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It is getting really really really hard not to sound like a Resistance RUSSIAGATE person whenever you’re asked the question: does he act any differently than if he were using the U.S. government to do Putin big favors rn

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 3 days ago • 1401 comments

a lot of money for a small staff that doesn't have offices & wrecks rather than builds fully loaded with fringe benefits, you could pay about 200 GS-15 (top of the regular federal scale) civic technologists at USDS or TTS for a year for that money what's a better use of your tax dollars? 🤔

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The entire White House can’t even admit Russia invaded Ukraine. Does the Kremlin even deny this? I thought their lie was they were pushed to do it.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Even Devin Booker now saluting Trump on IG. Being a Suns fan (on top of everything else) is truly an atrocious existence.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Democrats Do-One-Popular-and-Righteous-Thing Challenge: Failed again

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Perhaps the biggest hint Trump would win in hindsight is the amount of old farts on Nextdoor angrily posting because a neighborhood kid doorbell ditched them. It is alarming how many posts are from angry assholes chomping at the bit with rage because a kid rang their doorbell and ran. 🙄

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Few things make our lives feel more like a simulation than when current events already have a streaming documentary a handful of weeks. We already have a Luigi Mangione documentary? Is this really happening?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 6 days ago • 1109 comments

An insane amount of media headlines over the last month have just been “(Bad faith lunatic in the Trump admin) says (thing that is not factually accurate)” and I’m just so depressed by our political journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Musk and his army of dipshits on Twitter keep pointing to Bill Clinton’s federal worker reduction in the 1990s to defend Trump. The difference? Congress passed a law that Clinton signed, he didn’t just get the nearest billionaire to illegally start dismantling the government based on his whims.

submitted 8 days ago • 160 comments

Free speech absolutist

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 8 days ago • 1538 comments

We're at Stage 2 of the Health Horrors. Stage 1 was cuts to the people ensuring health down the road (research funding) Stage 2 is cutting the things that keep us safe currently (accessible and accurate information, food inspectors, and likely also vaccines) Stage 3 is, people start dying

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Few things have been more mask off in recent years than the NYT being a mouthpiece for the wealthy, ruling class.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 8 days ago • 676 comments

Yeah, that's exactly what this anti DEI purge is all about. Censoring minorities and expelling trans people out of public life.

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

It’s truly amazing how dumb the American electorate is when so much of it is willing to memory hole a fucking pandemic to fit their political narrative.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

I really, truly hate how much sports betting has taken over sports broadcasting. Suggesting what wagers to make as part of the programming is gross, money-grubbing and offputting. Gone are the days where analysts would actually analyze the game.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s strategy of allowing predatory capitalists to destroy state capacity and extract wealth, attacking higher Ed, and disappearing people into black sites (Gitmo) feels like what the US backed in Latin American Cold War dictatorships coming back home.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 12 days ago • 1457 comments

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

Can anyone explain to me why Disney, a corporation worth nearly $200B, can’t make a streaming service that isn’t constantly buffering?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

KD reaching 30K in another Suns loss really sums up the season. Coach Bud has proven a terrible hire. How he pinned Bol Bol to the bench all this time is absurd. He’s always fun and usually good when he plays. Just an all-timer of a weird vibes no chemistry squad.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope...

submitted 14 days ago • 95 comments

This oughta help their popularity!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

this motherfucker makes like a quarter million dollars a year to go on camera in the middle of an all-out fascist coup and shrug

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

"Scouting America also filed for bankruptcy to help settle sexual abuse lawsuits from more than 89,000 men who claimed to have been abused while scouting. Scouting America’s president says the rebrand allows them to have a fresh start."

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments