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So many great lines/observations. (Not least the reminder that the very serious bizguys didn't think Harris was serious.)

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

🚨BREAKING: Four more Big Law firms join the ranks of Trump collaborators. A&O Shearman, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and Simpson Thacher all capitulated. In a sign of growing inflation, each firm agreed to $125m in Trump approved pro bono. Shameful.

submitted 68 days ago • 924 comments

Trump is engaging in a massive purge of public servants, so why does he want firms to offer them pro bono help? It will legal aid for Trump appointees for when the break the law (also, the firms are told to hire Trump admin alum). They are turning these law firms into Trump law firms.

submitted 68 days ago • 59 comments

Democracy dies with dark humor.

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

Where have I heard that before

submitted 68 days ago • 48 comments

"The President would look feckless if the administration tells a federal judge it can’t get its prisoner back, especially since the United States is reportedly footing the $6 million bill for the incarceration of the deportees." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 69 days ago • 186 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 68 days ago • 200 comments

This thread by the Congressman is a lie, and we should primary Democrats who lie to people about the content of statutes. Here is the section on documentary proof from the SAVE Act.

submitted 68 days ago • 57 comments

Compromat or Cowardice?

submitted 68 days ago • 29 comments

Look at all these stock trades MTG made just before Trump’s “surprise” announcement. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

submitted 69 days ago • 24 comments

Bribe for hire Pam Bondi has officially restored violent convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson’s gun rights after being taken away from him in 2011. I’ll say it again, Pam Bondi isn’t an Attorney General, she’s a criminal hired to help criminals.

submitted 69 days ago • 184 comments

The MAGA regime has officially canceled the Social Security numbers of more than 6,300 immigrants with legal status. The cruelty and the racism was always the point.

submitted 68 days ago • 35 comments

You know it’s bad when the illegitimate compromised Supreme Court voted unanimously to force the orange felon and his group of criminals to bring back the Maryland man they deported to El Salvador. Also, let’s stop pretending it was a mistake, it was done on purpose.

submitted 68 days ago • 166 comments

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 72 days ago • 327 comments

But yeah, tell me more about how “the left” are paid protestors

submitted 71 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 71 days ago • 819 comments

"cut Interest Rates...Interests Rates are down...CUT INTERESTS RATES"

submitted 75 days ago • 13 comments

He's now demanding that Jerome Powell cut interest rates after imposing massive tariffs that will make inflation spike.

submitted 75 days ago • 119 comments

Trump take switch

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

Democratic Congresswoman Sara Jacobs introduced a bill called the Delete DOGE Act which would defund DOGE since it’s only purpose is to empower a corrupt billionaire to hide fraud not prevent it. I doubt it’ll be passed due to republican obstruction, but thank you Congresswoman.

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

As it stands, the orange felon and career fraudster is responsible for the 7 largest drops in the history of DOW Jones. This winning sucks.

submitted 75 days ago • 39 comments

Too busy playing golf with the Saudis, guess they forgot to say thank you.

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."

submitted 76 days ago • 123 comments

I do love The Daily Texan. You go, student journalists! "This Editorial Board opposes all attempts to ban drag and believes the Board of Regents should reverse its ruling to uphold our constitutional right to free speech at our University." thedailytexan.com/2025/04/04/d...

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

REPORTER: The markets today are way down. The worst day in years. Because of the tariffs. So, how's it going? TRUMP: I think it's going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on.

submitted 76 days ago • 1000 comments

If you have parking tickets or moving violations, you're going to be renditioned to a slave labor camp in a random foreign country run by a regime-friendly dictator.

submitted 76 days ago • 52 comments

Senior Trump administration officials have been accused of using the third-party app to discuss highly sensitive national security information.

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

Sens. Chuck Grassley and Maria Cantwell just introduced a bill to reassert Congress's power over tariffs. The Trade Review Act of 2025 says a president must notify Congress about new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition. It requires Congress to approve them within 60 days or they expire.

submitted 76 days ago • 383 comments

Again, if you've got a Republican representing you in Congress -- and I don't care who it is -- call them to complain about the tariffs. They're panicking.

submitted 76 days ago • 122 comments

To the people who didn’t bother to vote- hope you learned a valuable lesson.

submitted 88 days ago • 17 comments

Trump is already defying the courts. He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court. Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.

submitted 87 days ago • 286 comments

“I take him at his word”

submitted 87 days ago • 252 comments

the contrasts between Susan Crawford & Brad Schimel is just very pronounced — not just on what they say now, but on their long records as lawyers in Wisconsin. on issue after issue. check it out below on: ballot access, voter ID, abortion, collective bargaining. read: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Protesters on college campuses are domestic terrorists, per the Trump administration. January 6th insurrections, labeled by the FBI as domestic terrorists, are pardoned by Trump. Make it make sense.

submitted 87 days ago • 183 comments

He’s in for a big surprise if the checks stop.

submitted 87 days ago • 282 comments

Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)

submitted 87 days ago • 2225 comments

"Give the power to the states" was also the pro-slavery argument in the 1850s -- and the pro-segregation argument in the 1950s.

submitted 88 days ago • 274 comments

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Health Ministry said Sunday — a grim indicator of the conflict’s continued lethality less than a week since Israel shattered a nearly two-month-old ceasefire.

submitted 87 days ago • 42 comments

"It sort of doesn't matter" — Trump envoy Steve Witkoff unconcerned with Putin taking over Europe

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Wow, egg prices must be higher than I thought.

submitted 87 days ago • 51 comments

Casar demonstrates how Democrats can effectively message on Fox News

submitted 87 days ago • 105 comments

Please join us tomorrow at 530PM EDT/230PM PDT for a national town hall on the Measles outbreak. This is also the first public health town hall in what will be a year long partnership with the AFT to ensure accurate health info is widely available and totally free. event.on24.com/wcc/r/490311...

submitted 87 days ago • 14 comments

Something special is happening, people. Ignore it or downplay it at your own peril…

submitted 88 days ago • 981 comments

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

submitted 87 days ago • 5069 comments

John Roberts is not "rebuking" Donald Trump. He's bending the knee. If you listen to what Roberts is not saying, you'll see he's telling Trump exactly what he wants to hear. We've seen this before from another Chief Justice, in Marbury v. Madison. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 90 days ago • 80 comments

The French government said Thursday that a French academic was refused entry onto U.S. soil over comments he had expressed against policies enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump. 1/2 www.politico.com/www.politico...

submitted 90 days ago • 9 comments

Steve Davis is arguably the second most important person at DOGE, behind his boss Elon Musk. He has done everything for Musk, who has described his lieutenant like chemotherapy: “A little chemo can save your life; a lot of chemo could kill you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 90 days ago • 31 comments

I’ll repeat — if the goal ISN’T to specifically and deliberately weaken and isolate the United States as quickly as possible, how would a plan to do that look any different than what they are doing?

submitted 90 days ago • 29 comments