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This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands Richard II #ShakespeareSunday

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

Morning all! I hope this beautiful robin singing its wee heart out in the reeds at Peg's Pond in Richmond Park helps to get your day off to the very best start.❤️ #bird 🪶 #Robin #songbird #wildlifephotography #NaturePhotography

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

submitted 15 hours ago • 1410 comments

As we approach the 3rd year of the full scale invasion by terrorist Russia, I ask media/pundits to please mention that Russia invaded Ukraine 11 years ago. Too many conveniently forget that Russia invaded, set up concentration camps, carried out atrocities in occupied territories for over a decade

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

We should send newly confirmed expert, RFK Jr. to Wuhan so he can expose himself to this new virus and let us know if everything is ok. If he looks good after a few months they can send him back home! 😜 I’m sure he wouldn’t want to endanger anyone with vaccines! www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 16 hours ago • 622 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2531 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2382 comments

“Emperor”.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Lara Trump’s new gig on Fox News will give her a direct line into conservative viewers’ homes and help shape their perception of the new Administration in a world in which politics, media, and entertainment have decisively merged, Jon Allsop writes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 53 comments

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

submitted 16 hours ago • 39 comments

✈️👀. Military flight from El Paso that appears to be headed for Guantanamo. Plenty of questions- are they transferring people again after delivering everyone on Guantanamo to a Venezuelan deportation flight in Honduras on Thursday? If so, how many people, and what nationalities.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Musk’s AfD Nazis will be shut out of the ruling coalition as all leading parties in the German elections refuse to unite with them. But they still came in a historic second place for AfD, thanks to support from MAGA/Russian disinformation

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Freedom, opportunity, the rule of law, constitutional and competent government, equal justice, accountability, affordability, anti-corruption, truth, and character-driven leadership. Defend them all with us this weekend.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

Trump keeps teasing a third term, but his fans at CPAC don't back him on that www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Reichsführer Musk is creating a government based on National Socialist eugenics policies. It’s not complicated. He barely obscures it with 4chan symbolism and “woke mind virus” language, but it’s right in front of us. We, collectively, must decide, right now, if we want this.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Notice how he only mentions “constitutional” advice which no doubt will be through the “originalist” lens not consistent with modern interpretation & application, but he also doesn’t mention ensuring compliance with the Geneva Conventions or any international law as a whole. This is intentional.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Ambassador Susan Rice on Trump’s stance towards Ukraine: “If I'm Xi Jinping, I'm looking at that going, ‘Great. Now is my time to invade Taiwan.’... And it's just shocking to me that Republicans in Congress who know better are seemingly taking a pass as all this seems to be transpiring.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Trudeau: "Canada will always stand up for Ukraine." Trudeau to Zelensky: "Your fight is our fight." Source: Politico

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

Yesterday domestic terrorists attempted to intimidate me and Michael Fanone (imagine that 🙄) Longer video coming soon. Heading back out to go inspire and get in good trouble. 🫶🏽✌🏽

submitted 19 hours ago • 1199 comments

Van Hollen: "There's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority, and the way he's been 'delegated' this authority is illegal, and the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation."

submitted 18 hours ago • 616 comments

Has anyone called Bitcoin “Dunning-Krugerrand” yet?

submitted 17 hours ago • 74 comments

The funniest part is an allegedly grown man talking this much trash while wearing a hat that says PROUD BOYS. It’s like thumping your chest in a t-shirt that says I’M MOMMY’S LIL STINKER

submitted 16 hours ago • 155 comments

Listen to the clip just to hear the deeply unqualified Pete Hegseth sneeringly dismiss a woman who’s a Georgetown law professor, rudely calling her by her first name and saying he’s never heard of her.

submitted 19 hours ago • 80 comments

And yeah, I used "praetorianism" as shorthand (somewhat breezily) for "establishing a palace guard," but whichever term we choose, it is the winnowing of an apolitical military and creation of a personal military force loyal to a single leader. (The actual praetorianism comes later.)

submitted 18 hours ago • 45 comments

They learned something from their first term. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles. So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

submitted 16 hours ago • 253 comments

We need to collect the data on all the people DOGE is targeting. It's not random. Look at the gender, race, political affiliations/donations, and even their social media. They'll sprinkle in some generic white men for cover, but I'm willing to bet they're targeting women, minorities & liberals

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

If you’re in Canada you can stream the excellent Cardinal series for free on the CTV site. (Also on Crave.) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 224 comments

We don’t talk enough about how funny it is that Vance’s whole schtick was that he became this devoted Catholic convert then he told the pope no not like that

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Don't confuse this with taking on the military industrial complex. That's not their goal. Dictators need the military on their side in order to stay in power. These cuts could backfire, even though they're likely doing them to purge the military so it's easier to control, turning it into a MAGA army

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

OTD in 2022 i denied any invasion would happen. So you can believe my promises about peace now.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

He surrendered to the Taliban. Why wouldn’t he surrender to the Kremlin?

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

This Game of Thrones quote feels especially poignant: “Any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king.”

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

DOGE laying off dedicated employees at a time when the U.S. economy leads the world feels similar to corporations raking in billions from stock buybacks while slashing jobs. It’s the same sleazy corporate playbook—now creeping into our government.

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

Authoritarianism is also organized crime that profits its leaders. We’re currently seeing the Trump Administration shakedown Ukraine as it’s obvious they’re aligned with Putin and the alternative is destruction. We’re in the shit. Deep, deep in the shit.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Mark your calenders:

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Can everyone please call Congress, the courts, and anyone else you can think of to find out wtf this is

submitted 6 days ago • 198 comments

She has the legal authority. But it’s now imperatively in the public interest that Hochul remove Adams forthwith.

submitted 6 days ago • 112 comments

"European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west, leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine." -The Financial Times

submitted 6 days ago • 153 comments