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Bernie and AOC in LA today!!!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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submitted 92 days ago • 165 comments

This isn’t legal, Elon. Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

submitted 93 days ago • 482 comments

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

submitted 93 days ago • 513 comments

Only MAGA cult allowed in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

I can't WAIT to hear all the Republicans supporting peace with Russia (by giving up Ukraine) to twist themselves into knots supporting war in Gaza and Yemen. Nothing matters, wheeeeee!

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Union rages after Elon Musk shares X post that ‘Hitler didn’t murder millions, public sector workers did’ www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Detaining and deporting a Green Card holder, husband of a pregnant American citizen, without due process is the scariest thing Donald has done. I don't care what you think about protests or Israel and Palestine, this is an un-American attack on the First and Fifth Amendments.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings. Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.

submitted 103 days ago • 1513 comments

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

submitted 107 days ago • 1864 comments

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

submitted 114 days ago • 1047 comments

There were certainly signs

submitted 114 days ago • 1666 comments

Stock market is down. Inflation is up. Unemployment is up. All competent people in the government are being fired. Planes are crashing. The US is abdicating its role as world leader. Russia and Europe are starting a nuclear arms race.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE is inflating its savings claims. DOGE counts fully paid contracts as “savings.” Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service says it has saved $55 billion by cutting jobs, canceling contracts, and renegotiating leases. But a closer look suggests that number is misleading.

submitted 118 days ago • 206 comments