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The administration just hasn’t been able to find those thousands of criminal aliens they claimed were rampaging throughout the nation. Like so many other themes Trump campaigned on, the plague of immigrant crime was a fiction. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-immi...

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"Democracy is a pact that depends on individuals for its survival. The moment one group decides that it no longer respects the pact, the system can collapse. Dr. King’s letter ... is a tribute to democracy and a plea for the renewal of the contract that binds us." Jonathan Eig, NYT op-ed

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"This is akin to saying, ‘Go ahead and eat whatever you want, don’t exercise, smoke like a chimney — we’re going to invest all of our resources in heart transplants,’” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a former chairman of the C.D.C.’s vaccine advisory committee.

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When you have a measles vaccine that's 97% effective - and has been used widely without adverse effects for decades, why in hell would you experiment with bogus treatments like cod liver oil? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...

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Rather than being some genius plan to keep the libs in perpetual triggerdom recent events are showing the rapidly expanding chasm between Trump's bubble of increasingly surreal fluffery/dicksuckery and what even half-way normal people outside of that bubble are seeing.

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The NIH folks have been through so much I don't have the heart to tell them they're going to have review grants for studying the use of crystals for treating severe cases of measles.

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I guess this is what happens when you have grabbed to many people "by the pussy."

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"There’s no magic to 100 days. The challenges Trump poses to our country will remain at day 1,000, and day 1,100. All we can do is continue to use every tool available to fight back and protect our democracy no matter what day it is." Marc Elias, Democracy Docket

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"Would it be possible to have a cabinet meeting without the Kim Jong il–style tributes?" Possibly the first time I've ever agreed with Ann Coulter.

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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Seriously, Lindsay Graham actually suggested Donald Trump should be pope. NO KIDDING! www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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The name Lindsey Graham will one day be a label for "shameless ass-licker" like Benedict Arnold is the moniker for "traitor."

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"... [w]hile we have no choice but to recognize the significance of the president’s use of executive power, we also can’t believe the hype. Just because Trump desires to transform the American system of government doesn’t mean that he will ..." Jamelle Bougie, NYT

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"'What is remarkable about Trump’s first 100 days is that he took the two issues he was strongest on—the economy and immigration—and completely destroyed his credibility on both.'" @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the failure of Trump's immigration regime: www.thebulwark.com/p/100-days-i...

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Who could’ve foreseen that it would be a disaster to put an unqualified Fox weekend host with a drinking problem and sordid personal history in charge of the military

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"...[O]nce in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze." Heather Cox Richardson

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www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61129

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"... President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back." Heather Cox Richardson

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"The message is that a little girl can grow up to be whatever she wishes: a rocket scientist or a pop star, a television journalist or a billionaire’s fiancée who is empowered to pursue her various ambitions and whims in the face of tremendous costs." Amanda Hess, NYT

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"Their central mission was to experience weightlessness, view the Earth from above, and livestream it. They are like payload specialists with a specialty in marketing private rockets." Amanda Hess, NYT

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"Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been “mugged by reality.” Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build." Michelle Goldberg, NYT

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"It is too early to know what these small cracks in the dissident right mean ... They suggest to me, however, that not everyone can sustain the level of cognitive dissonance necessary to rationalize away this administration’s destructiveness." Michelle Goldberg, NYT

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"We wanted a swift, lean government ... Instead we got chain-saw-style firings, total devastation of state capacity ... and the worst and dumbest people in the world gloating about how they solved the ‘grift’ of sending lifesaving medications to dying babies.” Scott Siskind, aka Scott Alexander

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Let it be known: if the Government picks any of you up off the street, and dumps you in El Salvador, they will not bring you back. Constitutional rights of a U.S. citizen, you say? Pfft, this Government ignores the Supreme Court already.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

In JD’s defense none of his participation trophies are that heavy. Besides did Ohio State even say thank you?

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

But what about the pie? (Julian is known for homemade apple pies)

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It was totally part of the plan!

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The GOP:

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You otter check this out. For real.

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WATCH: “As far as I'm concerned, if you could figure out how to get them down there, you can figure out how to get them back,” says Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the Supreme Court ordering Trump officials to begin the process of returning the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.

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It turns out moving fast and breaking things results in a lot of broken things! Quickly! And not much else.

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"It’s going to be legendary, you watch. Legendary in a positive way, I have to say. It’s gonna be legendary.” Donald Trump's "dinner remarks" at the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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Wow, really interesting article about how Elon Musk inherited hisideas about government from his grandfather - Muskism isn’t the beginning of the future. It’s the end of a story that started more than a century ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

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"I very much want to believe that we will once again find our way before too much damage is done, before we descend into a time of monsters. But I very much fear that the lamps are once again going out all around us."

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Turnout in Philadelphia was at least 10,000 despite crappy weather - one of the largest a Philly cop had ever seen. www.inquirer.com/politics/tru...

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