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Groimes it siz I down’t owe innything

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1103 comments

how many child cancer researchers were fired to pay for this?

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

From Paul Blumenthal: www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

It’s too bad we have no defenses whatsoever against this. It’s a real mystery why society has no strategies for dealing with—or even words to describe—chronic liars, career con-artists, frauds, grifters, humbugs, mountebanks, flim-flammers, and gombeen men. One of the deepest puzzles of social life.

submitted 11 hours ago • 94 comments

Remember last month when everyone realized that Trump's legal "settlements" with Meta and X showed a clear roadmap how a President can "legally" accept bribes by suing companies for frivolous reasons and then "settling" for millions? Anyway. Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

yep. the insatiable appetite for cheap labor meant a ruthless hierarchical society which would always be hostile to equality

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump was asked yesterday about Putin increasing strikes on civilian targets after we cut off inteI: “He’s doing what anybody else would do. I think he’s hitting them harder than he’s been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in his position would be doing that right now.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 780 comments

These walk-backs are not happening in blue districts.

submitted 23 hours ago • 562 comments

the entire idea of "vote-shaming" is extremely Late Republic. i do not know how to explain to someone who thinks that you aren't responsible for deciding who should be in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons just because you didn't consent to being given the responsibility

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

Poor Kierkegaard. No Kierks, there’s no “teleological suspension of the ethical” you dope. You’re supposed to love your son!!! But you’re still cool Kierks.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

-Columbo -Unsolved Mysteries -Mystery Science Theater 3000 -Curb Your Enthusiasm -Arrested Development

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Handy McBlowjob trying to incite an Emmett Till riot is a tale as old as America

submitted 20 hours ago • 76 comments

journalists and columnists: all of you have to relearn to be professional communicators and recommit yourself to behaving like a professional under your own name. this shit is unbecoming of all of you and weissman here isn’t remotely alone in it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

ross douthat has always felt like a make a wish kid that just never died and everybody was like what the fuck how long do we have to let this guy write articles

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

America first baby!

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Endless Summer in my heart

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

And boomers

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

submitted 1 day ago • 527 comments

The good news is you can ask him about this take DIRECTLY

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

So Steak 'n' Shake is a Nazi bar now

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

This is just Nazism, I'm sorry to be so tedious and repetitive, but this kind of bowdlerized Nietzscheanism for popular audience can really have no other name

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Bill Kristol is punking Democrats. What is this world

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A Defense of Al Green. "Am I alone in feeling it was good to see some fervent conviction and righteous indignation? Am I the only person who was happy to see, in a sea of Democrats waving little paddles with lame messages, someone literally standing up to Trump?" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cabi...

submitted 1 day ago • 225 comments

Jefferson Error Plane Ex-Bay Area bad boy Elon Musk lacks all grace, and he sure is slick. His latest SpaceX starship bombed like a Paul Kanter solo album, leaving him to bite his surrealistic pillow. Earth to Elon: We built this city on the Constitution, not crypto and ketamine. by Maureen Dowd

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Random ¶ in Paul Clement's filing in the Eric Adams case. What are you doing here, Clement? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 😎

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A federal judge just told Trump "you are not a king." But this Federalist Society law professor isn't so sure about that.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 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

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DM does NOT welcome his new “allies”

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Cheer up Dave! Women who can’t get abortions are still bleeding out in parking lots, it’s still Xanadu for evil anti-choice freaks!

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Relatedly, here's why the press needs to not say that a judge has stopped the Trump administration from doing something, just that a judge has told the Trump administration to stop doing something www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Trying to make a hard R joke I can live with

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"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

submitted 1 day ago • 533 comments

Hi @johnfetterman.com @fetterman.senate.gov any thoughts? www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

LMAO

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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 1 day ago • 218 comments

DING DING DING DING

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The president is a traitor.

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For decades, Wayne Gretzky has embodied a sense of patriotism that transcends Canadian sports. But when president Donald Trump turned his focus above the American border, Gretzky stayed silent. 🔗: http://dlvr.it/TJMrlb

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments