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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

submitted 10 hours ago • 381 comments

it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

submitted 16 hours ago • 137 comments

Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 21 hours ago • 254 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 15 hours ago • 907 comments

Members of Congress should be banned from having side hustles and salaries from the companies they regulate… or trading stocks in the companies they regulate… or taking campaign donations from the companies they regulate… These are all examples of corruption. popular.info/p/congressma...

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

submitted 20 hours ago • 88 comments

What's new with SwiftUI 26? I got you covered! dimillian.medium.com/whats-new-wi...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

one of the realities of the online influencer/podcast/tiktok trend is that very few people are actually able to generate interesting content for the extended period of time required to make it a profession and when the rest start reaching that limit u can always tell

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

In a pantheon of evil degenerates, Miller still stands out. Top-tier movie villain. Absolutely no one would be remotely shocked if it came out that he tortured small animals as a child. If you look up “dead eyes” in the dictionary, etc.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

In which Josh Barro admits he doesn't even use Bluesky and seems to guess what it's about based on a single screenshot. If Bluesky actually didn't matter, these guys wouldn't keep talking about it. But it does. And what terrifies them is they can't control it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

Imagine being active on Twitter, the site that is a festering cesspool of racism, far-right ideology, misogyny, etc. & where opinions running counter to the owner are deboosted, and arguing that Bluesky is super toxic because some leftists get feisty. Really demonstrates how Twitter cooks your brain

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

submitted 12 hours ago • 883 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 11 hours ago • 1154 comments

Unrest during the Biden admin would be bad for Dems, but unrest during the Trump admin is also… bad for Dems. Because media and political thinkers have internalized the idea that Trump is Mr. Law and Order and all unrest inherently benefits him, even when he causes it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

notable that this times piece casts a story with conventional wisdom abt protests, immigration etc. and cites various polling data but doesn't cite the one poll since this started which shows the militarization is distinctly UNpopular 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 49 comments

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

submitted 20 hours ago • 74 comments

This. It's so obvious.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 13 hours ago • 256 comments

I have a hard time mentally processing any claims that Los Angeles is a “distraction” given that deploying the military if he gets pissed off and also expansively cruel immigration crackdowns were like the top two things he ran on in 2024

submitted 12 hours ago • 93 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 12 hours ago • 426 comments

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org @cazadoresdefakenews.info, Alianza Rebelde Investiga

submitted 13 hours ago • 27 comments

Yes, this was the idea

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

submitted 16 hours ago • 94 comments

I think this is probably the fairest criticism I've read and agree wholeheartedly. It also explains how people keep talking past each other in a way many takes don't.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

we are not going to find out the name of the patriot who did this

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Our whole society is going Nazi, and it's not because Trump has mass popular support - his support has barely changed in years - it's because our elites are unable to tolerate the uncomfortable experience of opposing bigotry, authoritarianism, and conspiracism in their own social circles.

submitted 14 hours ago • 21 comments

this to me is also a statement about who these people view as peers worth engaging with

submitted 14 hours ago • 83 comments

Yeah, as someone who's watching both sites, Barro is vastly overstating his point, and the more evident outcome has been center-left "intellectuals" palling around with Richard Hanania

submitted 15 hours ago • 66 comments

One problem here is that outside of the legal profession, where even a lot of diehard conservatives recognize that this is a five-alarm fire, most people in most fields (including the military) are desperate to "keep their powder dry" and wait for Trump to cross a line they keep moving.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

the scientific consensus is not in favor of scientific racism. quite the opposite. the people who promote scientific racism use pseudoscience and rhetorical fudging - "we all know what the numbers REALLY say" - to win support from innumerate amateurs who are impressed with their own intelligence.

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

hell yeah terry abc sucks butts

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Was not expecting Costas to join in any resistance, but okay...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Outlets "have to pretend that there’s always two sides to this," Costas observed. "There really isn’t two sides to much of what Donald Trump represents."

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

You know, I try to stay away from this kind of analysis but in this case I think that this is a clear case of the powerful seeing a center-left alliance against their candidate growing and freaking out about it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Someone's got to tell these white leftists to clean up their protest optics

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

So here's something important about MAGA that we don't talk about enough

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

i definitely feel safer with this person in charge of coordinating our intelligence agencies

submitted 19 hours ago • 88 comments

[email protected] I’m told you’re not planning on showing up tomorrow for NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s hearing tomorrow after NIH researchers published this public declaration abt gutting NIH? Is that true? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Nicolle Wallace: "Right now, there's only one political party in America that's clearly in favor of America remaining a democracy and it is not my old party." More from her interview with @status.news: www.status.news/p/nicolle-wa...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments