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Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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Let me get this straight. You think a small group of billionaires, who’ve spent their entire lives extracting wealth from the working class and hoarding more money than could be spent in a thousand lifetimes, is now raiding public programs in order to make your life better? Do I have that right?

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Jocelynn was 12. Her family is here legally. MAGA putting immigrants in the crosshairs was never about "how" people come to the United States. It’s about who they are, where they come from, what they look like — and whether they fit a vision of America that belongs entirely to White men.

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🚨The Trump admin is moving to terminate Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians in the United States, seemingly illegally moving up the expiration date from next February to August of this year. In a single day, 500,000 people could lose work authorization and deportation protections.

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Trump's sweeping job cuts and spending freeze have destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Teachers, nurses, factory workers, park rangers, military personnel — it's working class folks in the crosshairs, and it's billionaires like Elon Musk who are reaping the rewards.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hey quick question are you fucking kidding me

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

Beginning to understand why all those people clap when the plane lands

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Just found my dinner in the microwave, which I heated up four hours ago, in case you wondered what kind of day I’m having

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

LOL if only

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

These bargain-bin Mussolinis are speedrunning our extinction.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever the case, any effort by Musk has zero legitimacy and can only be understood as a hostile takeover of our government by billionaires, for billionaires. THAT is the message we need to advance, rather than engage in debate about whether he should cut spending in this program or that program.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This man is a fascist

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

These bargain-bin Mussolinis are speedrunning our extinction.

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Whatever the case, any effort by Musk has zero legitimacy and can only be understood as a hostile takeover of our government by billionaires, for billionaires. THAT is the message we need to advance, rather than engage in debate about whether he should cut spending in this program or that program.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Light travels approximately 874,000 times faster than the speed of sound, which is why sometimes people appear brighter until you hear them speak.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

For those unfamiliar, the Associated Press is a non-profit cooperative formed by US news organizations that covers news for its 1,300 member papers, radio stations and TV stations. It is the foundation of the American press. It has always gotten the first seat and first question at official events.

submitted 9 days ago • 74 comments

Hang in there! It’s gonna get much worse.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

wow yeah the teenage girl advocating for environmental awareness and the apartheid billionaire with enormous power promoting literal nazism, totally the same thing!

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

I share this view entirely. The threat I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of the West from some of its most fundamental values.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I shudder to think of the thousands of books and articles on how Russia lost the Cold War that are going to have to be revised by the time Trump and Musk have finished their errands for Putin.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 9 days ago • 231 comments

Worried about Pete Hegseth’s plan for peace for our time? This one pot shepherd’s pie will make you feel like you’re in 1930s London.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Donald Trump couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag, let alone strike a grand nuclear bargain with Russia and China. Would love to see it, but he and his team of D-list goons aren’t up to the task. And everyone knows a deal with Trump is worth about as much as his bankrupt casinos.

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"Republicans aren’t prepared for the amount of raw passion our newsletters are gonna have."

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 9 days ago • 466 comments

I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of all USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

The legacy media was quick to defend Fox in 2009 when it thought Obama was being mean. Today with the AP? Crickets. The difference is that media orgs knew they had nothing to fear from Obama, so protesting was free. Making a stink over the AP today might actually cost them something.

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 10 days ago • 491 comments

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 10 days ago • 1152 comments

A Kremlin-backed apologist for dictators and war criminals, raised in a cult and consumed by paranoid delusions, Tulsi Gabbard takes the helm of the US intelligence apparatus. Even in the unrelenting hellscape of Trump's Cabinet picks, this one stands out. A full-blown national security crisis.

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 15 days ago • 291 comments

A rallying cry for our times

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

But I was assured no one is above the law? 😑

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

i think the basic issue is that there cannot be a smart, elite response to authoritarian consolidation. there can only be a mass mobilization. nobody will save us except us.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

The performer of the National Anthem at the Superbowl, Jon Batiste, is one of the Kennedy Center board members Trump may have fired a couple days ago and replaced with himself. We still don’t have a list of who’s affected, I think. Bizarre spectacle.

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The plan is simple: 1. Vilify all journalism as "fake news" 2. Insist a billionaire's social media platform is the "real" media 3. Rig that platform's algorithm to shadowban journalism & amplify propaganda that depicts billionaire-enriching policy as "populism for the people"

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I hope they both lose. #SuperBowl

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The dismantling of USAID is illegal, unconscionable, and profoundly stupid. All key hallmarks of the Trump administration.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 15 days ago • 2175 comments

The coup is couping.

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I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two— And see what worms are eating At the rind. ~ Langston Hughes

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