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The Republican response to constituents yelling at them at town halls is pretty obvious. Just stop having town halls.

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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And that's the way it is. Good night, and Trump sucks.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Here’s the hard truth: this country’s people are tired of subsidizing billionaires. Want your cars to sell? Do it without subsidies. Want to shoot rockets into space? Get by without govt contracts. Want to build a website? Build your own internet first. We are DONE with you.

submitted 12 hours ago • 75 comments

This press secretary is dumber than Kayleigh McNinny, and that's not easy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

What the fuck is wrong with Democrats

submitted 17 hours ago • 320 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 368 comments

Daddy's home and he hates kids.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Don't be fooled by the talk of "precision." The doughy, ketamine-addled man boy is incapable of precision when it comes to government functioning (or child-rearing). The cruelty and disasters will continue.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

—Come on up, Martin Cunningham said to the subsheriff. I don’t think you knew him or perhaps you did, though. With John Wyse Nolan Mr Power followed them in.

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They talk about the Me, Too movement as if that were something separate and detachable from feminist history and thought.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The colonizers believe that they are superior to everyone else, and therefore the notion of equality poses a threat to their comfort. They didn’t say “all human beings are equal” but “all men,” and they didn’t say “all white men” because of course that was assumed.

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The wildest part of this is that my parents were forced to learn English, my Tribal language was stolen from me and this foreign one was forced down my throat. I was required to learn the history of the colonizers who came here, and my own history was an elective. My people’s knowledge systems were

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It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 20 hours ago • 100 comments

My problem with psychedelics, back when I was young, was not that they made everything seem unreal. It was that they made everything seem too real.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 20 hours ago • 242 comments

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 20 hours ago • 171 comments

“A traitor U.S. president? There have been movies that had that, but in real life? No one could believe it. Therefore we don’t believe it.”

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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. — David Foster Wallace

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

The stories they tell about the hero who never lies and is always right are boring. These stories they tell themselves about themselves. It’s just bad fiction.

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There’s something happening in this country.

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 22 hours ago • 260 comments

I was talking to an acquaintance on the phone today, when he mentioned going to church on Sunday. “You go to church?!” I said. “It’s Unitarian, so don’t get too excited, Chris.”

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Today the Balcony, a Facebook group about movies that I belong to, moved to a discussion forum site. We originally started as an email listserv in the early ‘90s. People were leaving Facebook for obvious reasons, so this is a good response.

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This could be the biggest test of faith in our lifetimes, and if anyone's failing it seems to be the people who are loudest about religion.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The ultimate prize of vocational awe!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The American media is poison. The American media suffers from Van Munchhausen syndrome. They feed us disease. They feed us lies. They feed us poison in order to report on our suffering

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We talk about MAGA disinfo, then people on our side of fighting fascism are still like, Trump is a Russian asset? That sounds too much like a crime thriller, can't be true. Study history from countries occupied by Russia. Buying off corrupt traitors was how Russia ensured help of local collaborators

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

As much as I like hopefulness, the author is still arguing for “reprogramming” Republican minds. It’s a losing strategy! Rally the base, rally the potential voters to actually vote, but give up trying to appeal to Republicans.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

A former Soviet intelligence officer alleges Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev served in the 6th Directorate, responsible for counter-intelligence support in the economy. One key objective was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”

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We must stop trying to persuade right wing voters. They’re gone, OK? You can’t wake people up from a coma that’s been induced for decades. We can only rally the people who are aware. Rally the base. There is no “unity” of all Americans. THERE NEVER WAS.

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One of the reasons I won’t watch MSNBC anymore is all the Republican guests who are on the shows. I discovered that even though they attack Trump, they believe that the GOP was normal before Trump. They want the party to be restored. But I firmly believe that the party must be eradicated.

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It takes some courage to disobey. Disobeying could mean arrest, but there are other consequences that are possible as well: job loss, persecution of family and associates, infliction of pain, even death. Most people don’t have that much courage. Unfortunately, we need to find it.

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Surviving footage of the Nuremburg rallies shows thousands of people making a provocative and controversial gesture.

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Imagine being so dumb that you thought this was preferable to how it was under Biden.

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I don’t believe for a minute he legitimately won any more than I believe he was struck by a bullet.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

people need to realize that we are now entering a reality where the U.S. is still a massive global presence except it’s just unadulterated evil

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