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trump was just asked what money he was going to use to buy Gaza. "We're not gonna buy it. We're gonna have it, we're gonna keep it." No follow up question, of course. Is THAT how real estate works in the Middle East?

submitted 70 days ago • 733 comments

As people are trying to understand how courts enforce their orders, this DOJ Org Chart may come in handy. The courts don’t have their own enforcement agency. The US Marshal’s Service is part of DOJ.

submitted 72 days ago • 413 comments

is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?

submitted 71 days ago • 1405 comments

ABC paying $15 million to Trump for George S repeating what the judge in E Jean Carroll case said is completely irrational as a legal matter. It only makes sense as an effort to preserve access to Trump and the White House

submitted 129 days ago • 299 comments

very, very sympathetic to this argument from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 131 days ago • 178 comments

I’m going to say something bold here and publicly state that “murder is not the way to solve national problems” but suffering from chronic debilitating pain seems to be a much more logical reason for someone to go apeshit than women being in Star Wars

submitted 131 days ago • 421 comments

Instead of raising the age minimum for benefits, eliminate the cap on contributions.

submitted 131 days ago • 153 comments

1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters. She's fighting back.

submitted 131 days ago • 747 comments

The greatest failure of the modern Democratic Party is the apparent belief that basic elements of politics -- selling your policies to voters and reminding them what you did for them -- is somehow tacky and beneath them.

submitted 132 days ago • 193 comments

Rep. Rich McCormick is on C-SPAN making an impassioned case for cutting Social Security and Medicare

submitted 132 days ago • 511 comments

The very same people who lambasted DEI efforts as a subversion of the meritocracy are happily taking money and jobs in the name of “viewpoint diversity”

submitted 132 days ago • 49 comments

To the people of Greece: I'm so sorry. Please know you should feel free to ignore her. We insist.

submitted 133 days ago • 14 comments

this is actually not true, because his case rests entirely on one issue and one issue only: is there a cool person on the jury?

submitted 133 days ago • 63 comments

we're cooked

submitted 133 days ago • 6965 comments

I choose to believe this is an elaborate piece of performance art, because I refuse to accept that any humanities professor would accept this total abdication of our basic duties. Why not just toss the students a Magic 8-Ball?

submitted 134 days ago • 118 comments

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard claimed Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, it was “the rebels.” Her confirmation hearing will be brutal, if she even makes it to there

submitted 136 days ago • 1187 comments

i have plenty of thoughts on why it matters that this is an illegal order but here i’ll just comment that i think liberals who throw their hands up and say “it doesn’t matter” have self lobotomized themselves into thinking that trump is god king of america

submitted 135 days ago • 579 comments

just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking

submitted 136 days ago • 115 comments

Fuck these Nazis

submitted 136 days ago • 114 comments

Let's do this everywhere. www.publicnotice.co/p/wisconsin-...

submitted 137 days ago • 44 comments

It's a drag that, as the movies have shrunk down to nothing over the last decade, one of the few genres to have survived is Authorized Musician Biopic. They used to make like two movies per year that were just "veteran character actor and Ashley Judd pursue a serial killer."

submitted 136 days ago • 135 comments

Just another day at Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 137 days ago • 2537 comments

Judge Delays Decision After Learning One Menendez Brother Always Lies, One Always Tells The Truth

submitted 138 days ago • 100 comments

Aaron Rodgers skipping practice for a Netflix documentary about himself is a truly fitting intro into the inspiring story of a once great player who bounced back from a devastating injury to lead a historically woebegone franchise to their worst season in a decade

submitted 138 days ago • 422 comments

European Union regulators ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election, after the country’s top defense body released declassified intelligence alleging that Moscow arranged an online campaign to support the surprise front-runner. apnews.com/article/roma...

submitted 138 days ago • 61 comments

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

submitted 139 days ago • 312 comments

Trump surrogate Sophia Hutchins, a trans woman, wearing a red dress and striking poses in the Mar-a-Lago women’s restroom. Don’t tell Nancy Mace.

submitted 138 days ago • 135 comments

What’s Happening at MSNBC? (some thoughts on the Frum/Morning Joe thing) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...

submitted 138 days ago • 68 comments