

submitted 36 days ago • 64 comments

Carneynation Revolution #cdnpoli #canada

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown

submitted 36 days ago • 124 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 36 days ago • 1024 comments

There we go.

submitted 50 days ago • 435 comments

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

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Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

submitted 53 days ago • 93 comments

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 98 days ago • 258 comments

Imagine making this your first bill. My God. The more Democrats play Republican Lite, the more Democratic voters will just not vote. We need a true opposition party with the spine to run on principles, not a corporate funded party who remixes MAGA stupidity to make it sound patriotic.

submitted 53 days ago • 21 comments

This really is an extinction level event for NASA's science programs. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

submitted 53 days ago • 31 comments

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

submitted 55 days ago • 434 comments

"We had two tragic deaths in the House Democratic Caucus; had those deaths not occurred last month, Republicans could not have even passed the bill today," Hakeem Jeffries says. What he doesn't mention is both deaths were of politicians in their 70s. One had cancer but ran for re-election anyway.

submitted 54 days ago • 74 comments

If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government.

submitted 54 days ago • 265 comments

Freedom of speech is when the government arrests people for protesting the President's car company.

submitted 54 days ago • 45 comments

The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor

submitted 55 days ago • 72 comments

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

submitted 54 days ago • 42 comments

This could have been stopped 216-216 if two Democrats did not die of old age

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submitted 55 days ago • 295 comments

Worth noting that this passed by one vote and two Democratic congresspeople have died in office in the last six weeks.

submitted 55 days ago • 238 comments

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

submitted 54 days ago • 58 comments

This is good news if you think our banking system is too secure.

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

They go to another school, you wouldn't know them

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

our long national nightmare is over

submitted 54 days ago • 143 comments

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... They are stacking these shit birds deep.

submitted 54 days ago • 404 comments

Victim complex

submitted 54 days ago • 91 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 54 days ago • 880 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 55 days ago • 3172 comments

Why are Democratic Party affiliated legislators constantly advancing policies that erode our civil liberties?

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

Don't look up!

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff. You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.

submitted 55 days ago • 165 comments

At least manufacturing is thriving in one factory.

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

And that’s why we need to staff our factories making little cell phones and things with former USAID program directors and NIH cancer researchers

submitted 56 days ago • 11 comments

That's over 0.6% in less than two days and 0.3% in a day. We're witnessing the bottom falling out of the bond market. This is going to spark a financial crisis.

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

1. Major victory in Montana. 17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 56 days ago • 55 comments

this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

Blowing up the system to replace it with the same system but shittier www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 55 days ago • 35 comments