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Trump tried a seizure of power in 2021. It didn't work, because he relied only on a violent mob. The military and FBI stayed loyal to the Constitution. This time, with approval of the Republican Senate, Trump has installed anti-constitutional putschists at FBI, DoD, and Pentagon

submitted 7 hours ago • 64 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 10 hours ago • 335 comments

Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.

submitted 6 hours ago • 632 comments

"Freedom of speech" but if you utter the word woman you lose your job.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)

submitted 13 hours ago • 623 comments

Trump was willing to stand up there for a few minutes to pretend to care about black history, but hugging the guy was a deal breaker.

submitted 14 hours ago • 568 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 1 day ago • 924 comments

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered by a Chinese researcher. Good thing we are completely prepared this time. www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 800 comments

Budget Lab models a “reciprocal” tariff policy where the US matches other countries’ tariff and VAT rates. .. the equivalent of an average per household consumer loss of $2,700-3,400 ..” @budgetlab.bsky.social budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by Trump — deleting a resource experts said improved public safety by helping prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.

submitted 1 day ago • 213 comments

I for one am thrilled we have the outstanding combo of an aging dotard and a drug addled maniac at the helm, instead of the qualified lady and nice man

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Fun fact: while Phony Stark and the DOGEbags are taking money from our veterans, the world’s poorest people and kids with cancer, Assistant President Poopy Pants has already spent nearly $11 million of our money… playing golf.

submitted 2 days ago • 482 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 2 days ago • 545 comments

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

seeing this chart set in he’s doing sex selective IVF for boys and that’s why he lost his fucking mind and became a hardline fascist when vivian came out as trans, he’s a freak

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

A 10% universal tariff on $3.25 trillion of annual US merchandise imports would potentially raise ~$300 billion. Last year, US personal income tax brought in nearly 30x that.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

People vehemently believe that there are safety nets in place if you become disabled. That no matter what, you have all of your needs met. If you believe this, you’re in for a rude awakening if you ever become disabled.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

KLUWE: “MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is." @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

submitted 2 days ago • 333 comments

How do you link a government official to an anonymous social media account that asserts, among other things, that "America is a White nation?" Like this. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Oh my God if this is true

submitted 3 days ago • 854 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Donald Trump is a delusional old man who thinks he's the king of New York.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Shocked, I tell you. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

Every time Donald Trump talks, one thing becomes clearer: Bro has no clue what’s going on.

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

imagine what a weak quisling Rubio is that he cannot even explain to Trump that Russia started the war. Think about that. Utterly spineless.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

For the last two days, Sean Duffy has been blaming Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, the Democrats, and anyone else he can think of for the fact that under HIS watch, planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. Maybe fewer joyrides to the Daytona 500 and a little more attention paid to transportation.

submitted 4 days ago • 365 comments

How about an election in Russia?

submitted 4 days ago • 264 comments

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

submitted 4 days ago • 217 comments

Caricature on recent events

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1217 comments

Denmark MP Rasmus Jarlov: "[US] has taken no casualties in Ukraine ... paid 4% of US defence budget for one year and that was too much for them ... they will surrender to Russia. We can not trust such spineless people ... If Russia invaded Poland tomorrow, they would make excuses and do nothing."

submitted 4 days ago • 363 comments

He’s golfing right now. Check back next week.

submitted 4 days ago • 588 comments

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

It’s the reality TV show/Instagram cabinet, featuring the Transportation Secretary heading to a car race in FL while Kentucky was a disaster site with at least 9 people dead.

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

Henceforth, any plane that lands and flips will be known as the Fetterman landing.

submitted 4 days ago • 417 comments

Musk just posted a photo on X that supposedly showed migrants with axes and knives taking over a hospital, but the photo turned out to be a screen shot from the movie Dark Knight Rises.

submitted 5 days ago • 723 comments

Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

submitted 6 days ago • 371 comments

Ah yes, focusing on the issues that impact regular Americans.

submitted 5 days ago • 898 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 5 days ago • 1512 comments

First day after a major storm disaster with fatalities & destruction across multiple states and Trump goes to a car race in Florida. Second day after a major disaster and Trump plays golf in FL. Dozens of posts about himself during that time. Not one word about the disaster.

submitted 5 days ago • 458 comments