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The COMMENT section in WAPO is comedy gold.

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ATTENTION, SHOPPERS! We have a Silver Alert! If you’re missing an elderly gentleman, he is in the managers office. He is confused but he is safe.

submitted 5 hours ago • 193 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

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Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the subject of a heated dispute between two executives at the Arizona-based cybersecurity firm where he was an intern: bit.ly/3DcfRrN

submitted 14 hours ago • 43 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 22 hours ago • 335 comments

I went to the grocery store today. I couldn’t find eggs but I did find Susie Wiles’ photo on a milk carton.

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Another story repeating Susie Wiles' claim to be able to manage Elon. Sure, Susie. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again: where oh, where are all of those strict constitutionalists demanding that the executive branch’s power and reach is limited in their very, very very limited government view?

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Without friends

submitted 2 days ago • 333 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 1 day ago • 837 comments

wait this can't be right, we have two business geniuses at the helm

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

More of this

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When Red State Americans can't get access to their life saving medications and when their business start suffering as a result of Trump privatizing and/or destroying USPS...yeah that's gonna be something.

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So not only did Trump not win any sort of mandate, his honeymoon numbers are basically a participation trophy compared with other presidents. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

I would love to see Elon go to Mars.

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cowards

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the Amazon deal is going to dump a lot of low-grade crap on us, but I still think "James Bond movies are no longer necessary" might be a more convincing argument if we weren't on the 40th anniversary of the 007 movie where the villain was a Silicon Valley weirdo genetically engineered by Nazis

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In 1938, Nazi Germany held "peace talks" about Czechoslovakia with England, France, and Italy. The Czechs were not there. In 2025, Putin's Russia is holding "peace talks" about Ukraine with the US and Saudi Arabia. The Ukrainians are not there.

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www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

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IL Gov JB Pritzker is sounding the 🚨 alarm Pritzker is stepping up to fill a Dem leadership void as the Trump-Musk regime carries out its coup attempt --- Please read Prtizker's entire thread

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Acosta: It’s hard to see somebody out-Spicer Sean Spicer or out-Huckabee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but Karoline Leavitt—she’s making a run for it. Unless they’ve already done it on SNL, I have to think something like that is in the works, because the skit writes itself.

submitted 4 days ago • 264 comments

My latest for the @thebarbedwire.bsky.social makes the case that Trump and Musk are marching us into a "new fascism" that may not look exactly like its historical predecessors but nevertheless draws on the ideology to rend the democratic state and rule of law. thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

It's not in spite of these indicators, it's because of them. Affluence and ennui are powerful drivers of modern authoritatianism.

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

Beautiful letter

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If you were wondering if there is a word to describe how the United States is currently being governed, why, yes, there is: kakistocracy!

submitted 3 days ago • 354 comments

Who better to quote than Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who erroneously said there are three branches of the U.S. federal government: "the House, the Senate, and the executive."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, look. The House GOP Budget reflects all the evil cuts to Medicaid they said they'd do in Project 2025. Maybe take them literally and seriously.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Y'all know what to do.

submitted 3 days ago • 168 comments

Trump wants to gut Social Security but he just spent neatly $11 million in one month of our tax dollars to play golf. Trump is the Marie Antoinette of America--and we all know how that story ended. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Wake up, GOP Congress.

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Ukrainians from across the political spectrum rallied behind President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, decrying President Donald Trump’s claims that he was failing, unpopular, illegitimate and to blame for the 2022 invasion of the country that has killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I watched Hannity's interview with Musk and Donald Trump so that you didn't have to. It was, as George W. Bush might have said, some weird shit www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.

submitted 3 days ago • 347 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 839 comments

If we are to believe these government attorneys in the case being heard by Judge Tanya Chutkin, the government itself doesn't know who or how many they've just fired. Judge expected to rule in 24 hours in case that aims to sharply curtail Musk's DOGE - www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...

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No interest in Ukraine’s rare earth metals but would love it if they’d let us have their president

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