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There are many evergreen social media posts of the Trump II era, but my personal nomination is this from @brendannyhan.bsky.social captures the multidimensional degeneracy of our times:

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

submitted 11 hours ago • 116 comments

As you see Trump defending his decision to deploy the National Guard into LA and potentially elsewhere, just remember that he did not order the DC Nat Guard to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6. I debunked that lie, told by some of his prominent surrogates, here: www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

WSJ Edit Page tonight: “It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 123 comments

Reporter: There’s a pretty good chance Trump might be watching Newsom: I hope so, he might learn something— rescind this order— it’s illegal. You’re creating the conditions you claim you’re solving and you’re not

submitted 7 hours ago • 101 comments

President Trump, who is itching for things to escalate, keeps posting incendiary messages.

submitted 6 hours ago • 118 comments

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses immigration protests in Los Angeles. "Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight ... His mess — we're trying to clean it up," Newsom said.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 171 comments

The fact that folks like this think they had to be "courted" to stop Trump is why Trump wasn't stopped. Can't be part of a coalition if you're holding your breath and demanding that pony.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Combine Trump's love of the exercise of authoritarian power with Stephen Miller's hatred to non-white immigrants, and you get the terrible sight of of U.S. troops deployed here at home in the service of mass deportation. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social and I discuss www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLd7...

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

submitted 12 hours ago • 634 comments

submitted 12 hours ago • 42 comments

They could never abide peace; they can only abide their own rages and capricious whims.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

AYFKM

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

BTW, we went there in 2015. The ultimate result of choosing entertainment over thoughtful, considered, meaningful governance.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I love the "Hunger Games" shift the GOP is taking. Very entertaining & distracting from the car wreck of DNC.🍿 Performative politics elevates unserious people in vital positions. WE ARE WHO WE VOTE FOR. We have a new genre; "Reality Politics". Not real, just entertainment.🤦🤷

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 3 days ago • 349 comments

This is precisely why we need to SUPPORT BOTH SIDES

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Republican Senators checking out X today.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

submitted 3 days ago • 901 comments

This is gold. GOLD.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Tren de U.S. Marshals

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

I know this feud is really enjoyable to watch, but you should remember not to binge it. Savor it over time.

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

submitted 4 days ago • 894 comments

We are, each and every one of us, taking a test daily to see if we want to be an American in the 21st century. So many are failing.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

(from the archives)

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

I remember a time when the topics of politics & religion were taboo. You met & interacted with people as people. Made judgements based on who they were by action & deed. It was better, non-explosive, less drama centered, & more real. Real interaction can return - if we want it & try.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

You will not be able to afford an iPhone. You will own 2 dolls. You will work in a factory. And you will be happy about it. That is actually the MAGA platform right now. What a wild time to be alive.

submitted 16 days ago • 182 comments

@radiofreetom.bsky.social You have knowledge of Russia - Tsarist, Soviet & post-Soviet. A thing called expertise. Thank you & to all experts in all disciplines. Great book. Sorry the times require such an assessment.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

submitted 19 days ago • 483 comments

The Off-Boarding of Elon Musk. @michaelscherer.bsky.social and I take a look at Musk’s Cybertruck and chainsaw arrival in Washington, his thwarted ambitions, and his quiet exit—> www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 days ago • 108 comments

“An extraordinary 91% of respondents said law firms who make agreements with the administration are giving in to extortion …. When broken down to just respondents from Am Law 100 firms, 86% agreed with that statement.” abovethelaw.com/2025/05/new-...

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

If anyone has cognitive issues, it’s the man who thinks Joe Biden has “stage 9 cancer” and runs around telling everyone how he passed a cognitive test by remembering “person, man, TV.”

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

Decency, basic humanity is no longer a value in the US. Attention is paramount. Attack, accuse, complain, victimize, be victimized: anything to get ATTENTION. We used to be better people. We used to care about others & strive to help all. Now: fuck'em, what do I get?. Road to ruin. Bye USA.😰

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.

submitted 20 days ago • 79 comments

1:34AM, jacked on addy and dumping word vomit by the gallon. Totally sane, right?

submitted 20 days ago • 248 comments

Oh.

submitted 20 days ago • 104 comments

This is FOUL. What's next? Does the U.S. pay reparations to every descendent of a Confederate soldier who died in the Civil War? It is the same premise.

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.

submitted 20 days ago • 1098 comments