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Bernie ... thank you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Miguel Rojas imitates Roki Sasaki on the mound.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX. But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

Fun fact - Australia's former PM did this in 2017. The coal lobby supplied it, but they had to coat it in lacquer because it's dangerous and unhealthy to hold raw coal

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work! Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

The Trump tariff market crash continues as S&P futures fall 4% while stocks plunge over 8% in Japan, 5% in South Korea and 6% in Australia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

submitted 7 days ago • 147 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments

This is good. This is important.

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

"Wine moms" or "resistance libs" or whatever they're called are basically the only faction that hasn't shamed or embarrassed themselves over the last decade, and probably our only hope, so put respect on their f'ing name.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

Gitman's oxford button-down shirts, made in the USA December 2024: $205 April 2025: $235

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.

submitted 7 days ago • 238 comments

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

Not sure what's worse, the reporter asking a softball "do you want to weigh in on that" [Signalgate] or the reporter immediately moving onto another topic when Trump demands, like a little baby, that she doesn't "bring that up again". Our media is failing us. Again. zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 9 days ago • 270 comments

While Trump campaigned on a pledge to lower prices for struggling Americans, his tariffs are expected to increase the cost of everything from kids’ shoes to fresh produce.

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Sure, winning that game was nice, but finding out the team already has a celly to poke fun at his commercial? Priceless.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: There's no reason to act like Trump is pursuing a trade policy or an industrial revitalization strategy. These are just sanctions, imposed to intimidate countries and companies into submission like they're universities or law firms. They're what a mob boss would do. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 133 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 11 days ago • 1388 comments

This idea that there is a god given right for fascists to always be allowed to run in elections because somehow democracy is threatened by not allowing fascists to run for office is profoundly stupid, dangerous and makes people sound patently insane. Fascists want to kill democracy. That is all.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

They could've had expert European manufacturing help and $$$ but they wanted to die by drone in Ukrainian mud instead.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Russian car sales drop a further -44% for March 2025, year-over-year. Profit at Russia's flagship KAMAZ truck company down -96% and LADA sales down -33%. kyivinsider.com/russias-two-...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Diehard Strom Thurmond fans can take comfort in knowing that his Senate record for sexual harassment incidents is like DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, it will never be broken

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

submitted 11 days ago • 981 comments

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

submitted 11 days ago • 277 comments

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."

submitted 11 days ago • 176 comments

Noooo!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting thread

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Make it so... #YIMBY

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"Nascent agreements over safety of navigation on the Black Sea indicate Russia’s desire to restart the Black Sea Grain Initiative, but Ukraine has already secured—and increased—its agricultural exports without Russia’s cooperation." See more: cs.is/3FJVlje

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If Donald Trump doesn’t care that people will be paying more for a new car because of his tariffs, then I highly doubt he’ll care when people are paying more for food.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Actually we do know one thing: @kaine.senate.gov and @amyklobuchar.com are forcing a vote on blocking tariffs against Canada this week.

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 14 days ago • 185 comments

Sending up gratitude for the judges AND, more importantly, the lawyers who are willing to fight for the rule of law.

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

Big market iconic ball clubs that are spending <50% should be ashamed. Teams under .500 shpuld be required spend an inverse portion of revenue on payroll/tax. Club went .380? Spend 62% minimum next year. I'd also have teams pay into a pot that's divided annually among teams spending >50%.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 13 days ago • 813 comments

How far we've come in 69 days: -Huge swaths of government illegally shut down -President is refusing to promise to leave office -Growing impunity for regime allies, targeted prosecutions at opponents -Regime using funding and legal threats to subvert universities and law firms -Corruption endemic

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments