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The biggest thing this will do is make it super easy for the ultra rich to cheat on their taxes. That’s the point.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This has distinct echoes of media coverage of Bush in 2002-2003, when lots of journos conspired to pretend that the stuff Bush was saying was based in real things, even though any 5 year old could see that there wasn't a shred of legitimacy to any of it

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

We are living in a time of massive underreaction.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Interesting but I don’t see DOGE or anyone else in the Trump administration hiring anyone to fix the “mess” The entire point of the operation is to create a mess Their goal is to break things

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

The lie of the century is that what Elon gives a shit about is budgets. What he’s doing is destroying the global infrastructure of democracy for his pleasure.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 4 days ago • 3346 comments

The elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Musk and Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

It's telling that the GOP doesn't even bother with trying to sell their absurd tax cuts as economically defensible with dopey trickle down rhetoric or the like anymore, they're just kind of okay with admitting they work for the billionaires now, full stop.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Americans’ obsession with the super wealthy allowed this Trojan horse to roll up into the center of the republic. And here we are.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." —Mark Twain

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Another woman in Texas died because she couldn’t get a D&C after a miscarriage. A corpse has more bodily autonomy in the US than a pregnant woman. A non-organ donor will not have their life-saving organs harvested, despite the need. But a pregnant woman can be kept pregnant even if it kills her.🤦

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 1783 comments

4.5 million views for an outright lie.

submitted 8 days ago • 625 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 8 days ago • 976 comments

F*ck you Bernie. Your tour is too late. YOU helped give us trump by LYING to your supports. You are a villain.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A president rapidly sundowning into full-blown dementia ambiguously handed power over the entire government to a delusional billionaire drug addict in a made-up illegal quasi-office and the Cabinet is split over whether their departments have to listen to his mad orders. It's day 34.

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

putin's facelift is pathetic

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a Russian stooge. Putin may as well written this himself. And any Republican in Congress who said they support our allies before, but are silent today over this, are worthless.

submitted 14 days ago • 609 comments

Americans do not understand the incredible crisis consuming all components of their government at once. Thousands of jobs lost, projects on hold, desks unmanned, services stopped, basic safety neglected. Total chaos. Stuff is going to start breaking down, maybe catastrophically.

submitted 15 days ago • 155 comments

This feels so relevant right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 174 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 17 days ago • 1535 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 16 days ago • 1091 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 17 days ago • 2400 comments

If 125,000 or 130,000 voters in 3 states had voted for Harris instead of the repulsive & narcissistic trump, then the repulsive & narcissistic musk would not be able to destroy what doesn't put money in his pocket at will. It should not be possible to upend & unmake the gov't on such a slim victory

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

submitted 16 days ago • 153 comments

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 16 days ago • 360 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 16 days ago • 234 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 17 days ago • 2292 comments

A key to understanding this is that the people who were committing PPP fraud are the base of Trump and the Republican Party's support

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

submitted 17 days ago • 484 comments

Trump is destroying the country for his Kremlin handlers.

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submitted 17 days ago • 780 comments

Countries cannot "shitpost." The president cannot "shitpost." Government officials with legal authority cannot "shitpost." This "tee hee hee we're doing a transgression" mindset needs to die

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Donold taking over the Kennedy Center shows he’s such a rabid dictator he makes the North Korean dear leader say “whoa, slow down my guy.”

submitted 18 days ago • 246 comments

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments

Spot on.

submitted 19 days ago • 1547 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 18 days ago • 2920 comments

What's incredible is how there are thousands - tens of thousands - of stories like this, a genuine national crisis akin to a foreign invasion, and our elite press is so bubbled, so insular, that they can only cover it by writing "Strong leaders flex governing muscles" 700 times over. Pathetic.

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

Wait, the guy you said was Tony Stark was actually Lex Luthor?

submitted 20 days ago • 173 comments

It’ll always be disgusting that we went from having a respected decorated 4-star General as Secretary of Defense to a moronic rapist woman abuser Fox host like Pete Hegseth.

submitted 20 days ago • 240 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 1247 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 19 days ago • 852 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 149 comments

They are fu**ing clowns with sledgehammers.

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments