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Apparently when you are Brown even a Real ID is not enough to convince ICE that you are a citizen

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

hi yes and who pays for the army budget just wondering

submitted 6 days ago • 279 comments

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

submitted 6 days ago • 620 comments

Jake Tapper thinks this gives him some sort of “speaking truth to power,” “both sides” street cred, when in reality, it makes him look like an obsessively myopic asshole. Democracy is burning down around us, and here is this smug prick. Trump walked into a wall, and he’s still fixated on Biden.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

submitted 9 days ago • 920 comments

The formal acceptance of the Qatari plane by the Trump administration will be largely forgotten within a week's time, if not sooner. Legacy media sees zero incentive in reporting on it beyond that time. If anything, we're more likely to see political reporters post pics of themselves on the plane.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

GWU graduation…

submitted 12 days ago • 241 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 12 days ago • 1117 comments

Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

submitted 12 days ago • 1551 comments

"Average voters won't trust us until we dump on Biden more" is the most transparently self-serving horseshit I have ever heard in my life.

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

average comment section in 2025

submitted 13 days ago • 534 comments

Secretary Noem wants to turn the border into a reality show - because exploiting human suffering is easier than offering real solutions. This isn’t leadership, it’s a disgraceful stunt that demeans the office she holds and our nation. Even merely exploring the idea is utterly shameful.

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

One crucial thing to understand about the book & tour (about Biden's age) from Alex Thompson & @jaketapper.bsky.social is that angry liberals yelling at them for wallowing in this bullshit while fascism takes over the country ... is built in. It's part of the business model. They want & expect it.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

Great question

submitted 13 days ago • 1234 comments

The pivot to blaming companies for the obvious consequence of your tariffs has begun

submitted 13 days ago • 1367 comments

They kidnapped people and should be treated like kidnappers.

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

The fact that today's ruling was 7-2 & not 9-0 highlights once again how adding seats to SCOTUS is now the only tenable & baseline "moderate" & "centrist" & "pro-democracy" position.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Going great: Grok veers into holocaust denial. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.

submitted 14 days ago • 116 comments

> @newyorker.com

submitted 14 days ago • 151 comments

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

submitted 15 days ago • 187 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 16 days ago • 1592 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 16 days ago • 2479 comments

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

submitted 16 days ago • 744 comments

Democrats hoped the Inflation Reduction Act would build a bipartisan constituency for climate policy by spreading out the benefits. Instead Republicans are attempting to repeal it almost entirely, goring the economies of their own districts. From @ryanlcooper.com: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

submitted 17 days ago • 305 comments

This isn't right even as a matter of literal definitions. Bribery requires quid pro quo. "Corruption" is not limited to bribery. It is corrupt to personally profit off your public office even if it's not direct bribery. Don't finger-wag about "terms matter" if you're going to misdefine said terms.

submitted 18 days ago • 88 comments

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 732 comments

NEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!

submitted 18 days ago • 256 comments

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

submitted 19 days ago • 361 comments

The president who’s taking bribes wants you to know that the people noticing his crime are the “crooked” ones

submitted 18 days ago • 558 comments

The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen. It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.

submitted 20 days ago • 275 comments

Networks must be more cautious when reporting Trump’s so-called “deals.” His announcements often follow a familiar, deceptive pattern: declare a major breakthrough, only for the details to later reveal that nothing has actually changed. 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 218 comments

Ut oh. Even the most committed MAGAts are disturbed by Trump's grift. 🤔

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

Oops.

submitted 21 days ago • 4076 comments

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

submitted 21 days ago • 578 comments

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

submitted 22 days ago • 1090 comments

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

submitted 22 days ago • 292 comments

Jesus Christ, the daughter’s cries are heart wrenching. This shit is fucking barbaric and inhumane. The most foul evil.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

submitted 22 days ago • 2010 comments

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

submitted 22 days ago • 217 comments

Kleptocracy

submitted 23 days ago • 506 comments

it’s astounding how twitter has quite possibly the dumbest user base of any social media these days

submitted 23 days ago • 649 comments

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

submitted 24 days ago • 706 comments