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submitted 4 days ago • 427 comments

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 806 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 7 days ago • 507 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 7 days ago • 647 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 751 comments

You can not have shame when you have no Honor. The last phrase of the Declaration of Independence is, “… we pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.” This administration has no Honor. The GOP’s blind support demonstrates a total lack of Honor. They have no Shame.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

submitted 15 days ago • 165 comments

Well, the Dems should be fighting this before it’s too late… Oh, yeah, that’s right. it is already too late. Schumer and the Dem leadership decided not to fight when they could have halted all of this. Maybe after the next Revolution.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 16 days ago • 1937 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 16 days ago • 312 comments

Be reminded that Auschwitz was in Poland not Germany.....

submitted 17 days ago • 121 comments

Here we go again.

submitted 19 days ago • 350 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 19 days ago • 1139 comments

Chaska, MN outside Rep. Emmer’s office. Over 1,000 protesters. The last phrase of the Declaration of Independence is “…we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." Mr. Emmer has no Honor. He has pledged all he is to a man without honor, a convicted felon, a con.

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submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Nero fiddled. Trump golfed.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

From your lips to God’s ears.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I agree.

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

This should be played on a loop on the floor of Congress, in every Senator and Representative’s office, and on every computer and monitor in the White House.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Are we great yet? Is our nation more secure? Do you have confidence in the National Security Leaders? Are you safe from being “disappeared” by your government? Is your retirement more or less secure? Do you think your Representative or Senator will do anything?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

What was true then, is true now.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

submitted 23 days ago • 815 comments

This is a false choice that Rep. Myers is presenting. He voted against the original bill and now wants to say that making this change will give more money to teachers and schools. It will not, and what will be lost is vital to the health and education of our children. 1/6

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 26 days ago • 157 comments

Are we great yet? Cause I am just embarrassed, disappointed, and frustrated.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

How much did that fiasco cost? Where’s DOGE when you need them?

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submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

A great quote and a great message for the US too.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The US is disappearing people. This is what we fought the Revolution about. The right to Habeas Corpus, so that the King of England could not just make anyone disappear. This administration is doing that in direct defiance of a judges order, and then saying “whoops”. 1/2

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment