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every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 23 days ago • 1170 comments

Aw man, this is so sad. Kevin was one of the original bloggers & a true, true mensch. He modeled thoughtful, respectful engagement in a way that had a huge impression on an entire generation of writers. Feels like the end of an era -- and not in a good way.

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

I really wish reporters would fully understand why Trump loves tariffs so much. He believes there should be no international trade at all. He thinks he can force all the world's manufacturing to move to the US. He really does. He's not sophisticated. He's not "negotiating." He's a moron.

submitted 38 days ago • 22 comments

The problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD

submitted 38 days ago • 219 comments

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

submitted 38 days ago • 830 comments

The placards are some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. You’re IN CONGRESS… USE YOUR FUCKING WORDS!!!

submitted 41 days ago • 119 comments

this guy is such an arrogant little prick. he’s done nothing in his life but suck up to a progression of would-be daddies but he struts around like his shit doesn’t stink.

submitted 41 days ago • 993 comments

here’s the thing: why wouldn’t you treat every dumbass idea as potentially worthwhile when a month later you can just go “oopsies” and no one holds you accountable for giving credence to stupid shit?

submitted 42 days ago • 209 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 43 days ago • 2032 comments

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

submitted 45 days ago • 2094 comments

Seeing piece after piece in the DC sheets about mounting economic uncertainty. They're saying it implicitly by what they're discussing. But note that the editors are really struggling with the fact they can't bring themselves to say that Trump is tanking the economy.

submitted 46 days ago • 73 comments

People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. Should she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

submitted 46 days ago • 206 comments

And by "local Democrats," I mean anyone -- a mayor or town council member, the school board, the local party, a former or future Democratic congressional candidate or, you know, even you Ask your Republican representative to hold one but if they don't, hold your own. Don't wait on anyone else.

submitted 47 days ago • 42 comments

I wonder how a NYT editor would describe someone giving them the finger? In an Aggressive Move, an Area Man Sent a Message That Some Critics View as an Invitation to Self Copulation

submitted 50 days ago • 32 comments

Ignore the rule of law. Manipulate the language. Intimidate the press. Rid the government of all possible opposition. Stock it with incompetent supplicants. Make the military your personal guard. Repress cultural expression. Embrace white supremacy and fellow dictators. It happened here.

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

I don’t judge Mitch McConnell for his choice of political party. I judge him for his greed, racism, and hunger for power. I judge him for causing irreparable damage to the Supreme Court, and not voting to convict Donald Trump. So will others. So will history.

submitted 53 days ago • 147 comments

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 53 days ago • 1368 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 54 days ago • 509 comments

Absolutely correct

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

submitted 55 days ago • 2055 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

submitted 55 days ago • 668 comments

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

submitted 56 days ago • 449 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 56 days ago • 229 comments

When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how. The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.

submitted 58 days ago • 74 comments

But then they won’t be able to see themselves on the teevee! With the words “White House Correspondent” on the chryon and everything!

submitted 58 days ago • 13 comments

If you somehow needed another reason never to read @axios.com, they’ve announced that they stand ready and willing to do whatever Trump tells them to do

submitted 58 days ago • 72 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 58 days ago • 5599 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 59 days ago • 495 comments

What the absolute fuck

submitted 59 days ago • 13 comments

Before anything this was inconceivable. But now? Select targets and kill. The damage caused by the ineffectiveness and of Democrats in Congress. And we hate everything they say institutionally. It’s because killing in the name of our Democracy is too far. Are we sure?

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 60 days ago • 605 comments

Delighted to be led by a set of emotionally-stunted dipshits. I'm sorry no one liked you in school, but the world shouldn't have to suffer because you were an unlikeable douchebag.

submitted 61 days ago • 57 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 60 days ago • 4927 comments

Don't worry, next time there's a major conflict, the Pentagon won't set into motion an intricate strategy that effectively coordinates the work of military resources across the globe. No, they'll just send this greasy dipshit out there to do some wicked deadlifts. That'll do it.

submitted 62 days ago • 100 comments

the “lawless decision” here is “the president does not have the power of the purse and cannot unilaterally cut or dismantle agencies established by congress”

submitted 63 days ago • 341 comments

Halftime show is a good reminder that the left will always win culture. Always. Art comes from curiosity, novelty, openness, the ability to understand & juxtapose multiple perspectives simultaneously, surprise & irony & layered meanings, all of which are alien to the authoritarian mind.

submitted 63 days ago • 13 comments

Can we dispense with this “unfounded claims” shit finally? He lies, pathologically. Period.

submitted 66 days ago • 296 comments

Professional historians survey the historical record and draw conclusions out of the sum total of evidence they survey. In sharp contrast, "originalists" [sic] start with a conclusion they want to justify and then scour the historical record to find some way to prop that up.

submitted 67 days ago • 26 comments

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

submitted 67 days ago • 185 comments

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 69 days ago • 1315 comments

To all Americans who are outraged by the lawless actions of the Trump/Musk oligarchical regime, stay tuned for our focus-grouped campaign ads coming to a cable news station near you in fall of 2026. by Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin

submitted 70 days ago • 47 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 70 days ago • 1546 comments

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

submitted 73 days ago • 839 comments