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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

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1 month ago and even more since

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Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

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@chrisvance.bsky.social

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👏👏👏 Thank you @chriswarcraft.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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👇🏻👇🏻

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Has Vladimir Putin ever had a better week in Washington? My new column on Trump’s selling out of Ukraine: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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😂

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Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

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Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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This is not just a musing from a dude with some various ideas. The next step is to hollow out the judiciary and also not follow their rulings, which have been against Musk’s efforts. This is a very obvious coup, for those not paying attention.

submitted 13 days ago • 984 comments

USAID — Destroying a federal agency based on lies and falsehoods (excuse me, “right-wing media stories”) is not the American way.

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments

Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 947 comments

Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."

submitted 19 days ago • 869 comments

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

submitted 20 days ago • 2660 comments

make it stop

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NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

submitted 28 days ago • 3782 comments

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening. An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe. #Resist (📸 Ricarda Lang)

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

submitted 33 days ago • 502 comments

Tarrio was serving 22y for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the US government

submitted 33 days ago • 115 comments

As predicted, Trump and TikTok agreed in advance to have a brief outage after which Trump would say a few magic words and TikTok would come back in line cheering Trump despite being in the identical legal position. I

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth.” Trump just became one of the top 25 richest people on earth. Through this. Insane, open & now normalized corruption.

submitted 34 days ago • 315 comments

JUST HITTING THE SCOTUS DOCKET: In a per curiam opinion, SCOTUS rules that the TikTok ban does not violate the First Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

Elon Musk secretly negotiated a prisoner swap directly with Iran and Italy that prevented a terrorism suspect indicted by DOJ, who allegedly participated in a drone attack on American servicemen, from being extradited to the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/w...

submitted 37 days ago • 182 comments

The endless plastic in American homes makes modern house fires burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors, Zoë Schlanger reports:

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Here is the press release announcing the launch of The Contrarian, including list of contributors.

submitted 40 days ago • 178 comments

Please share this for the people that need this information and have been affected by the southern California wildfires.🙏

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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

submitted 44 days ago • 647 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o...

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movie "Hit Man" moral is... it's ok to kill together if you stay together ❤️ 🤷‍♀️ wth

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Many more to come including critical people whose names are not as well known. Having talked to most of the people thinking of leaving and those who have left like Josh Dawsey, I can tell you none so far has actually wanted to leave. They felt like they had zero choice given current management.

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At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

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Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...

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