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The expected standard of behavior Americans have for Democratic versus Republican politicians has always been clearly unfair, but the way Republicans swallow Trump's short-comings is kind of staggering.

submitted 4 hours ago • 38 comments

Lot of truth here. I know plenty of young friendless guys who are scared of public spaces and blame their loneliness/cowardice on cancel culture, feminism, and/or wokeness while only ever encountering those things through the lens of right wing media

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

That's just great...I feel as though we were just starting to make headway in educating the general populace on this subject, and now it's to be erased.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

“Baby, baby, we’re gonna yield in two, so get that slooooow feeling inside”

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 9 hours ago • 126 comments

Ah, this administration's "Let them eat cake" moment. "You see, the American dream is to become a millionaire - which, by the way, is totally do-able for everyone - then you'll finally be able to afford the good stuff."

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

We learned the hard way a dozen times or so over the centuries that when our friends sell us out, the Russian barbarians take that as an invitation to start marauding again. Trump has made the world less safe, especially for Poland.

submitted 1 day ago • 284 comments

Washington Post under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid" Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Today, tons of Marylanders rallied at the Lincoln Memorial with Dr. Francis Collins, Bill Nye the Science Guy and thousands of others to tell MAGA to let our expert civil servant scientists get back to work, pursuing facts and conducting critical research for the common good.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Tadaa.

submitted 1 day ago • 1507 comments

Trump has privately told Trudeau he wants to revise the border between the United States and Canada. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

I don’t think this is going to convince Hamilton to come back.

submitted 1 day ago • 2059 comments

I just hope this reboot of “Let them eat cake” has the same ending. I hate when reboots stray from the source material.

submitted 1 day ago • 220 comments

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 1865 comments

This is not normal. We are seeing America breaking apart at the seams.

submitted 1 day ago • 676 comments

Meanwhile, Elon gets to live the dream of having no constituents

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Imagine being pro civilian harm

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

London

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

To quote FDR: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

Iowa Starting Line @iowastartingline.com Des Moines physician Dr. Jonathan Crosbie, who also teaches clinical medicine at Des Moines University, tells Iowa lawmakers that criminalizing vaccines is a surefire way to chase young doctors out of Iowa.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?

submitted 1 day ago • 321 comments

At a cabinet meeting, Donald Trump suggested that air traffic controllers should be recruited from MIT because they should be "geniuses." Donald once claimed to be a genius because [checks notes] his uncle taught at MIT. Bless his heart. He's so simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

Musk probably thought that meant it was owned by a black person.

submitted 2 days ago • 301 comments

I try not to criticize anybody who broadcasts live -- there's a reason I don't do it -- but of course there never was any such thing as an "EV Mandate."

submitted 2 days ago • 442 comments

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1189 comments

I'm not Christian, but if I had never learned anything about it over the years, today I would assume that all Jesus talked about is whose genitals people touched with their own. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 420 comments

Probably fine

submitted 2 days ago • 478 comments

No bone spurs detected.

submitted 2 days ago • 898 comments

Can we see how much stock in auto companies Eric & Junior Trump bought at 11:00 AM, since this was announced at noon?

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

The existing private companies often rely on the USPS for the last leg of rural deliveries so this would just be the end of mail for them entirely. But remember, it’s the Democrats who have contempt for rural Americans

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

The baby adds a lot to this already remarkable moment

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

How DOGE will add to the federal budget: It will fire government workers who will be replaced by private contractors at higher rates. It will cancel contracts that will be renegotiated at higher rates.

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

Oh, please your (dark) lordship, may we?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

submitted 3 days ago • 481 comments

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 5 days ago • 336 comments

we can’t raise the minimum wage because everything will get more expensive. [everything gets more expensive] now we really can’t raise the minimum wage because everything will get even more expensive. [everything gets more expensive] now we REALLY can’t raise the minimum wage because

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Also: "Tariffs are on. No, wait, they're off. No, they're on again." Speech: They're a great thing, from which you will experience 'disturbance' but you just have to deal. But yay tariffs, have fun! Next day: "Some of them are postponed because Wall Street freaked out at us." GENIUSES.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 3 days ago • 3639 comments

Well played.

submitted 3 days ago • 450 comments