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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 13 days ago • 8491 comments

"Burn it all down" is a natural political instinct in situations where the social ladder is completely ossified and that's why the biggest redshifts of 2024 were in blue states with NIMBY-controlled housing policy. And that is one thing Trump actually has delivered: upending American stability.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

“The idea that humans could create God has been so synonymous with hubris that it barely deserves mentioning—and yet, in true torment nexus fashion, it is something that many lords of the Valley have come to believe, implicitly or explicitly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musks-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

Dear Representative Pressley: Thank you for noticing this. However, please don’t portray it as a unique wrong done to this person. The American penal system (and immigration system) are deathtraps with appalling lack of medical care, indifference, and cruelty. /1

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

Lincoln at Cooper Union, 1860 “Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

donald trump has nothing to worry about. a corrupt oligarch with a campaign run by paul manafort has never been brought down over his decision to turn away from closer trade ties with europe in favor of submission to russian domination

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

he won by a hair on the backs of low-info sporadic voters in the face of a global anti-incumbent wave fueled by COVID and inflation, I hate this insistence that he's suddenly the will of the American people personified for eternity. no the fuck he's not!

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." -Henry George, "Protection or Free Trade?"

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

submitted 28 days ago • 117 comments

New political outlook on American politics just dropped

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I keep watching this clip with something approaching yearning and I’m realizing it’s because we don’t hear this level of strategic realism—that the old world is gone and the old rules don’t apply—from anyone in leadership in the Democratic Party.

submitted 34 days ago • 140 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 38 days ago • 813 comments

the morning routine

submitted 38 days ago • 81 comments

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 39 days ago • 96 comments

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

submitted 39 days ago • 352 comments

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

submitted 39 days ago • 15 comments

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

submitted 40 days ago • 784 comments

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

submitted 43 days ago • 256 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

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submitted 46 days ago • 30 comments

The senator shall bear contempt hereditary

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

I'm persuaded: New York Democrats delenda est. We need leadership from state parties that have actually fought and won against the modern Right Wing political machine, not leaders from cozy fortress states.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

It feels overwhelming sometimes how dumb and dangerous this all is. And every day it gets dumber and more dangerous.

submitted 48 days ago • 160 comments

The fresh horror btw: the US is becoming a net importer of food. Which is wild, because the US has probably the most high-quality farmland per person of any country on the planet. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS??? www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 602 comments

We're called "Americans." The other assholes are called "Nazis."

submitted 50 days ago • 15 comments