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submitted 41 days ago • 318 comments

Our cover this week.

submitted 52 days ago • 1333 comments

For shame Sheri Redstone. How much fucking money do you need that you are willing to destroy one of the pillars of accountability journalism and the country along with it. #save60minutes

submitted 53 days ago • 18 comments

Planning to submit a parody of Patrick Healy's creepily undermining "analysis" of Larry David's satire, leading to a creepily undermining analysis of my parody, launching an endless cycle of satire & counter-satire until the sun burns out

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 61 days ago • 1320 comments

What doesn’t Klein mention in this piece? Corporate lobbyist obstructionism and corporate litigation challenging every govt action. Do you know what causes govt to move slow? Corporate lobbyist obstructionism and corporate litigation challenging every govt action. Govt doesn’t choose to suck.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Booker: "I've never seen an administration in my lifetime do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggering hurts American people."

submitted 70 days ago • 447 comments

And THAT'S why you always clean the blender

submitted 69 days ago • 26 comments

I feel for the Silicon Valley & Wall Street types surprised by Trump’s tariffs. Who could have even thought to pay attention to his speeches, the positions on his website, hundreds of newspaper articles, or nationally televised debates. The information was practically impossible to come by

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 74 days ago • 10840 comments

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 74 days ago • 1419 comments

Bribery, a controversial tactic

submitted 85 days ago • 68 comments

“This includes adopting institutional neutrality—which means they will stop taking official positions on most political issues” Nothing about Columbia’s concessions are neutral. Cowering to Trump regime demands is in fact, taking a position.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

One final point about this. You need to understand that the reason Dems ALWAYS alight on "We need to show Americans we can get things done" has nothing to do with any kind of real critical thinking about politics, it's a manifestation of their pathological institutional conflict-aversion.

submitted 85 days ago • 34 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 85 days ago • 3827 comments

very clever for this iteration of Nazism to come as anti-antisemitism

submitted 87 days ago • 12 comments

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

submitted 90 days ago • 2283 comments

The would-be autocrats in the Trump administration have made this easy for Columbia. The university must categorically reject these demands and make a plan for surviving the next four years.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a no on cloture, I'm a no on the CR, and I'm a no on giving Elon Musk and Donald Trump a slush fund to rig the government for billionaires like themselves at the expense of everyone else.

submitted 93 days ago • 533 comments

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

Who are the young NY Democrats to run and win Schumer and Gillibrand’s seats?

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 94 days ago • 697 comments

Surprise! The Russians, who have repeatedly said they don't want a ceasefire, have once again said they don't want a ceasefire

submitted 94 days ago • 212 comments

When the story of media complicity in the rise of American fascism is written, this tweet by a Politico reporter last July should be duly noted.

submitted 94 days ago • 192 comments

Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.

submitted 95 days ago • 93 comments

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

submitted 96 days ago • 193 comments

big deal 👇

submitted 96 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept their promise, why won’t he? Read more: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...

submitted 97 days ago • 388 comments

Oh great, we're entering the Fugitive Slave Law part of this nightmare.

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

This shows you that Donald Trump isn’t bothered by the illegal use of force, war crimes, the bombing of civilian targets, and the kidnapping of children. At least not when Vladimir Putin does it. That’s sociopathic.

submitted 99 days ago • 159 comments

getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life

submitted 101 days ago • 59 comments

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

submitted 101 days ago • 218 comments

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

submitted 103 days ago • 81 comments

warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

submitted 102 days ago • 1286 comments

Dear maga, The global right, who used to admire Trump, has absolutely turned on him and now is openly saying he works for Russia. The right in Canada has dropped in the polls and now openly distances themselves from you. Same with Germany and UK You suck

submitted 103 days ago • 488 comments

One of our best security experts sums it up:

submitted 102 days ago • 79 comments

“There is nothing ‘final’ about McMahon’s mission. It is only a nihilistic act of civic vandalism, carried out by ideological zealots who don’t understand what they are trying in vain to destroy.” Read @kevincarey1.bsky.social: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 103 days ago • 1196 comments

lol

submitted 104 days ago • 165 comments

Tulsi Gabbard, sounding very much like a Kremlin spokesperson on Fox News Sunday, accuses Zelenskyy of an “escalation”

submitted 104 days ago • 1117 comments

Moments after being shown polling indicating that Trump’s favorable position toward Putin is out of step with American public opinion, Tulsi Gabbard asserts that Trump’s stance is being “celebrated” by the American public

submitted 104 days ago • 991 comments