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Six months apart. 🇺🇸 @economist.com

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total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 1 day ago • 192 comments

There should be legal & personal consequences for egregious public lying by high ranking government officials

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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 2 days ago • 1985 comments

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison

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Congratulations to John Roberts and the Supreme Court majority for severely weakening the judiciary. What a legacy.

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 368 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 2 days ago • 328 comments

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

submitted 2 days ago • 2233 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

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submitted 2 days ago • 969 comments

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 361 comments

The trade war between the US and China has spurred Brazil’s agricultural sector and pummelled American farmers. “It is a boon for farmers in Brazil and Argentina, and it will help their industry a lot,” points out a lead agriculture analyst. on.ft.com/42oB1f2

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 6 days ago • 1811 comments

fwiw our last king was mad too

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Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

submitted 6 days ago • 1694 comments

Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin

submitted 7 days ago • 466 comments

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

submitted 7 days ago • 128 comments

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 406 comments

It's all cruel cosplay with human rights violations everywhere.

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Perplexity, did the now-indicted-for-fomenting-a-coup former president of Brazil give a public speech recently?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A little reminder: Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance and Marco Rubio were all caught evading the Federal Records Act by using Signal and should all resign.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

It's only a matter of time before somebody "accidentally" falls out of a window.

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The official advice is just to close your eyes and pretend none of this is happening

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

"Let them screw iPhones!" Howard Lutnick, full-time American billionaire businessman, part-time US Secretary of Commerce

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August 2025: Scavengers roam the streets, hawking black-market avocados and coffee beans. Gamer on the corner chants he'll "do anything" for a smuggled Switch 2. First of the $3,000 made-in-America iPhones drops; Tim Cook goes on CNBC to explain why Stephen Miller is now the voice of Siri.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not, but thanks to YouTube, I'm seeing Ben Meiselas more often than my girlfriend

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“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.” - Trump, 8/14/24

submitted 13 days ago • 121 comments

“What a week I’m having!” $TSLA

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

My latest attempt to demonstrate that maybe the current powers aren’t as interested in preserving Western Civilization as they profess.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

submitted 13 days ago • 1295 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 13 days ago • 971 comments

So as near as I can tell, the biggest stock market crashes have come in 2025 (Trump), 2020 (Trump), 2008 (Bush 2.0), 1987 (Reagan) and 1929 (Hoover). I will give an e-wooden nickel to anyone who can tell me what they all have in common.

submitted 13 days ago • 78 comments

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

submitted 13 days ago • 108 comments

Don't worry. Be happy!

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I know crashing the economy on purpose seems harsh, but it’ll all be worth it when the seventh Little Mermaid is white

submitted 13 days ago • 122 comments

Can we please all agree that this experiment of putting a man who bankrupted a casino in charge of America’s economy is not going well at all?

submitted 13 days ago • 362 comments

Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs. —President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition. —Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire. www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 13 days ago • 1075 comments

In this Heard Island diner, they're still standing by Donald Trump.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments