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Breathtaking. A federal prosecutor in LA was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in DC to drop all charges against him White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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Good day for —checks notes— infectious diseases. 🦠

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submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

When Mayor Pete is cussing, it’s bad.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 6 days ago • 2035 comments

Zero accountability and nobody is going to sack him. This is America now. Criminals, sex pests, drunks and clowns. That’s your government.

submitted 6 days ago • 561 comments

Pete Hegseth never should have been tapped for this job. It's too important. He should be fired immediately.

submitted 6 days ago • 1555 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 6 days ago • 3705 comments

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

submitted 6 days ago • 504 comments

I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.

submitted 9 days ago • 1095 comments

Do they not know actual old people?

submitted 9 days ago • 929 comments

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

submitted 9 days ago • 527 comments

You don’t need to leak false information. If it is false, you are just making it up. So either it is a leak of truthful information or it is someone making something up.

submitted 9 days ago • 2632 comments

I'm not sure if I believe in an after-life, but I kinda hope hell exists so that these parents can rot in it for eternity.

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This imposes massive costs and inconvenience on older American workers to get money that is owed to us, in order to prevent fraud that is nearly non-existent.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

substack.com/@america/not...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

JFC! We’re all going to die.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Instant Karma, MN Senator, Justin Eichorn one of the co-writers for the new " Deranged bill " ARRESTED for soliciting a minor! It was swift and sweet, now do the others! Sens. Eric Lucero, Steve Drazkowski, Nathan Wesenberg, and Glenn H. Gruenhagen #minnesota #Eichorn

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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

submitted 15 days ago • 1477 comments

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

submitted 14 days ago • 1030 comments

âś… Yes, the Arlington National Cemetery website removed links to webpages about Black, Hispanic and female veterans buried at the site.

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Remember this?! 👇 Never. Forget. This. ✨

submitted 18 days ago • 690 comments

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

submitted 17 days ago • 1164 comments

Non existent US Champagne makers are rejoicing...

submitted 17 days ago • 602 comments

He can’t pretend this is anything he inherited. He totally owns this.

submitted 17 days ago • 195 comments

The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer. Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.

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Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 560 comments

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

submitted 17 days ago • 1311 comments

One of these things is not like the others

submitted 17 days ago • 666 comments

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

submitted 18 days ago • 1193 comments

per week... #usa #classwar #americannightmare

submitted 18 days ago • 292 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 18 days ago • 1411 comments

Tadaa.

submitted 23 days ago • 1484 comments

What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

submitted 23 days ago • 1227 comments

Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down. Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.

submitted 23 days ago • 495 comments

He thinks he's a king.

submitted 26 days ago • 2236 comments

Trump was supposed to lower egg prices, not stock prices.

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submitted 26 days ago • 712 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 26 days ago • 3317 comments

No such thing as an illegal protest, Donnie boy. Protests are protected.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, to be fair, we had to know this was coming. I've been telling my husband for months that we should try to see the national parks while we still can.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Them: "Why don't you just teach in Texas? Why are you wanting to teach overseas?" Me: "Please see exhibit X."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has “ordered both the Defense Department’s Cyber Command and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to stand down from monitoring and countering Russian cyberthreats.” What could possibly go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 132 comments

So we’ve established vaccines are beneficial, now we’re just haggling about how often.

submitted 27 days ago • 545 comments