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i personally choose to irresponsibly speculate about drug usage, given that carrying large volumes of cash and serving in this administration are both well known signs

submitted 1 hour ago • 17 comments

it occurs to me that trump is maddening sort of how LLMs are maddening, in that it is nigh-impossible to try not to apply theory of mind reasoning to him when he is fundamentally just a collection of appetites and unthinking resentments chaining words together

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 2 hours ago • 31 comments

If Harris had been elected instead of Trump, there would be hundreds of thousands of children who hadn’t starved to death or died of treatable AIDS and we wouldn’t be on the verge of war with Iran. Anybody who doesn’t acknowledge this as a starting point has nothing to say worth hearing.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

Before Iraq invasion, I did big cover story: Do NOT F-ing do this. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... After Iraq invasion, I did another big story: Do NOT F-ing follow this up with war against Iran. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Can't control what Israel does. But another quagmire for US.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

it is insane watching all of this come online in under a week for no other reason other than donald trump chose to destroy the JCPOA when he was president 7 years ago and is now angry that the JCPOA no longer exists

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

they can shoot us arrest us and the democrats? they help them. they. help. them.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

We have seen the video of DHS officers beating up Democratic elected officials, then the claims that those Democratic elected officials assaulted the DHS officers: it should cause you to question every accusation of assault on DHS officers (and law-enforcement in general). We saw the videos!

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

This is such an important victory (now let’s get the time limit extended in Northern Ireland!!!)

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submitted 3 hours ago • 99 comments

Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

submitted 3 hours ago • 59 comments

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

submitted 3 hours ago • 113 comments

“His mother does not even know whether he is alive.” open.substack.com/pub/americas... #FreeAndry

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Truly one of the defining images of 2025 so far

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

There was a particularly smarmy bit of writing in YELLOWSTONE about how them snooty lib'ral bureaucrats were killin' the grouse with their solar panels. Fuck Taylor Sheridan, is my primary point here.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Democratic politicians & consultants should spend less time yapping about the effect of random leftist social media posts on their branding, and more time dealing with the Democratic Senator taking a pro-Trump position with a mere 16% popular support then adding, for flair, the language of genocide.

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

submitted 6 hours ago • 45 comments

In other "Mike Lee is an awful person" news.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 3 hours ago • 359 comments

THE MASSACRE OF THIS MORNING Gaza is an extermination camp.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

“About two-thirds of the public says they have heard either little or nothing about the budget bill.” A fixable problem but it takes doing! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

call for a vote to censure or call for a vote to expel. protract the story and explain why it matters.

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

They are thieves.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

"It could be to the point where we lose our planting and having the ground ready, and even then, why plan if we cannot even harvest?” the farmer said. “

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

New York City did not defund the police. This is not a thing that happened.

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

"Dr. Fiona Havers told colleagues in an email that she no longer had confidence the data would be used 'objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions...'”

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone. He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.

submitted 22 hours ago • 142 comments

You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

the man literally had dinner with the top investors in his memecoin

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

This is telling. On his laser eyes twitter account Lee claimed the assassin was like antifa or a prog Dem. But semi privately his office circulated a different message

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

This is obviously ridiculous but it is kind of bleakly funny that this advice more or less has the same beats as advice about what to do if you encounter a bear in the woods, just in terms of the unknowability of the other party. "Make yourself appear larger and the cop will usually run away."

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

“Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump” apnews.com/article/minn...

submitted 1 day ago • 317 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

The top .05% evade $120B in taxes, and employers steal $50B in wages from workers — each year. All other property theft totals $14B per year, with immigrants responsible for only a tiny fraction of that. CEOs & billionaires will always be a bigger threat to you than immigrants.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Remarkable story. Trump & Lutnick want the president to have substantial control over the entity emerging out of the Nippon Steel–US steel merger. A socialist government asking for this would be overthrown by the CIA! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

After the assassination, murder, and attempted murder in Minnesota, the Dem governor — who was also reportedly also on the alleged killer’s hit list — urged his state’s people not to go out to the No King’s protest, fearing that the gunman would target them as well. People showed up in droves anyway

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: President Donald Trump directs federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against his administration’s immigration policies.

submitted 1 day ago • 201 comments

You can pick at Mamdani's proposals because he has proposals; Cuomo is just like, I'm going to abolish the last 12 years

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Revealing quote in this article about the MN assassin. Everyone with strong anti-abortion beliefs is, in fact, a "fanatic." They all constantly fantasize about killing, whether through abortion bans or murders; they've just been normalized as "religious and conservative." apnews.com/article/minn...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments