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Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

Instead of asking Trump what he thinks about how Elon is running DOGE, maybe reporters should ask Trump what he thinks about how Amy Gleason is running DOGE Because she's the head of DOGE, right?

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor. It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but especially today.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Four votes for contempt of court being okay.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

so according to samuel alito, a court order requiring the government to honor an already incurred $2 billion obligation -- ~.1% of the 2024 federal budget -- is more destabilizing than two of elon's lackeys exercising a veto over every outgoing federal payment. absolutely cooked.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The placards are some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. You’re IN CONGRESS… USE YOUR FUCKING WORDS!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

A number of children are still alive!!! He has betrayed us

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Wired has been unstoppable. Please consider paying for a subscription (I got a full year for $10)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments

The Trump administration is: breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress breaking the law by ignoring a court order lying about it killing people *silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

Whoever supports this is a murderous ghoul

submitted 7 days ago • 204 comments

Those right-winger influencers who spout non-stop conspiracy theories....what will their excuse me now that the GOP has all power and has fired all the 'deep state'? If they were really curious they'd investigate Alexander Acosta. But they won't.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments

we all have to get out of the habit of reporting "trump/musk says x" as "x is probably true"

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

Measles in Texas was just the test. We are going to have a very, very dark winter next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

When Republicans say "These tax cuts will pay for themselves" reporters should treat it the way they do "Trump won the 2020 election," as a proven lie that requires IMMEDIATE refutation in the reporter's voice, to make clear that they have repeated this assertion for decades and it never happens.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

The GOP passed a budget resolution tonight that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

submitted 11 days ago • 289 comments

Trump is going to be extra crazy today to distract from the House voting on budget start. Stay focused, please

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that

submitted 12 days ago • 208 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 14 days ago • 122 comments

If you care about real political journalism, you can't find a better investment than a $10 subscription to Wired. www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

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So concentration camps? Remember when the right used to say that there were going to be FEMA camps. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow, gas prices are no longer interesting to the media. Found this on gasprices.aaa.com?state=WA

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Oh look, real defund the police actions. It really is always a confession when the GOP and media team-up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The Associated Press should start calling Mar-A-Lago by its new name, Stormy Daniels.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I sure hope Ossoff and Warnock have interviews lined up to talk about this headline: Trump admin denies request to extend FEMA application deadline in GA

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