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A day after Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine, and Trump is again attacking Zelenskyy – sounding indistinguishable from a commentator on Russian state TV. And repeating the Kremlin lie that Ukraine started this war. Trump casts shame on himself and our country.

submitted 13 days ago • 255 comments

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 23 days ago • 465 comments

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

submitted 23 days ago • 125 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 23 days ago • 3286 comments

“What these testimonies reveal was a systematic trend of sexual violence that was being used as a weapon of genocide.” Despite powerful testimony from Palestinian womens’ advocates, the West is silent, Fatima Bhutto writes.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Update: The ADL is now pro-bias.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Freedom of speech is when the government goes after people who say bad things about the President’s car company.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true. One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

Professors who study authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03...

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

YouGov poll: 74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.

submitted 31 days ago • 155 comments

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

submitted 41 days ago • 179 comments

Democrats act like they are the minority party in a democratic government coalition, but we need them to be the opposition party against an autocratic regime.

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

submitted 54 days ago • 475 comments

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

submitted 58 days ago • 839 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 65 days ago • 1477 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 66 days ago • 93 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 66 days ago • 91 comments

I've said for years that anti-Blackness, racism and white supremacy should be considered as misinformation / disinformation. To study the history of race and journalism is to see that White supremacy was an effective disinformation campaign. And through that, we got Jim Crow, a fascist system.

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 66 days ago • 227 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 66 days ago • 1455 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 66 days ago • 61 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 66 days ago • 195 comments

There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

submitted 66 days ago • 39 comments

I'm seeing reactions that "this is all a distraction!" but no, this is a pretty good illustration of Trump's authoritarian turn and a nice way to break through to normal folks who think he's doing normal things.

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

submitted 68 days ago • 2049 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 67 days ago • 1010 comments

Democrats, ARE YOU LISTENING???

submitted 67 days ago • 47 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 67 days ago • 286 comments

Ok, but real talk? The sort of low-engagement persuadable Trump voter you need to flip is not going to sit through a serious policy argument, and would not understand it if they did. “He’s calling himself a king” they can understand. So run with it.

submitted 67 days ago • 88 comments

Do it @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedem.bsky.social.

submitted 68 days ago • 48 comments

Free speech Elon strikes again:

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 442 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 79 days ago • 1502 comments

Nothing to worry about: the world’s richest man, and donor to Donald Trump, is bragging about killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The party of the little guy against the elites! Yeah!

submitted 79 days ago • 81 comments

This. 👇🏾👇🏾 This right here. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 You ask, “what would Mitch McConnell or Jim Jordan or Ron DeSantis or Sam Alito do in this same situation?” And then you do exactly that, without fear or hesitation. It’s a gun fight, not a knife fight. So bring guns. Or a bazooka. Or a tank.

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

MSNBC now showing an empty podium. Waiting for Trump and Netanyahu. While House Dems are rallying in front of the Treasury. The most successful Republican propaganda in history was Ronald Reagan’s “liberal media” fantasy. It doesn’t exist, has never existed.

submitted 82 days ago • 28 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 82 days ago • 1737 comments

the ethnic cleansing likers have logged on

submitted 82 days ago • 55 comments

For two decades conservatives hyperventilated about how foreign billionaire George Soros was some nefarious, mustache-twisting demon intent on overtaking America. Now that that’s actually happening, they’re all fine with it.

submitted 82 days ago • 6 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 86 days ago • 500 comments

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 85 days ago • 85 comments

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

submitted 87 days ago • 69 comments

The Federal Aviation Administration’s preliminary report on the D.C. plane crash goes against everything the president has said thus far.

submitted 87 days ago • 87 comments

This.

submitted 88 days ago • 16 comments