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The fundamental flaw of broken authoritarian narcissists (the core of the right-wing coalition) is that they view empathy as a finite resource, such that, if you extend it to one group, you can't extend it to another. They see all of life through a lens of scarcity, competition, & selfishness.

submitted 13 hours ago • 104 comments

A recent report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37B in potential legal liability from 11 fed agencies as of Inauguration Day. As he exits, these agencies are still on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped investigations into his corporations. See what this was about?

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

My favorite part of the lab leak freaks is the concept that "COVID-19 is a fierce bio-weapon unleashed on Americans by our worst enemies and your baby should definitely get it."

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

He illegally closed investigations into his businesses, illegally fired regulators, illegally had the state dept pressure countries into allowing starlink, and illegally got huge new no-bid govt contracts. Why are we talking about this like he took some time off to renovate his kitchen?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Cliff is doing a great job of highlighting Trump's obvious dementia. It's amazing to me that the press is ignoring it after what they did with Biden.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of any religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

submitted 4 days ago • 869 comments

Putin couldn’t have dreamed up a better outcome, alienate our allies, gut federal institutions, fire qualified generals, wreck national security with drunk incompetent fools at the top, tank the economy and $ with tariff wars… all in just 4 months. And here we are. Coincidence?

submitted 5 days ago • 329 comments

Speak Truth to Power.....

submitted 6 days ago • 348 comments

True story

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Is “sidestepping laws” the same thing as committing crimes? Seems like it is, right?

submitted 8 days ago • 189 comments

today in objective journalism. imagine @jaketapper.bsky.social ever saying this about don jr or eric

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

These “deficit hawks” spent weeks harrumphing about deficits (not to mention years yelling at us about it), said over and over again they wouldn’t vote to increase debt, got nothing, then voted to add like $5 trillion dollars in borrowing. Just ridiculous human beings

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

🤡 @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

WTF. I know we’re all somewhat numb to the ridiculousness and the outrageousness of it all. But this is absolutely astonishing. The level of idiocy, ignorance, and authoritarian impulse that is on display here is breathtaking. This is so embarrassing for this country. And so dangerous.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

The president is using the power of his office to line his own pockets, and doing it in broad daylight too. This is a five-alarm fire.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Most attendees at Trump's private memecoin dinner this week will likely be foreign buyers, according to CNBC. One of the top buyers is Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who was facing fraud charges until Trump's SEC dropped them. Call it what it is: corruption.

submitted 11 days ago • 111 comments

The House GOP last night approved Medicaid cuts that will kick millions off insurance & shrink after-tax income for many families in the bottom income quintile Hard to fathom how unpopular this is. Just 14% of voters wants to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-a...

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

For years - YEARS! - media pundits fretted about the censorious left, how the democrats would make political correctness the law of the land and punish the poor free thinkers for thought crimes. And now the actual US government is censoring actual speech and they say NOTHING.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Because, as everyone knows, the Statue of Liberty was provided for President Cleveland’s own use & comfort, it housed comms systems essential for national security and, when he left office, Cleveland took it home with him. 🤡

submitted 17 days ago • 373 comments

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country! It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

submitted 17 days ago • 1230 comments

Are we really going to keep pretending Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government isn’t to blame for the air tariff control crisis we are now in? Trump’s sabotage starting to become more visible to the public. More to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 18 days ago • 233 comments

The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the appearance of corruption promotes corruption.

submitted 18 days ago • 953 comments