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Natan Sharansky famously divided the world into "free societies" and "fear societies." Under Trump, the United States seems to making the sad transition from the first into the second.

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

lol

submitted 23 hours ago • 92 comments

Red states are going to keep on building more housing and attracting more people as a result. Normally, I’d say fine let the people vote when they get there but we’re also letting them gerrymander the state to death and have a state strategy that’s allergic to courting urban voters.

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

In elections have consequences dept, DOJ sues North Carolina for not doing enough voter roll purges.

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

Small rustic footstool. Live edge. Ash and cherry.

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

Good to see we're draining the swamp and keeping a tight hold on the PRC espionage front

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

did i miss the cave? didn't he announce this like three days ago?

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

folks, he's on top of it

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

submitted 4 days ago • 228 comments

BBB both grows the deficit and cuts food for poor kids

submitted 4 days ago • 266 comments

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

Congrats, everyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

Alameda County has been getting around state sanctuary laws that prevent sharing data with ICE by sharing info with a 3rd party contractor who then shares it with ICE.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

well well well, if it isn't the thing everyone said would happen

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

I miss living in a dystopia. Whatever it is you want to call this shit is much worse.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

submitted 5 days ago • 786 comments

Just calling balls and strikes: anything that helps trump is legal, anything that would hurt trump is illegal

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

" This remains a renegade and corrupt Supreme Court majority making up its own constitution as it goes and most, if not every time, enabling arbitrary and untrammeled presidential dictatorship." @joshtpm.bsky.social ▶️ how the MAGA #SCOTUS "has decided that it gets to make policy on its own"

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Trump admits that tariffs will increase prices for American consumers: "Sometimes the country will eat it. Sometimes Walmart will be eat. And sometimes there will be something to pay. Something extra ... they have to take out some of their profits."

submitted 5 days ago • 199 comments

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

Fuck off national review not only are you a somehow increasingly shitty magazine but holy shit does this mag / the right not want to play the “did your rhetoric help inspire murder” game I mean at least they shouldn’t want to if they had shame/a brain Fucking fuck off 🖕

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

submitted 5 days ago • 268 comments

The Big Beautiful Bend Over Please listen and call your Senators 202 224-3121 Your voices matter Please call

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Well said.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

As a single-issue voter who supported Trump to end lawfare, I am shocked and disappointed. I was also born yesterday, then hit on the head by an apple.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The speech and debate clause doesn't apply when you're not on the floor/in the committee room, FYI!

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

for future democratic president i have very specific knowledge of an american business operating in new york city within close proximity to sensitive business and government operations that has well documented ties to terrorist groups. i would like the fbi and dhs to conduct a serious investigation.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This nails it

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

The fact that we’ve just collectively decided to ignore this is insane

submitted 5 days ago • 203 comments

New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments