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submitted 3 days ago • 262 comments

MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? PATEL: No. MURRAY: We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. Where is it? PATEL: I will give it to you when I decide. MURRAY: Do you actually work at the FBI? PATEL: I will not tolerate this. MURRAY: Do you even know what your job is?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

"The world's richest man is killing the world's poorest children. And he's doing it with glee" - Bill Gates

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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

Two nuclear powers are starting a war while the US president is a senile narcissist who dismantles his country & the Russian one an imperialist nationalist who chucks opponents out of windows. Cool cool cool.

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submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

A reminder not to store red sauce in Tupperware.

submitted 5 days ago • 1977 comments

I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again. Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine. They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating. Authors, join the fight: @authorsabb.bsky.social!!

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

"He doesn't care about you. He will never care about you. Your future and your children's future are meaningless. By the time he's through, your children will be eating out of dumpsters." - Hillary Clinton

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 1368 comments

😂🥴😂

submitted 7 days ago • 346 comments

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

submitted 7 days ago • 1738 comments

May the 4th be with you

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Florida resident now resides in Maryland?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

stop thinking about waiting till midterm elections, there may not be a functional republic by then

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

What kinda of show purports to take place in Pittsburgh and no one says “jagoff” in at least the first 4 episodes…

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A male Northern Cardinal flew down into the brush to grab a flying insect, then called for his mate and gave the tasty snack to her

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

"He goes bankrupt every other week. He's always setting up a new money making scheme. He has a golden toilet. He's in love with his own daughter. Of course you can't trust this guy." - Mitt Romney, 2016

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

submitted 10 days ago • 428 comments

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The conman who was forced to shut down his fake "university" because its operation was consumer fraud, is trying to undermine America's oldest, most prestigious, legitimate university through an abuse of presidential power.

submitted 10 days ago • 754 comments

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1634 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 332 comments

A Waltz is a little longer than a Scaramucci

submitted 11 days ago • 439 comments

New cabinet meeting protocols require each secretary to don MAGA hat, dance on one foot like a chicken, and then do an exaggerated bow to the president before reciting his praises in a voice like from a Molière comedy

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Doll rationing in America has Begun .

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

#ResignTraitors

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

submitted 11 days ago • 801 comments

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 days ago • 916 comments

Asylum seekers, legal residents and applicants with dates in an immigration court are NOT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. Being a non-citizen does NOT make someone undocumented.

submitted 14 days ago • 77 comments

www.greyhound.com/warrantless-...

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

Has the White House told us that the 4-year-old cancer patient belonged to MS 13 yet? It’s only a matter of time.

submitted 15 days ago • 608 comments

This is good messaging for Dems and it happens to be true

submitted 15 days ago • 357 comments

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

submitted 15 days ago • 530 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 18 days ago • 1626 comments

Memo to the press: I’m hearing there is new Greenland task force at the State Department. Here’s what I have heard:

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations newrepublic.com/post/194312/... via @newrepublic.com

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

submitted 19 days ago • 303 comments

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It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

submitted 19 days ago • 123 comments

📌BREAKING: “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Bill Owens, resigns saying, “Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.” 📌CHILLING

submitted 19 days ago • 625 comments

In less than 100 days: The dollar hit a three-year low Dow has fallen 13.8% S&P 500 is down 15.5% Nasdaq is down 20.5%. So. Much. Winning.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Straight outta #Pittsburgh

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears theintercept.com/2025/04/20/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

submitted 22 days ago • 434 comments