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submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

submitted 7 days ago • 598 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

If you can afford $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, you can afford to pay your fair share of taxes.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1225 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 1165 comments

"Silicon Valley types like to move fast and break things. I guess that’s fine if the only thing you break is your own bank account, but applying that spirit to foreign assistance (again, without a shred of legal authority) means breaking human beings."

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🫤🇺🇸

submitted 16 days ago • 493 comments

Hmmm 🤔

submitted 16 days ago • 110 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 17 days ago • 2293 comments

For 80 years the international organizations we created after World War II have prevented what would likely be a catastrophic global war if it was ever to happen again. They are destroying global security that has worked for the entire nuclear age.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

submitted 17 days ago • 957 comments

"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 17 days ago • 1921 comments

This.

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

This is a national emergency:

submitted 21 days ago • 2192 comments

It's a tragedy.

submitted 22 days ago • 1145 comments

This is the kind of who we need right now! @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social I hope these stronger, louder, young voices get the platforms they deserve and that we need! @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov Bernie, help us form a coalition with these voices we need!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Remember the Nuremberg Trials! Keep America A Democracy. Don’t violate the rights of citizens. Your pledge is to the Constitution not to a dictator!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Acosta talks about his thoughts after resigning from CNN after 18 years. This is big. By mainstream anchors leaving the studio & becoming independent journalists via Substack & other platforms, they leave behind their corporate overlords. They can be part of THE PEOPLE. We need more of this.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

ICE detained a family—including a toddler—after they were overheard speaking Spanish. They’re US citizens from Puerto Rico. No chance to explain. The mother, grandmother, and child were shopping when ICE agents took them into detention before admitting their “mistake.” This is Trump’s America.

submitted 24 days ago • 488 comments

I'm not sure which is scarier: What's currently going on in this country, or the number of people who are perfectly fine with what's going on in this country.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

I can't believe he actually pulled it off! He managed to get Christians to hate the church and the teachings of Christ. Un-fucking-believable!!!

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 1839 comments

REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know

submitted 32 days ago • 1167 comments

And there it is … again. Another irreplaceable shoe dropping from the Riveting Storyteller for All of America (tm). It’s going to be a polar vortex of the very best shoes still to come. How do I know? I know.

submitted 37 days ago • 52 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 45 days ago • 904 comments

Just so folks understand where we are in this thing: The last decade? Only the prelude. If you’re not strong enough, get strong enough.

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

People are dying and losing their homes while these dipshits blame women and people of color for it. Nothing but contempt for these despicable opportunists.

submitted 45 days ago • 205 comments

So, he’s not gonna lower the price of groceries like he said, and he’s not gonna stop immigrants from taking American jobs like he said, and he’s not gonna protect social security like he said, but at least he might go to war with Greenland, Canada and Panama, so there is that.

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A serious constitutional crisis is taking place in North Carolina where Republicans are trying to steal a state Supreme Court election by disenfranchising 60,000 voters AFTER the count and recount have showed the Democrat won. Please watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yW...

submitted 45 days ago • 539 comments

The fact that Trump and his MAGA minions are spreading incredibly dangerous disinformation about the emergency response to the catastrophic fires in California is fucking criminal. It’s not even remotely surprising, but it is nonetheless fucking reprehensible.

submitted 45 days ago • 634 comments

Yesterday, unhinged madman Donald Trump held what he calls a “press conference.” They’re actually dangerous propaganda sessions. In order to fight back, we have to stay aware and engaged at a constant. But I don’t want you to have to watch this bozo, so I summed up what happened for you here.

submitted 46 days ago • 269 comments

Facebook Deletes Criticism of New Board Member politicalwire.com/2025/01/08/f... Free expression for liars and billionaires silence for citizens

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico by pointing to a 17th century map of greater Mexico and suggesting a new name for the US. “We are going to call it América Mexicana. It sounds pretty, no?” Trump is a global laughingstock. 🤣

submitted 46 days ago • 726 comments

Good from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com. The new mysticism animating reactionary movements around the world. h/t @simonwdc.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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submitted 46 days ago • 241 comments

After Jan. 20, we will need to ignore the President of the United States, it is a waste of everyone's time. How sad is that.

submitted 46 days ago • 304 comments

🎯

submitted 46 days ago • 653 comments

We’re in the final days before Trump takes office on behalf of the wealth class. Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...

submitted 53 days ago • 119 comments

I dread the daily drama. The government run by tweets. The oligarchy plundering the country. The ignorant masses making excuses for the imbecile they exalted. I’m embarrassed. I’m ashamed.

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