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I get "freedom = cars" in so many places but to me, a New Yorker, having a car seems so stifling. You have to figure out where to park, how to get gas, how to get home if you have 3 beers. What's actually freeing is being able to walk places and having trains that run wherever I want to go

submitted 1 hour ago • 20 comments

Dimon in January on tariffs - “get over it”

submitted 3 hours ago • 74 comments

Amazon offers free advertising for the Administration's signature initiative, and for some reason the White House regards this as hostile. When I make smart decisions that make the world a better place, I'm usually proud of it, and want the everyone to know about it. So what's different here?

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

As usual every US economic graph is just another way of telling you when Reagan was elected.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

pretty fucking wild to read a story that confirms there is an elite cabal of some of the country's wealthiest and most influential people and they are coordinating strategy and tactics to try to control global opinion, it's just not any of the the cabals tinfoil hatters have always assumed

submitted 22 hours ago • 58 comments

This is because they're used to the ethics of televangelists.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

My neighbor is a trucker. This idiot had these flags up for a year for all the kids to see. Now the ports are empty I'm thrilled he's going to get what he voted for.......

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Shoot this directly into my veins:

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Who thinks this is the main thing the political press should be reckoning with and apologizing for over the past year? www.mediaite.com/news/axios-r...

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Because there were 17 other pages of more important news. 🤡

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 2 days ago • 397 comments

Trump is an extremely stupid person. It really seems like he thinks Putin should want to help him politically. Yeah, dumbass, he wants you in the WH but specifically to destroy NATO and give him Ukraine. He’s not going to stop bombing Ukraine for you. You’re there to hand it to him.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

recent polling is just a total repudiation of the idea that full spectrum opposition to trump across every area was/is a bad idea

submitted 3 days ago • 189 comments

Let's say Harris won last year and Vance was holding 10k-20k person rallies where he railed against left-wing "oligarchy." Would the CW be that this was crazy and a waste of time? Or would we be seeing NYT op-eds and A1s about what "oligarchy" is and why the GOP base was on fire about it?

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

Any US government that isn’t completely overhauling the insane monetary inflow can really call itself democratic, right?! Source: buff.ly/3cLk3mr

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 425 comments

Chuck Grassley gets called out at a town hall… " Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥 #HandsOffMySocialSecurity

submitted 4 days ago • 624 comments

I appreciate what this is trying to do but I doubt that he peacefully leaves at the end of his term and I doubt that the rest of the governmental infrastructure can survive until we find out and I don't think "we have to survive 3.5 years and then we'll be fine" is correct politically or morally

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

I think that Slotkin, Gallego, etc, think they’ve unlocked some cheat code for speaking to voters (winning while trump won the states) when it was entirely up to a bunch of random low-info voters that walked into the polling place, checked the box for trump, and left

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Once again, I don't know what anyone has seen since January to make them so confident that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, and competitive: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Are “they” in the room with us right now? 😏

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.

submitted 5 days ago • 269 comments

yes because the beltway media are complicit in all of this

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Trump has I think rightly calculated that no amount of fascist atrocities will drive the media to call them fascist atrocities

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 5 days ago • 858 comments

They just pinned these up in the China/Japan locker room:

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

I will say it again — DEI has always polled well and the idea that it's broadly upopular is wholly the invention of pundits nursing their own grievances and projecting them onto an imagined average American. Many such cases.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 6 days ago • 725 comments

🤡

submitted 6 days ago • 504 comments

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

submitted 6 days ago • 810 comments

"Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes" I always wondered how mainstream journalism would cover an impending dictatorship here. Now we know.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

submitted 6 days ago • 310 comments

Why not 100%? 100% sounds cooler.

submitted 6 days ago • 749 comments

Elected and appointed officials in America are actually questioning the merits of Due Process. Just needs pointing out where we are. Shocking.

submitted 7 days ago • 184 comments

The discourse surrounding the guy who created an AI employee (and immediately felt compelled to sexually harass it) is on FIRE right now, and I'm concerned that everyone's gonna burn out and stop dunking on him way too soon. Please, everyone, pace yourself so we can mock him for the next 5,000 days.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.

submitted 7 days ago • 150 comments

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

submitted 8 days ago • 719 comments

Sometimes, when I’m afraid I can’t do something, I quietly say to myself, “Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense.”

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 9 days ago • 820 comments

Arguing that the gulags are a “distraction” from the economy was always dumb. No one needs to remind you that people you know are out of work, an egg is $12, and you have no money.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I think if Trump announced his coronation ceremony as emperor at national cathedral alito and thomas would support it bsky.app/profile/stev...

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.

submitted 10 days ago • 69 comments

In a piece for The Atlantic, the Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov writes about how Putin seized power, parallels in with the current state of U.S. politics, and what Americans should do to avoid the same fate. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments