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We seem to have entered the "street fighters show up at opposition political meetings" phase of Making America Great Again.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

submitted 7 hours ago • 35 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 4 hours ago • 124 comments

Along with the venal cruelty and existential consequences, can we pause to note that this is EXACTLY WHAT MUSK DID AT TWITTER? Beat for beat. Practically word for word. The guy hasn’t had a new idea or operational insight in a decade. He’s on autopilot while demolishing the U.S. government.

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

Yeah I keep thinking that the story of a powerful person who carelessly wrecks large numbers of ordinary people’s lives usually ends poorly

submitted 5 hours ago • 93 comments

It's fine that Tom Homan says he's "bringing hell" to Boston because our cops LEGALLY CAN'T ENFORCE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

illegally suspending PEPFAR may actually kill more people than the Holocaust

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

If you want to understand DOGE. Start here.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less. We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it. I will soon be introducing legislation to significantly raise Social Security benefits and extend the solvency of the program.

submitted 2 days ago • 290 comments

👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt

submitted 5 hours ago • 44 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 11 hours ago • 397 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1674 comments

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 3 hours ago • 179 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 5 hours ago • 117 comments

Economies, too

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

Universal health care is a cornerstone of every other developed country, but in the US, coverage is fragmented among those with private insurance, government programs and a sizable uninsured population. In the US large swaths of the population are being sentenced to death by lack of coverage. 🧵

submitted 76 days ago • 66 comments

hyper-confident idiots and explicit white supremacists, burning shit down and making up numbers to pretend it has value

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

“Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when [Pres. Trump] elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

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submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

facts worth knowing #education

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

This is a hopeful perspective, and also a very necessary one. The more people see angry citizens, public refusals to comply or to kneel, and public servants speaking about their loyalty to the Constitution, the more fragile the Trump coalition will be, and the more isolated the Musk clique will be

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

"A lot of powerful people don’t really grasp the full extent to which Musk is marinating in and sharing extraordinarily deranged material on the platform, sometimes hundreds of times a day." – @jwherrman.bsky.social (nymag.com/intelligence...)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 15 hours ago • 1268 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Look at that ROI 🇺🇸🥄

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Every $1 spent on IRS audits of the very rich tax recovers $6.3 in revenue

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.

submitted 15 hours ago • 24 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 62 comments

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submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

this is low hanging fruit for Dems and all protest movements: show the ppl that Trump's emissary is taking a chainsaw to their benefits

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

This is how diffusion works--great ideas as well as hateful and harmful ones can spread this way. All of a sudden, we will see the Nazi salute in our communities and schools...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

"the poll shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

The Joint Chiefs don't change with a new president. Supposed to be impartial, nonpartisan. Until now. Trump fired the Chair, Gen. Charles Brown (because he's Black), Navy chief Lisa Franchetti (for being a woman), and the 3 top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers (because they say follow the law).

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

If Donald Trump was a pro-Russian traitor how would he act differently?

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments