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Compare this with Trudeau's readout

submitted 5 hours ago • 26 comments

This, again, is nauseating. (Used that term yesterday about firing of GEN CQ Brown, Chmn JCS) @brian-goldstone.bsky.social 's forthcoming book is magnificent. I did a blurb likening it to J Anthony Lukas's 'Common Ground.' And it is set in Atlanta. Buy and read the book. Resist the know-nothings

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

In November, they voted for Trump. In February, he laid them off. For the next election, they're thinking Trump.

submitted 4 hours ago • 42 comments

I continue to believe this idiot decided America was never richer than in the gilded age because someone showed him pictures of all the robber baron mansions.

submitted 6 hours ago • 19 comments

Every Dem Senator and Rep should publicly call Musk a dick and dare that dick DC US Atty to "investigate" them all.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 6 hours ago • 641 comments

Tell me you don't know ANYTHING WHATSOEVER about US history (or world economic history), without telling me... It's been a straight line from his first-term declaration, "Most people don't know Abraham Lincoln was a Republican..." www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...

submitted 7 hours ago • 80 comments

It kind of is...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

I think now would be a good time to re-watch "A French Village"

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

I'm glad that this story has been picked up by national and international outlets. One local outlet, D Magazine, has also highlighted the report. The rest of the mainstream news outlets in Dallas have not. Perhaps I'm being impatient but I must admit I'm confused as to why they've yet to pick it up.

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

Homan should’ve worn a red coat if he’s gonna talk like John Burgoyne.

submitted 11 hours ago • 41 comments

It is way too on the nose than trump is starting his second term to try to shake down Ukraine… again

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

Well the weekend Fox news host thinks he got the job because he was Black so that's that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Boris and Alina would be good choices.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Wait until Trump's next rally...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

FFS...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Is he on something?

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

I am so tired...

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

His brain is cooked

submitted 9 hours ago • 104 comments

WTF is wrong with French Montana? youtu.be/3Wt_pX4Ayxg...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Trumps devotion to Caine seems to have started when he donned a maga cap to brief Trump while deployed in Iraq

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1088 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

You really cannot make this shit up. Lol.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

She says "see you in court" and He says at the end that she'd better enjoy her life after being Governor because she's not going to be in electoral politics. Then Sil said, "you want me to wack her, T?"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Trump says that's ok because he can blame others for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

This kind of crude threat is what reporters insist on calling "transactional."

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

So there is a law that says the Pentagon can't just fire people willy nilly but have to carry out a review to ensure that it won't affect readiness. Why isn't there a law requiring that in every dept? How can it be legal for some rich weirdo to just take a wrecking ball to the U.S. govt?

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Don't be silly. Of COURSE we're not a banana republic now.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Our new FBI director:

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

This is absurd. We built this database to stop officers who commit misconduct at one police agency from being rehired at another. It's about transparency and safety -- it helps the hiring agencies and the public. With due process protections. Trump shut it down

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 535 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1908 comments

I wonder if Ed Martin's going to send him a letter asking him to explain what he means by this like he did to Robert Garcia? No, of course not.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

I should just give up, but… Democrats should imagine what Republicans would have said and done if Merrick Garland had gone to, like, Netroots Nation, called Don Jr a crackhead, and mused about fabricating criminal charges against Joe Biden's enemies, and then say and do that.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

there is nothing they won't normalize

submitted 2 days ago • 185 comments

What an absolute garbage human being.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments