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Why do people in the news media act like a president's executive order is a magic wand? Don't they understand how things really work?

submitted 8 days ago • 197 comments

I’ve literally had to uninvite members of Congress from a Happy Hour with an open bar in order to comply with Congressional ethics rules — meanwhile the Qataris are just gifting a whole plane to the motherfucking President.

submitted 8 days ago • 139 comments

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

submitted 28 days ago • 156 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 36 days ago • 691 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 36 days ago • 1983 comments

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so. This is a constitutional crisis. How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

submitted 36 days ago • 128 comments

➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie. ➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact. ➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie. ➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true. 🔄 Repeat

submitted 36 days ago • 40 comments

I second this.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Oliver is underselling his scoop. It seems the White House censored a pool report that showed that Trump was violating yet another court order.

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

“Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii” Just a little election fraud by Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. She even took her homestead tax deduction in Texas.🙄

submitted 40 days ago • 22 comments

My latest: This Jimmy Kimmel Graphic Hasn’t Gone Viral Yet, But it Should: Economic data can be best shown in charts, though it’s rare for those charts to become graphics for late night comedy shows…

submitted 40 days ago • 107 comments

What's the sense in this? How does this make America healthier? RFK Jr. is running a scam.

submitted 40 days ago • 51 comments

Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

submitted 40 days ago • 23 comments

The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.

submitted 40 days ago • 320 comments

You lost your 401k... and did Trump make money doing it? He posted "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" just hours before pausing the tariffs. It's time for everyone to ask House Republicans why they aren't fighting for an investigation into this.

submitted 41 days ago • 726 comments

FACT: According to TRUMO we have no money for: Cancer care Veterans jobs SS Medicaid DOE USAID But magically we have 100M for a fn birthday party. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

The US deported a man to South Sudan, who was actually a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

submitted 42 days ago • 127 comments

Wonder why msm isn’t questioning this admin if FEMA is on the ground in storm areas. I recall nonstop questioning when Biden was in WH. Even when FEMA WAS responding. Yet, no questions of this admin. They fail us again.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Susan Crawford has WON the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race!!

submitted 48 days ago • 241 comments

Crawford looks to be running away with this. But, hey, at least the president of the Wisconsin College Republicans got rich

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Facebook is deleting Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletters…

submitted 48 days ago • 353 comments

damn this is so rich www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 62 days ago • 20 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

submitted 62 days ago • 1355 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 63 days ago • 607 comments

1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 65 days ago • 229 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 66 days ago • 1356 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 66 days ago • 5904 comments

Today I learned that the largest DEI initiative in American history was the Civil War

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

@schumer.senate.gov - Your vote to support Trump, Musk and Repubs may very well cost Democrats in 2026. Remember that.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

submitted 71 days ago • 298 comments

I founded and chair an "elite law firm" and we are not in retreat. I have spoken with many other "elite" firm leaders that are staffing up. What the WSJ means is large corporate law firms. Please do not confuse quality with cowardice.

submitted 72 days ago • 699 comments

Waste, fraud, and abuse is the federal government paying for a convicted felon and rapist to play golf multiple times every single week.

submitted 72 days ago • 105 comments

Weingarten: It’s really only the Congress that can abolish the Department of Education. So, what the president can do is make government basically ineffective—not work—by a thousand cuts. And that’s what they’re doing.

submitted 72 days ago • 340 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 72 days ago • 725 comments

"On behalf of the entire state of Wisconsin, I would like to apologize for the statements, actions, and indeed the very existence of U.S. Congressman Derrick Van Orden....this guy embarrasses the hell out of us." ICYMI Bill Lueders: www.thebulwark.com/p/sorry-trut...

submitted 73 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk is such a menace to society. Lock this weirdo up already.

submitted 74 days ago • 46 comments

Elon screwed up air travel across South Florida.

submitted 74 days ago • 166 comments

Trump hails his first month as the greatest first month of any president and he's more popular than ever. But...

submitted 76 days ago • 50 comments