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BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

submitted 6 hours ago • 444 comments

lmfao

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 477 comments

BREAKING: Beach Boys singer Mike Love tearfully announces he will no longer be able to sue Brian Wilson.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

Sorry to hear Brian Wilson has died. The Beach Boys were the soundtrack of my summers, from "Surfin' Safari" on.

submitted 6 hours ago • 230 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 8 hours ago • 463 comments

He gives us new reasons to hate him every day. He’s like a cornucopia of shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Double.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2605 comments

Plaskett to Bessent: "Excuse me. Let me get something straight with you. I've seen you interrupt everyone. When you come to someone's house, you respect their rules. And in this house, we don't interrupt individuals. And you're not going to interrupt my time."

submitted 5 hours ago • 197 comments

!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 6 hours ago • 92 comments

You know what’s actually newsworthy and deserves a weekly editorial takedown? The unprecedented nature of Elon Musk owning a major communications platform while paying people to vote for Trump and then working in an unofficial official capacity in the White House.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

This is actually a perfect joke

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

This yr office, bro?

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

"You cannot tell us how much the contract is for?" -- Pete Hegseth refuses to answer Sen. Reed's questions about the Trump's Qatari aircraft, including the cost of refurbishing it

submitted 9 hours ago • 44 comments

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

submitted 9 hours ago • 177 comments

Actually the Confederacy was bad

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

Trump’s bill blocks millions of families from the full Child Tax Credit—just to give billionaires another break.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

California’s farmworkers are the backbone of our economy. They work through grueling conditions – rain and shine, heat and cold, even a pandemic – to feed the nation. Targeting these workers is just wrong. And meant to stoke fear, not improve public safety.

submitted 10 hours ago • 98 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 272 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1137 comments

The deployment of Marines to Los Angeles was uncalled for, rushed, and potentially dangerous for everyone involved. We’re demanding answers from Sec. Hegseth. This isn't just a California problem. What Trump does in Los Angeles could become the authoritarian blueprint elsewhere in the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Will they be goose-stepping in that parade?

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

The law and order president who himself is a convicted felon...

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

When I see videos or photos like this, all I can think about is how at some point, this kid and his mom were in a store and saw that shirt and he liked it or thought it was cool so she bought it to make him happy.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Austin TX continued to use excessive force against their civilians into the night.

submitted 1 day ago • 462 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

submitted 20 hours ago • 75 comments

In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

submitted 21 hours ago • 131 comments

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

submitted 21 hours ago • 798 comments

Humiliated by China, Harvard, Elon Musk, and the federal courts, Trump has launched a war inside America on vulnerable people inside America. Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward.

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

"He can't deploy the national guard. That's illegal" I say as a national guardsman stomps my face into the concrete

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Trump says his plan for FEMA is to give out less money and make the relief decisions himself

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom condemns Trump's deployment of troops in a televised address: "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk."

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

Gov. Newsom says Trump is "not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him." "What more evidence do we need than January 6?"

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

How did Trump's deportation plan go from targeting "the worst of the worst" to a crackdown at Home Depot?

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Our institutions are not made for this moment, and those in establishment - from the media to business to politics - aren't built for this fight. If you're counting on them to lead us, then we are already doomed. The leaders will emerge from the ground and the grassroots.

submitted 22 hours ago • 51 comments

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is wild

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

It took protesters to whoop Trump’s ass the last time he was in office, and it looks like protesters are the only ones up to the task this time too.

submitted 20 hours ago • 53 comments

Clash between protesters and federal agents at ICE raid in Omaha

submitted 1 day ago • 452 comments

Excellent acoustics here on West Houston as the crowd spontaneously erupts into “Fuck Donald Trump!”

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Congress is nowhere to be found." "Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don."

submitted 22 hours ago • 56 comments

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IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

Autocrats turn ordinary situations into emergencies so they can wield extraordinary power.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

CNN Reporter to Police: He’s press, he’s with me Police Officer: You grabbing me? Get away from me

submitted 1 day ago • 310 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 23 hours ago • 479 comments

Americans know scapegoating when we see it. Authoritarians target, vilify and demonize small minority groups to whip up negative emotions and mask their own programs. It's up to the people to reject sinister efforts to dehumanize and stigmatize transgender Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

I saw a wonderfully gruesome horror movie called BRING HER BACK this afternoon. Thoughtful, textured, and scary as hell.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com on how autocracy isn’t knocking at our door…it’s already arrived.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments