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Six hours ago, Sen. Chris Van Hollen boarded a flight to El Salvador, putting his safety on the line to demand justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is what leadership looks like. He’s meeting with officials, hoping to see Kilmar, & sending a message loud & clear: we won’t stop until he’s home.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Donald Trump has made himself—and by extension, us—the laughing stock of the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 359 comments

Three-dimensional chess

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

"He's a GENIUS!"

submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

It’s enough 🥚 on their faces to make an omelet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

Federal agents wearing plain clothes tried to question kids at elementary schools in L.A. on Monday, according to a reporter at Spectrum News. "Superintendent Carvahlo said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true"

submitted 7 days ago • 222 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 8 days ago • 417 comments

He signed our economic death spiral. 104% tariffs on China.

submitted 9 days ago • 588 comments

Elon Musk and Trump’s tariff advisor Peter Navarro are now fighting publicly, with Navarro attacking Tesla and Musk calling Navarro a “moron” who’s “dumber than a sack of bricks.”

submitted 10 days ago • 499 comments

This is very very very trumpy

submitted 10 days ago • 1087 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 13 days ago • 1115 comments

off to a good start at the boasberg hearing, with drew ensign for doj acknowledging that "to the extent that [administration statements] are contrary to things that are true, they would be false"

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

It’s as if he’s a Russian asset, trying to destroy America from within.

submitted 15 days ago • 588 comments

🧵WaPo: A secret memo from SecDef Hegseth tells military: get ready for war with China over Taiwan. Everything else [Russia, Iran, terror groups] is secondary The memo copies parts of a 2024 Heritage Foundation report, now DOD guidance—almost word for word. The report’s co-author runs Pentagon policy

submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

On a 2023 earnings call, Elon Musk boasted that Tesla had bagged “over 1 million” Cybertruck reservations and that “demand is off the charts.” So why has the company still sold less than 50,000 trucks since customer deliveries began 14 months ago?

submitted 19 days ago • 438 comments

👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 19 days ago • 362 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

The incompetence of this administration is staggering.

submitted 22 days ago • 811 comments

A+

submitted 21 days ago • 136 comments

Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 24 days ago • 92 comments

Our constitutional order is collapsing, but at least we're getting the "farce" version

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments