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“The people who want to pull back America’s leadership in the world under the pretense of being for “America First” are making us weaker, poorer, and less secure. They are giving away our long-term strategic advantages…And for what?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 3 hours ago • 74 comments

i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

We will live to see these bastards removed from power, but I don't think we'll outlive the shame of this national disgrace.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 2 days ago • 306 comments

Some have disappointed, some have bad policy, some made big mistakes. But I’ve never in my life been ashamed of American leaders. Until today.

submitted 3 days ago • 229 comments

The sanewashing headlines have already started: No one in particular is to blame for Trump/Vance's appalling effort to humiliate Zelensky with disgraceful lies and open extortion, it just happened, it just devolved

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

submitted 3 days ago • 507 comments

Good lord, that last sentence of Viser’s is so deeply contemptible and illustrative of how American journalists have lost their way entirely.

submitted 3 days ago • 332 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 3 days ago • 440 comments

Guys, I know the VP is in group chats with teen groypers, Elon owns the site where he boosts Neo-nazis, and Big Balls and friends are stopping PEPFAR aid. But we need to “wait and see”, if this administration is guided by the hyper online right.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Lookin’ at you, White House press corps

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

If we survive this, I demand that everyone K-12 be drilled in civics so much that anyone who graduates high school can recite the Bill of Rights backwards and forwards and describe what rights each amendment protects and why

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Dems are responsible for every shitpost, Republicans aren't responsible for what comes out of their own mouths.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 9 days ago • 678 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 9 days ago • 151 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 11 days ago • 1417 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 10 days ago • 144 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 11 days ago • 543 comments

Hey remember when I said Chapo trap house was one of the worst things to ever happen to left wing digital spaces?

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

So Mitch McConnell won't be seeking re-election next year. Good riddance. He and Merrick Garland share much of the blame for this neo-fascistic second Trump term.

submitted 11 days ago • 243 comments

yeah the mistake they made was assuming their colleagues would have some bare minimum of professional pride or backbone

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 11 days ago • 79 comments

I really think the most changed dynamic - which took eight years for Trump to build - is a supine GOP. When the president's party has a lot of people going on TV to disagree with him it hurts morale. He's now got internal blowback from one elderly senator who he makes fun of all the time.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Dear @nytimes.com: If you yourselves know that what Trump is saying is nonsense, put that in the headline.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 563 comments

What does Russia have to offer us other than beet soup and vodka?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I think it's great that so many Democratic senators voted to confirm this guy so they didn't look unreasonable

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

They’ve indiscriminately fired 10% of NASA employees. I don’t need to remind you that NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget but I will. Here’s what that looks like, it’s pennies. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

💯 agree.

submitted 14 days ago • 73 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 14 days ago • 1090 comments

Unfortunately, this is the last 70+ years of conservative politics if we count white flight from public schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It was the essence of Reaganism in the 1980s as well

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 16 days ago • 138 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 16 days ago • 5653 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 16 days ago • 1165 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 17 days ago • 462 comments

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

submitted 18 days ago • 216 comments

Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence...God help us all, including all the countries in the free world. This is a monumental catastrophe for international safety.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 20 days ago • 1060 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?