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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 4 hours ago • 130 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 2 days ago • 887 comments

A thing that needs to be mentioned in every single article about Trump's tariffs is that it is supposed to be the job of CONGRESS to set tax rates. Trump is egregiously abusing an "emergency" authority to usurp the legislature's power over trade policy. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 1026 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 13 days ago • 1172 comments

Nobody could have predicted this:

submitted 15 days ago • 125 comments

The governor of Kentucky talks more clearly about protecting LGBTQ+ children than the governor of California does.

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

NEW: A Democratic Governor hasn’t overseen an execution since 2017. That’s about to change on Wednesday, due to Katie Hobbs in Arizona. boltsmag.org/secrecy-as-a...

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 19 days ago • 630 comments

I’m not much of a theologian but I do not believe doing this to people is forgivable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 20 days ago • 31 comments

DC has a population greater than Vermont or Wyoming (and equivalent to Alaska or Delaware). Just try to imagine the apocalyptic levels of outrage we'd see on every airwave if the federal government tried to impound Wyoming's budget, and shuttered its single largest employer.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

This shit is so grim. These guys are grifting like they're stripping the copper wires out of a slowly collapsing building.

submitted 24 days ago • 192 comments

Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

submitted 26 days ago • 105 comments

Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying ‘shut up about gas prices’ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end.

submitted 27 days ago • 575 comments

Compare this to the statement Georgetown put out. Columbia rolled over like a puppy dog

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

oh so now the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

submitted 28 days ago • 65 comments

This letter violates the First Amendment. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 65 comments

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

submitted 30 days ago • 550 comments

America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 30 days ago • 365 comments

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

submitted 39 days ago • 34 comments

“This administration has made it clear that empirically verifiable knowledge itself is a threat to their plans, so they are attacking those of us who create knowledge.” newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

The uncomfortable truth is the "Trump campaigned on egg prices" thing is something Dems tell themselves to rationalize what happened in November. Trump actually campaigned on hate and abusing power -- and won! The sorry state of the American electorate is a difficult thing to come to terms with.

submitted 51 days ago • 357 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 53 days ago • 248 comments

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 53 days ago • 204 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 53 days ago • 404 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 60 days ago • 843 comments

Chase Hunter has ice in his veins good lord

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A fat $25 million gift from Meta to Trump

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard

submitted 74 days ago • 173 comments

Hegseth refused to answer questions from Sen. Elissa Slotkin today about whether he would follow illegal orders from President Trump that violate the U.S. Constitution. This is what New York Times readers got.

submitted 80 days ago • 14 comments

"If this feels wrong and corrupt and basically Courts Gone Wild, that’s because it is. But by now, this sort of behavior from right-wing jurists is par for the course."

submitted 84 days ago • 37 comments

If Trump pardons the January 6 insurrectionists, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social writes, he’ll be making it clear that violence and lawbreaking can be forgiven in service to himself.

submitted 89 days ago • 27 comments

Trump is trying to appoint an FBI Director who wants to imprison journalists—and this is the front page of the New York Times.

submitted 122 days ago • 131 comments

Trump is seizing control of the investigative and prosecutorial powers of the state by staffing them with the most conspiratorial and blindly loyal nominees : Gaetz/Bondi, Patel, Gabbard. Political retribution is his priority. The rest of governing he doesn’t care about.

submitted 125 days ago • 678 comments

News outlets are all for some reason emphasizing that Patel is a loyalist versus the more important fact that he’s an extremist and conspiracy theorist with no allegiance to the truth.

submitted 124 days ago • 220 comments

A pretty consistent theme that is emerging in this period is that regular people are prepared to risk what they have to stop fascism while the most protected, wealthy and powerful people are willing to risk nothing at all.

submitted 128 days ago • 41 comments

Opponents of solitary confinement are alarmed that new California law expressly codifies for the first time in state statutes that it’s permissible to use solitary against pregnant women: boltsmag.org/california-s...

submitted 132 days ago • 6 comments