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This is the final step on the road to authoritarian fascism. If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.

submitted 22 hours ago • 52 comments

pls stop saying "the election was stolen" when the truth is a lot of voters are simply misogynistic, racist, ignorant and/or checked out. yes, musk TOLD him he helped rig it — because trump's simple enough to believe that and it really made trump feel he owed musk something. that's it. that's all.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

submitted 2 days ago • 1029 comments

But no matter what happens, most of the screaming on social media will be directed at Democrats, the one party that has—against all odds—gotten us everything good that we have or had. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

You handed them the ball and now you’re mad. You’re still ageist and sexist and racist. Back Black Women Now and We can take the Country Back. Your white whining and save us bullshit is embarrassing. Anyone who mentions Bernie or AOC as a solution is not your friend. I am unassailablly right. 🕊️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Just saw a Kristi Noem commercial spending taxpayer money to promote herself and thank Trump. If we want to DOGE something how about that corrupt garbage?

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

The DOGE staff has no experience at all in government. They have ignored institutional expertise and have practiced ideological incompetence to a predictable disastrous result. They have invaded American’s privacy and likely added proprietary software to government databases.

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 2 days ago • 2110 comments

The first rule in fighting tyranny is to never capitulate in advance. You broke that rule. You are not up to the moment as a leader.

submitted 3 days ago • 634 comments

this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

submitted 3 days ago • 738 comments

BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

submitted 3 days ago • 428 comments

Dems are darned if they do, darned if they don't. These people have no smoke for the other party...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I just don’t have much to say tonight. This wasn’t good.

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

There is a reason I spent several years reporting in Texas and the South. There's a reason the fiercest Dem resistance lately has been from Black Dems from Texas. The playbook for what we are seeing on the national stage was tested and fireproofed in the South.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Folks, I get we’re all mad, but the solution is not to take away resources from already underfunded state and local parties. Target your retribution to the Senators who voted for this and their associated PACs. Don’t punish people who can’t do anything about it.

submitted 3 days ago • 148 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 3 days ago • 6036 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 3 days ago • 1382 comments

Watching Senate Democrats punch themselves in the dick for the guy they called Hitler is super fun ain’t it?

submitted 4 days ago • 226 comments

I would like to address Schumer’s alarmist line that the courts will “stop” unless Democrats CAVE IN to Trump’s budget. As I’ve written repeatedly THE COURTS WILL NOT STOP TRUMP, NOR HAVE THEY. They’ve told him to turn the money back on ALREADY… HE HASN’T!!

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

There are more kids with measles in Texas than there are Trans Athletes in the NCAA but you don’t hear MAGA out there talking about that now do you?

submitted 5 days ago • 185 comments

Trump harping on making Canada the 51st state, is also insulting to the residents of D.C. a city w/o representation (but where the pop. is higher than that of Wyoming). The 51st state is right there. Ah but Canada, Trump & Miller think, will help forestall the demographic changes they fear.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

One day after Republicans passed a bill to slash NOAA funding, DOGE plans to cut 1,000 jobs from the agency which produces weather data and climate science. Trump thinks he can redirect hurricanes with his Sharpie but you don’t need a weatherman to know this administration blows.

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

Great advice that I should also take.

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

If the Senate Democrats do this, yes, it’s a massive betrayal of their base and an unconscionable abdication of their duty. Every single one of them who’s complicit in this scheme needs to be driven out of politics forever.

submitted 4 days ago • 144 comments

By supporting this NOT CLEAN CR, you are literally empowering Trump Musk and them to continue to dismantle the government and fire civil servants. So, is it really about a shutdown? They are already shutting it down!

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

It is clear that some of us understand the present danger & some don’t! I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.

submitted 4 days ago • 420 comments

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters like politicians who make the right enemies.

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

submitted 4 days ago • 1613 comments

if Trump and his cronies are able to veto appropriations made by Congress, then we've already moved into a dictatorial system of government. Why would Democrats waste time negotiating spending deals if Trump can just rip them up after he signs them?

submitted 5 days ago • 297 comments

At this point, I think there needs to be a boycott of donations to all Senate Democrats until they force Chuck Schumer to step down as leader. Enough is enough.

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

If you don't fight, you can't win.

submitted 4 days ago • 200 comments

I guess Senate Democrats saw all those Republicans getting screamed at in town halls and felt left out. Have fun with it, folks. I wouldn’t eat any food in a restaurant anytime soon if I were you. Certainly not in DC.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

The profit isn't a dollar margin The profit is the well-being of the people. So it's growing unprofitable because dipshits don't understand this.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

VSIP, RIF, illegal firings, possible shut down. Our lives are so uncertain right now. Many will need to leave for good reason. But for those who can, please stay. CDC needs us. Public health need us. This country needs us. Stay and fight. Staying is resisting. #resist #holdtheline

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

If Tesla's stock drops far enough, the bank loans Elon took out to buy Twitter lose their collateral and get called back immediately. Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.

submitted 6 days ago • 241 comments

First, it was bathrooms, then sports, and now they’re getting to what they really wanted — the complete erasure of the trans community. Also, if you think this is going to stop at trans people, you are deeply mistaken.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.

submitted 8 days ago • 657 comments

If this doesn't feel like fascism to you because things are still mostly normal at work and school and the vacation is still planned, congratulations you've just learned what fascism is like. It is insidious. It will initially target only the most vulnerable — people who probably aren't like you.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

My thing is, my family came to the U.S. from an authoritarian country and I'm not moving again so we have no choice but to win and fix all this shit

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

It's telling that Canada started protesting the incredibly dangerous and irresponsible Donald Trump by pulling American products off its shelves before one American foot hit a street in protest. We are lagging behind in our response to fascism-by-the- stupid and need to step up our game.

submitted 8 days ago • 236 comments

A reminder, authoritarians do not stop abusing power. They must be stopped

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Crashing the economy to own the libs.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

submitted 9 days ago • 1402 comments

What if an innocent person is executed? The death penalty is absolute caveman nonsense and does nothing for anyone. It does not bring back the dead. HOW’S THAT FOR A HORROR STORY STEVE

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

MAGA 2017: "Trump-Russia is a hoax and a slur." MAGA 2025: "Trump-Russia is the basis for our foreign policy and anybody who doesn't agree should be primaried out of the party."

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 925 comments

She told you.

submitted 10 days ago • 154 comments