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Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

Best decision I made in 2024 was canceling my @washingtonpost.com subscription

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The year is 2025 and the Kennedy Center is America's Sun City.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Could headlines please not just take for granted that Trump “is doing” stuff he has no legal authority to do just because he said so? Because the implication to the reader is that he can in fact legitimately do these things.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I don’t think US Attorneys should issue statements announcing that they do viewpoint discrimination.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 5 days ago • 131 comments

"Seven western WI Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union ... as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

You knew this was coming: "Politico’s owner praises JD Vance for his ‘inspiring message’ in Munich" www.ft.com/content/cb1c...

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

To the extent that Musk has a super-power it is that he is an obscenely rich person who is willing to confidently say (and get many people to accept) completely untrue things that (coincidentally) always serve his own interests. He's an ignorant person's idea of what an informed person sounds like.

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

The government is being run by two men who are gullible and dishonest and who defend their false claims by appealing to partisan hostility. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

submitted 8 days ago • 121 comments

A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

They left the dog. This civil servant, who deployed with wife & 3 kids to frigging KINSHASA (to support development of Congolese capacity to sell cobalt to not-China, which is a policy goal that sells itself) was told by US Marines to load into a raft with 1 backpack per person. They left their dog.

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

Glad to see Cambridge end single-family zoning www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

You think "Elon Musk cannot possibly be that stupid" and no matter when you say it or what you say it about, you will always be wrong.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law" Naked impunity

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Bribery is legal if you support the president

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

They not like us

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

they not like us

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In a democracy we are all meant to shoulder the load of government, & the more prominent the office, the greater the intended burden. We are governed by shirkers

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

submitted 20 days ago • 128 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 20 days ago • 644 comments

It will be difficult for the kids to believe, but IT sec- oh, never mind, nothing matters.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I am unhappy that Trump shuttered my newspaper and sent me to Gitmo, but I will always be proud that I never treated him unfairly in my reporting.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post @washingtonpost.com wouldn’t endorse a presidential candidate, but DID endorse Pam Bondi’s confirmation. The Post wanted this to happen.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Not to worry as it’s only a tier 1 violation of the Constitution and, as everyone knows, it only really becomes a problem at tier 3 and above.

submitted 22 days ago • 221 comments

Attention Roy Cooper

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly feel like I am losing my mind because the scale of what is happening just does not seem to be registering for most people and is not being reflected on the pages (or webpages) of our national newspapers.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

Stay humble, eh? Stay humble

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Matt Taibbi looks like Voldemort at the end of the first Harry Potter movie

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

If the President is going to spend money on things Congress didn’t pass, and refuse to spend money on things that it did, the legislative branch might as well pack it up and go home.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

JD VANCE: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue BAYLESS: Of course JD VANCE: You KNOW I am sensitive to violence against police officers BAYLESS: Absolutely JD VANCE: BUT!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Arsene Wenger

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting

submitted 36 days ago • 241 comments

Zeit has this right: a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

re-irrigate the swamp

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

More props to CBS Mornings: interview with Marco Rubio, first question is on 1/6 pardons. He deflects, Gayle King reads him his own words condemning 1/6, he says he's no longer a senator and his focus now is foreign policy. Pathetic responses, but asking the questions is essential.

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

It's also going to be embarrassing - but not unexpected - if Maine media, including @pressherald.bsky.social and @bangordailynews.bsky.social don't follow up and press her on this

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

this, by the way, is why they’re talking about Elon’s “curious hand gesture” It is not just sanewashing. They wanted this and they got it.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

the thing is that the press corps wanted Trump to win, are glad he won, and will do what is necessary to keep him in power and keep their access to him

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The President of the United States just pardoned 1500 people who assaulted the Capitol to try to overturn an election and it's barely even news. We are in so much trouble. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery

submitted 36 days ago • 17 comments

I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM. I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.

submitted 37 days ago • 1622 comments

"The Constitution could stand in the way." Hinderance. Obstruction. Obstacle to be removed, according to the NYT.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

the list of things the New York Times is just now realizing is still piling up

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments