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The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 317 comments

the words "the allegation here is not that he was breaking the law" have been instantly burned into my brain and will be haunting me for many years to come THE ALLEGATION HERE IS NOT THAT HE WAS BREAKING THE LAW (which is why we're going to revoke his residency & deport him for life)

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I feel a serious disconnect as an outsider looking in, when presidential candidates and politicians are routinely expected to espouse their (very specifically Christian) faith at any given juncture, and simultaneously there is an insistence that Christians are being roundly persecuted in the States.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

The NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc etc have shifted to the right. Fox & the Post et al have always been hard right. Twitter & Meta are controlled by right wingers. On a daily basis, millions of Americans - probably the majority - see nothing but sanitized, accomodationist, right wing coverage of Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

This brain-dead take is becoming the conventional wisdom on the struggles of young men but it's false. From homelessness to suicide prevention to opioid regulations to higher minimum wages, Democrats' platform and rhetoric are far better for men than anything coming from the right.

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 5 days ago • 1323 comments

For all the TRUMP = STRONG propaganda this is exactly what his “leadership” was like in Covid. Constant zigging and zagging, self-contradictory, incapable of commitment, wanting to have it both ways. It was a disaster!

submitted 6 days ago • 451 comments

As president, Joe Biden made “fund the police, fund them” a pause-for-applause line at the State of the Union. Senate Dems unanimously voted against defunding the police and publicly touted that afterwards. They literally did the suggested “move to the center” on this. It’s not a serious argument.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

NEW: Fresh details on the chaos leading up to the WH ordering the US Army Corps to release billions of gallons of water from 2 CA dams in Jan. Included DOGE reps demanding to “turn on the pumps” themselves at a federal water plant, while getting their picture taken. www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/c...

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

RFK Jr. managed to convince swaths of Americans that Trump would take on industrial agriculture and promote small, organic farmers Now, small, organic farmers are suing Trump for putting their operations at risk at the start of the growing season heated.world/p/organic-fa...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"If we throw minorities under the bus, Republicans will stop calling us too woke" is the same logic that got us Clinton's welfare cuts and Obama's immigration crackdowns. You can't policy your way out of a right-wing propaganda problem.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

These same Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it. But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

Littlejohn claims that her child's school transitioned them without parental permission. Bullshit. Here is the truth 👇 In emails with the school, Littlejohn stated, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself," and "I’m going to let her take the lead on this." #Silence=Erasure

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

"medical freedom" = criminalizing vaccines, in the same way that "free speech" = banning words and books

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

This shit is so tedious. "It's not a genocide, it's merely the indiscriminate murder of tens of thousands of innocent people." OK but then surely the moral imperative is to stand against it rather than moan about people using a term you don't like?

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Four impeachment resolutions have been filed in the 119th Congress. All four are by Republicans targeting judges. Not a single Democrat has put themselves on the official record saying anything to date merits removing anybody from office.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

There it is. The opening salvo is cooking the national books. They've tipped the whole economy into recession. So this their angle. And as long as we're talking about Dept of Commerce, when do we starting hearing about those cash on the barrel deals for pardons and well everything?

submitted 10 days ago • 61 comments

Just as in the US, conservative media is whipping up a ‘crisis of men’ as an excuse to blame the left for the entirely foreseeable consequences of right-wing policy. You think Tories are gonna do shit about underfunded education and falling wages?

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

What's not mentioned in this excerpt is that this was sponsored by Third Way, a think tank that is singlemindedly devoted to convincing Democrats to cut the left out of the party. God knows the DNC has its problems, but it's misleading to frame this as a mainstream Democratic conference.

submitted 10 days ago • 122 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

We can quibble about the placement of each item but the original sin here is the very existence of this graph. Why on earth would a news organization rank social issues like they're weapons in an RPG?

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

“Have you said thank you once?”

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.

submitted 12 days ago • 431 comments

The obvious point here is that when Dems hold positions of power they don't actually force people to say things like "pregnant people." Some people were asked to used their pro-nouns once on a zoom call and mistook it for oppression.

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

A Vanity Fair paper on the origin of the pandemic details some of the reasoning behind the FBI's "Moderate confidence" assessment for a lab leak, via a retired FBI senior scientist. It seems they were not aware of key information that rebuts their story 🤯 ▫️1/8 www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

As I warned: it's the bullshit "Twitter files" all over again. Take uninteresting, unsurprising documents, give them to the dumbest, most gullible people... And watch them craft conspiracy theories out of their own ignorance.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: A federal judge ruled Thursday that OPM illegally ordered the mass firing of probationary employees. He did NOT reinstate fired employees or block future terminations but said decisions must be made by agencies, not OPM. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Trump goons discovering that "the Epstein files" are a MacGuffin they made up themselves and now have to blame each other for supposedly withholding is a marvelous development

submitted 13 days ago • 156 comments

It's very frustrating to me that "savvy" political coverage does not include the savviness required to point out that the lifelong misogynist who lies all the time might not have been serious about delivering on this proposal.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

You don't have to "craft" anything, you let trans people use the bathroom they want and you ban creep behavior. That's already the policy in most public bathrooms in the US and has been for decades. Cis men pretending to be trans so they can assault women in bathrooms is vanishingly rare.

submitted 13 days ago • 111 comments

Congrats again, everyone, on four years of unserious, unending discussion of the imminent Biden “recession.” Well done. Now begins the Finding Out about what actual recessions look like & what actually causes them.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

RFK Jr: "We're watching it and we're going to continue to follow it." You know a Dem HHS secretary would have a vigorous plan to combat and contain it. Not this mope. Just gonna watch it.

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

We've had EB-5 for years and never come close to those figures. It's stupid fantasy.

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.

submitted 15 days ago • 49 comments

The "campus free speech" and "cancel culture" panics were obvious efforts to seed the ground for a huge expansion of left-wing censorship and right-wing propaganda. That effort appears to have worked.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

submitted 15 days ago • 108 comments

When Trump does it: locker room talk If straight guys are punished for it: cancel culture If LGBTQ employees do it: purge them

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

As I’ve frequently said, congressional Republicans are not acting as if they will face voters again. They would be asserting their Article I powers if they did

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Again, for 🇺🇸 observers looking for lessons/Narratives™️ in 🇩🇪, the story is "80% of voters rejected the fascists, the main surprise is young voters flocked to the left this year, & unlike 🇺🇸 the country held an election where votes were quickly counted & all parties accepted the results immediately"

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 19 days ago • 135 comments

We've collected our articles and videos to help you understand why Zelensky's legitimacy is being questioned and how that plays into Russia's hands.

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

Just making sure everyone who told us Biden can't do X or his DOJ can't do X, there are rules you need to follow please stfu

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments