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submitted 9 hours ago • 274 comments

Dear ICE Agents: When your parents told you that you could be anything you want when you grow up, they didn’t mean masked kidnappers.

submitted 1 day ago • 437 comments

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments

Quote of the Day…

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I worship Morpheus the God of Dreams, so if you see me falling asleep at a funeral, know that it is a sign of RESPECT.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 6 days ago • 871 comments

We live in a world where no one from Jeffrey Epstein's sex offenders list has been prosecuted because they are rich and powerful but at least 4 of their victims have been driven to suicide.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

The soundtrack for the first third of 2025 is just a mechanical voice intoning "TERRAIN. PULL UP. TERRAIN. PULL UP. TERRAIN. PULL UP." over and over and over again.

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

This is disgusting behavior from a government agency.

submitted 8 days ago • 617 comments

Who else remembers the PPP covid loan scheme in which millions of dollars were given out to many crooks like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jared Kushner, Devin Nunes, Betsy DeVos and then it was all suddenly forgiven, over $750B worth? I do. ✋

submitted 10 days ago • 333 comments

In Hegseth's Chief Of Staff's defense, I also graphically describe my bowel movements in high-levels meetings.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

But sure, meritocracy. Got it.

submitted 12 days ago • 641 comments

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

submitted 12 days ago • 365 comments

Today we celebrate Him

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submitted 14 days ago • 187 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 14 days ago • 694 comments

👇🏽

submitted 13 days ago • 375 comments

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

submitted 16 days ago • 1341 comments

Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.

submitted 21 days ago • 560 comments

Roses are red Daisies are plain

submitted 22 days ago • 435 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 22 days ago • 1647 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

submitted 25 days ago • 823 comments

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

submitted 26 days ago • 394 comments

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

submitted 27 days ago • 515 comments

By the way whenever we come out of a deep recession like 2008, the rich get richer

submitted 28 days ago • 1224 comments

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

submitted 29 days ago • 683 comments

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 30 days ago • 2508 comments

New in PN: John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him. "After all, how can the rightwing justices expect a future president — particularly a Democratic one — to accept rulings limiting the exercise of their power from a Court that served as the judicial stooge of an aspiring dictator?"

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submitted 36 days ago • 21 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 40 days ago • 329 comments

So Trump’s defense of a massive national security breach is that he has no idea what’s happening. Cool.

submitted 40 days ago • 251 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 40 days ago • 850 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 1234 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 45 days ago • 615 comments

I'm game, what about you?

submitted 52 days ago • 38 comments