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All of this is teeing up what some legal experts worry could be a constitutional crisis. Or, to put it simply: what happens when the Trump administration blatantly defies the courts? www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...

submitted 4 days ago • 494 comments

NEW: Donald Trump fired a bunch of veterans today while simultaneously hindering care for veterans. In a month or so, republicans in Congress will cut food stamps so these veterans won’t be able to feed themselves or their families. I wonder how many of them voted for Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 587 comments

Trump just called for a permanent displacement of Gazans from their homeland. If you’re on the left and you didn’t vote for Harris, I don’t wanna hear a DAMN thing about how someone needs to do something.

submitted 19 days ago • 424 comments

Captures the moment quite well.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Pretty sure federal employees aren't allowed to receive gifts like this, even if the employees are teenagers who want to have a fun little sleepover while they gut the American government.

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

Retaliatory tariffs from both Mexico and Canada. Trump says he’ll raise tariffs to 50% if they retaliate. Naturally, they’ll retaliate again, and every day Americans (and Canadians) will pay for this crisis entirely of Trump’s making

submitted 22 days ago • 304 comments

Yes, exactly, this. In this as in so many other ways, Trump is breaking things that can’t just be un-broken after another election cycle or two. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

"the possibility that government officials might try to use the federal payments system — which essentially functions as the nation’s 'checking book' — to enact a political agenda is unprecedented"

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

All the smart, savvy bankers and CEOs who think they're just getting deregulation with a side of racism do not understand they will also be taken for a ride, as Trump & Musk treat the entire federal government like a mob protection racket, freely skimming anywhere they like.

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

When Trump imposes tariffs on Colombian coffee, Colombian flowers, Colombian bananas and pineapples and avocados, on Colombian oil, it's us Americans who will pay those added costs. We're not even a week into Trump's term and he's already imposed a brand new tax on all of us.

submitted 28 days ago • 586 comments

This is why my religion classes have an entire lecture on "what is religion?" It's an identity, a community, a framework for meaning, a purpose to suffering, a form of social control, a system of power, a set of cosmological rules for societal living, a historical continuity of belonging....

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

So, Instagram just force followed me to Trumps POTUS account. They’re doing it again….

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Have cable news shown any footage of Jan6? Have they moved on? Has anyone mentioned that Trump outright pardoned a guy (Tarrio) given a terrorist sentencing enhancement by a Trump appointed judge?

submitted 33 days ago • 50 comments

In one of his last acts as president, Biden just signed the release of Leonard Peltier.

submitted 34 days ago • 32 comments

Confession time….

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Is this a confession?? x.com/mmpadellan/s...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...

submitted 39 days ago • 525 comments

"In the MAGA view, this right to abuse has been unduly stolen by the 'woke mob.' "If men have to lie about abusing women, well, that's just self-defense against 'political correctness.'" www.salon.com/2025/01/15/y...

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

🚨BREAKING: Department of Justice releases volume 1 of Jack Smith report. "The evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States' democratic process." Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

submitted 40 days ago • 290 comments

Had the timetable on this been different …. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 40 days ago • 556 comments

In light of today’s governmental warnings about alcohol causing cancer: “…as the evidence was becoming clear that women are disproportionately vulnerable to alcohol’s cancer risks, the industry mounted a campaign to get them to drink even more.“

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

New in PN: North Carolina Republicans restart the steal "The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."

submitted 44 days ago • 72 comments

x.com/courthousene... More coverage of this is needed.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war. apnews.com/article/isra...

submitted 45 days ago • 50 comments

They’re really doing this right now….

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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

submitted 46 days ago • 183 comments