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Some people are so far behind that they think that they're winning
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

Connecticut says it's rejecting Trump's demand that K-12 schools certify their compliance with eliminating DEI programs. Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker says the state is already in compliance with anti-discrimination laws and she won't sign compliance letters.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

It’s amazing how terrified people are of this.

submitted 4 days ago • 499 comments

I cannot wait to see this guy in the dock at The Hague. Signed, an autistic dude who has gone on plenty of dates (and is now married!) and pays my taxes.

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 7 days ago • 226 comments

Sadly I can't boycott bill maher's show because I never watched it in the first place.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

submitted 14 days ago • 2504 comments

"Somebody needs to start writing Project 2029 and it ain't going to be Chuck Schumer" @elienyc.bsky.social on his latest book: 'Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.' " We choose to live this way, we can choose to live better tomorrow."

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

submitted 19 days ago • 815 comments

Walz: "It's like Trump is stuck in the '80s. His music, his clothing, his thinking. He's been on this tariffs thing forever and every economist will tell you they just don't work ... I think the biggest myth perpetuated on this country is that Trump understands anything about business."

submitted 19 days ago • 261 comments

Once you realize Ratcliffe is Michael Scott from The Office you can’t unsee it

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

submitted 28 days ago • 197 comments

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

submitted 29 days ago • 344 comments

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

submitted 31 days ago • 553 comments

So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?

submitted 31 days ago • 998 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 31 days ago • 3854 comments

It's deflection. Republican policies are unpopular dogshit and can't stand on their own merits, which is why they spent 50 years building an alternative reality right wing propaganda machine and undermining journalism and education at every opportunity Dems should maybe...point that out sometime

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

chuck schumer when trump announces his 3rd election campaign: “but sir…that is illegal!”

submitted 33 days ago • 128 comments