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Lost in some of the outrage over this is that Trump's pick is LITERALLY unqualified. The law says a Chairman has to have been a vice chair, a service chief or held a combatant command. Caine hasn't done any of those and I don't think he was even the senior service general at a combatant command.

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

1/2 D Trump, P Hegseth, E Musk among them, have: -Around nine marriages (count varies) -Multiple out-of-wedlock children; -Multiple sexual-misconduct accusations, cash settlements, at least one jury verdict; -Zero time in uniform (Trump, Musk). Iraq/Afgh for Hegseth. Yesterday they fired ....

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 11 days ago • 191 comments

You don't lay off people at the IRS if you care about saving money. You do it if you want to protect rich tax cheats. www.huffpost.com/entry/irs-la...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 13 days ago • 540 comments

Give to those people who somehow manage to ignore every bit of news that messes with their worldview, yet are going to flip out when those checks stop coming

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 1781 comments

Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.

submitted 29 days ago • 98 comments

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

submitted 29 days ago • 1311 comments

The statement @ifnotnowmovement.org just released about Trump’s latest despicable, dictatorial EO

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for - women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies - people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day. - apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.

submitted 30 days ago • 432 comments

Always punch Nazis.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

A month ago, Ann Telnaes warned us what could happen.

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Republicans plan to pay for their billionaire tax cuts by slashing health care for kids, seniors, and people with disabilities. It’s robbing working families so the richest Americans can get even richer. I’m in the Senate to fight back.

submitted 35 days ago • 252 comments

New from me: Trump is a lame duck, an old, tired, easily manipulated one, whose vanity is a useful tool. Foreign leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum are right to mock him, and American elites should uncurl from the fetal position and get in on the fun.

submitted 48 days ago • 124 comments

Contrary to what people like Harris and Schumer feel constrained to say, today shouldn't be regarded as a triumph for American democracy. It should be viewed as confirming that the United States has one political party that will peacefully cede power when it loses an election. Until & unless... 1

submitted 52 days ago • 30 comments

This is an outrage! Ann Telnaes is one of the best political cartoonists around, but the gutless Washington Post would rather lose her than offend Trump and the tech bros.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Correct. For once, Dem leaders should learn something from GOP tactics. Blame, blame, blame, and more blame. Everything is their fault. Do not be fair in your criticism; Republicans aren't and voters perceive fairness as weakness and endorsement. Everything, everything is Republicans' fault now.

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments

Take a few minutes to savor the Christmas card art of dozens of legendary cartoonists past and present! So many delightful images, produced just for their holiday correspondence. Enjoy! www.hoganmag.com/blog/7065

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Let’s talk about Direct File. It’s a free, easy way for people to file their taxes directly online with IRS. You keep your tax refund — rather than paying $150 to a sleazy tax prep company. It’s more efficient! But these Republicans want you to keep wasting money on TurboTax.

submitted 79 days ago • 155 comments

Trump is all set to join an infamous group of evil-doers that has included: Adolf Hitler (1938), Josef Stalin (1939, 1942), Nikita Kruschev (1957), Richard Nixon (1971, 1972), Henry Kissinger (1972), The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979), and Rudy Giuliani (2001). www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 79 days ago • 77 comments

Presidents usually issue most of their grants of clemency in their final days in office, but this year of all years I do not know what Joe Biden is waiting for. The incoming admin is planning to carry out the executions you promised to stop. Do your job, man! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 79 days ago • 44 comments

The fall of dictators: slowly, then all at once. A reminder not to lose hope.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

An easy, step-by-step guide.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw an acocunt on here with a long thread listing new comics, and mentioning ONLY the writer with each one. That's some bullshit. The artist is the co-author. Credit the artist EVERY TIME.

submitted 89 days ago • 11 comments

But eggs were too expensive, so fuck it 🙄

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

TL;DR Texas' curriculum that supposedly uses the Bible to augment students' understanding of Western culture actually promotes biblical and historical illiteracy, its main goal being to support a Protestant Christian perspective.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I really want to include this line in an article: "Democratic voters abandoned the party either for Donald Trump or simply for the couch (Don't get excited, JD)."

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

When I started reading this item reposted by @andrewfarago.bsky.social, I of course assumed it had something to do with DC Comics writer and editor Jack Schiff (active 1940s-60s).

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