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On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

submitted 41 days ago • 209 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 41 days ago • 3330 comments

Many people (me) have been saying that a radical expansion of California's UCs and CSUs would be good for democracy

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

"Trumpism is the Cultural Revolution for men" appears to be completely spot on

submitted 41 days ago • 21 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 60 days ago • 844 comments

So I tried this last year and it didn’t take off, but since a particular defense policy website is imploding I’d like to once again point out that Breaking Beijing takes submissions and guess authors: open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.

submitted 60 days ago • 129 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 73 days ago • 5580 comments

GAME. OVER.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

this is an immediate global depression button if they touch it, you cannot simply decide not to honor some treasuries without the total collapse of the financial system I’d like to think even they aren’t that stupid, but…

submitted 79 days ago • 28 comments

i think it is worth pointing out that nothing, to the average americans, is happening. musk's little termites are boring in the walls but they haven't even gotten particularly far

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 82 days ago • 81 comments

let me put this plainly: if NCMEC is shut down, then Donald Trump has effectively legalized child pornography

submitted 82 days ago • 34 comments

for those unfamiliar BAP's thing is jerking off to ancient greek statues and lynching you for being gay if you point this out

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

If you feel overwhelmed by the news lately, that’s by design. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

As we’ve seen this all unfold, the take that has been floating around in my head is “I’m voting for trump because most of all in government, I want competence”

submitted 87 days ago • 59 comments

you obviously want to propagandize the losses, but then people get a completely insane idea about how dangerous resistance is even in a consolidated authoritarian state.

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

the media has now more or less uniformly adopted the theory that the president is allowed to violate the law and constitution however much he wants to so long as he says he is going to do it in advance

submitted 89 days ago • 72 comments

One weakness of the modern media is that there's no room for journalists to make value judgements. It's pure postmodernism. As long as you maintain you're in the right there's nothing they can do. For a while people apologized when they did wrong but eventually people caught on.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like Covid was the last gasp of the functional US public health system, they swiftly used the powers and state capacity to limit the damage and fast-track a lifesaving vaccine, but they had to inflict so much social pain that it ensured the public would never again tolerate such measures.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

This. The Administration's conduct up to now, plus the sorts of people that currently surround the President (e.g., Vought), should move your prior probability on the likelihood of the Insurrection Act being invoked at some point to greater than 50%

submitted 88 days ago • 10 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 88 days ago • 2903 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 88 days ago • 4353 comments

they hate the rule of law and want to go to the state where republican judges ensure it no longer exists

submitted 88 days ago • 7 comments

what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that

submitted 88 days ago • 160 comments

one has to be a very online person to have awareness of what's going on right now - it's going to take awhile to filter to the masses and that's going to be slowed as traditional media is now either beholden to or scared of Trump

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Impeachment is a dead letter with the current GOP. The Founders thought Congress would defend its imperatives.

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 88 days ago • 918 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 88 days ago • 588 comments

this is hair on fire democracy in crisis stuff jfc

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 Democratic Tea Party 2026 🎶

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Just an absolute cascade of national security risks.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

submitted 89 days ago • 109 comments

It’s almost as if it’s Trump’s goal for the United States to not have any international allies. Other than dictators and autocrats, of course.

submitted 89 days ago • 17 comments

Breaking news from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social : Top FBI officials just fired. Obviously relevant to the senators considering the (terrible) nomination of Kash Patel to be FBI director. x.com/kendilaniann...

submitted 89 days ago • 80 comments

Yeah honestly Trump isn’t even doing anything that’s like, cruel or bellicose but strengthens the country. It’s all weakening and plunder

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years

submitted 89 days ago • 1202 comments

I've often wondered whether EU membership would get forgotten or be unimaginable and seem like an abstraction, not a thing to solve today's real problems; or if it would take on a mythical status as the thing that would magically solve all our problems. Esp for those who had not lived through it.

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

confronting armed men with a crowd which they refuse to shoot is vastly more powerful than putting together enough armed men to shoot back

submitted 90 days ago • 34 comments

As usual, the media will invent a fictional version of Donald Trump who is not a senile dipshit and insert him in the news instead of reporting on what he is actually saying

submitted 90 days ago • 10 comments

Going to use the Supreme Court to gut Congress. Then turn on the Supreme Court.

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments