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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 8 hours ago • 184 comments

Musk’s hyperpartisan support of far right parties worldwide, childish public spats with elected mainstream governments, and participation in an administration that cut off intel to Ukraine suggests strongly that Starlink is a security risk

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

submitted 10 hours ago • 131 comments

It's hard to write gripping stories about the failure to discover fraud, but this is probably the most important takeaway from the DOGE circus.

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

I honestly don’t hate the picture of all the Chicago cops protecting Tesla because showing a bunch of armed agents of the state openly enforcing Elons will is revealing the truth of our situation much more clearly than anything protestors could show

submitted 13 hours ago • 129 comments

the problem with this discourse is that people say that the left needs to “speak to young men” in some general way, but no specifics are ever given because then you’d realize these people actually have no solution

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

Great framing and response from @repauchincloss.bsky.social here. He gets it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

A “period of transition” has the same rhetorical vibes as “special military operation.” Buckle up.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

Like, instead of saying shit like this, a real journalist could say, "If this administration is so concerned about fraud, why did Donald Trump fire 17 inspectors general?"

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

The arc from “freedom fries” to “hitler fries” is a good encapsulation of how American conservatism has evolved in my lifetime

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

submitted 2 days ago • 393 comments

Look, people will die, but he really wants that tax cut.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

“Because, like I said, I was a Trump supporter,” he said. “I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like, … just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals.”

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

In the Free Country of America you are free to ask any question Dear Leader approves

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

submitted 2 days ago • 546 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 2 days ago • 1311 comments

Yes, a White House run by vampire capitalist Jeff Zients & corporate comms guru Anita Dunn and a campaign run by Mark Zuckerberg's David Plouffe, Uber's Tony West, and Mark Cuban makes... the constant blaming of the wokes a pretty obvious effort by the neolibs to avoid responsibility.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly it's only days when he gets confused by basic questions about his signature issue. Brains leaking out his ears. Incapable, senile.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

"the globalists ripping off America are tanking the stock market"

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

submitted 3 days ago • 440 comments

Fighting the last war.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Meme in real life

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 4 days ago • 1573 comments

The existing private companies often rely on the USPS for the last leg of rural deliveries so this would just be the end of mail for them entirely. But remember, it’s the Democrats who have contempt for rural Americans

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional this is what the national Dems just don't get

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 5 days ago • 2023 comments

This x 1,000,000

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

submitted 5 days ago • 113 comments

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

President Trump just directly contradicted the Government's court filing in one of the most important cases before the courts. President Trump: "DOGE ... which is headed by Elon Musk who is in the gallery tonight." A boost for the plaintiffs in the Appointments Clause cases.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

Oh yeah they're gonna cut social security.

submitted 5 days ago • 287 comments

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

submitted 5 days ago • 1936 comments

Yeah thanking the Supreme Court for his excesses may not have the effect he hopes for.

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

submitted 5 days ago • 186 comments

Slight edit: Nazi porn bar

submitted 5 days ago • 318 comments

Absolutely. This was the most powerful part of US "soft power" in China through past 15 years. Cancelling this is one more act of sabotage against US interests, values, and influence. (I don't think Trump/Mask are active foreign agents. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?)

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 5 days ago • 1208 comments

President Dealman forfeiting a trade war in 24 hours to the syrup people.

submitted 5 days ago • 197 comments

I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots

submitted 5 days ago • 136 comments

the question i have for the "we must bring the entire consumer goods sector to american shores" folks is, with what workers?

submitted 5 days ago • 348 comments

How about instead of a Dem response to tonight's speech Dems just use that airtime to replay this over and over. (Not joking.)

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

ngl it will be funny to watch murdoch-owned outfits get increasingly shrill about trying to tell trump to back off while he continues to give them the finger

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Is Stealing From You. This isn't complicated or clever. He bought the Oval Office to direct taxpayer cash into his own pockets. Scooby Doo villain level stuff.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Hahahahahahaha.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments