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This is our Gestapo.

submitted 23 hours ago • 112 comments

Normal authoritarian day. Trump talks about sending US citizens to prison in foreign countries, demands media outlets adversarial to him be shut down, and seems generally confused about everything.

submitted 23 hours ago • 37 comments

You are not worried enough about this

submitted 22 hours ago • 208 comments

Wannabe dictator.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

IRS lawyers advise that what Trump wants to do with private tax information is likely illegal. They do it anyway. IRS commissioner resigns (3rd one gone in 3 months). Hello courts: your turn. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 189 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 6 days ago • 2277 comments

It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Trump said today "I think if the talks aren't successful with Iran, I think Iran is gonna be in great danger." Nothing like a new war from the anti-war President to take attention away from the tariff fiasco.

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

Every Republican member of the Senate & House caused the stock market crash & predicted recession by refusing to use Congress’s constitutional authority over all tariffs to block the illegal Trump tariffs. Tonight @ Last Word @ msnbc 10pm

submitted 11 days ago • 147 comments

“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 10 days ago • 595 comments

Trump responded to NBC's question about Signal fiasco with “I have no idea what Signal is.” Imagine if Biden said “I’ve never heard of email.” It’d be a Fox News emergency broadcast demanding his immediate removal.

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

He said he was going to make things cheaper and now he’s saying “I couldn’t care less if they raise prices.”

submitted 15 days ago • 813 comments

This was always the plan. They are "increasing the number of employees" by firing Feds, destroying schools, "loosening" child labor laws, and banning abortion. When will we accept that the Republican/oligarch plan is make us their cheap labor forever?

submitted 19 days ago • 108 comments

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

submitted 19 days ago • 285 comments

Trump is destroying our country by dismantling the constitution one brick at a time.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

The biggest, most enduring scandal of the last few days is Trump's attempt to use an Executive Order to seize control over elections. It will not work, but it is a sign of what comes next. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 20 days ago • 205 comments

BREAKING NEWS: A high level source at the DOD has informed me that the Trump Administration authorized deployment of Signal onto government phones last month and it is a primary means of communicating with the White House. Read my exclusive story: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 19 days ago • 423 comments

Right now legal experts say Trump "doesn't have the legal authority through executive order to make such changes and his order conflicts with existing FEDERAL VOTING LAW." Now onto the courts to defend against Voter Suppression! Please check your voter registration www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

My Kingdom and more for anyone to realize that awarding yourself a government contract is not a conflict of interest. It's corruption. When the bank teller takes the money out of the cash drawer and puts it in his pocket that's not a conflict of interest either.

submitted 21 days ago • 179 comments

First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired. Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.

submitted 21 days ago • 945 comments

NONE of this is normal

submitted 24 days ago • 1785 comments

“Instead of taking a wait-and-see approach, those in higher ed need to stand up for themselves as a united front and make the case that an attack on one is an attack on all.”

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

Well said, @krassenstein.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

"Private-sector employment increased by an estimated 77,000 jobs in February, according to ADP. That’s a dramatic drop-off from the strong job growth of 186,000 seen in January and barely half the 142,500 net gain that economists had expected..." www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...

submitted 39 days ago • 95 comments

Anyone wonder why the Black-bodied Rep Al Green was censured by Congress for shouting truth to evil during Trump's SOTU while the white-bodied Rep MTG was not censored for screaming LIAR during Biden's SOTU?

submitted 39 days ago • 533 comments

This is absolutely disgusting. Beyond the stupid of deleting pictures of the ‘Enola Gay’ they are literally erasing actual war heroes because they are black or women. — War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 39 days ago • 149 comments