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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 1 day ago • 637 comments

The attempt to burn down the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion is pretty clearly an assassination attempt, and it's likely an antisemitic hate crime. It should be referred to that way by political media.

submitted 22 hours ago • 131 comments

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

So the man who is actively dismantling our democratic institutions, the man who is currently saying fuck due process, snatching innocent people off our streets, and dumping them into foreign gulags, that man is “charming” in private? Do I have that right @billmaher?

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

It’s very sad when the largest benefits (not entitlements) program in the US can no longer be trusted to tell the truth… and yet it is by design…

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WSJ Editorial page welcome to the resistance?

submitted 2 days ago • 889 comments

“Destroy the institutions that rejected them” sums up so many people orbiting this administration

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

⚠️ JUST IN: The University of Michigan’s April survey shows that one-year inflation expectations in the U.S. surged to 6.7%, the highest reading since 1981. The rise was seen across all party affiliations.

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

..checks T-Bill strength…

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Say it with us: “constitutional crisis”

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submitted 2 days ago • 426 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 2 days ago • 1654 comments

BREAKING -- Republicans just cut funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That's right. $880 BILLION cut from ACA and Medicaid -- to pay for a billionaire tax cut -- raising the cost of healthcare for 119.3 million Americans. Are you one of them?

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

On the economy, Trump's position is clear: he's against it

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Please enjoy my OOO reply

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

No, you didn't lose money, Trump just robbed you.

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

Translation: “Small businesses can’t enrich me personally so I don’t care what happens to them” Says it all, really

submitted 9 days ago • 1064 comments

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

submitted 9 days ago • 553 comments

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well."

submitted 9 days ago • 928 comments

The progression is an inevitable beclowning.

submitted 9 days ago • 108 comments

And why we (sane people) supported her

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, at least the guy who singlehandedly cut your 401K in half overnight isn’t spending the weekend enriching himself and the funders of 9/11 at a golf tournament… Oh wait.

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

submitted 10 days ago • 391 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

This is what election-rigging looks like.

submitted 9 days ago • 141 comments

He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

submitted 9 days ago • 917 comments

Reminder: as the Dow is tanking faster than 2008, and four dead servicemen arrive at Dover, Trump is golfing: with the saudis

submitted 9 days ago • 655 comments

I blame George W. Bush. He softened America up to the idea that we could have someone stupid in the White House and things would still function.

submitted 10 days ago • 1754 comments

If only we didn’t let racism get in the way of a good democracy …

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

But I am, we told you so.

submitted 10 days ago • 279 comments

Day 2 of the Golden Era.

submitted 9 days ago • 511 comments

Bet y'all miss pronouns now, motherfuckers.

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

He’s an idiot. If you didn’t know that before, know that now. He’s an idiot.

submitted 10 days ago • 94 comments

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!

submitted 10 days ago • 1857 comments

Rep. Johnson doesn’t want you to be reminded that he doesn’t like women, let alone women with rights.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Finally liberated from a strong economy, record stock market, and historically low unemployment.

submitted 11 days ago • 676 comments

America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.

submitted 11 days ago • 1218 comments

How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment? They utterly failed the test of history.

submitted 10 days ago • 500 comments

Thank you to whoever made this

submitted 11 days ago • 647 comments

Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.

submitted 10 days ago • 869 comments

Antarctica Tariffs Announced It's about time those deadbeat slackers started pulling their weight... 🐧 💰 🐧 💰 🐧 💰

submitted 11 days ago • 2431 comments

In the "personal news" department, this morning I let my colleagues know that I'm leaving The Washington Post. I'm retiring from my longtime journalistic home but not from journalism, and I'll keep you posted as I decide what my next chapter will be.

submitted 10 days ago • 1085 comments