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I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

submitted 1 day ago • 556 comments

Fixed it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 415 comments

They have nothing but hatred, fear and malice.

submitted 15 hours ago • 795 comments

In addition to ignoring court orders & arresting judges, Trump's admin is now threatening sitting Governors who don’t do exactly as it demands. In America, we handle policy differences in govt by voting in elections. Not by jailing people we disagree with! Thank you Governor Evers for speaking up!

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.

submitted 20 hours ago • 438 comments

Mitch McConnell is retiring after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1210 comments

"Lecturing Germany not to be so hard on nazis," which I would once have dismissed as a ham-handed attempt at satire, is now an entire genre of US gov't communications.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I really encourage you to listen to this. This entire incident is chilling and crosses yet another line.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Hold steady folks. An EO is not law and “Trump says” is not the last word.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

Could the next President sign an executive order barring Trump appointees and officials from running for or holding Federal office? Just wondering.

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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

submitted 1 day ago • 390 comments

This may be the most obscene thing this man has ever done on social media It’s offensive at a level I’m struggling to articulate, but we can start with the fact that he’s again framing himself as God’s chosen representative on Earth when he is, remember, a _serial sexual predator_

submitted 1 day ago • 1203 comments

I’m guessing there are more than a few of the 1.4 billion Catholics around the world who will be disgusted.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 4 days ago • 612 comments

Kennedy is among the most malevolent figures in all of American history.

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

submitted 3 days ago • 301 comments

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

BREAKING Remember when we said NY AG Letitia James had the power to investigate Trump tariff-related stock market manipulation and insider trading? IT'S HAPPENING. James just confirmed an investigation has been opened.

submitted 3 days ago • 169 comments

Hundreds of people are prisoners in El Salvador without any kind of due process. If you think, "they must have done something," think again. Without due process, how can we know? #giftarticle www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Mohsen Mahdawi was released on bail today from his illegal detention at the hands of the Trump administration. Good. In America, you are not supposed to end up in a jail cell for expressing your opinion. This is a major step forward in the fight against authoritarianism.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

Every once in a while I think man, we were so close to never having to think about that motherfucker again, and then people said nah, let’s just ruin our lives instead

submitted 4 days ago • 275 comments

Translation: Trump admits he is ignoring the ruling of the Supreme Court.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

the democrats wont fucking fight. this makes us all more vulnerable to republican actions. pretending like everything is ok when people are dying is dumb.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

submitted 4 days ago • 2660 comments

President Trump said that he does have the ability to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, but is not willing to do so, undermining previous statements by his top aides. Here are the latest updates on the administration.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Spread @gregsargent.bsky.social 's post around, please, everyone.

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NEW: Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t Trump's statement was a blunt boast about his administration’s intention to defy the Supreme Court's orders. WHERE IS SENATE MINORITY LEADER @schumer.senate.gov?🦗 Trump crossed his red line www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

It's a horror story. And I think every day, do they realize what they've done -- to their own lives and the children's?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

It’s bad enough that they are punishing people for taking a stand against what was found beyond a reasonable doubt by both state and federal courts to be criminally excessive police violence. But to take the time and effort five years later to identify and punish them is downright sick.

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

It’s day 100. He did this in just three months. And beyond any shadow of a doubt, he did this. No one else.

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

The NYT has been doing phenomenal reporting on the blatant corruption of the Trump memecoin/crypto policy. Genuinely the most flagrant, bald-faced thing I’ve ever seen short of a politician getting sacks of cash.

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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NEW: Trump’s first 100 days back in office have been filled with attacks on democracy and the rule of law. But we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

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Remarkable new poll from PRRI finds that 52% of Americans, a majority, see Trump as a "dangerous dictator" who is threatening to "destroy American democracy." On the pod, PRRI's Melissa Deckman digs deep into this data and much more: newrepublic.com/article/1945...

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DONALD TRUMP SINGLE-HANDEDLY DROVE THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO A RECESSION IN JUST THREE MONTHS.

submitted 4 days ago • 265 comments

1/ The exact language of the oath lawyers take when they become members of the bar varies from state to state, but the intention is the same. It's a solemn oath to uphold the Constitution, and to refuse to act for "lucre and malice." The intent is plain. We are a country of laws, not of men.

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

We've learned the Trump Administration has ILLEGALLY withheld over $430B in funds approved by Congress — gutting vital services including child care, disaster relief and more. The courts must continue to hold this lawless president accountable, even if spineless congressional Republicans won't.

submitted 4 days ago • 98 comments

Feels like we’re in a surreal political moment where our elites desperately want to capitulate to a despot but the aspiring dictator is so dumb and bad at things that we’re still kinda free despite the best efforts of all involved.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

The speed with which Congress not having the power of the purse, law and the Constitution be damned, has been normalized by the press is the most terrifying thing to me.

submitted 4 days ago • 193 comments

Words cannot express how stupid and dangerous it is to normalize Trump like this. He's in the middle of a full-on assault on democracy and the rule of law, and Whitmer is playing pretend business as usual. This is the time to block every single move of the Trump administration at every level.

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Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 531 comments

The Trump administration shredded the Posse Comitatus Act when they issued an executive order today deploying US military troops on US soil to deal with “law and order.” Not to be alarmist, but in any other country we would call this a significant step towards martial law.

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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 4 days ago • 979 comments

They call it the "new model" because their version of the American Dream is just a caste system with zero retirement benefits or upward mobility for you or your children.

submitted 4 days ago • 317 comments

Now leading HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Will no one* rid us of this meddlesome dipshit loser? *Congress. Congress can send him packing tomorrow.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

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