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Q: What would you say to Americans who fear that this is more and more concentration of power in the White House? TRUMP: Well this really brings back the Constitution

submitted 7 hours ago • 85 comments

Look at where we are

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

IDF soldiers confirming what many observers suspected, and some evidence already pointed to: Firing on civilians in Gaza getting humanitarian aid isn’t a response to threats, nor a handful of troops being panicky or sadistic. It’s orders from above. There’s no security rationale for that. At all.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

submitted 10 hours ago • 177 comments

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

submitted 21 hours ago • 334 comments

New in PN: Trump's secret police are terrorizing American streets "The scenes of aggressive, masked agents roughing people up are reminiscent of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, where police and the military act with impunity against citizens."

submitted 10 hours ago • 113 comments

Aight, see ya. moving to California to become mentally ill

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This is so so so so corrupt. Why any institution is willing to negotiate is beyond me — why anyone thinks they can make a real deal is baffling. It’s corruption all the way down.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

This excellent piece is about Voice of America being dismantled, but it could equally be about US AID or higher education. At a conference in Korea where US-educated university leaders here are talking a lot about democratic values. Will their students be able to visit the US?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

submitted 1 day ago • 2311 comments

Trump: "The intelligence was very inconclusive. The intelligence says we don't know. It could have been very severe. That's what the intelligence says. So I guess that's correct. But I think we can take the we don't know. It was very severe. It was obliteration."

submitted 2 days ago • 284 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

Mass murderer. (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

What impact is AI having on jobs in the tech industry? I've been collecting stories from tech workers—from engineers at giants like Google to content mods at TikTok to coders at small startups—to find out. Here, in their words, is how AI is transforming, degrading, and yes, replacing their jobs.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

"Parties who have acted in bad faith are supposed to be barred from receiving equitable relief. And yet, SCOTUS's conservatives are now rewarding the DOJ and DHS for repeated defiance of a judge's order, allowing it to use the very chaos it created as justification to allow it to break the law more"

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

After his military attack failed to destroy Iran's nuclear program, President Donald Trump tries verbally attacking the media for telling the truth

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

This is dark

submitted 3 days ago • 551 comments

There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances. There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Laughing face emojis from a White House account quoting Trump about him “probably” meeting with Zelensky, whose country is being bombed every day by Russia and is in need of US help, which is meant to be its biggest backer. In the past 24 hours, two massive attacks killed 25 people and injured 100s.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

His mastery of the deep intricacies of international relations continues to boggle the mind.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

This is a recurring strategy with these assholes: -Break the thing that's been working -Wait until people forget about you breaking the thing that was working -Complain loudly about the thing being broken and how the Left never fixes anything and why isn't anything working

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

The guy that was facing prison or white house time last November is now starting world war three. who would have guessed

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

US press and public usually judges war not on legality or strategy, but on: 1) Does it look cool on TV? 2) Is POTUS a Democrat? 3) Are we winning? If not, do I have to see the downsides on my screen? Remember, the only big public complaint about the 20-year war in Afghanistan was Biden ending it.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 5 days ago • 237 comments

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

submitted 5 days ago • 535 comments

Worse than I thought

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

A little entertainment, at least

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

2018 article but the point Stephen Miller’s uncle makes is still a good one to say to anyone who tries to pull the “but he’s Jewish himself” line: among many other things, his ideal immigration law is at least going back to the American law that made the Holocaust worse

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

probably going to regret asking, but is there even a plausible theory* under which the US could militarily engage Iran absent congressional consent, either domestically or internationally, or are we really now fully in the vacuum of the absence of law

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Nihilism.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

submitted 6 days ago • 637 comments

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

"The study shows that such extreme events are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, with last year’s figures reaching twice that of the 2003-2020 average. The steepness of the rise was not foreseen."

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Are we supposed to act like this is normal? Like he hasn't lost his fucking mind?

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments