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An easy face-saving way out of the Abrego Garcia mess for the US would be for Pres Bukele to announce tomorrow that in his sovereign mercy, he is returning AG to the US. If that happens, no one should be fooled: Bukele is a two-bit dictator who will do exactly what he thinks or is told Trump wants.

submitted 4 hours ago • 53 comments

What could possibly go wrong… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 12 hours ago • 977 comments

How to tell you’re a certified Boomer: You have dreams of sniffing the mimeograph paper as a 5th grader.

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A 17 year old in Wisconsin killed his parents. His name is: Nikita Casap. The FBI says he’s a white racist who… “Wanted to kill the President”. But instead he killed his parents. In Wisconsin. And I’m trying to understand how any of this makes sense. Name: NIKITA. Really?

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Here’s where things stand heading into the third week of trading since President Trump escalated a global trade war

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

LUTNICK OVERTURNS TRUMP’S CHINA TARIFF REPRIEVE on laptops, cell phones, and semi conductors.

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1178 comments

In Iran if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life. Wait, sorry, no. That's Mississippi.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1347 comments

i think i am going to be f**king sick to my stomach: someone appears to have tried to burn down gov josh shapiro’s house on passover

submitted 14 hours ago • 21 comments

There’s a wasp, whose larvae get into other insects’ bodies and take them over, and control the host insect from the inside. Who’s driving the husk of Rubio around?

submitted 16 hours ago • 240 comments

So wait... Trump wants MORE??? Walt Whitman = America's LGBTQ+ past Mark Twain = satirist of America's racist id Irving Berlin = immigrant rights Ella Fitzgerald = @nhannahjones.bsky.social 's whole point in the 1619 Project

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

I don’t use the “fascist” term often or really ever, as to preserve its meaning, but what the United States Government is embarking on with the El Salvadoran prison camp is simply that. It’s an affront to the rule of law, the Constitution, and centuries of Anglo-American constitutional development.

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments