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"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Let’s be honest. Does anyone think that this president would honour Article Five? Presence of US military & nuclear sharing still has value to Europe, but its deterrent value is significantly reduced & falling. This is reckless, dangerous behaviour by the Trump administration.

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

#Trump #Russia

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submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

Elon Musk paid less for the United States government than he did for Twitter. Remarkable how low the bidding was.

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

Imagine the immaturity and cruelty that goes into a post like this. Zelenskyy has valiantly led a nation brutally and criminally assaulted by Putin and that has suffered tragic losses and destruction. And you think it’s cute to refer to denigrate him as a child. This a person with no soul.

submitted 7 days ago • 362 comments

So @stevevladeck.bsky.social correctly calls out the “this isn’t quid pro quo” footnote in the Bove “dismiss Adams” memo. It’s farcical. It’s self-defeating. Again: so many of these people are so ideology-clouded that their advocacy sucks. www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments

NATO allies are in a state of anger, denial and despair after Pete Hegseth effectively declared an end to America's role as the primary guarantor of European security, particularly over Ukraine. Trump's surprise phone call with Vladimir Putin, just hours later, only added salt to the wound.

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

RFK Jr. has always been one of the most dangerous men in American public life. Now, with the vast powers that come with his position at HHS—not to mention the bully pulpit—he is one of the most dangerous men in the world.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

this would even have been a big scandal in the previous trump administration. we will see how much that's still true

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 9 days ago • 480 comments

Have a really hard time seeing how anyone could read the two letters—Sassoon’s initial one & Bove’s response—& come away thinking anything other than that the response only further confirms the precise issues raised in the initial letter about partisan favoritism & rule-bending for the powerful

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 197 comments

Jesus Christ, I’m so exhausted already and we’re 3 weeks in

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1253 comments

#SuperBowl This shit sucks

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking news: The Trump administration cut billions in biomedical funding. Researchers say it imperils work on cancer and other illnesses.

submitted 15 days ago • 118 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

submitted 15 days ago • 349 comments

NEWS --> Dems fear a Defense Department IG review of Elon Musk's flouting of security protocol as a big recipient of Pentagon contracts is now dead under Trump. DOD launched the probe in 2024, but then Trump fired DOD's IG, so what happened to that probe? New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

submitted 17 days ago • 685 comments

So, what would happen if you ate edibles and were on ozempic? Is it like dividing by zero?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 19 days ago • 2484 comments

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

NEW: Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6202 comments

In another nation, our national media would be calling an unelected private citizen commandeering that country’s financial system a coup. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Just watched Real Time With Bill Maher and Steven A Smith killed it. What a sensible guy. He gained a fan for what it’s worth.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments