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Democrats should go to all these ruby red and vulnerable GOP districts where voters are upset at Trump and Musk and court them. Full court press.

submitted 19 hours ago • 197 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 8 hours ago • 235 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 hours ago • 88 comments

WP analysis of the contract data found that many of the canceled contracts were already complete, meaning canceling them didn’t yield any money back because they had been fully paid out — and indeed, 417 of the deals on DOGE’s list indicate that they saved $0. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

If this is the level of reckless sloppiness and shoddy work that is now taking over our government, do you trust them to keep our food safe, our airplanes from crashing, and our towns warned in advance and protected when tornadoes are coming? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 hours ago • 790 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 6 hours ago • 235 comments

I hope he hits the Listerine hard after this.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 1 day ago • 340 comments

NEW: The Associated Press is suing Trump Administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from events over the organization continuing to use the name 'Gulf of Mexico.' AP says the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

Marco Rubio has instructed USAID to claim this is all a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Pretty wild that a large portion of the media doesn't have this front and center. Steve Bannon throws a seig heil at CPAC and it's gotten very little news. Are the media afraid of the "but these are jokes" type? Media/political types are you really afraid of this guy?

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 1 day ago • 1070 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 921 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

If Trump sells F-35s to India, the era of US air dominance is over. Full stop.

submitted 8 days ago • 192 comments

You should ask yourself why the GOP wants to impeach judges who rule against them but not Clarence Thomas, who failed to report millions of dollars in bribes, erm, “gifts” on his financial disclosures.

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On his second day as secretary of the DHHS, he ended HHS funding for health and climate change.

submitted 3 days ago • 147 comments

Tomorrow’s UK front pages are tearing Trump apart. Two of these are right-wing newspapers. “Trump appals world”, “Shameful Trump” and “Deranged Trump”

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Kash Patel may try to purge the FBI — but he could do a lot of damage without overhauling the bureau much at all. “An unnervingly large percentage of the agency will be sympathetic to what Patel wants to do.”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

submitted 3 days ago • 210 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

“Ultimately, by joining in Trump’s effort to make America lawless, Sullivan & Cromwell may be working to render itself irrelevant.”

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

What happened last time we had a mad king? America doesn't do kings.

submitted 3 days ago • 379 comments

Reupping @lolgop.bsky.social and my Ball of Ka$h, the last installment in our Ball of Thread podcast, in advance of the GOP Senate capitulating to Trump on his nomination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANI...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 407 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1915 comments