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we were told endlessly that liberals would rehabilitate trump but so far it has almost exclusively been people like jeet, who cannot let go using “even donald trump does ___”

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

Excited to see that black people performing country music are only eligible for 3/5ths of a Grammy

submitted 11 hours ago • 119 comments

Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.

submitted 11 hours ago • 170 comments

Here's how fast Pham is moving: He won't be officially installed as bishop until Tuesday.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

The reality is that Biden constantly restrained Israel on attacking Iran and on letting in humanitarian aid into Gaza. A lot of people don't get it (like Jeet Heer in the nested quotes) because they don't care to read Israelis, who spent 15 years complaining the US wasn't letting Israel attack Iran.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

submitted 19 hours ago • 601 comments

Sen Merkley: this would never happened if Trump hadn’t pulled us out of the JCPOA. That deal would have kept Iran’s nuclear program in check.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Israeli Air Force is more effective than I had thought. Iranian air defense more hopeless. Putin didn’t wanna send them the good stuff?

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Remember: the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran forced the country to give up 97 percent of its fuel Trump blew up the deal

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

The ironic thing about a weak, flailing US is that it basically removes any incentive Israel might have to put up with Iranian nuclear breakout capacity in return for US protection. The US isn't a reliable protector of anything right now, which makes Israel's local nuke monopoly truly existential.

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

Yeah, okay, listen. Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I straight up do not like the fact that a list of soldiers who are loyal to the aspiring dictator and soldiers who are vaguely loyal to democracy is accessible by the aspiring dictator.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

In hindsight, the thanks Georgia got for its efforts in 2008 was a pretty big lights are flashing red moment on the rewards of going to bat for Uncle Sam in the post Cold War era.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

They’ll never do it, but I’d respect the hell out of them if they just told the truth and said “Of course we fucking are. Saddam and Gaddafi are dead and Kim is fat and happy.”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

okay so this looks like the end of democracy but have you considered that every 24 hours, Joe Biden gets a day older

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same on press freedom. But maybe they should be.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

There’s something just utterly blackpilling about knowing millions of Americans in whose name you were willing to serve are okay with all this to spite you for basically no reason.

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 18 hours ago • 50 comments

I genuinely do not see how it is possible to share a democracy with a party like this which is a coin toss away from power every election cycle.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

The people railing about Cowardly Liberals right now really don’t seem to understand how I bet at least 90% of the people who show up to protest would self-identify as if you asked them about their political beliefs

submitted 15 hours ago • 50 comments

This is what happens because we didn’t string them up for storming the capitol.

submitted 17 hours ago • 40 comments

As the Middle East devolves into regional war, remember, this is literally Trump's fault. He's the single person who decided to end the Iran Nuclear deal and if he hadn't there wouldn't be war.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

I know we like to say “Pride is a riot” because it makes us feel edgy and cool, but let’s be real. The cishets are the ones rioting this year. They literally invaded a whole goddamn city and declared rule of law to be null and void. We’re the ones playing by the rules.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

this is what happens when you’re a solution in search of a problem

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 3 days ago • 632 comments

i don’t think they’ll win, i’m worried about the body count after they lose

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

there has been an incredible amount of denial, nationally, about what this man and his underlings want to do. americans just won’t believe the things that are about to happen. but they are about to happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

anyway i don’t believe we deserve everything that is about to happen, but enough people asked for it and that’s all that matters.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

part of the reason i’m posting less is if i say some things i can get in big big trouble, i’m not totally anonymous and i live in southern california anyway there are things i would like to say

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

his first words were i am senator alex padilla, they didn’t care, they just saw a mexican. “didn’t identify himself” fuck you.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

just circling back to the part where the regime said their goal is to depose the mayor of los angeles and the governor and purge the state government of its ideological opponents

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

being consistently right is what drives some people crazy. they read theory and consider themselves fancy lads and then live laugh love lady predicts the future. real frank grimes hours.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

one of america’s great superpowers is collective amnesia. it’s not like we didn’t already do this with the exact same guy in charge. like pretty recently.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

it’s everywhere. even in the south bay supermarkets are taking it in the shorts.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

sorry i’m being a bit of a bummer. i promise i will go back to making with the funny once you stop terrorizing my county of ten million people.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

more people live in los angeles county than in 40 states and no single news organization can be bothered to spend any time learning about los angeles or its politics until there is a disturbance. we fund your whole country you fucking fucks

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

One of the ways the US is just boiling at the moment is how if France, or Germany, or the UK, or Singapore mobilized 1000 soldiers to deal with a protest in a city it would lead global papers as a psychotic overreaction

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments