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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 3 days ago • 1403 comments

Britain will not relax its food-safety standards as part of any deal to secure lower tariffs on its exports to the United States, business minister Jonathan Reynolds said reut.rs/4jggC3a

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 3 days ago • 466 comments

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 3 days ago • 412 comments

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 3 days ago • 202 comments

36,000 people going to see Bernie Sanders on a Saturday in Los Angeles is pretty insane.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

submitted 3 days ago • 581 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 5 days ago • 183 comments

The Trump administration is now saying they might unite with other countries against China, regarding trade This was LITERALLY the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Obama negotiated in 2016 In 2017, Trump WITHDREW the US from the TPP (!!!) THE STUPIDITY IS OFF THE CHARTS

submitted 4 days ago • 154 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 4 days ago • 1655 comments

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

submitted 9 days ago • 264 comments

During a brief interview with a representative from Ford Brian Kilmeade accidentally uncovered some of the complexities of international trade. Some auto parts just aren't made in the U.S., tariffs will increase prices, Ford makes cars in other countries.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 9 days ago • 1116 comments

Fight fascism. #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @njcoatldc.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

check this shit out motherfucker (i impose tariffs on every country in the world and tank the economy, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do)

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

submitted 13 days ago • 942 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 13 days ago • 1672 comments

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

submitted 13 days ago • 567 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 15 days ago • 1091 comments

Hey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!

submitted 15 days ago • 233 comments

JFC. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

We agree. Seems hard to argue with. 🤷🏻

submitted 18 days ago • 469 comments

🚨The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

submitted 19 days ago • 133 comments

Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.

submitted 19 days ago • 639 comments

The Situation Room should not be a group chat. We keep asking what people should do — people need to speak up. Congress needs to demand answers. The guy who used to fire people on television needs to do that again and fire Pete Hegseth.

submitted 18 days ago • 278 comments

Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰 #VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍 This is super important.

submitted 18 days ago • 3203 comments

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

submitted 19 days ago • 363 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 20 days ago • 795 comments

Sometimes you just have to ask—why? The Senate voted to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was expected to save Americans billions each year.

submitted 19 days ago • 1187 comments

Of course they are.

submitted 20 days ago • 478 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 20 days ago • 513 comments