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Anyone who did not expect this was not paying attention in the least.

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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I’d add Sens. Whitehouse. Warren and Schiff to the list.

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4 ex-Dem grifters who all came to realize the Dems weren't gullible enough.

submitted 95 days ago • 124 comments

Every word of this is spot on.

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 2878 comments

“No kings, no tyrants.” Thanks @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for using your powers for good.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Truth 💙 right here

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

submitted 2 days ago • 907 comments

Totally true.

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 3 days ago • 1267 comments

Republicans forced to answer for the fact that their leader isn't simply soft on Russia but affirmatively on the side of Russia agst not only Ukraine but America's historic treaty allies. The shame will take generations to undo. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Trump is a new spin on the old Manchurian candidate genre since he said he was at least half traitor on the campaign trail and Republican voters were like, "Works for me!" A bit fuzzier with low-info voters. But for MAGA this is who they wanted.

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Trump is as much an enemy of the US as any leader in the world. He has no redeeming qualities. None. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Trump voters: See what threatening, insulting and demeaning your best ally gets you? To paraphrase Mark Twain, loyalty to country always and loyalty to your government when it deserves it. Trump’s government supports our enemies and attacks our allies. Standing with Canada = Standing with the US.

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submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

Half. Half of our fellow Americans. The extremely wrong half.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

⚡️'No point trying to negotiate' with Putin, Yulia Navalnaya says. "Even if you decided to negotiate with Putin, just remember he will lie," Navalnaya, widow of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said at the Munich Security Conference two days before the anniversary of her husband's death.

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It really is Team Democracy vs Team Fascsism these days. The German government is on the right side of that conflict. The Trump administration is clearly not. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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The resignation letter by the 38-year-old lead federal prosecutor in the Eric Adams corruption case, and who he is. We are in a character-testing time. Hagan Scotten just passed his with high honors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

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Encouraged by Kier Starmer's remarks (no talks without Ukraine, new sanctions on Putin's circle, Ukraine on path to Nato) and Germany's Boris Pistorius calling Vance's speech "unacceptable" that Europe may slowly be locating some spine.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Reagan ignored AIDS Bush invaded Iraq Trump 1 botched Covid The scale of harm that comes from Republicans winning elections is astronomical

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And there they go! Count me a proud DOJ Alum!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

They’re not just radicals, they are incompetent radicals.

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Re: Eric Adams: "If they can order the DOJ to STOP a case for political reasons, purely political reasons, a good case, then they can also order the DOJ to START a case, a bad case, for purely political reasons."

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

More than cracks. The Republican Supreme Court’s immunity decision, the election of an aspiring dictator after 1/6/21, the release of paramilitary 1/6 terrorists, a weak 4th estate, widespread civic apathy & total GOP complicity mean it’s falling apart. Fight. www.brookings.edu/articles/dan...

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Mark Carney: This proud country will never be part of the United States

submitted 10 days ago • 93 comments

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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CANADA'S FREELAND: US tariffs are an act of "economic self-mutilation -- by the United States." If America pursues "a punishing trade war with Canada and its other allies, all of us will have no choice but to seek other friends, wherever we can find them." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts. We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

Hell yah Canada.

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

Trump "is essentially reorienting American politics as friendly to dictators and authoritarian regimes primarily, and hostile fundamentally to democracies. It is shaping up to be the most radical transformation of America's role in the world since Roosevelt," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

Exactly.

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Make them do it with 100% Republican votes. They are doing it to get huge tax cuts for billionaires. There will be upward pressure on interest rates and Republicans will likely make housing cuts, education cuts and health care cuts. No Democrat should enable any of it.

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On those new Trump tariffs: I don't think people realize how narrow they are. They're ugly and stupid, but also arguably an attempt to save face after he lost his nerve on broad tariffs

submitted 12 days ago • 83 comments

We are in a constitutional crisis right here and now www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 255 comments

They are just criminals doing what criminals do - from Trump on down.

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Needed this so much right now. I just called out the fact that Kendrick Lamar carried that red, white, and blue theme through. He owned it! My fam knew what that meant. THEY don’t want us here, but they do not own the flag. “Not Like Us”

submitted 13 days ago • 823 comments

"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy" KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #superbowl

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The Trump Supreme Court has disempowered itself to serve Trump. Now, they have a major incentive to avoid a conflict with Trump to preserve the illusion that they still have the power they ceded when they rendered the immunity decision and slow-walked Trump litigation.

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Exactly exactly exactly

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