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Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 4 hours ago • 114 comments

Thinking again about this tonight. We are a deeply unserious country with a deeply unserious press corps, which is why we are deeply in serious trouble both domestically & internationally right now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

This is all massively unpopular, and unlike some other unpopular stuff is neither a Trump or (for the most part) a GOP media priority. A handful of GOP Senators could put an end to it any time they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Newsom: "This is what he does. He creates a problem and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie ... he initiated those raids. He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That's why he wants the National Guard."

submitted 4 hours ago • 123 comments

Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio

submitted 5 hours ago • 70 comments

As I have written many times, Hollywood is the most ruthless center of American capitalism you can imagine, where every TV show is a startup with a burn rate in the millions per week and SIX WEEKS to prove it can succeed. Until private equity moved in to pillage it, it was cold-bloodedly pragmatic.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

It’s not a game, dipshit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1072 comments

The Cowboy Carter album got the direct blessing of both Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson and that still wasn’t good enough for them, smdh

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Traditional 🤔🤔🤔

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

just saw a post claiming that israel starting an unprovoked war with iran is a distraction from senator alex padilla’s arrest and i am begging, pleading for some of you to develop critical thinking skills

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president. Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.

submitted 5 hours ago • 61 comments

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp.

submitted 5 hours ago • 198 comments

If they can do it to a United States senator, what do you think they’ll do to you?

submitted 11 hours ago • 82 comments

Senator David Padilla should not have attempted to politicize DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference announcing that the federal government would liberate Los Angeles from socialism. Tomorrow in the New York Times

submitted 7 hours ago • 143 comments

The MeToo movement showed me that a lot more men then I thought were sex pests and that I need to stand with women and hold other men to account. It seems to have showed a lot of people: “well everyone is doing it so I guess it’s not a big deal.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Courage should be rewarded. Donate something. alex-padilla.com

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

submitted 11 hours ago • 271 comments

alex padilla got tackled today and this is what our senator is up to

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Jeffries should have been out there IMMEDIATELY saying that his entire caucus was filing articles of impeachment against Noem. These people LOVE to issue letters. Think of this as a souped up letter and then BASH HER WITH IT DAILY. Every time you can start a sentence with: "NOEM must be impeached"

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

Not sure any other policy theory has been attempted more frequently and failed 100% of the time like trickle down economics

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

submitted 15 hours ago • 580 comments

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

submitted 11 hours ago • 317 comments

Lutnick has pivoted from “90 deals in 90 days” to Trump “writing a letter” to countries and dictating trade terms to them

submitted 9 hours ago • 153 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 1 day ago • 525 comments

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Historically voters see border enforcement and treatment of immigrants already here as separate matters. They want strong border enforcement, but they want immigrants already here treated humanely. There is no precedent for Trump's terrorizing of immigrant communities to have broad support.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It is only one poll but if polls keep showing a consistent “in the 30s “ range for Trump’s approval, that is maybe the greatest cause for even a glimmer of hope about the humanity of a collapsing empire

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

This is actually a perfect joke

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Ah well, nevertheless

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one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Going for the gay Magic: the Gathering crowd I see. Rad

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

There’s not enough ER care to handle all of the uninsured patients the Republicans want to create. They will make emergency care dangerously overloaded for all of us, unnecessarily. We already PROVED this years ago.

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Things are going to be very confusing people around my kids age who never experienced the normal use of the term AI to mean whatever algorithmic/programmatic guidance a program had to react to situations including and especially video games.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

No one wants to hear this, but crabs, lobsters, and shrimp are bugs

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

One of the major issues that we're dealing with in this catastrophic institutional breakdown is that the primary remedy the founders envisioned for someone like Trump is not electing him, and the secondary remedy is impeachment. The courts aren't a great remedy for a ton of stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 104 days ago • 96 comments

Either you weaponized sex abuse claims or you decided you can’t afford to tell the truth because you’re basically a government subsidy personified.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

"Democrats should focus on kitchen table issues, not cultural issues"

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments