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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 2 days ago • 371 comments

Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @ryanlcooper.com itep.org/analysis-of-...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 13 days ago • 2479 comments

Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing" children with USAID cuts: "I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money"

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

submitted 21 days ago • 1915 comments

Sure whatever. 25% tariff on eating ice cream on a hot day next. 50% tariff on petting a dog. 35% tariff on the sound of children laughing. 10% tariff on the smell of flowers. 15% tariff on the cold side of the pillow. And another 25% on China, why not.

submitted 23 days ago • 109 comments

Some key moments of the past decade: 1. Anthony Weiner, having already been caught once with his pants down, gets caught again, leading to the FBI finding his wife’s emails on his laptop, the reopening of the Hillary Clinton investigation by James Comey & Donald Trump’s 2016 election.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Men will force unwanted AI product on the world rather than go to therapy

submitted 26 days ago • 77 comments

shoutout to Sean O'Brien on this one

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

Jamie Dimon says the best case scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

submitted 28 days ago • 987 comments

Note: When right-wing activist Sean Feucht held and impromptu evening worship service in the Capitol Rotunda back in 2023, police occasionally walked in to speak with lawmakers participating, but no one was arrested. religionnews.com/2024/07/08/t...

submitted 29 days ago • 55 comments

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

The entire transcript of Time's interview with Trump is insane. Just to pick one moment: Trump says Biden would never do an interview with Time, then when told that he had asks how it went, then when told he can read it himself says that he had read it and it didn't go well time.com/7280114/dona...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

As others have noted, if you’re not seeing this “pro-natalism” creepiness through the lens of the white nationalist Fourteen Words, you’re missing the point.

submitted 35 days ago • 209 comments

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 36 days ago • 219 comments

An entire nation was forever changed and lives were brutally ripped from us on this day 26 years ago in a preventable tragedy at Columbine High School. Since then, there have been over 400 school shootings due to America’s failed leadership, lax gun laws, and capitulation to the gun industry.

submitted 37 days ago • 78 comments

“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."

submitted 41 days ago • 169 comments

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

submitted 45 days ago • 294 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. as of now we maintain our 60% US/Global recession call from last week. The 40% non-recession call includes the possibility of further backpedaling from Trump on China tariffs.”

submitted 48 days ago • 16 comments

one of the most accurate memes out there

submitted 48 days ago • 162 comments

Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

submitted 49 days ago • 595 comments

Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

submitted 49 days ago • 349 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 50 days ago • 1312 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 50 days ago • 405 comments

An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.

submitted 51 days ago • 344 comments

Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

submitted 53 days ago • 470 comments

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

submitted 53 days ago • 188 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. if sustained, this year’s ~22%-point tariff increase would be the largest US tax hike since 1968. “.. The risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40% earlier ..”

submitted 54 days ago • 68 comments